Dionysius of Docheiariou

Holy Venerable Martyr Dionysius of Docheiariou was a monk, a disciple of Holy Venerable Martyr Jacob, and received a martyr's death on 1 November 1520, together with Jacob and with his other disciple, the hierodeacon Jacob. They are commemorated on 4 July, in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Athos.

Saint Jacob received tonsure on Athos at the Docheiariou Monastery. Moving to the abandoned Iveron skete of the Honourable Forerunner, he renewed it, submitting to the elder Ignatius. Passing through various obediences and acts of self-⁠denial, he reached such purity that he was found worthy of heavenly revelations: like the Apostle Paul, the dwellings of paradise and the prisons of hell were shown to him. By a gift from above he saw the secrets of the heart and the hidden thoughts of those who came to him, and he received also the gift of working wonders. Travelling with his disciples through Aetolia, he worked many wonders, healing the sick and edifying all. Crowds of people gathered to him. The Turkish authorities, using a false denunciation that he might raise a revolt by gathering the people, tried to force him to renounce Orthodoxy. But Saint Jacob and his two disciples, the hierodeacon Jacob and the monk Dionysius, after enduring the most cruel tortures for several days, received a martyr's death on 1 November 1520. The relics of the venerable martyrs, glorified by wondrous healings, were placed in the monastery of Saint Anastasia the Deliverer from Potions in the place called Galatista, near Thessalonica. The fame of the relics drew in a short time up to a hundred brothers to the monastery, led by the abbot, Venerable Theonas, a disciple of Saint Jacob.