Abrahamite monks

The Abrahamite monks were an order of monks in a monastery at Constantinople, founded by Abraham of Ephesus, who were martyred around 835 during the iconoclast persecutions of Emperor Theophilus. They are regarded as saints by the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of July 8.

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