Venerable Agathon the Wonderworker

(20 February/5 March)

St Agathon was a mighty struggler and, by his faith and labours of fasting, prayer and love, he acquired the gifts of peaceful soul, spiritual enlightenment of the mind and heart, pure contemplation and prophecy. An ancient inscription over his grave reads:

‘Like a prophet announcing the future; like a physician, healing the ill by the touch of his hands; like a saint, in heaven with the saints in glory, his body remains here, incorruptible, with the righteous.’