[.:] Hieromartyr Dionysius (Dennys) the Areopagite, and with him Martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius (96). New Martyr Agathangel, metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928). Finding of the relics (1988) of St. Joseph of Optina (1911). St. Dionysius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (15th c.). St. John the Chozebite, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (532). Blessed Hesychius the Silent of Mt. Horeb (6thc.).