Venerable
Elias the Wonderworker
A venerable father honored as a wonderworker, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- January 12old style January 25
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Elias the Wonderworker was one of the great teachers of the desert. Hunger, cold and vigil meant nothing to him, he faced tyrants, and he put countless persecutions to shame. He feared three things only, as he said: the hour when his soul would leave his body, the moment of appearing before God, and the moment when the sentence of the just and loving Judge would go forth.
He reposed in peace. The Greek calendar (new style) commemorates him on 12 January and connects him with the place called Paradise. A verse of the synaxarion says that another wonderworking Elias was revealed, truly like the prophet.
Commemorated the same day January 12
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Martinian of BelozerskVenerable · Abbot of Ferapontov MonasteryJan 12- Barses of EdessaSaint · Bishop of EdessaJan 12
- Eutropius and TigriusHoly MartyrsJan 12
Anna Makkavaiou of Asia MinorVenerable · Nun in DramaJan 12- Galaktion of BeloozeroFool-for-Christ · Fool for ChristJan 12
Arcadius of MauretaniaMartyrJan 12- AthanasiusConfessorJan 12
- Baoithin son of NeamhnannSaintJan 12
- Conan of Ae'gSaintJan 12