† Beginning of Church Year; † Ven. Dionysius Exiguus (the Humble); St. Simeon Stylites, the Elder; Holy forty Virgin-martyrs at Heraclea in Thrace (Service of Thanksgiving)
1. Venerable Dionysius was born about the year 460, to righteous parents, in Scythia Minor, today’s Dobrudja. He received a spiritual education ever since he was young, in the schools and monasteries of Dobrudja, having…