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Venerable (Monastic) · 10th century

Basil the New

Also known as Basil the Younger · Venerable Basil the New of Constantinople

An ascetic who lived as a solitary near Constantinople in the tenth century; arrested and tortured on suspicion of being a spy, he was found to be a holy man of God and became renowned as a wonderworker and clairvoyant elder.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints