Blessing of Water. The Life-giving Spring of the Most Holy Theotokos. St. Joseph the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883). St. George , monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnese (5th c.-6th c.). Martyrs Pherbutha (virgin) and her sister and servants, of Persia (341-343). St. Zosimas , hieromonk, of Palestine (560). St. Joseph the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Zosimas , founder and abbot of the Annunciation Monastery at Lake Vorbozoma (ca. 1550). St. James, monk of Starotorzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th c.-16th c). New Hieromartyrs Benjamin (Kononov), archimandrite, and Nicephorus (Kuchin), hieromonk, both of Solovki Monastery (1928). New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Karaulov), bishop of Velsk, New Nun-martyr Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina (1932). “Life-giving Spring” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. Commemoration of the appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos at Pochaev (the “Footprint”) (1340). St. Isidore , bishop of Seville (636). St. Theonas , metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541). New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Albanian, of Mt. Athos (1808). St. Elias, schemamonk, of Makeyevka (Ukraine) (1949). Repose of Elder Savvas of Little St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos (1908) and Archimandrite John (Maitland- Moir) of Edinburgh, Scotland (2013).