Ο Όσιος Θεοφάνης ο Νέος: (ο εξ Ιωαννίνων πολιούχος της Μακεδονικής Ναούσης, η ίδρυσις της πόλεως και η καταγωγή των κατοίκων)

Abstract

Saint Theofanis the Young was born in Ioannina; very young, he entered the Monastery of Dochiarios in Mount Athos. After a while he went to the Monastery of Prodromos in Yeria, and afterwards to Naoussa where he founded a church and a monastery, consecrated to the Archangels (Taxiarchs) Michael and Gabriel, and served there as an abbot for several years. He spent his last days in the Monastery of Prodromos, in Veria, where he died.

The writer concludes that Saint Theofanis was born in the middle of the 16th century and died in the first half of the 17th. This he bases on an inscription found in 1961 in the Monastery of the Taxiarchs in Naoussa, on a mention of the Saint’s biographer of a Miracle that oc­ curred in 1681, and on a note made at the same time, in the same year. A certain opinion that the Saint was alive when Naoussa was being built by the Turk general Hadgi Evrenos Bey at its present position, at the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century, should be considered as erroneous.