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Saint Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

Saint Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

Saint Paisios was born in Cappadocia on July 25, 1924. His father was named Prodromus and his mother was named Eulampia. The saint had 8 siblings. On Au...

Saint Elder Porfyrios Kaysokalivitis

Saint Elder Porfyrios Kaysokalivitis

Elder Porphyrios was born on the 7th of February 1906, in the village of St. John Karystia, near Aliveri, in the province of Evia. His parents were poor...

Elder Arsenios Spileotis

Elder Arsenios Spileotis

It is not easy to describe in a few words the life and works of a great ascetic Elder Arsenios. He was born in Pontos in 1886. While still young, he was...

Saint George Karslides

Saint George Karslides

Saint George Karslides was born in Argyroupolis, Pontos in 1901. He became an orphan very young, so it was his pious grandmother, who raised the young A...

Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Elder Joseph the Hesychast or Spileot was born in 1898 in the village of Lefkes on the Paros Island in Greece. He had been chosen to serve God since he...

Saint Papa-Nicholas Planas

Saint Papa-Nicholas Planas

Saint Nicholas Planas was born in Naxos in 1851. His parents, captain John and Augustina, were quite well off but were also good people, with the simple...

Saint Elder Iakovos Tsalikis

Saint Elder Iakovos Tsalikis

Saint elder Iakovos Tsalikis was among the holiest Elders, who lived in Greece the past decades. His holiness is acknowledged by almost all Greeks and t...

Elder Papa Tychon of Mount Athos

Elder Papa Tychon of Mount Athos

Papa-Tychon was born in Novaya Mikhalovka, Russia, in 1884, from pious parents, Pavel and Elena. When he was seventeen, they gave him their blessing to...

Elder Sofronios of Essex

Elder Sofronios of Essex

Archimandrite Sophrony was born in 1896, to Orthodox parents in Tsarist Russia. Since he was a child, he showed a rare capacity for prayer and as a youn...

Elder Philotheos Zervakos

Elder Philotheos Zervakos

Blessed Elder Archimandrite Philotheos Zervakos of Longovarda (1884-1980) is a well-known 20th-century Greek Orthodox elder, from Paros island, and spir...

Elder Amvrosios of Mount Athos

Elder Amvrosios of Mount Athos

The Hieromonk Amvrosios was born in village Lazarata in Lefkada, of pious parents, teacher Panayoti Lazari and Louiza. His first name was Spyridon and h...

Saint Gabrielia (Gavrielia)

Saint Gabrielia (Gavrielia)

Gerontissa Gabrielia (Gavrielia) was born in Constantinople more than a hundred years ago on October 15, 1897 to Helias and Victoria Papayanni and was t...

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