Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

Also known as

Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain
Nicodemos the Hagiorite

Memorial

14 July

Profile

Monk on Mount Athos in 1775. Worked with Saint Macarius Nataras of Corinth to compile the Philokalia, a defining work on monastic spirituality. Translated several books on Western spirituality into Greek, and wrote several original works including a Lives of the Saints.

Born

c.1749 at Naxos, Greece

Died

1809 of natural causes

Canonized

1955 by the Orthodox Church