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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Photius

Founder of the Akapniou Monastery

A venerable founder of the Akapniou Monastery in Thessaloniki.

Feast
July 9old style July 22
Era
unknown
Place
Thessaloniki
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Photius was the founder of the Akapniou Monastery in Thessalonica. No narrative of his life survives; his memory appears only in the Lavra codex G 86 (folio 142a), where there is also a proper hymn composed by Demetrios Veaskos, great steward of the Metropolis of Thessalonica, and also in Jerusalem codex 309 (folio 91).

The calendar of the Church of Greece commemorates him on 9 July (new style), together with the Venerables Dionysius the rhetor and Metrophanes of Athos.

Commemorated the same day July 9