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Venerable

Nathanael

Feast
November 27old style December 10
Era
unknown

Life

Venerable Nathanael was an ascetic of whose struggles Palladius speaks in the Lausiac History. He lived thirty-⁠seven years in his cell, without ever going out, despite the traps the devil laid to draw him from his hut. He fell asleep in peace.

The verses of the synaxarion picture him crying, as he was about to die, that his soul should run to God, leaving the world. He is commemorated on 27 November (new style).

Commemorated the same day November 27