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Venerable Martyr

Theoctistus

A venerable martyr of the undivided Church, killed in 797.

Feast
March 13old style March 26
Reposed
7978th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Venerable Theoctistus lived in the eighth century and struggled in the monastery of Saint Sabbas. The synaxarion notes that he reposed in peace in the year 797, and the Greek calendar (new style) commemorates him on 13 March as a venerable martyr.

No other details of his life have survived in the source consulted.

Commemorated the same day March 13