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Venerable John the Georgian of Mount Athos

Venerable John the Georgian of Mount Athos
Venerable John the Georgian of Mount Athos
Venerable

Saint John the Iberian lived during the 10th century AD.

He was a close advisor of David the Curopalates, the ruler of Iberia. However, rejecting the secular life and its vanity, he withdrew in order to embrace monasticism on Mount Olympus of Mysia.

Later, after traveling to Constantinople and taking with him his young son Euthymius the Iberian, who had been given as a hostage by the Iberian ruler David, he set out for Mount Athos. There he settled in the Lavra of Saint Athanasios the Athonite, where he lived an ascetic life together with a few of his disciples.

He fell asleep in the Lord between the years 998 and 1003 AD.

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