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Saint Nicetas the Patrician was a Byzantine monk and a fervent opponent of Byzantine Iconoclasm. He is usually identified with Nicetas Monomachos, a eunuch official and general from Paphlagonia active at the turn of the 9th century.
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- ↑ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Πλάτων. 4 Απριλίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- ↑ (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 4 Απριλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
