Our Righteous Father Stephen of Mar Sabbas Monastery.
Saint Stephen passed his life in the ascetical discipline in the Monastery of Saint Sabbas, from whence also he received the name Sabbaïte. He was consecrated bishop and reposed about the year 790, bequeathing to the Church a number of melismatic troparia.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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