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Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Amasea (ca. 323). 
St. Stephen, bishop of Perm (1396).
Righteous Virgin Glaphyra of Nicomedia (322). St. Ioannicius of Devic (Serbia) (13th c.) (Серб.).
Martyrs Cyril, Chindeu, and Tasie of Axiopolis (ca. 304). Sts. Andrew and Anatole, disciples of St. Euthymius the Great (5th c.). St. Richarius, abbot, in Picardy (645). St. Calantius of Tamassos on Cyprus (8th c.). St. George of Cyprus (1091). New Martyrs of Novo Selo (Bulgaria) (1876).
Repose of Schemanun Agnia (Chizhikov) of Akulovo (1984).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Saturday. [Acts 12:1–11; John 8:31–42]
The Lord said: If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). Here is where freedom is! The mind is bound with bonds of ignorance, delusions, superstitions, and uncertainties; it struggles, but cannot get away from them. Cleave to the Lord and He will enlighten your darkness (cf. Ps. 18:28) and dissolve all the bonds in which your mind languishes. The passions bind the will, and do not give it space in which to act; it struggles, like one bound hand and foot, and cannot get away. But cleave to the Lord and He will give you the strength of Samson, and will dissolve all the bonds of untruth binding you. Constant worries surround the heart and do not give it peace. But cleave to the Lord, and He will soothe you; then, at peace, and seeing clearly everything around you, you will march in the Lord without hindrance or stumbling through the gloom and darkness of this life, to the all-blessed, complete joy and spaciousness of eternity.