Commemorated on August 30
Saint Fantinus the Wonderworker was born in Calabria (Italy) of
parents George and Vriena. He was given over to a monastery, and from
childhood he was accustomed to ascetic deeds. In his youth he wandered
into the wilderness, remaining often without food or clothes for twenty
days. The monk spent 60 years in such exploits.
Before the end of
his life, fleeing before pursuing Saracens, he went with his disciples
Vitalius and Nicephorus to the Peloponnesos (Greece). Preaching the way
of salvation, the monk visited Corinth, Athens, Larissa and
Thessalonica, where he venerated the relics of the Great Martyr
Demetrius (October 26). He died peacefully in extreme old age at the end
of the ninth, and beginning of the tenth century.
SOURCE:
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