Zacharias of Jerusalem
patriarch of Jerusalem
Feast: 21 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Zacharias of Jerusalem was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Church of Jerusalem from 609 to 632. Zacharias spent most of his patriarchate as a prisoner of the Sasanian Emperor Khosrow II following the Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem. He is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on February 21. He is also venerated in the Catholic Church, where he is known mostly for the sacramental called the "Plague Cross of Saint Zacharias of Jerusalem".
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q3068735 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Zacharias of Jerusalem (CC BY-SA)
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