Ioannikios Konchylas

Ioannikios Konchylas was a hieromonk of the Great Lavra on the Holy Mountain, the author of a Life of St Maximos of Kavsokalyvia. Little is known of him: he lived after Maximos (who reposed in the later fourteenth century), and the Life he wrote is dated to the early fifteenth century or around 1450. It builds on an earlier Life of Maximos and adds almost no new facts, but the monks of Athos today regard it as the finest of the four Lives of Maximos from the ascetical point of view, for the depth with which it sets out his teaching.

The Proskynetarion of the Lavra, printed at Venice in 1772 by the prohegumen Makarios Trigonis, calls Ioannikios a saint who shone in the holy Lavra. He is venerated locally, in the Synaxis of all the venerable fathers of the Great Lavra, on the second Sunday after the feast of St Athanasios the Athonite (5 July).