Synaxarion
By Monk Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis
On the 8th of this month [December], we commemorate Venerable Parthenios of Chios.
Verses
Living in asceticism, Parthenios, in these latter years,
You manifested the grace of the ancient Venerables.
On the eighth the spirit of Parthenios was lifted from the earth.
By Monk Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis
On the 8th of this month [December], we commemorate Venerable Parthenios of Chios.
Verses
Living in asceticism, Parthenios, in these latter years,
You manifested the grace of the ancient Venerables.
On the eighth the spirit of Parthenios was lifted from the earth.
He was from the island of Chios, born in the year 1815, in a village called Dafnonas, to pious parents named Michael and Antonia, surnamed Frankoskoufis or Menis. His birth and his later progress in Christ were foretold to his parents by Saint Makarios of Corinth, who said this to them while they greatly desired to bear a male child, since they had only daughters.
