THE HOLY MONASTERY OF VENERABLE (FATHER) DAVID Mens Monastery of Venerable father David is located near Lymne of Euboea,

eight Kms from the village Rovjes and about twenty minutes from the village Drymona. It is built under the cover of Telethrion (Dry) mount, among serried forest of pine-trees and fir-trees. It was built in 1520 by the young at that time ascetic David from rich monks of their suite contributions, and from Christians of Greece, Moldovlachia and Russia collections. In the Turkish domination the Monastery became shelter for the miserable inhabitants of area and hidden school for slaveries. In 1824 Turks butchered all Monks and they burnt the Monastery. After the Liberation a new coenobium is founded. In 1870 the Catholicon of the Monastery, that is dedicated to the Transfiguration and to the holy founder Venerable David, was destroyed by earthquake and it was rebuilt in 1877 by Anthimos Aggelis who was Abbot at that time. The large estate of Monastery was expropriated in 1933. In 1951, in the priorship of Archimandrite Nikodemos Thomas, the Monastery was restored from the beginning and many new chapels (Saint Archangel Michael, Holy martyr Polycarpus, Saint Varvara, Saint George and Assumption of the Virgin, Venerable Eiriny Chrysovalantou, Saint Nectarios, Saint Vasil and Saint Demetrios) were built. Nowadays, new building business and large guests rooms become in the Monastery, those can offer hospitality to over one hundred worshippers. Only one part of the east aisle from the old building of the Monastery is saved. Particularly, I must report the chapel of Saint Charalampos, that firstly was the cell of Venerable Father David, where he stayed every Saturday. The Byzantine chapel (catacomb) of Saints Anargyros is found undamaged under it. It is decorated by marvellows wall-paintings of 18th century. The Agionery (saint-water) is found in north of the Monastery to distance about one Km. According to tradition Venerable strucked the rock with his stick and it gushed curative (holy) water. In south of the Monastery about twenty minutes on foot, near a ravine, pilgrim finds a cave. It, according to tradition, was the room of training (Asceterion) of Venerable David, who lived on scanty bread all the week. Its worth mentioning the Reliquary of the Monastery, where, besides the relics of Venerable, relics lots of Saints (Protomartyr Stefanos, Cyprianus, Justin, Tryfon, Charalampus, Panteleymon, Therapon, Anargyron Cyros and John) are kept. These have been carried by himself, Venerable Father, from Ecumenical Patriarchate in the patriarchy of Jeremia II the Grand (Tranos). In the end, Venerables Russian Stole and a Russian censer, his staff, old icons, three woodcut-crosses are saved in the Museum of the Monastery. One of the three crosses is from era of Palaiologoi etc. Address: Holy Monastery of Venerable Father David. Lymne of Euboea. Mailing-card: 340 05. Telephone: 0227-71297.