Venerable
Michael the Blind
of St Anne Skete
A blind confessor of St Anne Skete, who reposed in 1952; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 195220th century
- Place
- Great Lavra (Skete of St Anne), Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Michael the Blind of St Anne, a venerable monk, was a spiritual father and confessor in the Skete of Saint Anne on the Holy Mountain and reposed in the year 1952. Father Moses the Athonite counts him, with Caesarius, among the virtuous and discerning spiritual fathers and confessors of the twentieth century. He was blind. He is honoured by the faithful, without synodal canonization. Our sources give no further details of his life.