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Nicetas of Medikion
Byzantine saint
SaintByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Feast: 3 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
760
Died
824
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Saint Nicetas of Medikion (Greek: Νικήτας Μηδικίου) or Nicetas the Confessor (Νικήτας ο ομολογητής), who is commemorated on 3 April, was a monk who opposed Byzantine Iconoclasm.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Sources
- Wikidata Q261374 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nicetas of Medikion (CC BY-SA)
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