George of the Phaneromenos Cell

George of the Phaneromenos Cell was an Athonite monk, the last of the brotherhood of Hadji-⁠Georgis's disciples at the cell of St George Phaneromenos in Kapsala. He reposed on 11 October 1982 and is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Dimos Kazakidis in the world, he was born in 1902 at Soufli in Evros. In 1925 he came as a young man to the cell of Phaneromenos, under the obedience of Elder Evlogios the faster, and was tonsured in 1928. After Evlogios reposed he became the disciple of Pachomios, as a spiritual grandson of Hadji-⁠Georgis. He had great devotion to the Holy Great Martyr George, whose name he bore, and he recounted warmly the miracles of the protector of the cell: how he held fast some robbers who came to rob the monks, and how on one occasion he miraculously brought them fish for their feast.

He was obedient, simple, humble and fond of the services; even in old age he went to the vigils at the Protaton and the cells. He had a merciful heart that he hid, spoke little, was gentle and condemned no one. He loved to keep the feast of the cell's saint: the more people came, the happier he was, and he prepared loukoumades for them himself. Pachomios had told him years before that he would repose at eighty, and in 1982 he told visiting monks that he would depart that year. After the feast of 1982, cared for by good neighbours and comforted by divine visions, he reposed in the Lord on 11 October 1982, at the cell of St Demetrius in Trigonades. In the same year the icon of St George Phaneromenos was moved to Pantokrator Monastery.