Showing posts with label St. Christodoulos of Patmos. Show all posts
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Translation of the Relics of Saint Christodoulos the Wonderworker of Patmos

Translation of the Relics of St. Christodoulos from Evia to Patmos (Feast Day - October 21)

Our Venerable Father Christodoulos was born in 1020 in Nicaea of Bithynia, and became a monk at a young age at Mount Olympus in Bithynia. From there he lived a monastic life and established monasteries in Palestine, Mount Latros, Lycea and Kos. In 1080 he left Kos and went to Patmos, where he established the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in 1088. In 1092 he left Patmos because of the successive Saracen raids and took refuge with his companions in the area of ​​Limni in northern Evia.