Saints
- Saint Macrina the Elder, grandmother of St. Basil the Great (340)
- Saint Emmelia of Caesarea, mother of Saint Basil the Great (375)
- Venerable Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)
- Martyrs Aphrodisius, Agapius, Eusebios, Charalampos and Christina, in Nicomedia, by fire (65)
- Martyrs Romanos and Teletios, in Nicomedia, by the sword.
- Martyr Euplius (Efplos).
- Martyr Natalios, by the sword.
- Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
- Hieromartyr Eutyches.
- Saint Cyprian of Antioch, reposed in peace.
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