Elpidius

Holy Venerable Elpidius is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 12 October (new style), among the ascetics of Cyprus who struggled alongside Saint Epictetus. About him the calendar says nothing but the name. The list of the day names Valantius, Barlaam, Barnabas, Barnabas the monk, Basil the bishop, four Georges (of Vavatsinia, Epitedeios, Perachorio and Salamanos), Demetrian the bishop, Irenicus (or Arniakos), Elpidius, Epaphroditus, Theosebius and Jason, bishop of Damascus.

Of Epictetus, a Greek synaxarion site says that he was one of the three hundred "Alamanoi" saints of Cyprus. According to the chronicler Leontios Machairas, going from place to place he settled near Kazafani, about four miles from Kyrenia, lived as a hermit and fell asleep in peace; in his cave one can see the stone bed and a stone like a human head, which he used as a pillow, and above the cave the church of the community was built at the end of the twelfth century.