Holy Venerables
Ten Venerable Ascetics of Egypt
Ten venerable ascetics of Egypt, commemorated together in the Greek synaxarion.
- Feast
- August 8old style August 21
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Egypt
- Order
- Venerables
Life
The Ten Venerable Ascetics of Egypt were ascetics who reposed in peace. The Greek synaxarion preserves no other details about their life, their names or the place where they struggled.
They are commemorated together on 8 August, by the church calendar of the Church of Greece.
Commemorated the same day August 8
Severus of VienneSaint · Priest at VienneAug 8- Gregory of SinaiVenerable · Hesychast monkAug 8
Eusebius of MilanSaint · Archbishop of MilanAug 8
Gregory the IconographerVenerable · Icon painter of the Kiev CavesAug 8
Kallinikos of EdessaSaint · Metropolitan of EdessaAug 8
Jacob of TumanVenerable · Monk and doctor of lawAug 8
Theodosius of the CaucasusVenerable · HieroschemamonkAug 8
Nikodim KrotkovHieromartyr · Archbishop of Kostroma and GalichAug 8Alexandru BaltagăNew MartyrAug 8
- Triantaphyllos the MartyrNew MartyrAug 8
Zosimus of TumanVenerable · Sinaite hermitAug 8
Myron of CreteSaint · Archbishop of CreteAug 8