Saint John the Almoner
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- Also known as
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John the Almsgiver
Joannes Eleemosynarius
Joannes Misericors
- Memorial
- 23 January
- Profile
- Cypriot nobility; son of the governer of Cyprus.
Married briefly, and father of one child.
Entered the religious life when his wife and child died of disease.
Patriarch of Alexandria in 608.
Archbishop.
Known as the Almoner because of his generosity to the poor.
Helped refugees from Persian assults on the Holy Lands.
Forced to leave Alexandria when the Persians threatened to overrun it, he returned to his home on Cyprus.
Predicted the date of his own death.
- Born
- c.550 at Arnathus, Cyprus
- Died
- c.616 at Arnathus, Cyprus of natural causes;
relics in the cathedral at Presburg, Slovakia
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God (John)
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Knights Hospitaller
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine
The Life of Our Holy Father, John the Almsgiver,
A Supplement to the Life of John the Almsgiver, by Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis
Catholic Online
Google Directory
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
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- Readings
- If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need.
-Saint John the Almoner