Venerable
Kournoutas of Achera
Venerable of Achera, Cyprus
A venerable who struggled at Achera in Cyprus, counted among the Alaman saints; venerated locally (Cyprus).
- Feast
- September 12old style September 25
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Achera, Cyprus
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Kournoutas of Achera (also called Kournoutos or Cornutius) is one of the three hundred saints who came from Palestine to Cyprus, called the Heliophoti or Alamans. He was greatly honoured on the island, as the many churches dedicated to him, now ruined, in villages of Paphos show, among them Geroskipou, Salamiou, Souskiou and Polemi.
An old icon shows him as a bishop. What is more certain, however, is that he lived as a monk and ascetic in various places, among them Achera. He is commemorated on 12 September (new style) and venerated locally, in Cyprus.
Commemorated the same day September 12
AutonomusHieromartyr · Bishop in BithyniaSep 12
EanswytheVenerable · Princess and abbess of KentSep 12- George of ChkondidiSaint · Archbishop of ChkondidiSep 12
Athanasius of VysotskVenerable · First abbot of Vysotsky MonasterySep 12
Gregory of KydoniesHieromartyr · Metropolitan of KydoniesSep 12
Ambrosios of MoschonisiaHieromartyr · Metropolitan of MoschonisiaSep 12- Dositheus of TbilisiHieromartyr · Archbishop of TbilisiSep 12
- Felix and CyprianHoly Hieromartyrs · Bishops of AfricaSep 12
- Daniel of ThassosSaintSep 12
- Serapion of CataniaHieromartyrSep 12
- Vassian of TiksnaVenerableSep 12
Athanasius the Younger of VysotskVenerable · Abbot of Vysotsky MonasterySep 12