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Venerable

Andrew of Kalana

Hermit of Kalana, Valtos

A hermit of Kalana in the Valtos region in the 14th century, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
May 15old style May 28
Era
14th century
Place
Kalana, Valtos (Aetolia-⁠Acarnania)

Life

Venerable Andrew of Kalana was a hermit at Kalana, in the Valtos region (Aetolia-⁠Acarnania), in the fourteenth century. The calendar of the Church of Greece commemorates him on 15 May (new style).

The source consulted preserves no details of his ascetic life: it says only that he was a hermit and lived in that century.

Commemorated the same day May 15