04 works, Today, November 10th, is the Arsenios the Cappadocian's day, his story illustrated #312

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 Icon of Venerable Arsenios the Cappadocian

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Arsenios the Cappadocian (April 7, 1840 – November 10, 1924), born in Kephalochori, in central Turkey, one of the six Christian villages of the region of Pharasa of Cappadocia an early center of the Eastern Christianity. He had a brother, Vlasios.

Both parents died when he was very young, and he and his brother were raised by a maternal aunt. He was sent to be educated in Niğde, where he stayed with a paternal aunt who was a teacher. She, in turn, arranged for him to stay with relatives in Smyrna, while he continued his education. Besides Greek and Church Studies, he learned Armenian, Turkish and some French.

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The town of Farasa, Cappadocia as it appears today

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When he was about 26 years old he went to the Monastery of the Holy Forerunner of Phlavianai in Caesarea. Later he was tonsured a monk and took the name Arsenios. Metropolitan Paisios II sent him to Pharasa and the neighbouring villages as a priest, while he was also secretly teaching the Greek language to the children of the region, at that time belonging to the Ottoman Empire. In 1870, when he was thirty years old, he was consecrated an archimandrite.

He became known as Hadjiefendis, a title given to pilgrims, because he used to make the pilgrimage to the Holy Land on foot every ten years. He was the respected spiritual guide of the villagers and helped the people a lot together with the mayor of Pharasa, at that time the father of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. 

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St. Arsenios helping a barren couple through his prayer

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He was claimed to have healed sick people who came to him, Christians and Muslims. He gave Paisios his own name at baptism despite the parents' wish to name the child after a grandfather. Later he became the spiritual father of Elder Paisios of Mount Athos.

After leading his parish to Corfu at the time of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, he died after three months, at the age of eighty-three. More on Arsenios the Cappadocian

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St. Arsenios of Cappadocia, with scenes from his life

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