Saints
- Martyr Sozon of Cilicia (304)
- Saint Kassia, Nun, confessor, hymnographer (9th century)
- Saint John, Archbishop and wonderworker of Novgorod (1186)
- Martyr Eupsychios of Caesarea in Cappadocia (2nd century)
- Euodias of Antioch and Onesiphorus of Cyrene, of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
- Saint Luke, abbot near Constantinople (10th century)
- Martyr Macarios, Archimandrite of Kanev (1678)
- Saint Cloud (Clodoald), abbot and founder of Nogent-sur-Seine near Paris (560)
- Saint Macarios of Optina
- Russian new martyr John Maslovsky
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