Holy Venerables
Four Venerable Ascetics
Four venerable fathers who struggled together in asceticism, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- July 19old style August 1
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
The Four Venerable Ascetics are remembered on 19 July. They were four monks who struggled together (according to other sources, forty), and fell asleep in peace. Their names, the place and the time are not preserved in our sources.
Commemorated the same day July 19
Symmachus of RomeSaint · Bishop of RomeJul 19
Stefan LazarevićFool-for-ChristJul 19
Macrina the YoungerVenerable · Sister of St. Basil the GreatJul 19
Milica of SerbiaVenerable · Empress of Serbia, later a nunJul 19
Paisius of the CavesVenerable · Monk of the Kyiv Caves LavraJul 19- DiocletusSaintJul 19
- Ambrose AutpertusVenerableJul 19
Arsenie PapaciocConfessor · Elder of TechirghiolJul 19- Aurea of CórdobaMartyrJul 19
- BabilaMartyrJul 19
- Cobran of CluainSaintJul 19
- Corban of CluanaVenerableJul 19