Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Theodosius the Cenobiarch
- Salvius or Sauve, bishop
St. Salvius (d. ca. 625 A.D.) or St. Sauve of Montreuil, succeeded Ado as bishop of Amiens. He was the fifth Bishop of the French city of Amiens . He lived on the cusp of the 6th century and 7th century A.D. Often confused with Salvius of Albi and Salvius of Valencijn, he was made the patron saint against speech impediments, of Montreui, the Frisian town of Dronrijp and of the town of Saint-Sauflieu, in France. Learn more from Anastpaul.com
Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [January 11]
- Theodosius, Hegumen-Abbot
St. Theodosius (423-529 A.D.) is commemorated this day in both the Roman Calendar and the Byzantine Calendar. He was a leading pioneer of cenobitic or monasticism in community. Born in Cappadocia in Asia Minor, St. Theodosius built a large monastery at Cathismus near Bethlehem and filled it with vocations. He attached three infirmaries to the monastery:
- one for the sick,
- one for the aged,
- and one for the mentally disturbed.
There were also four churches attached to the monastery:
- one for the Greeks
- one for the Armenians
- one for the Slavs
- and one for those doing penance or recovering from mental illness
The monastic complex resembled a small city and became a good example of its kind in the East. It was probably because of this achievement that the patriarch of Jerusalem appointed Theodosius as abbot general of all cenobitic communities in Palestine - thus earning him the title, "Cenobiarch."
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