Saint
Sabbas of Surozh
Hierarch of Surozh in Crimea, venerated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 15old style December 28
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch Sabbas of Surozh was archbishop of Surozh (today Sudak), in Crimea, and lived before the twelfth century. The news of him was kept in a note on the margin of a twelfth-century Greek Menaion.
Five versts from the former city of Surozh stands a mountain called Ai-Savva (St Sabbas), where the remains of a church survive, and a cave in which, it seems, the holy hierarch died and was buried. In 1872 an icon of St Sabbas of Surozh was found.
He is commemorated on 28 December in the Synaxis of the Saints of Crimea, in the new style.
Commemorated the same day December 15
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