Venerable
Damaskinos
A monastic saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- December 11old style December 24
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Damaskinos, a venerable monk, is remembered on 11 December. Our sources call him a monk and explain his name as "the one who comes from Damascus", but they give no details of his life, and his existence and date have not been checked against other sources.
Commemorated the same day December 11
Damasus ISaint · Bishop of RomeDec 11
ReubenRighteous · The PatriarchDec 11
Daniel the StyliteStylite · Stylite near ConstantinopleDec 11
Acepsimas and AithalasHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of PersiaDec 11
Leontius of MonemvasiaVenerableDec 11
Theophan IlminskyHieromartyr · Bishop of SolikamskDec 11
Luke the StyliteStyliteDec 11- Mirax of EgyptMartyrDec 11
- Benjamin of JerusalemSaint · Bishop of JerusalemDec 11
- Nikon the DryVenerable · Monk of the Caves LavraDec 11
- AemilianMartyrDec 11
- Aithalas of ArbelaMartyrDec 11