Job of Docheiariou

Job of Docheiariou, in the world Socrates Chrysanthou Kourtelides, was born in 1919 at Polystypos in Cyprus. He came to Docheiariou Monastery quite old, in 1984. He was tonsured a monk in 1986. At the monastery of Saint Heracleidios in Cyprus he left his "old" wife, who became a good nun with the name Prokopia and led a beautiful ascetic life. She warmly urged him to become a monk. He had six children, grandchildren and great-⁠grandchildren. From childhood he worked for his daily bread and set his family up well. He had come as a pilgrim to the Holy Mountain and fell ill. He asked the Mother of God to make him well and to dedicate himself to her. So it was.

When his heart burned with divine longing, the attraction of Christ, he left everything and, without regard to his great age, entered the monastic arena with youthful ardour, willingness and zeal. He worked tirelessly and zealously in the monastery's gardens. In summer he cleaned the olive trees and gathered wood for his stove in winter. He did not want to tire the fathers and oblige them to care for him. The compassionate and merciful God, all-⁠seeing and all-⁠knowing, was pleased to receive his last breath in the church of the Archangels. He reposed standing in his stall, at the dismissal of the Midnight Office, on 15 January 1989. He fell asleep praying, crossing himself and invoking all the saints. Thus the heavenly gate was opened to him, so that his spirit might sing Matins with the heavenly powers and all the saints the eternal and unquenched hymn to the Holy Trinity. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.