Venerable Theophanes

Life

Born in Ioannina, as a young man he left everything and went to the Holy Mountain, where he became a monk in the Monastery of Docheiariou. In fasting, prayer, vigil and self-denial in all that was unnecessary, he was an example to all the monks. Because of this he was in time elected abbot. But later, because of some disagreement with the monks, he left the Holy Mountain and with his nephew came to Beroea in Macedonia, where he founded a monastery in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos. When that monastery flourished with spiritual life, he left his nephew to govern it, and he himself went to Naoussa, where he founded another monastery in honor of the Holy Archangels. He reposed peacefully in the fifteenth century. His wonderworking relics now lie in Naoussa, and manifest the great power of God.