Nikodimos of St Anne's Skete

Nikodimos of St Anne's Skete, a Cypriot ascetic, was born in the last decades of the nineteenth century in a village of the Paphos province. Although he had a very good job at the time, as a cook for the English High Commissioner, desiring monastic life with all his heart, he left his job, family and homeland and set out for Athos in 1895. After passing through monasteries, sketes, huts and cells, he found rest in Saint Anne's Skete, where he lived in the hut of the Ascension of Christ the Saviour, a little below the kyriakon, near Elder John. In this hut he lived ascetically and prepared for martyrdom, the crown of which was received in 1720 by the venerable martyr Nikodemos of Elbasan in Albania. His memory is on 10 July. The venerable martyr's connection with the hut led the cell's elder to give the Cypriot monk the name Nikodimos.

Once they had him help with the cooking for the feast of Saint Artemios. At one point, while cooking, he fell asleep from fatigue. When he awoke, he thought the food had burned. The elder, astonished, looked at the cauldron where the food was boiling and saw someone dressed in military clothes stirring it and saying: "Do not worry, Elder. I am here." And at once he vanished. It is believed that it was Saint Artemios, who appeared at the feast that he blessed. The main work of the blessed and virtuous Elder Nikodimos and his companions and disciples, John, Peter, Euthymios and Abraham, was knitting socks. The elder reposed full of days, having completed a century of earthly life. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.