The Modern Saints

Saint Silouan the Athonite AD 1938

Monk of Mount Athos

Commemorated

September 24

Lived

AD 1938

A simple Athonite monk granted the prayer of Adam — “keep thy mind in hell, and despair not” — whose writings reached the world through his disciple Sophrony.

Holy Silouan the Athonite, pray to God for us.