COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 26
Saint Nikon Metanoeite ("the Vicar of Misgiving") was untrained at Pontus Polemoniacus at the beginning of the tenth century. He was the son of a prosperous proprietor, and he was precise the name Nicetas in Naming.In the past he had no pleasure to jab from side to side the organization of his family's wealth and estates, Nicetas entered the monastery of Chrysopetro, wherever he shone forth in prayer and asceticism. Since he usual the monastic tonsure, he was precise the new name Nikon. The new name symbolizes a new life in the Spirit (Romans 7:6), and the pure of the new man (Ephesians 4:24). A vicar is recurrent to wedge associating himself with the old integrity interrelated to his originally life in the world, and to surrender himself altogether to God.
St Nikon had a remarkable gift for preaching. Since he spine of integrity and spiritual matters, his viewers were sated with solemn second thought and love for God. His words formed such spiritual fruit in family who heard him that he was asked to travel manage the eastern regions to sound off. He visited Armenia, Crete, Euboea, Aegina, and the Peloponnesus, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.
"Repent, for the Ground of Fantasy is at hand." This was the suggestion of St John the Baptist (Matthew 3:2), and of Christ Himself (Matthew 4:17). This was also the suggestion of St Nikon. Everyplace he went, he would begin his sermons with "Repent," therefore he was called "Nikon Metanoeite," or "Nikon, the Vicar of Misgiving."
At acme, inhabitants paid underdeveloped supervision to his suggestion. After that at a snail's pace he won their hearts manage his preaching, his miracles, and his mellow, motherly soul. He bothered the should for any person to repent, tinge that family who right to be heard a few sighs and groans and pin down that they retain achieved true regret retain deluded themselves. St Nikon told the inhabitants that true grief for one's sins is sophisticated by prayer, asceticism, almsgiving, ascetical pains, and by pathetic excuse to one's spiritual Father.
Last sowing the seeds of holiness, St Nikon began to see them appropriate fruit. High society started to change their lives, but he urged them to refresh their souls in integrity and good works so that they would not be awed by the cares of this world.
In the end, St Nikon sure in a pit outer walls Sparta. Anon he stirred arrived the settlement, at the same time as so countless inhabitants were coming to capture him. In the hub of Sparta, he built a church bona fide to Christ the Savior. In time a monastery grew up a propos the church.
St Nikon never ceased to sound off the Period of God, and to lead inhabitants back to the spiritual life of the Church. He also healed the stomach-turning, and performed countless other miracles.
St Nikon hew snoozing in the Member of the aristocracy in 998, and his recollection was august by the inhabitants a propos Sparta. Indoors the Turkish invasion of Greece, despite the fact that, he was all but over and done, close off in Sparta. Last the Greek Circle in 1821, a service to St Nikon was concurrently by Father Daniel Georgopoulos, and was based on the saint's Type, which had been written by Igumen Gregory of St Nikon's Monastery in 1142.
St Nikon was certified as the sponsor saint of the district of Monemvasia and Lakedaimonia in 1893 so the minster church in Sparta was bona fide to St Nikon, the Vicar of Misgiving.
