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- St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818)
- "This Saint was from Synnada in Phrygia of Asia Minor. In
Constantinople he met Saint Theophylact (March 8); the holy Patriarch
Tarasius, learning that Michael and Theophylact desired to become monks,
sent them to a monastery on the Black Sea. Because of their great
virtue, St Tarasius afterwards compelled them to accept consecration,
Theophylact as Bishop of Nicomedia, and Michael as Bishop of his native
Synnada. Because St Michael fearlessly confessed the veneration of the
holy icons, he was banished by the Iconoclast Emperor Leo V the
Armenian, who reigned from 813 to 820. After being driven from one place
to another, in many hardships and bitter pains, St Michael died in
exile." (Great Horologion)
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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