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Venerable

Elias

A monastic saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
November 3old style November 16
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Elias the Venerable is commemorated on 3 November (new style, the Greek calendar). The synaxarion says of him only that he reposed in peace. A verse shows that, mounting the chariot of the virtues, Elias ascended to heaven like another Elijah.

Place, time and other details of his life are not preserved.

Commemorated the same day November 3