The Life of the New Martyr Ioannes by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan ofArta and Preveza, in the Manuscript Collection of the Russian State Library
The paper deals with a rare and little-known Greek hagiographic work of the 19th century, namely the inedited “Life of the New Martyr Ioannes from Agrapha, who suffered in the city of Adrianople in Thrace near 1460” by Metropolitan Serapheim Byzantios (Xenopoulos). The work was writt en in 1880 by request of the monks of the Dusiku monastery near the town of Pili in Thessalia. The manuscript autograph by Metropolitan Serapheim is kept in the Russian State Library, F. 173/II, No. 163. The paper provides information about the life and miracles of Saint Ioannes as well as a brief description of the manuscript and it's history. The text of the “Life of the New Martyr Ioannes” is also published