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John of Aphousia
hegumen on the island of Aphousia
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 27 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
On the island of Aphousia in the Propontis, in the Aegean Sea, Saint John, hegumen, who struggled much under the emperor Leo the Armenian on behalf of the veneration of the sacred images.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 27 April as a hegumen who struggled under the emperor Leo the Armenian for the veneration of the sacred images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 27 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R9a6df118 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.