Eleazar the Patriarch

Memorial

• 2 September

Profile

Third son of Old Testament Patriarch Aaron. Leader of the Jewish theocracy. With his brother Ithamar, he founded the Israelite priestly class. Old Testament patriarch.

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Omer Englebert
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Eleazar the Patriarch”. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 August 2010. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/eleazar-the-patriarch/>