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Family of Gregory Palamas

The parents and siblings of Saint Gregory Palamas, honored together for their holy lives.

Feast
December 18old style December 31
Era
before 2009

Life

The Family of Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, is honoured together as saints. It includes his parents, Constantios and Kalloni, and his brothers and sisters Makarios, Theodosios, Theodote and Epicharis, who lived in the fourteenth century. The Ecumenical Patriarchate numbered them among the saints on 18 November 2009. They are remembered on 18 December or on the Sunday after 14 November, the day of Saint Gregory Palamas.

Commemorated the same day December 18