Cloud of Witnesses
Venerable (Monastic) 6th century

John the Silent

Also known as John the Hesychast · John the Sabbaite

Bishop of Colonia who left his see for the monastic life and became a renowned hesychast at the Lavra of St. Savva in Palestine.

Feast Day
March 30
Also Dec 3
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Their life

Bishop of Colonia who left his see for the monastic life and became a renowned hesychast at the Lavra of St. Savva in Palestine.

His companions & kin
Hierarch
Saint John-Barsanuphius Bishop of Damascus
Hierarch
Venerable Zosima Bishop of Babylon
Hierarch
Saint Leontius of Radauti
Hierarch
Eustathius I Archbishop of Serbia
Hierarch
Peter Bishop of Sebaste
Venerable (Monastic)
Venerable Theodosius Metropolitan of Trebizond
Notes

Principal feast commonly Dec 3; commemorated Mar 30 in the OCA listing. Also commemorated Dec 3.

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