Peter of Atroa

Venerable Peter of Atroa was an ascetic of Bithynia in Asia Minor, in the eighth and ninth centuries. He was dedicated to God from childhood and spent his whole life in fasting and unceasing prayer, in the city of Atroa near the Asian Mount Olympus. He was known above all for his unusual temperance.

During his lifetime he worked many miracles, and he fell asleep in peace, according to the synaxarion, in the time of Patriarch Tarasius of Constantinople (784 to 806). The Greek synaxaria note that there is no detailed commemoration of him in the Menaia; Saint Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain supposed that he was the same as Saint Peter, bishop of Argos, but that supposition is thought unlikely. He is commemorated on 13 September (new style).