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Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century

Venerable Confessor John Psykhaitis

Also known as John Psychaites · John of Psykhaita

A monk of the Psykhaita monastery in Constantinople who contended boldly for the holy icons under the iconoclast emperor Leo the Armenian and suffered for the confession of the faith.

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