Saint Theodore, Bishop of Edessa, and Others with Him

Life

At the age of twenty he became a monk and spent thirty-six years as a monk. Then, in the time of Emperor Michael and Theodora, he was chosen as Bishop of Edessa. He reposed in the year 848. Along with him are commemorated his teacher Saint Theodosius the Stylite of Syria, his brother Saint John, and Saint Ader, a nobleman and a wealthy man, who fled from his wife and became a monk.