The 5th of the month, Memory of our Venerable, Godbearing Father SABAS the SANCTIFIED; the Holy Monks and Confessors of Athos, COSMAS the PROTOS and his Companions, who were slain at the command of the Latinizers: the Emperor Michael VIII and the Patriarch John Bekkos; our Venerable Father NECTARIUS of KARYES, and of his spiritual Father PHILOTHEUS; Saint NICETIUS (Nizier), Bishop of TRIER
St. Sabas the Sanctified