The Monk Passarion

Commemorated on August 11

      The Monk Passarion pursued asceticism in the first half of the V Century. He founded a monastery in Jerusalem. He was "chor-episkop" (vicar-bishop) of Palestine, and conversant with the Monk Euthymios the great (Comm. 20 January).

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.