Saint Barsanuphius

Saint Barsanuphi Saint Barsanuphe A 6th-century anchorite who lived near Gaza. us spent several years in the m onastery of Saint Seridon, monastère de Saint-Séridon Monastery located near Gaza in Palestine. located near Ga za i Gaza City in Palestine near which the saint's monastery was located. n Palestine, where John the Prophet, the blessed Dorotheus, and S Jean le prophète Ascetic companion of Barsanuphius. aint Bouithee lived at th bienheureux Dorothée Monk and disciple living at the monastery of Saint Seridon. e same time as him. The love of contemplation led him, in 540, to shut himself away in a secluded cell and have no further commerce but with God. It was there that he wrote a treatise against the monks who had fallen into Orig enism. The origénisme Set of doctrines attributed to Origen, opposed by Barsanuphius. Greeks had such veneration for his memory that they placed his image in the great church of Constantino ple, near thos Constantinople City where the saint exercised his ministry and patriarchate. e of Saint Anthony and Saint Ephrem. Saint Barsanuphius is honored on February 6, with the status of primary patron, in Orlé, near Si pont Orlé Place in Italy where the saint's relics were transferred. o, in Italy, where his relics were transferred in the 9th century. His office is found on the same day in the Greek synaxaries. Cardinal Baronius inse rted his name into t Le cardinal Baronius Church historian who inserted the saint into the Roman Martyrology. he Roman Martyrology under April 11.