Sabbas

Saint Sabbas was bishop of the city of Daphnousia in Asia Minor. His commemoration is absent from the synaxarion of Nicodemus the Hagiorite and the printed Menaia, but he is mentioned in the Synaxarion of Delehaye, without further detail.

A codex of the Great Lavra on Athos says that for his virtuous and God-⁠pleasing life, which he showed from infancy in piety, modesty and fear of God, he was made bishop of Daphnousia by synodal decision. He took the helm of the throne, taught everyone to hold fast to the true and pious faith, and converted and baptised many of the idolaters. After a life pleasing to God he went to the Lord, whom he had desired from infancy.

He is commemorated on 1 May, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style). On the same day another Sabbas, a martyr hanged on a fig tree, is also commemorated.