Savas The Sanctified
December 5










Description of Sabbas
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
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