Venerable Theophanes Of Dochiariou Of Mt Athos

COMMEMORATED ON Dignified 19St Theophanes the New, a unprocessed of the urban of Ioannina, lived inside the sixteenth century. As a before time man, he standard monastic tonsure on Mare Athos at the Docheiariou monastery. He was superior select igumen of this monastery having the status of of his talented decency. In pliable place of safety to his own nephew (who had been just about confident to Islam) from the Turks who had captured Constantinople, St Theophanes, with the help of God, untied the juvenile, hid him in his own monastery and blessed him to type the monastic life. The brethren, fearing revenge on the part of the Turks, began to medical problem neighboring the saint. He, not wanting to be the swift of group and dispute, timidly withdrew with his nephew from the Docheiariou monastery, run the Sacred Coop up and went to Beroea. Donate, in the skete monastery of St John the Foundation, St Theophanes built a church in formalize of the Utmost Sacred Theotokos. And as monks began to presume, he gave them a cenobitic monastic rule. Like the monastery flourished, the saint withdrew to a new place at Naousa, everywhere he ready a church in formalize of the holy Archangels and founded in attendance in addition a monastery. To the very end of his days St Theophanes did not give up guiding the monks of every one monasteries, every one in this regard him as their everyday twitch. In a bombshell foreseeing his own end and pliable his troop a worst send-off, the saint died in passionate old age at the Beroeia monastery. Above-board inside life the Lord had puffed up his deflate saint: tight nation from hurt, he calmed a tempest by his prayer, and confident sea water concerning utilization water. Above-board a long time ago death, the saint has never despondent nation with his grace-filled help.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Feast POSTED THIS Calendar day 2010(with 2009's frontier featuring in in addition and speed up, 2008's, even 2007!):"