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Venerable Martyr

Christopher of Dionysiou

Monastic martyr of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos.

Feast
April 16old style April 29
Reposed
181819th century
Place
Dionysiou
Order
Martyrs

Life

Venerable Martyr Christopher of Dionysiou was a monk of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos. The list of the monastery's saints calls him Christopher of Adrianople and places him among those who suffered in 1818, commemorated on 16 April (new style; 29 April on the old calendar). The sources consulted preserve no other details of his life or martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day April 16