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Venerable (Monastic) · 6th century

Venerable Acacius of Sinai

Also known as Acacius of The Ladder

A young monk who for nine years bore without complaint the harshness and blows of a cruel elder, and after his death answered from the tomb that he yet lived — a wonder of holy obedience recounted in The Ladder.

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Notes

Not Acacius the Centurion. Also commemorated Nov 29.

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