Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia
February 7, 1906 AD — December 2, 1991 AD · Feast day: December 2
Born in 1906 in a small Euboean village, Evangelos Bairaktaris left home at fourteen for Mount Athos, where he was tonsured a monk at the skete of Kafsokalyvia and given the name Nikitas — later Porphyrios. Ordained a priest at twenty-one after illness drove him off the mountain, he spent the next thirty-three years as chaplain at the Polyclinic Hospital in Athens, serving the sick through war, occupation, and civil strife. He founded a convent in 1981, died on Athos in 1991, and was canonized in 2013 as patron of research, science, and modern technology.