Acacius of Latros

Saint Acacius of Latros was a monk and wonderworker in the tenth century, in the time of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (913 to 959). He struggled at Latros (Latmos), where, with other monks, he founded the Lavra of the Mother of God at Myrsinon (until then only hermits had lived on Mount Myrsinon). He had the gift of working miracles. He reposed in peace. He is commemorated on 3 January (16 January by the new calendar). His name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

His commemoration is absent from the synaxaria and is found only in one Greek manuscript of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, kept at the National Library in Paris. In another menology there is a different commemoration, on 30 September, of "the venerable Acacius at Latros (unknown)", but there are not yet sufficient grounds to attribute the two commemorations, 3 January and 30 September, to the same saint.