Symeon / Synesios Hellanicus, hierodeacon(ca 1603, 1618)
In the early decades of the seventeenth century, the least known nowadays scholar of Symeon / Synesios Hellanicus, retired and lived in the monastery. His place of origin is not known, as well as if he was a monk of Vatopedi. He was a writer of poetry and scholarly texts and composer of many aroes and technical papers. The language spoken in both the texts of the followers and in particular of the Vias, as well as in the testimonies, was a holder of a solid classical culture and the result of the strict tradition of tradition. It is very likely in his lifetime to take a teacher. Simeon / Synesios are graphical or holder manuscripts with works of ancient literature, as Aristides rhetorical interpretation projects Aristotle, but also projects the Theological Secretariat as projects Gregory Nyssa Theodoritos Cyrus Theofilaktou archbishoprics Bulgaria but Greek translations of the work of Thomas Akinatos. From the above manuscripts, with the interpretation of the Psalms of Theodorite of Cyrus ((Manuscript Vatopedios 240)), he took the collection of the metropolitan of Thessaloniki, Makarios, with the translations of Akinatos in the Gennadio Scholario and carries abridged notes of the Patriarch (Baptide 254). He used to hold a valuable library of prints which he abandoned as much as his manuscripts in the Vatopedi monastery, where they are kept as it is today.