Akakios of Xiropotamou

Akakios of Xiropotamou, a hieromonk, with the secular name Athanasios Madis, was born in 1834 in the village of Geraki in Laconia. He grew up occupied with his father's estates. He entered Xeropotamou Monastery in 1865. He was tonsured a monk in 1866 and given the name Akakios. In 1869 he was ordained deacon and in 1872 priest. In 1876 he was raised to superior of his monastery. He loved the church and the holy services especially. He had reverence, attention and compunction. For years he was also a good typikarios. The monastery's register says briefly: "He was very fond of the services, standing with reverence and attention in church, and was also typikarios." He reposed in the Lord peacefully on 15 December 1922, the day of the memory of the Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherios. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.