Bishop Pancratios of Tauromenium.
St. Pancratius was, according to tradition, a disciple of the apostles who was sent to Sicily and became the first bishop of Tauromenium, present-day Taormina. There he preached the Gospel, overturned the worship of idols, and gathered a flock for Christ in the earliest days of the Church.
He completed his ministry as a martyr, put to death by enemies of the faith. He is honored as one of the apostolic founders of the Church in Sicily, and is commemorated on July 9.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Pancratius of Tauromenion is commemorated on July 9. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on July 22 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Also commemorated on July 9
Michael Paknanas the Gardener
Martyr, Μιχαήλ Πακνανάς
New Martyr Michael Paknanas the Gardener of Athens.
Dionysios the Rhetor and Metrophanes
Venerable, Διονύσιος ο Ρήτωρ και Μητροφάνης
Venerable Dionysios the Rhetor and his disciple Metrophanes of the Skete of St. Anne.
Photios of Akapniou
Venerable, Φώτιος Ακαπνίου
Venerable Photios, founder of the Akapniou Monastery in Thessaloniki.
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