Paisios of Mount Athos
August 7, 1924 — July 12, 1994
Born in Cappadocia during the Greco-Turkish population exchange, Arsenios Eznepidis volunteered for dangerous radio operator duty in the Greek Civil War to spare fathers of families from the front. He arrived at Mount Athos in 1950, was tonsured Rassophore in 1954, and received the Small Schema and name Paisios in 1957. Settling at the Panagouda hermitage by 1979, he counseled thousands of pilgrims by day and prayed through the night, resting barely two or three hours; canonized in 2015, just 21 years after his death from cancer.