08 — Glorification and Veneration

The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s glorification of St. Arsenios in 1986 under Patriarch Demetrios I, the feast on 10 November, and the cult at Souroti — together with his place among the modern Greek saints and within the long Cappadocian Christian heritage of a world that ended with the uprooting of 1924.

Tradition: Greek Orthodox (Cappadocian)

This section treats how the Farasiot cult became the veneration of the whole Church. The glorification of 1986 ratified a cult already long established — venerated by his community from his death, his relics recovered in 1958, and propagated by St. Paisios at Souroti — in the classic Orthodox pattern where veneration precedes canonization. It also situates St. Arsenios: a village wonderworker of a distinctively older type, bound to the modern Greek and Athonite elders through his godson, and the last great saint of a vanished Cappadocian Christianity.

Contents

  • glorification-1986.md — the act of glorification by the Ecumenical Patriarchate under Demetrios I; the feast on 10 November (the day of repose); the cult at Souroti and beyond; cult preceding canonization.
  • a-cappadocian-wonderworker.md — his place among the modern Greek saints; the Cappadocian heritage from the Fathers to Farasa; the saint of a vanished world and the memory of Anatolian Hellenism.

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