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Theoctiste of Lesbos
Saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church
SaintByzantine EmpirePre-congregation
Born
817
Died
870
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Theoktiste of Lesbos (Ancient Greek: Θεοκτίστη τῆς Λέσβου) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 10 November — "ST THEOCTISTA, Virgin — The Roman Martyrology today mentions the death on the island of Paros of St Theoctista" (Butler adds the Bollandists' doubts about the legend, but the veneration is in the Roman Martyrology).
- Wikidata Q7781549 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Theoktiste of Lesbos (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.