Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 026
Saint Seraphim of Levadeia
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos recounts the life and local veneration of Hosios Seraphim of Domvous, born in 1527 at Zeli near Talanti, whose monastery drew pilgrims from Boeotia on long mule journeys. Seraphim’s ascetic signs from infancy, his displacement by family interference, the Theotokos’ vision directing him to Domvous, and his patriarchal charter for a stavropegial monastery dedicated to Christ the Savior structure the narrative. During Turkish rule, two miracles before Ottoman soldiers secured his release. The lecturer also recalls a pilgrimage sermon that led eleven priests to hear confessions through the vigil and ended commercial revelry outside the monastery, then rebukes parents who hinder monastic or priestly vocations, citing Saint Kosmas Aitolos and Isaiah 54:1.
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