Sampson the Hospitable

Who they were

At Constantinople, Saint Sampson, priest, who was a refuge for the poor and is said to have set up a hospital at the invitation of the emperor Justinian, whom he had healed of an illness.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 27 June as a priest of Constantinople, a refuge for the poor, said to have founded a hospital after healing Justinian.

Connected on this site

• Menas of Constantinople Saint
  “Menas was born in Alexandria, and enters the records in high ecclesiastical office as presbyter and director of the Hospital of Sampson in Constantinople, where tradition has him linked to saint Sampson the Hospitable directly, and in the healing of Byzantine emperor Justinian I from the bubonic plague in 542.” — Wikipedia