Venerable
John
of Dionysiou Monastery
A monk of Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1920; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 192020th century
- Place
- Dionysiou, Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
John was a hieromonk of the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, who reposed in 1920 and is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. The Russian Orthodox Encyclopedia counts him among the known elders of Dionysiou at the beginning of the twentieth century, with whose names stories of healings and of the salvation of souls are associated. No other facts of his life are kept in the source we have.