Plato of Sakkoudion
Byzantine saint
Feast: 4 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Plato the Studite, also Plato of Sakkoudion (Greek: Ὅσιος Πλάτων τῆς Μονῆς τῶν Σακκουδίων; c. 735 in probably Constantinople – 4 April 814 in Constantinople), was a Byzantine minor official who became a monk in 759. After refusing the metropolitan see of Nicomedia or the headship of a monastery in Constantinople, in 783 he founded the monastery of Sakkoudion on Mount Olympus in Bithynia, of which he became the first abbot.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2269212 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Plato of Sakkoudion (CC BY-SA)
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