Feast day: March 30
St. John Climacus
A monk and abbot of Mount Sinai whose book 'The Ladder of Divine Ascent' maps the spiritual life as a thirty-rung ladder and remains a classic of Eastern monasticism.
His surname 'Climacus' means 'of the ladder,' after the book that has shaped Eastern Christian spirituality for fourteen centuries.
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