Zosimas of Palestine

Zosimas of Palestine

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name=Saint Zosimus (Zosima) of Palestine
birth_date=c. 460
death_date=c. 560
feast_day=4 April
venerated_in=Eastern Orthodox Church



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death_place=Palestine
titles=Venerable (Monk)
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Venerable [In the Orthodox Church, monastic saints are referred to as "Venerable" (Greek: Όσιος, "Hosios"). The term is unrelated to the Roman Catholic term which describes a candidate for sainthood. For the Orthodox, Venerable saints are considered to be fully glorifed (canonized) saints.] Zosimas of Palestine, also called Zosima, is commemorated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches on April 4.

Saint Zosimas was born in the second half of the fifth century, during the reign of Emperor Theodosius the Younger. He became a monk in a monastery in Palestine at a very young age, gaining a reputation as a great elder and ascetic. At the age of fifty-three, now a hieromonk, he moved to a very strict monastery located in the wilderness close to the Jordan River, where he spent the remainder of his life.

He is best known for his encounter with St. Mary of Egypt (commemorated on April 1). It was the custom of that monastery for all of the brethren to go out into the desert for the forty days of Great Lent, spending the time in fasting and prayer, and not returning until Palm Sunday. While wandering in the desert he met Saint Mary, who told him her life story and asked him to meet her the next year on Holy Thursday on the banks of the Jordan, in order to bring her Holy Communion. He did so, and the third year came to her again in the desert, but he found that she had passed away and he buried her. St Zosimas is reputed to have lived to be almost one hundred years of age.

All that we know of Zosimas' life comes from the "Vita of St. Mary of Egypt", [A Vita is the life of a saint, often the earliest formal hagiography of that particular individual.] recorded by St. Sophronius, who was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638. Sophronius based his work on oral tradition he had heard from Palestinian monks. This "Vita" is traditionally read as a part of the Matins of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, on the fifth Thursday of Great Lent.

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* [http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=100988 St. Zosimus] brief Synaxarion
* [http://www.monachos.net/library/Mary_of_Egypt%2C_Complete_Life_by_Patriarch_Sophronius_of_Jerusalem Life of St. Mary of Egypt]
* [http://www.monachos.net/library/
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