Saint David of Euboea

Saint David of Euboea
Died	1589 Euboea, Greece

Saint David was born in Gardenitsa (the former cadastral district of the community of Kyparissi, Phthiotis), probably in the last quarter of the 15th century (around 1490, according to Ch. G. Petrinelis, according to other biographers around 1485, while the metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, Theophilos Kanavos mentioned the year 1519) and lived until the first half of the 16th century.

He served as abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Varnakova between 1520 and 1532, then moved to northern Evia, to the settlement of Drymonas in the present-day municipality of Elymnia (former community of Rovia). There he founded a monastery that became famous and now bears his name, the Monastery of Saint David of Evia. He was one of the enlightened teachers of the nation, contributing to the education of the enslaved greeks, but also a saint of the Orthodox Church, to whom numerous miracles are attributed. Both he and his worthy successor, Saint Jacob Tsalikis, are known as miracle-working saints.