Venerable Hierotheus

Life

Born in the Peloponnese, from the village of Kalamata. He practiced asceticism in the Iveron Monastery on the Holy Mountain. He distinguished himself both by great worldly learning and by strict monastic asceticism. He strove to fulfill the rule of Saint Arsenius: "One hour of sleep in the course of twenty-four hours is enough for a monk." He reposed on the island of Jura in the year 1745. His relics are wonderworking. His head is preserved as a relic in the Iveron Monastery. By the touch of his holy relics in Constantinople, a blind woman received her sight.