23 December 2021

Saintly Royals Sunday

Glorified (Canonised) only by the Patriarch of Constantinople, not honoured in the Eastern Catholic Churches.

From The Mad Monarchist (11 August 2013)


St David Komnenos, last Emperor of Trebizond along with his sons Sts Basil, George and Manuel and his nephew St Alexios who were martyred by the Turks in 1463 in Constantinople.

A tug of the forelock to Byzantine Texas for bringing this recent canonization to my attention.

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