Saint Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople

Life

He became patriarch after Saint Anatolius. He was a contemporary of Saint Marcian (January 10) and Saint Daniel the Stylite (December 11). In his time the famous Studite Monastery was founded, so called after the Roman senator Studius, who came to Constantinople and with the blessing of Gennadius built a church dedicated to Saint John the Forerunner and a monastery beside it. He was very meek and temperate. He would not ordain anyone to the priesthood who did not know the entire Psalter by heart. He presided over a local council in Constantinople at which simony in the Church was anathematized. He worked miracles and in a vision learned of his own end. He governed the Church for thirteen years and peacefully reposed in the Lord in the year 471.