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Venerable (Monastic) · 14th century

Athanasius of Meteora

Also known as Athanasius the Meteorite · Andronikos

Born Andronikos in Hypate, he founded the Great Meteoron monastery atop the rocks of Meteora in Thessaly and gave it a cenobitic rule patterned on Mount Athos; his disciple and successor Joasaph co-built the community.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints; en.wikipedia.org