Venerable
Ignatius of Blachernae
A venerable father of Blachernae, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 7old style December 20
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Ignatius of Blachernae is a venerable one whose time and place of life are not known. According to the Greek verse Synaxarion, the relics of the saint, who fell asleep in peace, lay near the church of Blachernae in Constantinople. The commemoration of Ignatius of Blachernae and the couplet dedicated to him passed from the verse Synaxarion into the printed Greek Menaia (Venice, 1595), into the Synaxaristes of Venerable Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and into the verse Prologues translated by the southern Slavs in the fourteenth century, and from there into the Great Menaia-Readings.
He is commemorated on 20 December; in the Greek calendar, on 7 December (new style). He is not in the present calendar of the Russian Church.
Commemorated the same day December 7
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Nil of StolobnyVenerable · Founder of the Stolobny hermitageDec 7
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Sergius GoloshchapovHieromartyr · ArchpriestDec 7- Gregory the HesychastVenerable · Hesychast monk of AthosDec 7
- Romanus of SinaiSaint · Monk of SinaiDec 7