Saint
Athanasius
the Reader
A church reader commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- January 23old style February 5
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Athanasius the Reader is commemorated in the Greek synaxarion on 23 January (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece), on the day when Saint Clement, bishop of Ancyra, and the martyr Agathangelus are also remembered. A reader of the Church was the one who read the books of Scripture in the assembly of the faithful.
The sources consulted give no further details about his life or end.
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