Prokopios of Little St Anne's

Prokopios of Little St Anne's, with the secular name Constantine Chatziladas, was born on 5 March 1911 at Rapsani in Thessaly. He came to the Holy Mountain and never left it until his repose. In 1938 he reached Saint Anne's Skete, in 1939 was tonsured a monk with the name Nestor in the hut of Saint Demetrius, and in 1943 received the great schema with the name Prokopios in the hut of the Dormition. He spent most of his life in the wilderness of Little Saint Anne's, and from 1958 in the hut of the Resurrection of the Lord of the renowned confessor Papa Savvas (d. 1908).

Once, wishing to learn music and unable to because of his voice, he was troubled by thoughts; then a white-⁠haired old man appeared who offered to teach him if he would throw away his prayer rope, and he understood at once who it was, said "Get behind me, Satan," and the demon vanished. He lived humbly, quietly and poorly, "as having nothing and possessing all things." He judged no one except himself. He avoided long talks with lay people. When he came to the hut of the Thomades and saw the telephone, he did not know what it was; he had had no news of his brother for forty years. He refused the pension to which he was entitled: "I do not expect money, nor does the state owe me any." Father Philip of the Thomades describes him as a chanter with a fine voice, but in the last decade he no longer chanted, for greater quiet.

He reposed in the Lord on 25 January 1993. His hermitage remained empty, waiting, says Father Philip, for the next struggler. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.