Daniel of Meteora

Venerable Daniel of Meteora was a monk at Meteora. No biographical details about him are known; he may have lived in the sixteenth century. What is certain is that his homeland is Tsioti (Farkadona) in the Trikala region and that he struggled as a monk at Meteora.

His honoured head is kept in the Great Meteoron Monastery, in a gilded reliquary. On the first Saturday of Great Lent the holy head is carried to Farkadona (Tsioti) for veneration and procession, and stays there until the Sunday of Orthodoxy. A fresco of the venerable has recently been painted in the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora by Vlasios Tsotsonis (1995), and a service and a supplicatory canon in his honour were composed in 1995 by George Militsis, a retired teacher. He is commemorated on 16 August, in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).