Ephraim

Ephraim of Grigoriou was a monk of the Monastery of Grigoriou on Mount Athos, born in 1906 and reposed in 1991. He is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. It is written of him that he spent almost sixty-⁠five years in the monastery, struggling in the monastic virtues among the other brothers.

He was a simple, humble old man, dear to all, with white hair falling on his shoulders and a cassock stained with work. He missed no service until deep old age. The testimony that has been kept says that his true worth was not seen from outside but hidden in his heart, between himself, God and his spiritual father.