Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Greece, led by Saint Andrew (feast day November 30).
6 BC — 60 · Feast day: November 30
Andrew the 'First-Called' Apostle followed Jesus after John the Baptist identified him as the Lamb of God, then found his brother Peter and brought him to Christ. Tradition holds he preached in Greece and Scythia before being crucified on an X-shaped cross in Patras, having asked to be bound rather than nailed, deeming himself unworthy of Christ's cross.
August 7, 1924 — July 12, 1994 · Feast day: July 12
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.