Venerable (Monastic) 9th century
Venerable Niketas the Confessor
Also known as Nicetas the Confessor · Niketas of Medikion · Nicetas of Medikion
A 9th-century abbot of the Medikion monastery in Bithynia who suffered persecution and exile as a confessor for the veneration of the holy icons during the second iconoclast period. He reposed in 824.
Feast Day
April 3
Their life
A 9th-century abbot of the Medikion monastery in Bithynia who suffered persecution and exile as a confessor for the veneration of the holy icons during the second iconoclast period. He reposed in 824.
Notes
Defender of the holy icons during the iconoclast controversy.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints; en.wikipedia.org