In Sigriana, in Bithynia, in the monastery of Campogrande, burial of saint Teófanes, surnamed "Chronograph", or Saint Theophanes chronicler who being very rich preferred to become a poor monk, and for defending the cult of sacred images was imprisoned by the Emperor León el Armenio for two years and then deported to Samothrace, where, exhausted from suffering, gave up his spirit.
Celebration | 12 of March Saints of the day |
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Name |
Teófanes is a man's name.
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Death | on year 817 in Sigriana in current Turkey Saints dead in Turkey |
Process | We have no record of his canonization process. |