Makarios of St Anne's Skete (d. 1983)

Makarios of St Anne's Skete (d. 1983), with the secular name Constantine Katsigiorgis, was born in 1914 in the village of Parparia on Chios. At only eleven he came to the Holy Mountain and in 1925 entered the hut of the Entrance of the Theotokos at Kerasia, where his uncle, the hieromonk Athanasios (d. 1935), struggled; together with their venerable elder Hierotheos (d. 1902) they had come to Kerasia in 1885 from the Dormition monastery on Psara. The company numbered seven fathers, all strict strugglers in restraint and self-⁠denial; for years they ate no oil and were called "the oil-⁠less."

Constantine was tonsured a monk in 1930 with the name Makarios. The fathers of the hut were a wonderful model for him. By common testimony he acquired humility, meekness, indifference to glory, imperturbability and stillness. In 1934 he was ordained deacon, on the day of the consecration of the church of the Entrance of the Theotokos, by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Miletoupolis (d. 1956), and in 1941 priest. After the death of the last elder of the company, the hieromonk Hierotheos (d. 1973), he took over the leadership.

In 1977 Elder Makarios and his disciples, the monks Symeon and Kosmas, came down from hard-⁠to-⁠reach Kerasia to the hut of Saint Demetrius in Saint Anne's Skete, wearied by the strife of the zealots there. He continued to cultivate hospitality with zeal, and his virtues made him respected and loved throughout the skete. After a pilgrimage to Jerusalem he fell gravely ill and bore the incurable illness with praise of God until his blessed repose on 20 February 1983. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.