Attalus the Wonderworker

Saint Attalus the Wonderworker shone among the monks and took care to learn the law of God in order to keep it with attention and strictness. He knew how to worship in truth and to pray in spirit.

He was very merciful and temperate. He never ate twice a day, and it pleased him to eat once in two days. He was still more temperate in sleep: the bed, he said, is a kind of coffin, so more hours of sleep are more hours of death. And though his life and appearance were so severe, within him dwelt a very tender soul. Every morning birds came to him without fear and together they sent up morning praise to the Maker. God gave him the gift of working miracles: his prayer healed the illnesses of body and soul.

When he sensed his death, he asked, while still alive, for the last kiss from his fellow monks. Death found him in spiritual light. He is commemorated on 6 June, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).