Venerable Martyr
Sabbas of Konstamonitou
Monk of Konstamonitou
Monk of Konstamonitou Monastery on Athos, martyred in 1821 at Stageira.
Life
Venerable Martyr Sabbas of Konstamonitou was a monk of the Konstamonitou monastery on Mount Athos and received the martyr's death in 1821. He was born at the end of the eighteenth century, in the village of Kazandzhi Mahala in Chalkidiki.
He became a monk at Konstamonitou. When the uprising in Chalkidiki broke out in 1821, Sabbas was killed by the Turks together with another monk, also from Kazandzhi Mahala. The place of martyrdom is Stageira.
The first service in honour of the saint was held in the year 1988.
Commemorated the same day June 10
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