Saint Phanurius

Also known as: Fanourios
Fanurius
Phanurios
Memorial: 27 August
Profile: Soldier. Martyr. No other reliable information has survived. An apparition of Phanurius was reported on the island of Rhodes in 1500. Tradition says that he died praying for his mother; she was such a notorious sinner that he became known as patron of lost of impossible causes.
Born: at Crete
Died: stoned to death
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: desperate causes
forgotten causes
impossible causes
lost articles
lost causes
Representation: soldier in armour holding a spear
soldier in armour holding a cross with a lit candle on the top
soldier holding a cross in one hand, a lit candle in the other
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Fanouropita recipe
Orthodox Life
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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Readings: A heavenly song of praise is brightly sung on the earth;
the hosts of the Angels keep an earthly festival now in splendour and radiant joy;
from on high, they praise with hymns thy suff'rings and struggles;
and below, the Church doth laud the heavenly glory
thou foundest by thy contests and pains, O glorious Phanurius.

- Dismissal Hymn of the Martyr