Nicander the Sinaite

Saint Nicander the Sinaite was born in 1581 at Kastellorizo, where the Monastery of Sinai had a metochion. He became a monk at Sinai in 1611, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine, and reposed in 1631, in the time of Archbishop Joasaph.

With his spiritual father and elder, the hieromonk Ignatius of Rethymno, he spent five years on Mount Athos, then the two returned to the greater stillness of Sinai. Nicander surpassed even his teacher: he had more self-⁠restraint and a perfect and tireless obedience, so that he reached dispassion. He never seemed either glad or sad but stayed in the same state, bowing to everyone and saying to any command "bless, father".

He reposed a little more than a year before his elder. After a year from his burial, the fathers opened the cemetery to bring in another brother, and the elder Ignatius found his body whole, of the colour of saffron, flowing with myrrh. His feast is kept on the Wednesday of Bright Week, according to the Metropolis of Symi; some sources give 29 January.