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Venerable

Seraphim of Domvos

A Greek monk born in 1520 who lived on Mount Domvos and reposed in 1602.

Feast
May 6old style May 19
Reposed
160217th century

Life

Venerable Seraphim of Domvos was a Greek monk born in 1520, who struggled on Mount Domvos in Greece, and fell asleep in 1602. He was an ascetic withdrawn from the world, lived in prayer and fasting, and is honoured for his life pleasing to God.

The sources at hand do not preserve details of his activities, of the monastery in which he was tonsured, or of the miracles wrought through him.

Commemorated the same day May 6