Venerable
Seraphim of Naxos
of Dionysiou Monastery
A monk from Naxos at Dionysiou Monastery on Athos, reposed in 1943; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 194320th century
- Place
- Dionysiou, Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Seraphim of Naxos was a monk from the island of Naxos of the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, who reposed in 1943 and is venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. The Russian Orthodox Encyclopedia counts him among the known elders of Dionysiou at the beginning of the twentieth century, with whose names stories of healings and of the salvation of souls are associated. No other facts of his life are kept in the source we have.