Abraham

Holy Venerable Abraham is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 6 November (new style), together with Saint Luke, as one of the Russian venerable saints of the day. The calendar also calls him Barlaam.

The list of the day also names, on the same day, Luke the Sicilian, who struggled at Corinth. The Greek synaxarion says of him that he was born at Taormina in Sicily, helped the poor and the sick, became a monk on Etna, passed through Byzantium and settled at Corinth, where he died in peace. No other details of Abraham are preserved in the sources consulted.