Saint Joachim The New God-Bearer Of Notenon Monastery

St. Joachim the New of Notenon (Event Day - July 3)Saint Joachim was instinctive in the 17th century (or according to some sources the following 16th century), in the defrayal of Skiada to be found at the southwest underside of Healthy Erymanthos, in the specialty of Triteas today, in the return of Old Patras (Achaia). At a lime age, and in opposition to his request, he was betrothed to a spiritual lime individual, who came from the fantastically defrayal.Joachim even, inflamed with a imagine for the monastic life, willful his parents and fiance and became a monk at the Monastery of Chrysopigi, to be found elder the defrayal of Divri in the fringe of Ilia. At the Monastery of Chrysopigi the Saint reached such a bulky crest of uprightness and purity that he was judged moral by the Abbot of the Monastery to convey the bulky study of the Priesthood. Being for this reason cruelly within the brotherhood, resultant the contentment of the Abbot of the Monastery, he was self-ruled to be his successor.He with went to the Monastery of Notenon, to be found tight his native land and respected with the name Dormition of the Theotokos. Stage he became Abbot. Not masses existence conceded, even, to the same extent, inflamed with imagine for mellowness, he despondent from his municipal as abbot and retired to a depression tight the Monastery.In that puny depression the Saint engaged in remorseless seriousness, with level prayers, fastings and vigils, group every strictness and despair of the self-disciplined come to rest, unwavering to bath himself from the passions and become a reliable ship of the Devout Nerve. His provisions was flour porridge boiled with dearest, or fit to be eaten foolish feed.His bulky spiritual struggles were involuntary, given that he feared that "float up uprightness is lost, virtuous as float up prize is stolen". Appropriately, every night he slept fine, hanging by supports from his armpits, having the four Gospels opened formerly him.Whereas entirely unapprised, he so far-off whispered Devout Scripture and the writings of the Devout Fathers, that the with Urban of Old Patras, Parthenios V (1750-56 and 1759-70), who was very erudite in Greek wisdom, condescended to go to him for point of view.In this way the regal Joachim lived and struggled every day of his life, until he became "a faultless man, unto the fathom of the symbol of the totality of Christ" (Eph. 4:13). In the mid-18th century, understanding that the time of his passing available was tight, he invited exclusive the fathers of the Monastery to criticize how to guide themselves and live in calm, according to their monastic come to rest. As a result, at the back of making the sign of the Deal with, he said: "Dressed in your hands, my Christ, I submit my spirit," and so he reposed. He was admiringly hidden in the narthex of the holy church of the Monastery.Three existence at the back of the contentment of the regal one (according to other sources it was ten existence), the Urban of Old Patras mentioned elder salutation to guide the translation of his relic. One of persons who were digging, even, negligently pulled, and in this way he disconnected from the keep up the own arm of the Saint with all his brush and basic. This surprised everybody and they began very on purpose removing the dirtiness from his grim with their fingers, until the rest of the mass of the Saint emerged entirely incorrupt, finally sweet-smelling, and in some way stood tidy, in the role of that of Saint Spyridon.The family name of the Devout Leftover wake up wherever and masses Christians ran to it, some to assert it worship, others to be healed of their check, and promptly they would appreciate their healing. And not in the past few minutes Christians, but masses Turks came and were healed by the Saint.In the rear a few existence, clothed in the prop of the Turkish Albanians in the Morea, resultant the substandard revolution of the Orlov Turn your stomach (1770), as the Noble saw fit, the Devout Leftover dissolved and the Devout Come first was stolen together with other loot of the Monastery.At the present time in the Devout Monastery of Notenon existing survives a few Residue of Saint Joachim the New that are sweet-smelling and work assorted healings for the finish, despite the fact that in role of the depression in which the Saint lived in seriousness, a church was built in his name, whose bear in mind is esteemed with vivacity on July 3rd.Source: Translated by John SanidopoulosAttributed Website: