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Venerable

Arsenius

A saint of the undivided Church, linked to Patras.

Feast
September 11old style September 24
Era
9th century
Place
Patras

Life

Saint Arsenius, a venerable monk, lived about the ninth century and struggled as a monk in Lower Italy, together with Saint Elias the Cave-⁠dweller. Because of the Arab raids, they fled for a time to Patras in Greece. They are remembered on 11 September, and the link with Patras brings him also into the synaxis of the saints of Achaia. He is counted as a saint of the undivided Church. Our sources give no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day September 11