New Martyr
Chrysanthos of Xenophontos
A new martyr of Xenophontos Monastery on Athos, who died for the faith in 1821.
Life
Holy New Martyr Chrysanthos of Xenophontos was an elderly monk of the Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos. He was killed by the sword in Constantinople on 10 April 1821, on the very day of the Lord's Resurrection, on the same day as Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V.
His name is absent from the synaxaria and no other details of his life are known. The only testimony of his end is a manuscript of the Xenophontos Monastery, which says that "on the day of the Resurrection of the Lord, 10 April, our elder Chrysanthos ended his life by the sword in the Queen of Cities, at the hand of a Hagarene, for the sake of piety".
He is commemorated on 10 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).
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