Martyr
Neophytus
A saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- December 7old style December 20
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Neophytus is commemorated on 7 December (new style, the Greek calendar). According to the synaxarion he received martyrdom by drowning in the sea. A verse says that Neophytus, dead in the midst of the waters, lives through the mystical passages of the waters.
Place, time and other details of his life are not preserved.
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