Makarios the Confessor | |
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 An icon of St Makarios | |
| Confessor Abbot of the Pelekete monastery | |
| Born | c. 750 Constantinople, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Died | 18 August 840 Aphousia, Byzantine Empire (modern-day Avşa, Balıkesir, Turkey) |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 1 April |
Makarios the Confessor, Abbot of Pelekete (Greek: Μακάριος, born Christophoros, c. 750 – 18 August 840), was a Byzantine monk and iconodule who is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.[1] He is known for his time as the abbot of Monastery of St John the Theologian of Pelekete, and for his conflict with, and persecution by the iconoclast Emperors Leo V the Armenian, Michael II, and Theophilos.[2][1]
- ^ a b Orthodox Eastern Church (1998–2008). The Synaxarion: the lives of the saints of the Orthodox Church. Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra, Christopher Hookway, Maria Rule, Joanna Burton, Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady. Ormylia, Chalkidike, Greece: Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady. ISBN 960-85603-7-3. OCLC 40530820.
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