Venerable
Faustus
Abbot of Saint Lucy's in Syracuse, reposed around 607.
- Feast
- September 6old style September 19
- Reposed
- 6077th century
- Place
- Santa Lucy
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Faustus was abbot of the monastery of Saint Lucy in Syracuse in Sicily. His disciple was Zosimus, the future bishop of Syracuse. He reposed around the year 607. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 6 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 19 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.
Commemorated the same day September 6
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