(Greek: defending men)
(died c.440)Abbot, founder of the Acremetre (Greek: without sleep), monks of Asiatic origin. He converted by a miracle the governor of Edessa, Saint Rabulas. In the desert he converted 30 robbers and changed their den into a monastery. He also founded a monastery on the Euphrates. With 300 monks, he settled at Gomon in Bithynia, and divided them into six choirs to sing the Divine Office, so that it might ascend ceaselessly, night and day. Feast, January 15,.
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