Venerable
Theodore of Megali Vigla
of Vigla (Great Lavra)
An ascetic at Megali Vigla, contemporary of St Neilos the Myrrh-gusher; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Era
- 17th century
- Place
- Great Lavra (Viglia), Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Theodore of Megali Vigla was a venerable ascetic of the Holy Mountain who lived in the seventeenth century, in the place called Megali Vigla, in the time of St Neilos the Myrrh-gusher. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.
The Athonite Paterikon mentions him in a single sentence, as an ascetic in the surroundings of the Great Lavra. No further details of his life have survived.