Our Holy Father Elias of Calabria
Commemorated August 17
St Elias was the Abbot of the monastery of Melicia in Calabria. The monks here were distinguished for their learning and the strictness of their lives. There were so many of them that the region was likened to the Thebaid of Egypt. St Elias entered into his rest in the year 903.
Source: Crkveni Kalendar
