Venerable (Monastic)9th century

Venerable Evarestus of the Studion

died 825

Also known as Evarestus of the Studion Monastery

A Galatian of a prominent family who became a Studite monk and lived in fasting, vigil, and prayer.

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Our Venerable Father Evarestus of the Studion

Life

Evarestus of the Studion was a Byzantine monk of the ninth century, remembered as an ascetic of the Studion monastery in Constantinople. According to the synaxarion, he was a native of Galatia in Asia Minor and was born to a prominent family. The Orthodox Church commemorates him on December 26.

From his youth, by tradition, Evarestus was drawn to the monastic life and was especially devoted to reading the writings of Saint Ephraim the Syrian. He entered the Studion monastery, the renowned community in Constantinople, where he devoted himself to asceticism marked by strict fasting, vigil, and prayer, and is said to have worn iron chains as a discipline of the body. The synaxarion relates that he reposed at the age of seventy-five in the year 825.

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By a flood of tears you made the desert fertile,
and your longing for God brought forth fruits in abundance.
By the radiance of miracles you illumined the whole universe!
O our holy father Evarestus, pray to Christ our God to save our souls!

Text used with permission of the Orthodox Church in America (oca.org).

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9th centuryMonastic life at the StudionA Galatian of prominent family, Evarestus entered the Studion monastery in Constantinople and lived in fasting, vigil, and prayer.
825ReposeBy tradition he reposed at the age of seventy-five.

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The Studion Monastery

The Studion (Monastery of Stoudios), to which Evarestus belonged, was a major monastic community in Constantinople dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. In the early ninth century, under the leadership of Theodore the Studite, it became the leading center of Byzantine monastic reform and a stronghold of Orthodox resistance during the iconoclast controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries. Its rule and customs were later taken as a model by monasteries of Mount Athos and across the Orthodox world. Evarestus's life, dated to 825, places him within this period of the monastery's prominence.

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Abbot and reformer of the Studion monastery in Evarestus's day, who made it the leading center of Byzantine monasticism.

Venerable Theodorethe Studite

The ascetic writer to whose works Evarestus was especially devoted from his youth.

Ephraimthe Syrian

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