St George Limniotes (of the Lake)

Commemorated August 24

Saint George Limniotes lived during the seventh and eighth centuries and was a monk of the Olympian monastery near Constantinople. He suffered for venerating icons under the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (716-741). They burned his head and cut off his nose. St George died in the year 718.

Source: Crkveni Kalendar