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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Macarius the Confessor of Pelekete

Also known as Makarios · Macarius Igumen of Pelekete

Orphaned young and well-grounded in Scripture, he became abbot of the Pelekete monastery near the Hellespont and suffered exile and hardship for venerating the holy icons during the iconoclast persecution.

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Notes

Confessor under iconoclasm; born c. 785, reposed 9th century.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints