Saint Modestus, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Life

When his parents died, Modestus was only five months old, but by God's Providence he was raised in the Christian spirit. When Modestus grew up, he was sold as a slave to a certain pagan in Egypt. He succeeded in converting his master to the Faith of Christ, who subsequently granted him freedom. Modestus withdrew to Mount Sinai, where he struggled in asceticism until his fifty-ninth year. Then Modestus was chosen as Patriarch of Jerusalem. He pastured the flock of Christ as a true shepherd and reposed peacefully in the year 633, in the ninety-seventh year of his life.