Saint Athanasius of Nicomedia

Memorial

• 22 February

Profile

Born wealthy but preferred the life of a poor hermit. Monk and then abbot at the monastery of Saints Peter and Paul near Nicomedia, Bithynia (modern Izmit, Turkey). Flogged, imprisoned and exiled during the iconoclastic persecutions of Emperor Leo V. Supported Saint Theodore Studites.

Born

• Constantinople

Died

• c.818

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Athanasius of Nicomedia”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 February 2010. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-athanasius-of-nicomedia/>