Commemoration of the Synaxis [meeting] of the 70 Apostles: James the Brother of the Lord, Mark and Luke the Evangelists, Cleopas, Symeon, Barnabas, Justus, Thaddeus, Ananias, Stephen the Protomartyr and Archdeacon, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Onesimus, Epaphras, Archippus, Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Crispus, Epenetus, Andronicus, Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, Philologus, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, Olympas, Tertius, Erastus, Quartus, Euodias, Onesiphorus, Clement, Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Carpus, Quadratus, Mark, Zenas, Aristarchus, Pudens, Trophimus, Mark, Artemas, Aquila, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; Dionysius Areopagite and Simeon Niger; St. Theoctistus, Abbot at Cucomo in Sicily (800); Venerable Aquila, of the Far Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (14th century); Venerable Martyr Zosimas the hermit and Martyr Athanasius the warden (3rd – 4th cent.).

Commemoration of Holy Forefathers: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, James the Brother of the Lord; The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, burned to death in church, together with the martyrs who suffered outside the church: Glycerius, Zeno, Theophilus the deacon, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius the deacon, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, Euthymius, and the virgins Agape, Domna, Theophila and others (302); Apostle of the 70, Nicanor the Deacon (34).

Commemoration of the Virgin-martyr Juliana, and with her 500 men and 130 women, of Nicomedia (304); Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus’, miracle-worker (1326); Martyr Theomistocles of Myra in Lycia (251); Saint Filaret, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych (1857).

Commemoration of Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (250); Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arianus, and Theoctychus of Alexandria (286-287). Nativity Fast (St. Philip’s Fast).

Commemoration of ❖Saint Andrew the Apostle, the First-called (62); St. Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (circa 380).

Commemoration of Saint Amphilocius, Bishop of Iconium (394; Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum (6-7th century); Saint Sisinios the confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (circa 325); Martyr Theodore of Antioch (4th century); Venerable Alexander the monk, founder and abbot of the monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (430).

Commemoration of Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew (60); Saint Fulvianus, Prince of Ethiopia, in holy baptism Matthew (1st century).

Commemoration of Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus (284-305); Venerable Matrona, abbess, of Constantinople (circa 492); Venerable Theoctiste of the isle of Lesbos (881); Onesiphorus the Confessor of the Near Caves of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (1148); Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (4th century); Martyr Anthony of Apamea (5th century); Venerable John the Short of Egypt (5th century); Venerable Eustolia (610) and Sosipatra (625) of Constantinople; Venerable Saint Nektarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis, Wonderworker (1920); icon of the Mother of God Quick to Hear (10th century).

Commemoration of Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidophorus, and Anempodistus of Persia, and those who suffered with them (circa 341-345); Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus (388).

Commemoration of the Holy and Glorious Great Martyr Demetrius, of Thessalonica (circa 306); Venerable Theophilus, Bishop of Novhorod, of the Distant Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (ca.1482); Martyr Lupus, slave of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica (306); Saint Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (ca. 814); Venerable Dimitry Basarbovskyi (1685, Bulgaria).