## [Venerable Savva the Sanctified - 05 December](https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/12/05/103477-venerable-savva-the-sanctified)
🎶troparion🎶
With the streams of your tears you cultivated the barrenness of the desert;
and by your sighs from the depths, you bore fruit a hundredfold in your labors.
You became a luminary, shining upon the world with miracles.
O our righteous Father Savva, intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.
🎶kontakion🎶
From your youth you were offered to God as an unblemished1 sacrifice because of your virtue,
having been dedicated to Him before your birth, O blessed Savva.
You were an adornment of monastics and a praiseworthy citizen of the desert.
Therefore, we cry to you: “Hail, greatly renowned Father.”
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