Feast day: October 29

St. Narcissus of Jerusalem

Bishop · d. c. 216

Patron of —

An ancient bishop of Jerusalem of immense age, famous for holiness and miracles, who once withdrew into the desert when slandered and returned to govern his church past a hundred years old.

By tradition he once blessed water that was poured into the lamps when the oil ran out on Easter eve, and it burned like oil — and he lived to around a hundred and sixteen.