Venerable Anthion, an ascetic whose memory is preserved in the synaxaria.
Saint Anthion is remembered in the Greek synaxaria as a monastic who lived the ascetic life and reposed in peace. The details of his life have not been preserved.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Anthion the Venerable is commemorated on June 26. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on July 9 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on June 26
John, Bishop of Gothia
Hierarch, Ιωάννης Επίσκοπος Γοτθίας
Saint John the Confessor, Bishop of the Goths in Crimea, defender of the holy icons.
David the New Monk-Martyr
Martyr, Δαβίδ ο Νέος Οσιομάρτυς
Monk-Martyr David of Aivali and Saint Anne's Skete, hanged in Thessaloniki in 1813.
Dionysius of Suzdal
Hierarch, Διονύσιος Αρχιεπίσκοπος Σουζδαλίας
Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal, founder of the Caves monastery of Nizhny Novgorod.
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