Venerable-Martyr · 8th century
Monastic Martyr Andrew of Crete
Also known as Andrew the Confessor
A monk who defended the holy icons under Constantine Kopronymos and was tortured and killed for resisting iconoclasm.
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Notes
Not Andrew of Crete the author of the Great Canon (OS-1468).
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints