Commemoration
Blessed Studius
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Life
A distinguished patrician and consul in Constantinople. He founded near the Golden Gate a church of Saint John the Forerunner and a monastery, called after him the Studion. This monastery became famous for many illustrious men — spiritual fathers, ascetics, and sufferers for the faith — of whom the best known is Saint Theodore the Studite. The Latin crusaders destroyed this monastery in the year 1204, but Emperor Constantine Palaeologus Porphyrogenitus restored it in 1293. On that site there now stands a Turkish mosque.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, June 20. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on June 20
The full reading for June 20 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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