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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Artemios the Sinaite

A Sinaite hieromartyr, killed in 1822 at Heraklion in Crete, where he served at the Sinai metochion.

Feast
February 6old style February 19
Reposed
182219th century
Place
Heraklion, Crete (metochion of Sinai)
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Artemios the Sinaite was a brother of the Monastery of Sinai and served at the monastery's metochion of the Holy Trinity at Heraklion, in Crete. He belonged to the company of the hieromartyr Neophytus the Sinaite (commemorated on 20 December) and suffered in the year 1822.

He is commemorated on 6 February, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece, on the same day as Damaskinos the Sinaite.

Commemorated the same day February 6