Commemoration of the Holy Myrrh-bearers: Mary Magdalene, Mary, wife of Cleopas, Salome, Joanna, Martha and Mary [sisters of St. Lazarus] (1st century), Susanna and others; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus; Virgin-Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus (circa 290); Hieromartyr Erasmus, bishop of Formia (303); Hieromartyr Albian, Bishop of Anaea and his disciples (304); Saint Silvanus of Gaza and with him 40 martyrs (311); Right-believing Tamara, queen of Georgia (1213).