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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Venerables

Sinaite Fathers of Ravanica

A group of venerable Sinaite fathers associated with Ravanica Monastery, commemorated together by the Serbian Church.

Feast
May 6old style May 19
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

The Sinaite Fathers of Ravanica are a group of venerable hesychasts of the Serbian Church of the end of the fourteenth century and of the fifteenth. The Sinaites were monks from the circle of the disciples of Saint Gregory of Sinai; according to the list of Serbian saints, they include Romylus of Ravanica, Romanus the Sinaite, Nestor, Martyrius of Rukumija, Sisoes, Zosimas of Tuman, Job and Gregory of Gornjak.

Ravanica is the monastery founded by Prince Lazar, around which a community of ascetics gathered. The sources at hand do not tell the lives of each one. The Sinaite Fathers of Ravanica are commemorated together on 6 May in the old style, which is 19 May in the new; in the Serbian list another day appears for the Sinaites, 16 January, also old style.

Commemorated the same day May 6