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Sampson the Hospitable
Byzantine saint
SaintByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Feast: 27 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
450
Died
530
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Sampson the Hospitable (Greek: Σαμψὼν ὁ φιλόξενος, Sampsón ho philóxenos; died c. 530 AD) was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information available on this saint.
Connected on this site
- Menas of Constantinople Saint“Menas was born in Alexandria, and enters the records in high ecclesiastical office as presbyter and director of the Hospital of Sampson in Constantinople, where tradition has him linked to saint Sampson the Hospitable directly, and in the healing of Byzantine emperor Justinian I from the bubonic plague in 542.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Wikidata Q3780774 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sampson the Hospitable (CC BY-SA)
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