St. Nicetas the Confessor, abbot, of Medikion (824). Martyrs Elpidephorus , Dius , Bithonius , and Galycus (3rd c.). Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (307-308). St. Illyrius , monk of Mt. Myrsinon in the Peloponnese. St. Philip I, metropolitan of Moscow (1473). St. Nectarius, founder of Bezhetsk Monastery (Tver) (1492). Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Unfading Flower ” and Iveron. Martyrs Cassius, Philip, and Eutychius, of Thessalonica (304). Martyr Ulphianus of Tyre (306). Martyrs Evagrius, Benignus, Chrestus, Arestus, Kinnudius, Rufus, Patricius, and Zosima, at Tomis in Moesia (ca. 310). St. Fara (Burgundofara) of Eboriac (now Faremoutiers) (7th c.). St. Joseph the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883). New Martyr Paul the Russian, at Constantinople (1683). St. Amphilochius (Makris), elder, of Patmos (1970).