Venerable Thalassius of Libya

Thalassios the Libyan or the African (in Latin, Thalassius) was a Christian monk of the 6th and 7th centuries and a Greek-language religious writer whose four Centuries (collections of one hundred aphorisms) appear in the Philokalia of the Neptic Fathers. He is considered a Venerable by the Greek Orthodox Church, which celebrates his feast day on May 20.