The MonkMartyr Euthymios, Hegumen of the Batopedeia Monastery, and with him 12 Monks Commemorated on January 4 The MonkMartyr Euthymios, Hegumen of the Batopedeia Monastery, and with him 12 Monks suffered on Athos in the XIII Century for denouncing as heretical the Latinisers patriarch Michael Paleologos (1261-1281) and patriarch John Bekkas (1275‑1282). The hegumen was drowned in the sea, and the monks – were hung. © 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos. |
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