At age 16 he entered the Stavrovouni Monastery. He showed exemplary zeal and positive compliance as a apprentice monastic. He established the prayer to wear the cassock at age 24 and from his person name George was renamed Cleric Germanos. He was predetermined a Deacon the surveillance go out with. He was tonsured a monk of the Massive Perform at age 29 and was predetermined a Hieromonk (Priestmonk) at age 38.
The neatness of his life, his identified stinginess, and management abilities served as the head bequeath for his secret ballot to abbot in the go out with 1952, because the abbot unproductive with, the ever-memorable Leading Dionysios II, reposed. As abbot he was the firstly to set an example: firstly in bluntness, in tender, in compliance, in lenience, in service, in thoroughness, in calm, in participating in the Hallowed Martial. He very unstintingly broken interminable prayer in his separate.
One of his elder qualities was proper obstacle. He avoided any speech of himself towards the farther world, but extremely towards the intimate certain him. He strove to broadcast his qualities with every diligence; for this reason as a adjustment very few were clever to spill the beans the costly treasure hidden beneath his unembellished manner. His interminable prayer with blubber, his saintly standing earlier the threatening Altar of the Peer of the realm all the way through the time of the Promise Liturgy, and the distinct and unrepeatable model of his whole life gave forth a supreme comfortable spiritual fortune, not lonely in his own Monastery, but extremely in the female Monasteries of Cyprus, which blossomed and were supported thankfulness largely to his own struggles.
He was an inflate Confessor and Magical Birth, and guided a congregation of intimate to unease and to innocent spiritual trade-in to the Peer of the realm. His whole life was a real living witness of the living Jesus.
His chronological life was strong with a martyric end. On the afternoon of Esteemed 31, 1982, on the final day of the Ecclesiastical Rendezvous and a day sturdy "par "eminence" to the Panagia, whom the venerable Leading dreadfully venerated, nevertheless he was perpetual from a obstinate day's work in the ecologically aware fields, strong the tractor of the Monastery, he poleax hip a steep crevasse, someplace he found, on his own and unaided, a martyric death. In the company of the end of the Ecclesiastical go out with the blessed Leading reposed, a innocent ecclesiastical uniqueness, whose life on the whole was a constant price, a interminable service. Undoubtledly he was transposed to the Altar treat, someplace the undeviating Liturgy is served. The monks, who looked for him determinedly all that afternoon, before I go found him the closest day, dead and in a petitioning charge, with his feet and hands crossed, this extremely while a perceptible sign of his spiritual work, even all the way through individuals final suffering moments of his martyric death, which like the pains of childbirth, introduced him to eternal life.
"Do you drought to not sin? Ad infinitum take out your death!" - Leading Germanos
