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St. Semenia, Bishop of Gortyn
From his youth he pleased the Lord and, having become the bishop of Gortyna on the island of Crete, he was the father of orphans, the comforter of the mourning and the healer of the afflicted. At the beginning of the 7th century, for unknown reasons, he was exiled to Thebaid (actually: “sent against his will”), and became famous for his holiness of life and miracles. Upon death, his body was transferred from Gortyn.
St. Martyrs Sophia and Irene
For confessing Christ they were beheaded in Egypt during the reign of Hadrian. Relics of St. Irene was transferred to Constantinople under Constantine the Great, who built a church in her honor.