St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia - 4.5 x 6 (Walnut) Gilding Options:Gilded Halo When the starets would receive

When the starets would receive a large number of guests

Ca in 1934

but never showed it

ultimately leading to having a portion of his lung removed

St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia - 4.5 x 6 (Walnut) Gilding Options:Gilded Halo When the starets would receiveSaint Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) was born in 1907 with the name Evangelos in Evoia, Greece, in the small village of Agios Ioannis (Saint John). As a child he tended to the sheep in the hills, and it is there that he first read the life of Saint John the Hut Dweller (Commemorated January 15th) which planted the desire of monasticism in his heart. The spark lit by Saint John was fanned when at the age of seven he overheard a conversation about the divine