Venerable Damian, Ascetic of the Syrian Deserts

Commemorated on February 23

Saint Damian lived in Syria in the fifth century. He withdrew to a monastery named Ieros and lived there in asceticism. In his cell he had only a small box of lentils from which he ate.









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