Saint Modest
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Saint Modest may refer to:
- See Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia for Saint Modestus, legendary educator of St. Vitus, martyr under Diocletian (circa AD 304)
- ModestusModestusModestus was an early christian writer mentioned briefly by Eusebius in his | as the author of a book against the Marcion. Eusebius praises him as having "exposed the error of the man more clearly than the rest to the view of all"....
, an early christian writer mentioned by Eusebius - Saint Modest (bishop of Trier), †489
- Saint Modestus (Apostle of Carinthia)Modestus (Apostle of Carinthia)Modestus , called the Apostle of Carinthia, Apostle of Carantania, was most probably an Irish monk and the evangelizer of the Carantanians, an Alpine Slavic people in the south of present-day Austria and north-eastern Slovenia, which were among the ancestors of present-day Slovenes.Upon the request...
, presumably Irish, missionary to the Slavs of Carantania; died circa 770 - Saint Modestus of JerusalemModestus of JerusalemModestus of Jerusalem was a Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, who is commemorated as a saint by the Orthodox church, on May 17, March 29 or December 17 in the Palestinian-Georgian calendar venerates him or December 16 and October 19 in the Acta Sanctorum.He was born in Cappadocian Sebasteia...
, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of JerusalemGreek Orthodox Patriarch of JerusalemThe Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem is the head bishop of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, ranking fourth of nine Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 2005, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has been Theophilos III... - Saints Tiberius and Modestus, martyrs at Agde under Diocletian; especially venerated in the diocese of Montpellier