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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

John the Chozebite

A monk of the Chozeba community in the Judean desert, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
January 8old style January 21
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint John the Chozebite lived in the community of Chozeba, a monastery in the Judean desert. The Greek synaxarion commemorates him on 8 January (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) together with George: they are the venerable fathers called the Chozebites, the monks of the Chozeba monastery.

The sources consulted give no dates for his birth, labours or repose; we know only that he was a monk of Chozeba and that the Church honours him as a venerable father.

Commemorated the same day January 8