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Confessor 18th century

Saint Bessarion Sarai the Confessor

Also known as Bessarion of Romania

A Serbian monk who defended Orthodox Christians in Transylvania against forced union with Rome and endured imprisonment and persecution.

Feast Day
October 21
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Their life

A Serbian monk who defended Orthodox Christians in Transylvania against forced union with Rome and endured imprisonment and persecution.

His companions & kin
Hierarch
Nikolai of Zhicha
Venerable (Monastic)
Saint Jacob the New of Tuman
Confessor
Saint Varnava (Nastic) of Hvosno
New Martyr
New Martyr Onuphrius of Gabrovo
Venerable (Monastic)
Venerable Sergius (Srebryansky) the New Confessor of Tver
Hierarch
Tikhon of Moscow
Notes

Among the Confessors of Transylvania.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints