Venerable Nikon "repent"

Life

Nikon was from Armenia. Moved by the Lord's words: everyone who has left father or mother shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life, Nikon truly left all for Christ's sake and went to a certain monastery where he became a monk. When he had been perfected in all virtues, he left the monastery and went to preach the Gospel to people. He constantly cried out: "Repent!" for which reason he was called "Repent." As a preacher he traveled throughout all Anatolia and the Peloponnese. He worked miracles by prayer in Christ's name and peacefully passed to his beloved Lord. He reposed in Sparta in 998.