Ven. Confessors: Bessarion, Sophronius, Martyr Oprea; Priest-Confessors: John of Gales and Moses Macinic of Sibiel; St. Hilarion the Great
Saint Bessarion (Sarai) was a Serb who was born in Bosnia in 1714. Longing for the monastic life, he was tonsured at the Monastery of Saint Sava in the Holy Land in 1738. He returned…