The 19th of the month, Memory of the Holy Prophet JOEL; the Holy Martyr VARUS and of his Companions the SIX ASCETICS, who were slain by the sword, and also of the Venerable CLEOPATRA and her son JOHN; the Holy Hieromartyr SADOTH and of his ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY EIGHT Companions, who suffered with him; our Holy Father JOHN the Wonderworker, Founder of the Monastery of RILA in Bulgaria; the Holy Abbess FRIDESWIDE of OXFORD; the Holy Monk and Martyr NICOLAS of JERUSALEM
St. John of Rita