Zosimas

Venerable Zosimas, distinct from Abba Zosimas who found Saint Mary of Egypt (4 April), was marked by a method he first applied to himself against anger and then taught to others: to keep complete silence when he grew angry. In this way his anger died out for lack of fuel, without breaking into flame, and his fury was easily calmed, as the sea grows quiet at once after a brief wind has passed over it.

A verse of the synaxarion asks who will tell of Zosimas's long labours and who of the crowns of those labours after his death. The Greek calendar (new style) commemorates him on 24 January, alongside Macedonius the Barley-⁠eater.