Calogerus

Saint Calogerus was a monk and hermit, of Greek stock, born around 466 at Chalcedon, and died on 18 June 561 on Monte Kronio in Sicily. He is venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, and is the patron of the city of Agrigento and of other places in Sicily.

His name, Kalogeros, means “monk” in Greek, and the Romanian word for monk comes from it. He was tonsured a monk by the pope of Rome. He lived for more than thirty years in solitude near Girgenti (today Agrigento), in Sicily, near Sciacca. It is also reported that he preached on the Lipari islands.

The Catholic Church commemorates him on 18 June. The sources at hand give no details of his miracles or relics.