Life and acts of the Monk Savva New

Saint Filofei Kokkin, Patriarch of the XIV century (1354–1355 and 1362–1376), is known to us by the fact that he blessed the St. Sergius of Radonezh for abbess in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra created by him and became the author of the Life of St. Gregory Palamas. This publication gives the narrative of St. Filofei about an amazing life, exploits and virtues of the canonized in the Greek Church of St. Savva is a new, or Vatopedic, a saint who lived in the XIII - XIV centuries and was striking in various holy places of Byzantium, and above all in the Holy Mount Athos. This life of the saint is a vivid page of the Late-in-Russian Holy of Holy, which causes the 1000th anniversary of the Russian Athos in our compatriots an increased interest in the enduring spiritual heritage of the Holy Mountain