Saint Clement the Stylite who lived as an ascetic on Mount Ságmata in Boeotia

Commemorated on January 27.

This holy ascetic is not mentioned in the Synaxaristes nor in the Menaion. His Church Service, however, is found in the Laurentian Codex E 152 f. 332 a and Γ 12f. 82 β.

In his Service he is praised as one who "appeared as a most ascetical spirit-bearer, ascending a tall pillar, as a steadfast pillar of the hermits, and the support of monastics who perform works of light." 1

In his Kontakion it is stated that he contested alone "most willingly on the mountain of Ságmata on a narrow pillar [and] you adorned the choir of the ascetics, O Most Righteous Clement."

Saint Clement lived during the XII century and performed many miracles.

1 See Acts 26:18, Romans 13:12, I Thessalonians 5:5.