Note 93 — BOOK VII[1]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
St. John the Silent (454-circa 589), so called from his love of silence and retirement. At the age of twenty-eight he was consecrated Bishop of Colonus, near Athens, but resigned his see in nine years, and withdrew to the Monastery of St. Sabar in Jerusalem. His feast falls on the 13th of May.—T.