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Sava of Chilandari, Saint (†1236)

Saint Sava – called Rastko before becoming a monk – was born in 1169, the child of Stefan Nemanja, the Grand Prince of Serbia. At the age of sixteen he ran away from the palace and went to Mount Athos where he was tonsured a...

John VI Cantacuzenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1292–1383)

The Emperor of Byzantium John VI Cantacuzenus had direct ties with the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi and is commemorated among its founders and chief patrons. As it appears in the Life of Saint Savvas, the fool-for-Christ of Vatopaidi, Cantacuzenus had Savvas as his spiritual father....