Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Sunday 5 December 2021

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 Saint Sabbas in the Catholicon
(Main Church) of Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank.
Photo: 21 January 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: adriatikus.
(Wikimedia Commons)



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

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