Ioasaph

Ioasaph of Zographou was a monk of the Monastery of Zographou on Mount Athos, who died as a martyr in the year 1276, or 1280 according to other sources. He is counted a venerable martyr and is commemorated on 22 September and 10 October. He belongs to the time when Athonite monks suffered for the Orthodox faith after the Council of Lyons (1274) and the union policy of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. A nineteenth-⁠century Athonite monk, Iakovos Neaskitiotes, put the sufferings of the monks of Zographou into writing. The sources we have do not, however, tell Ioasaph's own story in detail.