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Venerable

Basil Patelariysky

Venerable monk, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
June 22old style July 5
Era
before 2020

Life

Holy Venerable Basil Patelariysky, an abbot, headed the monastery of Patelaria (in Greek τῆς Πατελαρίας), identified with one of the monasteries on the island of Patelaria, now Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. The time and circumstances of his life are not known. Only brief mentions in some handwritten Byzantine synaxaria of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and a service, have survived.

He is commemorated on 5 July, according to the present calendar, and on 21/22 June in the Greek calendar, but his name is not included in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day June 22