Saint Eustathius lived and labored in the days of the pious Serbian king Stefan Urosh II Milutin, who ruled Serbia from 1262 to 1320. He received tonsure and monastic rank in the monastery of the Archangel Michael, which is located in the Zeta region, in Montenegro. He led a strict ascetic life. From his assigned monastic share in food and clothing, he did good to the poor. Having made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he settled on Saint Athos in the Serbian monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Hilandar, built by Saint Simeon, in the world - by the great Serbian župan Stefan Nemanja, his son Saint Sava. Here he devoted himself to monastic deeds with zeal and humility for many years, and was elevated to the rank of abbot of the monastery. Then he was elected and ordained bishop of the Zeta diocese, and after the death of Archbishop Ioannikiy, a council of bishops, abbots and boyars elected Saint Sava to the archbishop's throne. He died and was buried in Zhiche, in the Church of the Savior. During his cancer, numerous miracles, signs and healings were performed.
Later, his incorruptible and miraculous relics were transferred to the Furnace and placed in the archbishop's cathedral church of the holy apostles Peter and Paul.
12 Venerable Martyrs of Vatopedi (Athos), with smch. Abbot Euthymius of Vatopedi († 1276 (1280), commemorated January 4)
The Venerable Martyr Euthymius, abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery, and with him 12 monks suffered from supporters of the Union of Lyons (1274). During a visit to Athos, imp. Michael VIII Palaiologos and K-Polish Patriarch John XI Vekko faced the opposition of a number of monasteries (Protat, Vatopedi, Iversky and Zografsky), which did not recognize their pro-Western policy. Hegumen of the Vatopedi monastery Euthymios and his disciples bravely resisted the Uniates, for which they were martyred: Euthymii was bound in chains and drowned in the sea near Kalamitsa, and 12 Vatopedi monks were hanged in the area of Furkovuni.
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St. Theodosius of Trebizond, Metropolitan. (XIV, commemorated January 11)
Saint Theodosius, Abbot of Athos, Metropolitan of Trebizond, was born in the village of Koritsa, near the Kastorian Mountains. At the age of 18, he accepted monasticism in Constantinople and headed to Athos, to the Philotheevsky monastery, in which he led a strict ascetic life. He was elected abbot of the monastery, and subsequently appointed metropolitan of the Church of Trebizond and died in the city of Trebizond in the 16th century.
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Celebration of the Mother of God in honor of Her Akathistaya icon
The Akathist icon of the Mother of God is located in the Hilendar cathedral iconostasis. She received the name “Akathist” because in 1837, during a fire in the church, an akathist was read before her, and she, to the consolation of the monks, remained unharmed.
Icons of the Mother of God Mammal