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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Domitian

A saint of the early Western Church, commemorated in the Western calendars.

Feast
July 1old style July 14
Reposed
4405th century

Life

Saint Domitian was born around 347 in Rome, was orphaned young and became a monk at Lérins in the south of France. Later he founded the monastery of Bebron, now Saint-⁠Rambert-⁠de-⁠Joux. He reposed around 440, at a very great age (the calendar gives the years 337 and 440).

He is commemorated on 1 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 1