Saint Andrew of Crete Biography
Saint Andrew of Crete Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date |
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| Date of Birth | 660 AD |
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| Country of Birth | Syria of Asia |
| Matrimony/Holy Orders | Saints who were Monks |
| Profession | Monk |
| Place of Work | Gortyna, Crete. |
| Date of Death | 740 AD |
| Place of Death | Crete, Greece. |
| Feast Day | July 4 |
| Beatification | Beatified by N/A |
| Canonization | Canonized by Pre-Congregation |
| Patron Saint of | N/A |
Saint Andrew of Crete Biography
Saint Andrew of Crete was a monk at a young age. he was sent to Constantinople in 685. He stayed there as the head of an orphanage and men’s home for the aged. Later he became a deacon at a church in Santa Sophia in Constantinople. Then became archbishop of Gortyna, Crete.
Early Life
Conceived in Damascus in 650 AD, to Christian guardians. From birth, Andrew was quiet until the age of seven. As indicated by his hagiographers, supernaturally relieved in the wake of accepting Holy Communion. He started his clerical profession at fourteen in the Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, close Jerusalem, where he immediately picked up the notice of his bosses. Theodore, the locum tenens of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem (745–770) made him his Archdeacon. He sent him to the magnificent capital of Constantinople as his official agent at the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680–681). Which had been called by the Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, to counter the sin of Monothelitism.
Career
Not long after the Council he was brought back to Constantinople from Jerusalem and named Archdeacon at the “Incomparable Church” of Hagia Sophia. In the end, Andrew was designated to the metropolitan see of Gortyna, in Crete. In spite of the fact that he had been a rival of the Monothelite apostasy, he in any case went to the conciliabulum of 712, in which the pronouncements of the Ecumenical Council were annulled. Be that as it may, in the next year he apologized and came back to universality. From that point, he involved himself with lecturing, creating songs, and so on. As an evangelist, his talks are known for their noble and agreeable style, for which he is viewed as one of the premier ministerial speakers of the Byzantine age.
Death
Historians are not of a similar feeling with regards to the date of his passing. What is known is that he died on the island of Mytilene, while coming back to Crete from Constantinople, where he had been on chapel business. Relics later moved to Constantinople. In the year 1350 the devout Russian explorer Stefan of Novgorod saw his relics at the Monastery of Saint Andrew of Crete in Constantinople. At present day Skala Eresou on Lesbos (antiquated Eresos) is an enormous Early Christian basilical church out of appreciation for St. Andrew.
The dining experience day of Saint Andrew of Crete is July 4 on the Eastern Orthodox ritualistic date-book (for those places of worship which pursue the Julian Calendar, July 4 falls on July 17 of the Gregorian Calendar).
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