Venerable
Passarion
Venerable monk, the spiritual guide of St. Euthymius the Great.
- Feast
- August 11old style August 24
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Passarion struggled in the first half of the fifth century. He founded a monastery in Jerusalem and was a chorbishop of Palestine. He is regarded as a teacher and interlocutor of Saint Euthymius the Great (commemorated on 20 January).
He is commemorated on 13 March (a movable date), in the new style, in the Synaxis of all the venerable fathers who shone in ascetic labour.
Commemorated the same day August 11
Nephon II of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleAug 11
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Alexander the Charcoal-burnerHieromartyr · Bishop of Comana in PontusAug 11
Tiburtius of RomeMartyr · Martyr of RomeAug 11
Euplus of CataniaMartyr · Deacon of CataniaAug 11
Basil and Theodore of the Kiev CavesHoly Venerable Martyrs · Monks of the Kiev CavesAug 11
John of SviatohirskVenerable · Recluse of Sviatohirsk MonasteryAug 11- Maximus of Asia MinorMartyrAug 11
- Alexander of RomeMartyrAug 11
- Anastasios PanerasNew MartyrAug 11
AttractaVenerableAug 11- BanbhnatVenerableAug 11