Honorific Prefix: | Saint, Venerable |
Baradat | |
Birth Place: | Syria |
Residence: | Cyrrhus, Syria |
Venerated In: | Eastern Orthodox Church Catholic Church |
Canonized Date: | Pre-congregation |
Feast Day: | February 22 |
Baradates (died circa 460) was a hermit who lived in the Diocese of Cyrrhus in Syria, and whose bishop, Theodoret, called him "the admirable Baradates."
Baradates lived in a tiny hut, too small for him to stand upright, and he wore a leather garment that exposed only his mouth and nose. He was said to have been very learned, particularly in theology. Emperor Leo wrote him, asking his advice regarding the Council of Chalcedon.In the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Feast of St Baradates is February 22.
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under February 22,