Saint Nikon the Hieromartyr and his 199 Bretheren March 23 Listen to the Saint's life in English: Related links: The Life of Holy Martyr Nikon and the 199 Monks with him (Mystagogy)

Holy Father Nikon, the Preacher of Repentance Commemorated on 26th November Born in 930 AD near Pontus, Nikon had a privileged upbringing. He witnessed the laborious toils of the field-workers on his father’s estate as a child and contemplating this as he grew, he realised that working hard on a field or living comfortably and wealthy, all people will go to the grave in the end - in the hands of God.  Nikon decided to become a monk and joined the Monastery of the Golden Stone, located on the borders of Pontus in the north-east of today’s Turkey. He shrugged [...]