Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, 810-886; the most prolific of the Greek hymn writers; native of Sicily, but abandoned the island in 830 in the wake of an invasion by the Arabs; founded a monastery in Constantinople; exiled for his defense of icons during the Iconoclast persecution
Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, 810-886; the most prolific of the Greek hymn writers; native of Sicily, but abandoned the island in 830 in the wake of an invasion by the Arabs; founded a monastery in Constantinople; exiled for his defense of icons during the Iconoclast persecution