Saint Phanurius
- Also known as
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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
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desperate causes,
forgotten causes,
impossible causes,
lost articles,
lost causes
- Representation
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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
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Orthodox Life
Fanouropita recipe
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- Print References
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
- 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