Venerable Nicholas the Confessor Abbot of Studion
d. c. 868
A Cretan who entered the Studion monastery in Constantinople and suffered imprisonment and exile for venerating the holy icons; he later became abbot and reposed about 868.
Our Venerable Father Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of Studion
Life
Nicholas the Confessor, also called Nicholas the Studite, was a monk and later abbot of the great monastery of Studion in Constantinople, who confessed the faith during the persecution of the holy icons. He is commemorated on February 4.
By the accounts he was born on the island of Crete, in the village of Kydonia, and at the age of ten was sent to Constantinople to his uncle, Saint Theophanes, a monk of the Studion, where he himself entered the monastic life.
During the renewed iconoclasm of the ninth century he suffered for venerating the holy icons, enduring imprisonment and exile for his confession. After the restoration of the icons he was made abbot of the Studion monastery, and he reposed about the year 868.
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(Podoben: “O Victorious Leader...”) You arose from Kydonίa as a brilliant luminary,
and illuminated the fullness of the Church by your steadfast confession O God-bearer.
You clarified the veneration of the Icon of Christ by your struggles and pains.
Therefore we cry out: “Rejoice, Father Nicholas.”
Text used with permission of the Orthodox Church in America (oca.org).
(Podoben: “The Divine Faith...”) O Studite Nicholas, you were shown as the divine offspring of Kydonίa and a model of the monastic life;
and you revered the Icon of Christ,
excelling in the struggles of your confession.
O Venerable Father,
intercede with Christ God, that He may grant us great mercy.
Text used with permission of the Orthodox Church in America (oca.org).
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