St. David of Thessalonika - RLDAT
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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St. David of Thessalonika - RLDAT
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Saint David was born in northern Mesopotamia, in an area now known as Iraq. He traveled to Thessaloniki as a young man to become a monk at the Monastery of Sts. Theodore and Mercurius. After some time, he chose to climb a large almond tree on the monastery grounds, where he spent three years learning self-discipline, enduring the elements, day and night, suffering greatly in bad weather.
At the end of three years an angel appeared to him and told him it was time to come down from the tree and continue his monastic life in a humble cell built by his disciples. He lived as a recluse in this cell the rest of his life, except for a trip to Constantinople, to intercede with the emperor for the people of his city. He died as he was returning home, and his body was buried at his monastery. Crusaders stole his relics and took them to Italy. They were finally returned to Thessaloniki in 1978.
His feast day is June 26.
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