†) St. Jer. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople; St. Mc. Evplu the Archdeacontranslated

Orthodox calendar, August 11 St. Jer. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople He was born in the Peloponnese in the first half of the 15th century, to parents brilliant with the nation, but also with the right faith and good deeds, Manuel and Maria, receiving the name of Nicolae at baptism.

Showing a lot of love for the book, he had many skilled and pious teachers at the schools of the Despot of Mistra, who gave him a chosen teaching but also guided him in the ways of serving God. After his father's transition to the eternal, he chose the path of monastic life, going in obedience to the hermit Antonie from Epidaurus, then to his teacher, the Athonite hieromonk Zaharia, from whose hands he received the monastic face, taking the name Nifon, which in Greek means: the one who watches.

Together with him, due to the disturbances caused by the Unionist Synod of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), he left Greece for Albania, where he was ordained a hieromonk, and, after its conquest by the Turks, he stayed for a while at the Monastery of the Mother of God in Ohrid. After the death of his mentor, he went to Mount Athos.

There, researching several monasteries, hermitages, caves and hermit cells, he settled in...