Commemorations:

• The Beginning of the "Indiction," i.e., of the Church Year.
• Our venerable father, Simeon, the Elder, the Stylite, and his mother, Martha. Simeon, a Monk, adopted a characteristic mode of penance by prayer and fasting on the top of a lofty stone column where he spent thirty-seven years until his death A.D. 459.
• Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God in Missina.
• SS. Aithelas, 40 Women of Macedonia and Ammon, Martyrs. Ammon, Deacon, was put to death under Emperor Licinius A.D. 313 at Heraclea in Thrace, together with 40 young women whom he converted to Christianity.
• SS. Callistus, Evodius, and Hermogenes, Martyrs, were brothers by birth.
• Venerable Joshua, son of Nun, who was successor of Moses in the 15th Century B.C.