Bitimion

Saint Bitimion the Venerable was an ascetic of the desert who reposed in peace. He is commemorated on 24 December (new style, the Greek calendar). Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite writes in the Synaxarion that in the Paradise of the Fathers (Gerontikon) his name appears as Bitimios.

It is told that once he was given apples to take to the elders of the Skete. He knocked at the door of the cell of Abba Achilles, wishing to give him some too, but Achilles answered that at that hour he did not want anyone to knock at his door, not even if he were bringing heavenly manna, and told him not to go to any other cell either. Bitimios then took the apples to the church and returned to his cell. A verse says that, stripped of the bag of corruption, Bitimion may receive it incorrupt at the resurrection.