Ascetic · 20th century
Sophia of Kleisoura
Also known as Sophia Saoulidou · Sophia Hortokoridou · Sophia the Ascetic of Kleisoura
A widowed refugee from Pontus who settled in Greek Macedonia and lived in extreme poverty and asceticism in the courtyard of the Monastery of the Birth of the Theotokos at Kleisoura, receiving and counseling the pilgrims who sought her. She reposed in 1974.
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Born Sophia Saoulidou (Hortokoridou) c. 1883 in the Trebizond region of Pontus; came to Greece as a refugee; reposed at Kleisoura, Kastoria, in 1974. Glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2011.
Sources: John Sanidopoulos (Mystagogy); Ecumenical Patriarchate glorification (2011)