Timothy of Konstamonitou

Holy Venerable Martyr Timothy of Konstamonitou was a monk of Konstamonitou Monastery on the Holy Mountain and suffered at Thessalonica, probably in the year 1822. He is numbered with the monks Benedict, Synesios and Paul of Konstamonitou Monastery, commemorated on 12 June.

He came from the villages of Veria, in the district under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Veria, according to the biographer Dositheos Konstamonites. The information is very scanty. We know, however, that in his youth he married. After his wife's death he came to the Holy Mountain, to the cells at Karyes. He chose Konstamonitou Monastery, where community life was harsh, was tonsured a monk and lived for a long time in quiet. When he was seized with the other fathers of the monastery and taken by force to Thessalonica, where he was imprisoned, he was the oldest (over sixty). He was tortured and suffered in the time of Rubut Pasha, probably in 1822, and so received the crown of martyrdom. Detailed information about his life and martyrdom is found in the "New Memorial of the Newly Revealed Hieromartyrs and Venerable Martyrs" by the monk Dositheos Konstamonites.