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- Our Venerable, Godbearing Father Sabbas the Sanctified (533)
- "This Saint was born in 439 in Moutalaska, a small village of
Cappadocia. He entered the arena of the monastic life from childhood
and was under that master trainer of monastics, Euthymius the Great, the
teacher of the desert. He became the spiritual father of many monks
and an instructor for the monasteries in Palestine, and was appointed
leader (archimandrite) of the desert-dwellers of Palestine by the
Patriarch of Jerusalem. In his old age he went to Constantinople, to
the Emperors Anastasius and Saint Justinian the Great, in behalf of the
Orthodox Faith and the dogmas of the Council of Chalcedon. Having lived
ninety-four years, he reposed in 533. The Typicon for the
ecclesiastical services had its beginning in the monastery established
by this righteous one." (Great Horologion)
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source:http://www.abbamoses.com
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