Cassian

Holy Venerable Cassian is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 6 October (new style), among the venerable saints of Cyprus: Kendeas the Wonderworker, Hilarion the Younger, John, Joseph, Calantius and two Cassians, the one of Glyphas and the one of Axylou.

Of one of them, Kendeas, a Greek synaxarion site says that at eighteen he went to Jerusalem, became a monk and withdrew into the desert of the Jordan, then came with other ascetics to Paphos, where he set his hut on a cliff at the seashore. For Cassian the sources consulted contain no particulars of his own, except the place from which the calendar names him: Glyphas or Axylou.