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[[File:Christodoulos of Patmos.jpg|right|thumb|Venerable Christodoulos of Patmos.]]Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Christodoulos Latrinos of Patmos''' and Wonderworker. He is remembered for the establishment of the [[Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Patmos, Greece)|Monastery of St. John the Theologian]] on Patmos and the re-settlement of the island after the Saracens had de-populated it. He is commemorated on [[March 16]].<ref>Great [[Synaxarion|Synaxaristes]]: {{el icon}} ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/2953/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Χριστόδουλος ὁ ἐν Πάτμῳ].'' 16 Μαρτίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref>
==Life==
John, the son of peasants Theodore and Anna, was born in [[Nicea]] of Bithynia in Asia Minor in the eleventh century. John was a self-taught man who developed a love for books. As a young man, he followed an [[asceticism|ascetic]] life, living as a [[hermit]] on Mount Olympus of Asia Minor as well as in the Palestinian desert before he assumed the [[monasticismonasticism|monastic]] habit and received the name Christodoulos ("slave of Christ" in Greek). He then served as [[abbot]] of the Monastery of Mount Lamos in Caris in western Asia Minor. After the incursion of the Saracens in 1085, abbot Christodoulos and the monks of the monastery fled to the island of Kos in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
On Kos, Abbot Christodoulos established a [[monastery]] dedicated to the [[Theotokos|Mother of God]]. Also on Kos, Christodoulos met an ascetic, Arsenius Skinouris, the son and heir of a wealthy landowner of Kos, who became the abbot's spiritual son. Together, they dreamt of reestablishing monastic life on the nearby island of Patmos that had been de-populated following attacks by Saracens forces. During the following several years, Abbot Christodoulos also established a monastery on the island of Leros, dedicated to St. John the Theologian.
In 1093, however, raids on the island by Emir Dzaha forced Fr. Christodoulos and the [[monk]]s to flee to the island of Euboia where Fr. Christodoulos died on March 16, 1093. The monks did return to Patmos a few years later, having regained the monastery, and brought with them his incorrupt [[relics]].
==References==
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==Sources==
*[http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/03/saint-christodoulos-latrinos.html Saint Christodoulos Latrinos, the Wonderworker of Patmos]*[http://home.iprimus.com.au/xenos/christodoulos.html St Christodoulos, Wonderworker of Patmos]*[http://kindredspiritualities.blogspot.com/2011/03/saint-christodoulos-latrinos.html Saint Christodoulos Latrinos, The Wonderworker Of Patmos]
==External link==
[[Category: Saints]]
[[Category: 11th-century saints]]
[[Category:Byzantine Saints]]
[[Category: Greek Saints]]
[[Category: Wonderworkers]]
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