Venerable Daniel (donale)

Life

Daniel was a magnate and governor of the island of Niverte, near Cadiz in Spain. Having learned all the vanity of this world, Daniel abandoned both glory and wealth and came to Rome, where he became a monk. Then Daniel went to Constantinople, where he conversed with the emperors Constantine and Romanus Porphyrogenitus, and then Daniel set out for Jerusalem. In Jerusalem Daniel received the great schema from Patriarch Christodulus, who gave him the name Stephen. Tormented by the Saracens, who forced him to shave his beard, Daniel withdrew to Egypt, where for the name of Jesus Daniel endured many torments and death. Daniel passed into the Kingdom of Christ at the end of the tenth century.