Athanasius the New

Saint Athanasius the New, wonderworker and bishop of Christianopolis, is honored in the Greek Church. He died, according to the data consulted, in 1707. The calendar of the Orthodox Church in America preserves no details of his life, and the Greek synaxarion notes only that his relics are kept at the Prodromos Monastery in Gortynia. He is commemorated on 17 May (new style; 30 May on the old calendar).