Charalambos of Kalyviani

Venerable Charalambos of Kalyviani was a monk of the Panagia Kalyviani Monastery in Moires, Heraklion, Crete, whose memory had been lost and was recently rediscovered. In the time of Metropolitan Timothy of Gortyna and Arcadia, while the monastery courtyard was being laid out beside the old church, a tomb was found from which a fragrance poured out and in which there were holy relics.

The saint appeared to many and revealed his origin: the village of Dafnes, from where he came and gave himself to the monastery. He lived an ascetic life and was himself granted a miracle by the Mother of God. Among his miracles is the healing of the wife of the agha of Kalyvia, as a result of which all the members of his family were baptized Christians. A hymn says that he served blamelessly in the church of the Mother of God and remained unknown for many years until he revealed himself in the last times. The synaxarion on saint.gr gives 1788 as the year of his repose.

A church in his honour was built by the late Metropolitan Timothy and consecrated by Metropolitan Makarios of Gortyna and Arcadia, together with the venerable martyrs and other venerables of the monastery, on 29 September 2012. His relics are in the monastery. He is commemorated on 23 August, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).