Xenophon, Maria, Arcadius and John

The Holy Venerable Xenophon, Maria, Arcadius and John were a married couple and their sons Arcadius and John, who chose the monastic life together. Xenophon was a wealthy senator of Constantinople. He sent his sons to study law at Beirut, but their ship was wrecked; the two escaped and became monks in the Holy Land. The parents, hearing nothing of them, set out to look for them and found each other again at Jerusalem. After that, both Xenophon and Maria received the monastic habit, and all four ended in holiness.

They are commemorated on 26 January (new style), as an example of a family that chose the way of the Lord together.