Venerable (Monastic) · 20th century
Savvas the New of Kalymnos
Also known as Savvas of Kalymnos · Savvas the Chozebite · Vasilios
An ascetic, iconographer, and confessor born in Eastern Thrace; after years on Mount Athos and in the Holy Land he became spiritual father to the nuns of the Convent of All Saints on Kalymnos, where he reposed in 1947 and was found incorrupt. He painted the first icon of St Nektarios of Aegina.
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Reposed Apr 7, 1947 (also commemorated the 5th Sunday of Great Lent). Glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1992.
Sources: OrthodoxWiki; Wikipedia; Mystagogy; St Savvas Monastery, Kalymnos; Ecumenical Patriarchate glorification (1992)