21st Week after Pentecost.
Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian , of Mesopotamia, and their mother, St. Theodota (3rd c.). Hieromartyrs John , bishop, and James , priest, in Persia (345). Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana , in Cilicia (305-311). Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth, prince of Spain (586). Martyrs Caesarius , Dacius , Sabbas , Sabinian , Agrippa , Adrian , and Thomas , at Damascus (7th c.). New Hieromartyr Alexander Shalai, archpriest, of Blon (Minsk) (1937). New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zverev), archbishop of Elets and Melitopol (1937). Hieromartyr Benignus of Dijon, priest and apostle, of Burgundy (ca. 272). St. Stremonius (Austremoine), first bishop of Clermont and apostle of the Auvergne (3rd c.). St. Marcellus, bishop of Paris (ca. 430). Monk-martyrs James of Mt. Athos and his two disciples, James and Dionysius (1520). St. David of Euboea (1589). New Virgin-martyr Helen of Sinope (18th c.). Repose of Elder Hilarion of Valaam and Sarov (1841).