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Venerable (Monastic) · 12th century

Venerable Niketas the Stylite of Pereyaslavl

Also known as Niketas of Pereyaslavl · Nikita Stylites

A tax-collector of Pereyaslavl who, smitten with horror at his own greed and cruelty, fled to the monastery in deep repentance and bound himself in chains upon a pillar, where he labored until martyred by robbers who took his fetters for silver.

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Notes

Distinct from St Niketas, Bishop of Chalcedon (May 28).

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