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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Erasmus

A venerable monk commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church for his ascetic life.

Feast
June 18old style July 1
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Erasmus is commemorated in the Greek verse synaxaria, where it is said that Erasmus reposed in peace. The time and place of his life are not known. This information was included in the Synaxaristes of Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain.

Lucchesi calls him a confessor, but the sources do not say so. His commemoration and the couplet dedicated to him entered the verse Prologue when the South Slavs translated the Greek verse synaxarion in the fourteenth century. The Greeks commemorate him on 18 June, that is 1 July in the new style. His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.

Commemorated the same day June 18