Kosmas of Kavsokalyvia (d. 1952)

Kosmas of Kavsokalyvia (d. 1952) was born at Plomari on Lesbos and came in 1899 to the hut of Saint Methodios in the skete of Kavsokalyvia. For almost half a century he lived there without ever going out into the world. He followed the strict asceticism of the renowned ascetic Hadji-⁠George, who had fasted all his life; they called him "the oil-⁠less." According to the editor S. Schinas: "He was one of the sober elders, the adornment of Kavsokalyvia." His funeral, held on 25 July, the feast of Saint Anne, was attended by many fathers; by coincidence many fathers from other sketes had come to the hut of Saint Anne of Elder Joachim Papapavlou, which was keeping its feast, among them the one who writes. He reposed on 24 July 1952. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.