Martyrs Abbot Euthymius and Twelve Monks of Vatopedi Monastery

Commemorated January 4

The MonkMartyr Euthymios, Hegumen of the Batopedeia Monastery, and with him 12 Monks suffered on Athos in the XIII Century for denouncing as heretical the Latinisers patriarch Michael Paleologos (1261-1281) and patriarch John Bekkas (1275‑1282). The hegumen was drowned in the sea, and the monks – were hung.

Source: Crkveni Kalendar