Saint Theophanes

Memorial

• 4 December

Profile

Officer in the Byzantine imperial court of Leo the Armenian. He was arrested with three others officers for treason because they opposed Leo’s Iconoclasm. The other survived the torture and imprisonment and became monks, but Theophanes did not. Martyr.

Died

• tortured to death in 815

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

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