Theodore the Branded

Confessor

Commemorated December 27

The Holy Martyr Theodore the Branded , the older brother of St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, was a monk at the Monastery of St. Savas in Jerusalem who, with his brother, was a firm defender of the veneration of images during the iconoclastic period of the ninth century. His feast day is December 27 .

Source: OrthodoxWiki