Saint
Nectarius of Bitola
Saint venerated in Bitola, who lived in the fifteenth century.
- Feast
- December 15old style December 28
- Reposed
- 150015th century
- Place
- Bitola
Life
Venerable Nectarius of Bitola, also called Nectarius of Karyes, is a saint of the Orthodox Church. He was born at Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire, with the secular name Nicholas, into a Bulgarian Christian family, in 1406 or 1420. He died on 5 December 1500.
After his father became a monk, with the name Pachomius, he took him along with his brother to the monastery of the Holy Unmercenaries. Then Nicholas went to the Holy Mountain and became a monk with the name Nectarius. There he led an ascetic life and became well known throughout Athos.
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