Venerable (Monastic) 9th century
Venerable Gregory the Decapolite
Also known as Gregory of Decapolis
A monk who fled an unwanted marriage and lived in asceticism across the Byzantine world, enduring hardship and defending Orthodoxy during the iconoclast period.
Feast Day
November 20
Their life
A monk who fled an unwanted marriage and lived in asceticism across the Byzantine world, enduring hardship and defending Orthodoxy during the iconoclast period.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints