Gennadius of Vatopedi

Holy Venerable Gennadius of Vatopedi, dochiarios or steward, lived in the fifteenth century and became known through a miracle of the icon of the Mother of God Eleovrytissa, that is, the Oil-⁠flowing, in the Vatopedi Monastery.

The icon was in the monastery's storeroom, called the dochiarion. Once the lack of oil in the monastery was so great that it did not suffice even for the church's needs. The abbot, hoping for the help of the Mother of God, sent the dochiarios Gennadius for the last vessel, to give oil for the food of the brotherhood. Gennadius was troubled, because he wished to keep the oil for the lamps. Arriving in the storeroom, he found the vessel full of oil, which overflowed its edges and had reached the door.

Researchers identify the dochiarios Gennadius with the hieromonk Gennadius mentioned from 1415, later proigoumenos of Vatopedi, in whose time, in January 1449, the monastery was changed from the idiorrhythmic to the cenobitic order. The venerable one is commemorated on 4 July, in the Synaxis of the Athonite Fathers, a movable day.