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
Print References: The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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