Venerable Theodore the Hermit of the Jordan

Theodore the Hermit of the Jordan was a sixth-century monk of the Holy Land, remembered as an ascetic and wonderworker. According to the synaxarion, he forsook the world in his youth to take up the monastic life, withdrawing into the wilderness of the Jordan, where the desert tradition of Palestine had long drawn solitaries. Through his ascetic labors he is said to have received from God the gift of wonderworking.

He is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and also among the Byzantine Catholic Churches, on June 5. He reposed in the year 583. The historical record of his life is slight; the sources note that little documentation survives beyond the tradition of his desert asceticism and the single miracle for which he is best known.