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).