Today, Monday (18.8.2025) according to the panel The memory of the Saint Arsenios of the new trainee and witnesses of Floros and Lavros is honored.
The names that celebrate today, according to the calendar, are:
- Arsenios, Arsenis, Arsenia, Arsina, Arsinoe *
- Lavros, Lavris, Lauros, Lavra, Laura
- Flora, Flori, Floritsa, Floros, Floris *
Saint Arsenios the young man
Saint Arsenios was born in Ioannina on January 31, 1800 AD. And it was called Athanasios. From an early age, he stayed orphaned and at the age of nine he went to the Kydonia of Asia Minor, where he studied at the City Nominal School with the famous Master of Hieromonk Gregory Sarafis.
In the last years of his study he was associated with the spiritual Elder Daniel from the Zagora of Pelion, one of the renowned spirituals of that time and became submissive.
In the year 1815 AD The saint departed for Mount Athos with Elder Daniel and there he was a monk. He was later ordained a deacon despite his reactions, as he did not consider himself worthy and after a six -year stay on Mount Athos, he came again with his Elder at the Penteli Monastery in Athens. They then went to the Cyclades, where Saint was ordained in 1817 AD. Senior.
Saint Arsenios mainly acted in Paros and Folegandros, where he taught since 1829 AD. Until 1840 AD
After the Assumption of Daniel’s Elder, Saint practiced in the Monastery of Logovarda of Paros. He slept and ate little and constantly alert, praying for his spiritual children and the salvation of the world. His main food was the reading of the divine scriptures and the texts of the Holy Fathers. That is why Saint regarded his small library as a garden with a very beautiful and beautiful trees, full of good fruits.
Saint loved everyone without discrimination. But he loved the patients, whom he was eagerly decorated.
When in 1861 AD, the abbot of the monastery, a pious Hieromonk Elias, the Fathers elected Abbot and their boss, Saint Arsenius, who was in a godly and spectacular way. A few years later he resigned to deal with the work of the Holy Confession.
Saint slept with peace on January 31, 1877 AD. His relics took place in 1938 AD. and is celebrated on August 18th.
His sacred relics are devoted to the Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior Paros.
*There are other dates that celebrate this name.