Venerable Eudokimos of Vatopedi, the Newly-Revealed

On October 5, 1840, monks of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, repairing the ossuary after part of the roof had collapsed, discovered a kneeling, incorrupt skeleton clutching an icon of the Theotokos, accompanied by a miraculous fragrance. The ascetic's identity remained unknown — no surviving monastery record contained information about him. Archbishop Chrysanthos, having sought the blessing of the Patriarch of Constantinople, named the unknown saint Eudokimos ("divine favor"). Healings soon began to occur, including the healing of a monk dying of consumption. A later, undocumented local tradition reports a vision in which the saint's true name was supposedly revealed as "Savva" — this version remains a pious legend, not part of the official veneration. Nothing is reliably known about the era in which the ascetic lived; from indirect indications (burial depth, style of clothing, monastic tradition) researchers tentatively place him in the 17th century, though this remains a hypothesis rather than an established fact. His memory is kept on October 5 — the day his relics were discovered.