Therefore, among the wronged Fathers of our Church is the Most Reverend Father George, Hatzi-Georgis, who is a modern Saint of our time, but, we can say, also a great Saint according to our time.
The Elder had left a great name. "Great ascetic and very fasting!", they said. He also left his name as an epithet for those who fasted a lot: "This is Hatzi-Georgis!", they said.When I had come to Mount Athos and was wandering around the Orchard of the Virgin Mary, as all novices usually do, to find the perfumed flowers of the Virgin Mary (Saint Elders) and to get some spiritual pollen, I would hear everyone talking with great reverence and admiration for Hadzi-Georgis! All that I heard then, made me respect him more and take more interest. That is why I came into contact with his grandsons (that is, his subordinate subordinates), as well as with Cappadocian patriots, such as Father Stephen of the I. Monastery of Esphimenos, Gero-Basileios the Caracallinos, Pope-Seraphim the Hagiographer and others short villagers of Elder Hadzi-Georgis.So what I was learning then, I wrote down in my memory to benefit myself, and now I had to write them down in a notebook, so that no other soul could benefit. I also found a lot of evidence from pious Russians, who had written not only about Hadzi-Georgis but also about his Elder, even about his Grandfather's Spiritualist, Gero-Auxentios. The Russian hesychast Papa-Antonis Karouliotis also gave me a lot of information.
Of course, whatever one writes, it will still be little for the very Hadzi-Georgis! His wish to have. Amen. (From the preface of the publication).
Edition of the Holy Hermitage "Ioannis Theologos the Evangelist" - Souroti Thessaloniki.Pages: 85
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