Eugenios

Venerable Eugenios of Konstamonitou Monastery was an Athonite monk of the nineteenth century, venerated locally at Konstamonitou and remembered together with the holy fathers who shone on the Holy Mountain. No synodal canonization of him is known, and he has no day of his own in the synaxaria. What is known of him was gathered by Hieromonk Benedict the Athonite in his Synaxaristes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The sources preserve nothing of his origins, his years or the day of his repose. It is known that he served at the common table of the monastery as refectorian, and that although he was the youngest in years, by his ascetic labours he reached the measure of the ancient holy fathers.

He sustained his body with very little bread and, while still in the flesh, strove to live like the bodiless powers. He overcame sleep so thoroughly that he spent many nights without sleeping. Day and night he made many prostrations, kept a wondrous silence, mourned without ceasing and repeated without pause the prayer "Lord Jesus Christ". By humility he humbled the demons.

After his repose the Lord glorified His servant, and his body gave off a sweet fragrance. He is remembered at Konstamonitou Monastery and in the Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of Athos.