Venerable
Benedict of Sebaste
A holy monk venerated in Gaul, who reposed around 654.
- Feast
- October 23old style November 5
- Reposed
- 6547th century
- Place
- Sebaste
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Benedict of Sebaste is venerated in Gaul as bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who is said to have fled to Gaul during the persecution of Julian the Apostate. Near Poitiers he built a hermitage from which the monastery of Saint Benedict of Quincay grew. The calendars give 654 as the year of his repose, a date that does not fit the time of Julian (around 361); the sources consulted do not resolve the discrepancy. He is a saint of the undivided Church, known from the Western calendars.
He is commemorated on 23 October, the liturgical date in the Orthodox calendar (the same day number on the old and new calendars).
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