Saint Andrew

 "Saint Andrew came of a family of devout, unlettered peasants.
 He obtained an education by going to church and, on the death of his parents, became a novice at the Monastery of Galich, in the diocese of Kostroma.
The Abbot, who was remarkable for his wisdom, discerned Andrew's spiritual gifts and encouraged him to undertake the unusual and difficult ascesis of Foolishness-for-Christ.
 Andrew left the monastery to lead a wayfaring life,  but often returned to reveal his thoughts and deeds to his starets.
 On his Elder's death, he settled near the Church of the Resurrection in the town of Totma,
 where he was completely unknown.
 He spent the whole night in prayer and during the day begged alms that he forthwith gave to the poor. He went barefoot summer and winter and lived on nothing but bread and water.
 Every year he made a pilgrimage to the holy places of the region.
One day he was accosted by the chief of an outlandish tribe.
The man was suffering from an eye complaint and asked Andrew, who was already looked upon as a wonderworker, to cure him.
 Andrew fled, but the wild man washed his eyes in the snow trodden by the Saint and was healed.   "Worn out by ascesis and privation, Saint Andrew fore knew the day of his decease.
 He called a priest, confessed and communicated in the holy Mysteries, and not long after he fell asleep in the Lord, a heavenly scent pervading the room where his body lay.
 Some time later, the Saint appeared to a sick woman as she slept, holding the Gospel for her to venerate and telling her to pray at his tomb.
 When she awoke, the woman was healed.

" Saints Andronicus and Athanasia (5th c.)

 Andronicus was a goldsmith who lived in Antioch during the reign of Theodosius the Great (379-395).

He and his wife Athanasia were devout Christians who strove to follow Christ in all things.

 They gave a third of all that they earned to the poor, another third to the Church, and lived on the remainder. 

    After they had two children, they agreed to live henceforth as brother and sister. 

Both their children died on the same day, and they grieved inconsolably until St Justin the Martyr appeared to Athanasia at the children's grave and told her that her children were in the Kingdom of God, happier than they had ever been on earth.

 Andronicus and Athanasia then travelled to Egypt, where each took up the monastic life in different monasteries. After living for many years in asceticism, they reposed in peace within ten days of one another.

 Our Holy Mother Pelagia (461)

"This Saint was a prominent actress of the city of Antioch, and a pagan, who lived a life of unrestrained prodigality and led many to perdition.

 Instructed and baptized by a certain bishop named Nonnus (November 10), 

she departed to the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem,

 where she lived as a recluse, feigning to be a eunuch called Pelagius. 

 She lived in such holiness and repentance that within three or four years she was deemed worthy to repose in an odour of sanctity, in the middle of the fifth century.

 Her tomb on the Mount of Olives has been a place of pilgrimage ever since." (Great Horologion).

The Prologue adds that Pelagia had accumulated a large fortune as a courtesan, all of which she gave away to the poor upon her conversion.