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Vatopaidi Saints
The Holy Martyr Lazar [Lazarus], Serbian Prince
7 November 2011
Lazar was one of the Serbian noblemen who ruled the Serbian empire after the death of Tsar Dushan. A...
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Nikodimos the Athonite was one of the greatest figures on Mount Athos in the late 18th and ea...
Saints indirectly associated with the Monastery – Epilogue
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
This relatively brief account of the lives and personalities of the better-known saints of Vatopaidi...
Saint Athanasios the Martyr – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
The martyr St Athanasios came from Koulakia (now Halastra) near Thessaloniki. He was originally a pu...
Saint Maximos the Greek
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Maximos the Greek was one of the most distinguished monks and theologians of the 16th century, fa...
Saint Theophanis the Martyr
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
When St Theophanis the Martyr was still a layman, he had, in order to escape the rage of the Turks, ...
Saint Agapios from the Skete of Kolitsou and his four blessed companions
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Agapios lived as a monk with his elder at the Skete of Kolitsou. One day, when he had gone down t...
Saint Evdokimos the ‘Newly-Revealed’
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
When in the year 1840 the Fathers of Monastery wanted to repair their cemetery, they discovered the ...
Saint Dionysius the Martyr
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Dionysius the Martyr was sent as a monk of the Monastery to Crete in 1822, accompanying the sacre...
Saint Makarios, Bishop of Corinth – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Makarios, whose secular name was Mikhail Notaras, was born in 1731 at Trikala in Corinthia. He st...
Saint Germanus Maroules – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Germanus was born in Thessaloniki in 1252 of rich and pious parents. His baptismal name was Georg...
Saint Athanasios of Paros – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Athanasios was born on Paros between 1723 and 1725. He studied first at the Evangelical School of...
Saints Barnabas and Sophronius, founders of the Soumelas Monastery – Saints indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
Sts Barnabas and Sophronius were the founders of the Monastery of Our Lady of Soumelas, and their li...
Saint Cosmas of Aetolia – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Cosmas of Aetolia was born in the village of Megalo Dendro in Aetolia of devout parents and his n...
The Saints of the Athonite School – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
Also to be included among the saints of the Vatopaidi Monastery are those of the Athonias - the Atho...
Saint Makarios the Martyr, disciple of Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Makarios the Martyr was a disciple of St Niphon, three times Patriarch of Constantinople. After t...
Saint Theophilus the Myrrhobletes – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Theophilus was born in the second half of the 15th century at Zichni in Macedonia. Because of the...
Saint Joasaph of Meteora – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Joasaph was the son of the pious ruler of Epirus and Thessaly Symeon Sinisi, who was descended fr...
Saint Theophanes, Metropolitan of Peritheorion – Saint indirectly associated with the Monastery
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Theophanes lived in the 14th century. What we know about him is drawn from the Life of St Maximus...
Saint Philotheus Coccinus, Patriarch of Constantinople
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
Coccinus was one of the most distinguished and most prolific bishops of the Orthodox Church. He was ...
Saint Sabbas the Younger, the ‘fool for Christ’s sake’
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
This St Sabbas was born around 1283 in Thessaloniki, the son of pious parents. His name in the world...
Saint Nicodemus, elder and teacher of St Gregory Palamas
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
There is no doubt that in the 14th century the Vatopaidi Monastery attracted major figures to settle...
Saint Gregory Palamas
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Gregory Palamas  was one of the greatest patristic figures of the Church. In his teaching on the ...
The Martyr Saint Cosmas the Protos
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Cosmas was a brother of the Monastery and lived at the ‘Kareon’ Skete. He was Protos of the Holy ...
Saint Euthymius, Abbot of the Monastery, and the twelve martyr monks with him
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Euthymius was Abbot of the Monastery in the second half of the 13th century - at a critical perio...
Saints Sabbas, Archbishop of Serbia, and Symeon
Georgios Martzelos
4 November 2011
St Sabbas, the first Archbishop of Serbia, and his father, St Symeon the ‘Myrrhobletes’*, are two of...
Saint Ioakeim Pappoulakis
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
The Blessed Ioakeim, surnamed Pappoulakis, may be included in the catalogue of saints of Vatopaidi, ...
Saint Macarius Macres
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
Macarius was born in 1386 in Thessaloniki of a devout and distinguished family of the city, accordin...
The Monastery’s Saints – Introduction
Georgios Martzelos
29 October 2011
In a monastery such as Vatopaidi, with so rich a history and spiritual tradition, the saints who hav...
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Saint Paraskevi from Epivates, the Patron Saint of the Balka...
Do we know who “the woman fallen into many sins” was?
Enter in Great Week
The Temporary Recognition of Christ
Traditions: remembering St. Lazarus
Therapeutic Substitutionary Atonement
Saint Paraskevi from Epivates, the Patron Saint of the Balka...
Harold II the last Orthodox king of England
Mystagogical Catechesis
Apocalypse Now
The Memory of the Blessed Mary the Egyptian
Feast of the Annunciation at Vatopaidi
Hieromonk Neofytos from Vatopedi (1876-3 April 1967)
Penthos: The Lenten Journey to Joy
Shockingly in Paradise