Clement the Stylite of Mount Sagmata

Venerable Clement the Stylite of Mount Sagmata lived as an ascetic in the twelfth century on Mount Sagmata (Sagmation) in Boeotia, Greece, and is said to have died in 1111. He is not mentioned in the Synaxarion or the Menaion, but his service is preserved in the Laurentian codices E 152 and Gamma 12. The service praises him as a spirit-⁠bearing ascetic who climbed a tall pillar and became a steadfast pillar of the hermits and a support of the monks who perform works of light. His kontakion says that he struggled alone, willingly, on the mountain of Sagmata, on a narrow pillar, adorning the choir of the ascetics.

According to tradition he worked many miracles. The saint's head is kept in the monastery that bears his name near Thebes. He is commemorated on 27 January (new style; 9 February on the old calendar).