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Venerable

Euthymius

the Ascetic

An ascetic of Euboea, commemorated as a stylite in the calendar of the Church of Greece.

Era
12th century
Place
Euboea

Life

Saint Euthymius the Ascetic lived, by tradition, in the twelfth century in a city of Euboea, where he shone in the ascetic life. His memory is found in the Synodikon (the Synodikon of Orthodoxy), where he is called "the most venerable monk and ascetic who shone in a city of Euboea", with the wish "may his memory be eternal". He is unknown to the synaxaria and Menaia; the year of his birth and of his repose and the place are not known. The saint is remembered together with the venerable Daniel the Stylite, who lived in Euboea on a pillar. He is honoured in the synaxis of all the saints of Euboea, and a fixed feast day is not known.