Saint
Barbarus of Pentapolis
A saint of Pentapolis, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- June 23old style July 6
- Reposed
- 156216th century
Life
Saint Barbarus of Pentapolis died in the year 1562 and is also commemorated on 15 May, as Barbarus the Myrrh-streamer.
In the calendar he appears on 23 June as "the one of Tryfos near Vonitsa, in Xiromero" (in Aetolia-Acarnania). The Greek synaxarion preserves no other details of his life. His commemoration follows the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).
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