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Venerable

Theosterictus of Olympus

A venerable monk of Mount Olympus in Bithynia, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
November 10old style November 23
Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Theosterictus of Olympus, called also Sterictus, struggled in the ninth century in the monastery of Symbolon in Asia Minor, at Mount Olympus, and was a defender of the holy icons. The Azbyka page preserves no other details of his life.

He is commemorated on 23 November.

Commemorated the same day November 10