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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Germanus of Sagmata

A holy monk venerated at the monastery of Sagmata in Boeotia, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
January 26old style February 8
Reposed
154016th century
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Germanus of Sagmata, a holy monk, was an ascetic of Boeotia in Greece who lived in the time of the Turkish yoke, between 1480 and 1540, and dwelled at the monastery of Sagmata (Sagmation). His biographer calls him "Spirit-⁠bearing", because his personality shone with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, so that he reached heights of moral and spiritual perfection and became a teacher and guide of those who struggled with him.

He is commemorated in the Greek synaxarion on 26 January and among the saints of Boeotia, and an apolytikion was composed for him. No other details of his life are preserved in the sources at hand.

Commemorated the same day January 26