Agapios of Kavsokalyvia

Agapios of Kavsokalyvia was born in 1883 at Petra in Eastern Thrace, the place of the Forty Churches, with the secular name George Stathoglou, son of George and Doukaina. He came to the Holy Mountain in 1902 and was tonsured a monk in the hut of the Annunciation of the skete of Kavsokalyvia by the hieromonk Agapios the Confessor (d. 1919) in 1906. He was a very devout and willing monk. By God's permission he was afflicted by a demon and shut up in the Tower of the Great Lavra. At the vigil of the Presentation, in the kyriakon of the skete, the fathers all said the prayer rope for the healing of brother Agapios. At the same hour the monk Agapios saw the archangel Michael driving the demons away and returned healthy and glad to his hut. He had a disciple, the monk Pegasios.

From then on he was even more diligent in the spiritual life and was an example of the perfect ascetic. He did not let one Liturgy pass for another. He chanted humbly and with compunction, spoke little and carefully avoided the judgment of his neighbour. He often visited Elder Symeon (d. 1988) to discuss spiritual matters, as also his disciple Isaiah (d. 2002). He reposed in the Lord on 4 April 1962 and left good memories in the Kavsokalyvia brotherhood. All remember him with the best words. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.