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Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian; Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne (193); Martyr Victor of Milan (ca. 303); Saint Agathius (Acacius of Byzantium) (303); Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (375); Saint Helladius of Auxerre (387); Venerable Arsenius the Great of Scetis (448); Saint Hierax (Ierakos) of Egypt (5th c.); Saint Gybrian (Gobrian) of Ireland (509); St. Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles (Nijvel) (652); Hieromartyr Indract and his companions, at Shapwick (ca.7th-8th c.); Missionary bishops Saints Wiro (Bishop of Utrecht) (710), and Plechelm (730), and Hierodeacon Otger (Odger) (8th c.), in the Maas Valley at Limburg (Neth.); Saint Milles the Melode, monk; Saint Macarius, Archbishop of Ghent (1012); Venerable Pimen the Ascetic of the Kiev Far Caves (ca. 1141); Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13-14th c.); Saint Arsenius the Lover of labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.); The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15-16th c.); commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Theotokos of Cassiopia (1530); Translation of the relics (1785) of Saint Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570); Repose of Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich (1863); Repose of Schemahieromonk Michael of Valaam, confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934).