Saint Silouan the Athonite 20th Century Saints a zealous persecutor of Christians

a zealous persecutor of Christians who was converted by a divine encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus

" -Saint Paisios

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His glorification in the Orthodox Church was announced by His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew in 2019

Akathist Hymn to our Sweetest Lord Jesus Christ

Saint Silouan the Athonite 20th Century Saints a zealous persecutor of ChristiansIn the autumn of 1892, a young Russian peasant named Simeon from the province of Tambov was drawn to that ancient repository of Orthodox spirituality, Mt Athos. He had done his military service and now came to the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon, to embark on long years of spiritual combat lasting until his death in 1938. Although he was unlearned and ignorant in the ordinary sense, tireless inner strivings gave him authentic personal experience