SAINT GEORGIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH - 19 APRIL

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL

Saints celebrated on the 19th of April

SAINT GEORGIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH

Saint Georgius is listed in the Synaxarium of the Greeks, where he is called a confessor of Christ. From childhood he served God in faithful love, becoming a monk and then bishop of Antioch in Pisidia (Asia Minor). He died in exile because he did not recognise the decisions of the After-Council of Constantinople, or rather of Emperor Leo the Armenian, against the veneration of images. The Roman Martyrology* also commemorates him on the above day. He lived in the 9th century and is therefore easy to distinguish from the other famous St Georgius. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Georgius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.