Saints
- Hieromartyr Dorotheus of Tyre, bishop (362)
- Repose of blessed Theodore Yaroslavich, brother of Saint Alexander Nevsky in Novgorod (1233)
- Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenius, and Pambo of Egypt and others with them (4th century)
- Saint Theodore the Wonderworker, hermit of the Jordan (6th century)
- Saint Anubius, confessor and anchorite of Egypt (5th century)
- Blessed Constantine of Kiev, metropolitan (1159)
- Venerable Abba Dorotheus of Palestine (620)
- Saint Peter of Serbia, monk (14th century)
- Saint Basil of Ryazan, bishop
- Martyr Mark of Smyrna who suffered in Chios (1801)
- Saint Illidius, Bishop of Clermont, Gaul
- Hieromartyr Boniface of the Netherlands
- Martyrs Christopher and Conon of Rome
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“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”
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