Martyred monks of Xenophontos

The Martyred monks of Xenophontos were brethren of the Monastery of Xenophontos on Mount Athos, killed by the Turks in the years of the Greek Revolution, 1821-1829. They are venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization.

The monks of Xenophontos took an active part in the uprising, and one monk, Gideon, was close to Emmanuel Pappas, the leader of the movement in Chalkidiki. On Easter day, 10 April 1821, Elder Chrysanthos, who was in Constantinople on the monastery's business, received a martyr's death from the Turks. In May 1821 the monk Xenophon and the steward Damian were killed at Thessaloniki by order of the Ottoman authorities. The refectorian Neophytos, the monk Isaac and Elder Xenophon, who died between 1822 and 1829, also suffered.

After the revolt was crushed, Turkish garrisons were placed on Athos, and the monks of Xenophontos fled with the holy relics to the monastery's dependency on the island of Skopelos. Hegumen Ignatios withdrew to the Annunciation skete and died there in December 1821.