Venerable
Philotheus
A monastic ascetic commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
- Feast
- January 17old style January 30
- Era
- 16th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Philotheus was a hieromonk from Sthlaina (today the village of Rizoma, near Trikala) and, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the second founder and renovator of the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora.
The historical data about him are few; the main source is the sigillion of Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah I of 1545. Philotheus came from a well-off family and spent all his inheritance on the renewal, adornment and endowment of the monastery. Having lived in a way pleasing to God, he reposed in peace. He is commemorated on 17 January (new style), under the name Philotheus the Meteorite.
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