November 4: Saint George Karslides celebratestranslated

Today, Tuesday, November 4, the Church honors the memory of Saint Ioannikios of Olympus, Saints Nikander bishop of Myra and Hermaios the elder, Vasileos Ioannis Vatatzis, the invoked merciful, and the contemporary Saint George of Karslides. Saint George Karslides was born in 1901 AD. in Argyroupoli of Pontos. Orphanhood made him strong in life. At the age of seven, he went to worship the Virgin of Sumela. He remained there as a cadet and when the fullness of time came in 1919, he became a monk. Later, he was ordained a Deacon. Due to the persecution against the Roma, he fled to Georgia.

During the silent persecutions, he suffered imprisonments, humiliations and public censures. He was even sentenced to death and shot, but was miraculously saved!

Afterwards, he was ordained an Elder and seriously took up the ministry of the Spiritual, while in 1929 he came to Sipsa (in the settlement of the Brigades of Drama), where he lived the remaining thirty years of his life, displaced from his father's land.

He was sentenced to death again in 1941 by the Bulgarians, but he was still saved, to patiently continue his sacrificial life in Christ until the day he fell asleep,...