He was born in Sicily to pious and charitable parents, Plotinus and Agathia. After the death of his parents, he moved to Thessaloniki, where he became a monk. As a monk, he was an example to all in his fasting, extreme self-restraint, incessant prayer and psalm singing, vigilance and diligence. The bishop of Thessaloniki ordained him a hieromonk. When the famous Gregory the Decapolis visited Thessaloniki, ...

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From his youth he loved Christ and hated this vain world. Because of that, he left the world, went to a monastery and received an angel's face. Not feeling sorry for himself, he surrendered to a sorrowful and narrow monastic path. Through great patience, he acquired the two basic virtues: obedience and humility, and with them he surpassed "not only the brothers but...

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The life of this saint was written by the Jerusalem patriarch St. Sophronius. A priest-monk, the elder Zosimus, went away once during Lent to the desert beyond the Jordan, a distance of twelve days' walk. Suddenly he saw a human being, dry, naked in the body, with hair as white as snow, who immediately began to run away from Zosimus' sight. The old man...

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Born in Cilicia, and bishop in the city of Gangra. He participated in the First Ecumenical Council. Famous everywhere for his pious life and the gift of miracles. Emperor Constantius ordered the image of Hypatius to be painted during the life of this saint, and the emperor kept that image in his palace as a weapon against all hostile ...

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