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Venerable

Theoctistus of Cucomo

A venerable monk of Cucomo in Sicily, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
January 4old style January 17
Reposed
8008th century

Life

Holy Venerable Theoctistus of Cucomo, an abbot, founded a monastery in the city of Cucomo on the island of Sicily, where he became abbot. In his monastery lived Greek monks who had fled the persecution of the iconoclasts. The venerable one departed to the Lord in the year 800.

The Church commemorates him on 17 January. The Azbyka page gives no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day January 4