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Venerable (Monastic) · 5th century

Theodore Trichinas

Also known as The Hair-shirt Wearer

Born to wealthy parents in Constantinople, he forsook his comforts for a strict ascetic life in a Thracian monastery, wearing only a rough hair shirt, from which he received his surname.

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