Venerable Anastasius of Sinai

Life

Abbot of Mount Sinai. He was first a monk for a long time under the renowned Abbot John of the Ladder (Climacus), and after the latter's death he himself became abbot. Besides being a great ascetic, he was also an eloquent writer of the lives of saints and of other edifying works. He waged a fierce struggle against the heretics called the Acephali (the headless ones), who denied the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. He reposed in deep old age in the year 685 and departed to the Lord, Whom he had faithfully served.