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Sinaxarion

Venerable

Jonah the Sabaite

Venerable of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas

A venerable of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas in the Judean desert in the 9th century.

Feast
September 21old style October 4
Era
9th century
Place
Lavra of St Sabbas
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Jonah the Sabaite was a priest in the year 829 and the father of the holy Confessors Theodore (27 December) and Theophanes (11 October) the Inscribed, whose faces were marked by the iconoclast emperor Theophilus.

Jonah went to the Lavra of Saint Sabbas in the Judean desert and became a monk. There he acquired great reverence toward God and practised all the Christian virtues, reaching deep old age. He reposed in peace. A verse of the synaxarion says that, leaving the place of an unstable life, Jonah found a standing and secure place.

He is commemorated on 21 September (new style) in the Greek synaxarion.

Commemorated the same day September 21