Venerable (Monastic) · 9th century
Venerable Joannicius the Great
Also known as Ioannikios
A former soldier from Bithynia who became a great ascetic and defender of Orthodoxy during the iconoclast period.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints