Athanasios Parios

Saint Athanasios Parios
Born 1722
Kostos, Paros
Died June 24, 1813 (age 90)
Hermitage of St. George, Chios
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized 1995
Major shrine Kostos, Paros; Church of the Naxian Saints, Naxos.
Feast June 24; First Sunday of September (with the other Saints of Paros and Naxos)
Attributes Long white beard, vested as a Priest, holding a Gospel book.

Athanasios Parios (Greek: Ἀθανάσιος Πάριος; 1722–1813) was a Greek hieromonk who was a notable theologian, philosopher, educator, and hymnographer of his time, and one of the "Teachers of the Nation" during the Modern Greek Enlightenment. He was the second leader of the Kollyvades Movement, succeeding Neophytos Kausokalyvites (1713–1784). He also authored the lives of various saints. Athanasios was born in Kostos, a small village of Paros, in the year 1722 and died in Chios in 1813. He is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church on June 24.

Despite this, modern Greek crtitics consider him as a reactionary Orthodox fundamentalist, enemy of the Western European ideas of the French revolution, opponent of Rigas Feraios and Adamantios Korais.

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Further reading

St. Athanasios of Paros, together with St. Macarios of Corinth and St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite were the three great spiritual leaders of the 18th century in Greece and leaders of the "Kollyvades Movement." This is the first English-language life of St. Athanasios, theologian, hymnographer, writer of lives of saints and philosopher. Also contains reviews and selected passages from his writings, and a brief account of the life of St. Macarios of Corinth. 170pp.

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