Saint Sabbas. Abbot. Feast Day 5 December.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Sabbas. 
   Abbot. 
   Feast Day 5 December.

Simple.

White Vestments.

The Relics of Sait Sabbas in the Catholicon (Main Church) of Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank.

Photo: 21 January 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: adriatikus.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Monastic Order had to be represented in The Escort of The Immaculate Virgin, of The Apostles, Pontiffs, and Virgins, who walk before Christ. Therefore, The Church Commemorates Saint Sabbas, a Celebrated Anchorite, who, in the 5th-Century A.D., filled Palestine with the fame of his virtues and austerities.

He organised Monastic Communities in Palestine and Founded, among others, the Celebrated Monastery which bears his name.

He died  531 A.D. at the age of ninety-four.

Mass: Os justi.

Commemoration: Of Saint Sabbas, in The Ferial Mass, by the Collects from the Mass: Os justi

(Of Abbots).