Makarios Garris

Makarios Garris was archdeacon of the Metropolis of Chios and died a martyr in 1822, hanged by the Ottomans with Metropolitan Platon. The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece numbered him among the saints on 15 July 2021. His commemoration is kept on the Sunday of the Paralytic, together with that of the other martyrs of Chios.

He was the archdeacon of Metropolitan Platon Frangiadis and followed him into the dark prison of the castle of Chios, where the Ottomans shut dozens of the island's notables after the outbreak of the Revolution. The Metropolis of Chios gives the day of the hanging as 23 April 1822, in the square of Vounaki, when the metropolitan, the archdeacon and nine notables were led to death. The sources preserve nothing of his earlier life: neither his birthplace nor his years.

Chios had been laid waste that spring: more than forty thousand people were killed or carried off. He stayed beside his shepherd to the end.