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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).

Commemorated the same day June 23