'''St. Ephraim of Nea Makri''' or '''St. Ephraim of Mount Amomon''' (Greek: Άγιος Εφραίμ Νέας Μάκρης / του Όρους των Αμωμών), believed to have lived from 1384 to 1426, is a [[martyr]] and [[miracle]]-working [[saint]]. Saint Ephraim is regard him as a "newly revealed" ("νεοφανείς") saint. He has become one of the most beloved saints in the last thirty years and is a center of pilgrimage for the entire country of Greece. His martyric death is commemorated by the church [[May 5]] and the discovery of his [[relics]] [[January 3]]. The relics were discovered through divine intervention in 1950; 524 years after his death. The saint was glorified by March 2011.

St. Ephraim's name and biography, complete with exact dates and details, is said to have been was revealed to a hermit [[nun]], Sister [[Makaria Desypri]] (1911-1999), in a series of divinely inspired dreams in 1950. Following these dreams, she believed she was led by God to restore the Monastery of the Annunciation in Nea Makri , which had been destroyed by pirates in the fifteenth century.

According to the dreams revealed to Makaria Desipri, St. Ephraim was born on [[September 14]] 1384 in Trikala, Thessalia. His civil name was Konstantinos Morphes. He became a monk, took the [[monasticism|monastic]] name of Ephraim and moved to Attica to live in what was then the Monastery of the Annunciation of Our Lady on Mount Amomon. In 1424 the monastery was destroyed by marauding Ottoman Empire troops. Ephraim escaped and lived for another year as a [[hermit]] among the ruins of the monastery. In September 1425 he was captured in another Turkish raid. He was held captive and tormented for more than eight months, until he was finally tortured to death on [[May 5]] 1426. A mulberry tree, believed to be that on which the saint was hanged, is today shown as an object of veneration inside the re-erected monastery.