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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Onesiphorus

A monastic ascetic of Cyprus, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
July 18old style July 31
Era
unknown
Place
Cyprus
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Onesiphorus is listed on 18 July in the synaxarion of the Church of Greece (new style) in the group of the saints of Cyprus. The synaxarion on saint.gr states only that he and his companions, Pammegistus, Pamphodites, Paphnutius, Pigon, Polemius, Sozomenus, Sotirichus and Photius, are saints of the Church of Cyprus, counted among the three hundred Alamanni who came to the island. A fragment of his holy relics is kept at the Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus. No other details of his life survive.

Commemorated the same day July 18