Saint Nicetas the Patrician
Byzantine official and saint
Feast: 13 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Nicetas the Patrician (Greek: Νικήτας Πατρίκιος, romanized: Niketas Patrikios; 761/62 – 6 October 836) was a Byzantine monk and a fervent opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He is usually identified with Nicetas Monomachos (Νικήτας Μονομάχος), a eunuch official and general from Paphlagonia active at the turn of the 9th century.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q7401942 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nicetas the Patrician (CC BY-SA)
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