Nectarios

Venerable Nectarios is commemorated on 5 December (new style) as a monk who led a truly holy and venerable life. The synaxarion says that God, seeing his longing for the ascetic struggle, did not pass him by but, wishing to give him a greater crown in heaven, let him fall into many grievous bodily infirmities.

The venerable man bore them with great strength of soul and with thanksgiving, and gave up his soul, in a peaceful end, into the Lord's hands. Other details of the place and time of his life have not been preserved in the sources consulted. He should not be confused with Saint Nectarios of Aegina or with Saint Nectarios the Protopsaltes.