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Venerable Simeon the Monk (King Stefan the First-Crowned) – 7 October [O.S. 24 September] Venerable Sinaites : Romylos of Ravanica , Roman, Nestor, Martirije, Sisoje, Zosim of Tuman and Jov – 19 May [ O.S. 6 May]
Bede says virtually nothing of the monk's early life, save that he was a monk at the ancient monastery on the island of Iona from a relatively young age and that he was of Irish descent. [1] [2] According to Catholic tradition, in Aidan's early years, he was a disciple of Saint Senan on Inis Cathaigh. [3] Aidan was known for his strict ...
A monastic saint who was martyred for the Orthodox faith is referred to as "venerable martyr" or hosiomartyr. In the 20th century, some English-language Orthodox sources began to use the term venerable to refer to a righteous person who was a candidate for glorification (canonization), most famously in the case of John of Shanghai and San ...
Medieval manuscripts abound in abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand.The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in order to save time and parchment.
The Venerable, as a general epithet (rather than the religious The Venerable), may refer to: Azon the Venerable, Catholic prelate of the late 10th and early 11th century; Bede (672/3–735), English Benedictine monk, writer, teacher and scholar; Peter the Venerable (c. 1092–1156), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny
He became a monk in a monastery in Palestine at a very young age, gaining a reputation as a great elder and ascetic. At the age of fifty-three, now a hieromonk , he moved to a very strict monastery located in the wilderness close to the Jordan River , where he spent the remainder of his life.
According to the Vinaya, any properly ordained monk can become an ācariya after ten vassa in the robes, thus a Thai monk becomes ajahn.. A senior monk may bear the honorific title phra ajahn (Thai: พระอาจารย์,"venerable monk"), or in more informal situations, than ajahn (Thai: ท่านอาจารย์,"venerable monk").
Paul of Thebes (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲉ; Koinē Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Θηβαῖος, Paûlos ho Thēbaîos; Latin: Paulus Eremita; c. 227 – c. 341), commonly known as Paul the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, [2] who was claimed to have lived alone in the desert of Thebes in Roman Egypt from the age ...