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Venerable

Agapius of Apamea

A venerable monk of Apamea in Syria, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
January 11old style January 24
Reposed
3064th century

Life

Saint Agapius of Apamea, archimandrite, struggled as a hermit in Apamea of Syria at the turn of the third and fourth centuries. He reposed in the Lord in the year 306. He is commemorated on 24 January (11 January by the old calendar, in the Greek tradition). His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day January 11