Section 08: Death and Glorification

The section covering the saint’s repose and his rise to one of the great cults of the modern Orthodox world. He died at the Aretaeion Hospital in Athens on 8 November 1920; the Lives attest that a paralytic in the neighboring bed was healed when the saint’s garment was laid upon it, and that his relics, buried on Aegina, were found fragrant and largely incorrupt — accounts here pinned to their sources. The two files cover the repose of 1920 with the hospital healing and the fragrant relics, and the glorification of 1961 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, with the 1998 Alexandrian rehabilitation as the formal close of the old injustice.

Tradition: Greek Orthodox (canonized 1961)

Contents

File Topic
Repose 1920 The final illness and the death at the Aretaeion Hospital, Athens, on 8 November 1920 (feast 9 November); the attested account of the paralytic healed in the neighboring bed; the fragrance in the ward; the burial on Aegina and the fragrant, largely incorrupt relics
Glorification 1961 The four decades of popular veneration; the official glorification by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 20 April 1961 under Patriarch Athenagoras I; the relics at Holy Trinity; the 1998 decision of the Patriarchate of Alexandria restoring his order

How to Use

  • Read Repose 1920 for the death and the immediate posthumous wonders, handled with attestation.
  • Read Glorification 1961 for the canonization and the institutional vindication of the man who had been expelled in 1890.
  • The modern veneration that followed is treated in Section 09: Legacy and Reception.

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