Jan 26, 2010

St. Xenophon & his Companions

St. Xenophon was a wealthy nobleman of Constantinople who had two sons, Arcadius and John, whom he sent to Beirut to study law. When they were shipwrecked during their voyage; they forsook all things and departed for Palestine.

Saint Xenophon and his wife Mary, ignorant of what had happened, went in search of their sons. On finding them in Jerusalem, dressed in the habit of monks, they also took up the monastic life.

And thus, having completed their lives in holiness, they departed for the Lord about the beginning of the sixth century. Saint Xenophon and his sons reposed at Saint Sabbas Monastery, and Mary at the Monastery of Saint Theodosius.

References:
Xenophon & his Companions — Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

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