Methodios of Karyes

Saint Methodios of Karyes, a venerable monk, was a Romanian hieromonk in the Cell of the Holy Theodores at Karyes, on the Holy Mountain. He reposed in 1978, at nearly seventy, at the same moment as his friend and compatriot Father Ioakeim. On the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross in 1978 he called Father Christophoros, a hieromonk who lived below Karyes, and sent him to the Koutloumousiou Monastery, where Father Ioakeim was cared for in old age, to tell him to prepare, because on the next day they would both die together. Ioakeim received the news with joy. Methodios ended his life in the same hour, at five Byzantine hours, with the death of a righteous monk. The two had asked God not to be parted either in this life or in the next.

Father Paisios also tells of a vision of Methodios: his elder, who had died troubled for his disciples and with the burden of a disobedience of his youth, told him after many years that he had been saved with difficulty, because he had not obeyed, but was placed among the saved because he had humbly acknowledged his state and hoped only in God. Methodios is honoured by the faithful, without synodal canonization.