Hesychast

Feast Day/Commemorated: September 24 Saint Silouan of Athos was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov to a peasant family in the Tambov Governorate of Imperial Russia. In his youth, he worked as a carpenter alongside his brother, but his spiritual path was...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 16 The Early Life and Calling of Saint Joseph the Hesychast  Francis Kottis, born in Paros on February 12, 1897, was the fourth of seven children to a poor but devout couple. Due to his family's extreme poverty,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 16 The Early Life and Calling of Saint Joseph the Hesychast  Francis Kottis, born in Paros on February 12, 1897, was the fourth of seven children to a poor but devout couple. Due to his family's extreme poverty,...