Nektarios of St Anne's Skete

Nektarios of St Anne's Skete was of Romanian origin. He came young to the Holy Mountain with his brother and was tonsured a monk by the elder Nathanael in the cell of Saint Artemios, the most remote in Saint Anne's Skete, near the cell of Saint Panteleimon.

He was very poor. He lived by carrying wood for the ovens of the huts, bean-⁠poles for the fathers' gardens, and the Dikaios's prosphora up from the shore. During these journeys he said the Paraklesis and the Akathist to the Mother of God. He led a strict, ascetic life. He never left Athos, though he had many material needs. He worked very hard for the little he needed. In his last years, weak with old age, he stayed in his hut, almost enclosed, occupied only with prayer and delighting in holy stillness. Elder Anthimos of St Anne's (d. 1996) told us this. He reposed in the Lord on 20 April 1982. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.