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Venerable Savva of Benephali

Also known as Sabbas of Benephali

A venerable monk commemorated by the Church, of whom no detailed life survives.

Feast Day

August 27

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Commemorated as

Our Venerable Father Savva, Monk of Benephali

Life

Savva of Benephali (also rendered Sabbas) is a venerable monk of the Eastern Orthodox calendar, commemorated on August 27. He is identified in the liturgical record only as a monastic associated with the place of Benephali, and no detailed account of his life has survived.

Surviving notices preserve little beyond his name, his monastic rank, and his place of association. The synaxarion and calendar entries that list him for August 27 supply no narrative of his origins, ascetic labors, or repose, so his profile remains that of an honest stub among the many saints whose memory the Church retains while the particulars of their lives have not come down to the present.

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Commemoration

Savva is commemorated on August 27, a day on which the Church also remembers Saint Pimen the Great, Saint Pimen of Palestine, and Saint Liberius, Pope of Rome, among others. In the calendar entries he appears simply as 'Sabbas, monk, of Benephali,' without an accompanying life.

Because the sources give only his name, his monastic state, and his connection to Benephali, nothing further can be responsibly stated about his century, region, or specific ascetic activity. The era of his life is recorded as unknown.

Notes

Honest stub; OCA gives no life details.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints