Christian feast day: Joannicius the Great

Joannicius the Great

Christian saint and theologian

Joannicius the Great or Ioannikios was a Byzantine Christian saint, sage, theologian and prophet. Well known for his devoted asceticism and defense of icon veneration, Joannicius spent the majority of his life as a hermit on Mysian Olympus, near what is today Bursa, Turkey.…