Venerable Eudocimus of Vatopedi

Life

In the year 1841, when workmen at Vatopedi were repairing the charnel house, they found the relics of a certain man in a kneeling posture and with an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos at his breast in his hands. An extraordinarily beautiful fragrance spread from those relics. Not knowing who the holy man had been or when he had lived, the monks gave him the name Eudocimus and translated his relics to the church, where they remain to this day. From those relics many miraculous healings have occurred. On the silver reliquary the following words are still engraved: "This reliquary was made for the honorable head of Saint Eudocimus by the monk Gabriel, whom this saint healed of a grave illness."