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Venerable

Calantius

A monastic ascetic of Cyprus, commemorated in the synaxarion of the Church of Cyprus.

Feast
October 6old style October 19
Era
unknown
Place
Cyprus

Life

Venerable Calantius, of Tamasia, is one of five, together with Hilarion the New, John, Joseph of Lythrodontas and the two Cassians, counted among the three hundred martyrs and venerables called the "Alamanni", who suffered in Cyprus. He is commemorated on 6 October in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style), together with Venerable Kendeas. No details of his life survive in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day October 6