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Stylite

Timothy the Stylite

A venerable ascetic who lived on a pillar, reposing in 872.

Feast
January 4old style January 17
Reposed
8729th century

Life

Venerable Timothy the Stylite struggled on a pillar and lived in a way pleasing to God. He reposed in peace in the year 872.

The Greek calendar (new style) commemorates him on 4 January, among the venerable, alongside Apollinaria the Senator, Athanasius the Commentariensis, Zosimas the Confessor, Michael the Syncellus and Euthymius the New. No other details of his life have survived.

Commemorated the same day January 4