Icon of Saint James in Evia 14X20cm Gilt Wooden

Icon of Saint James in Evia 14X20cm Gilt Wooden

Ο Agios Iakovos Tsalikis (Livisi of Asia Minor, November 5, 1920 - Evia, November 21, 1991) was a Greek monk from Asia Minor and abbot of the Monastery of Saint David Evia.

He is one of the most important personalities of the solitary space in Greece during the 20th century.

He distinguished himself for his ascetic Ossian life, as well as for the gifts which he developed and which classify him in the modern forms of holiness of the Orthodox Church. She died in 1991 at the age of 71.

According to the testimonies of the time, little Iakovos showed from his youth a tendency towards monasticism.

It is characteristic that many called him a monk, because of the ascetic life he narrated

as well as because of the first gifts that had begun to appear.

Her appearance Saint Paraskevi at the same time he stigmatized him and finally decided that he would follow the lonely life.

Regarding his education, Elder Iakovos in 1933, after completing primary school, failed to attend

High school, due to the financial needs of his family.

As a result, he worked from an early age with his father in fields, gardens and in various DIY.

At the age of 15 he became seriously ill, but eventually survived. 5 years later the World war II.

At this time his health was tested, while he lost his mother in 1942.

Next year, Iakovos will be taken prisoner with many of his fellow villagers by Germans, who led them to the village of Strofilia.

His years civil war hunger and hardship were a great problem that plagued and tested all Hellenism, as well as the family of James.

In 1947 he was drafted into the army without taking part in a civil war, as he served at the Supply and Transportation Center in Piraeus.

He was fired in 1949 and it was the year that his father died in a hospital in Athens.

In 1951, after marrying his sister Anastasia, he was led to a solitary life, as he had promised his mother to restore her.

He chose to enter his monastery Saint David in Evia.

At that time the monastery was in ruins with three monks living idiosyncratically, taking care only of themselves.

The situation there was difficult, as on the one hand the monastery was abandoned and shepherds lived there with their animals,

on the other hand the monks did not pay much attention to him, giving him a damaged cell, forcing him to leave.

As a result, he returned to Farakla.

Eventually, despite the opposite pressures, he went back to the Monastery where he helped with the cleaning, the garden and repaired doors and roofs,

but he received ironies and disapproval from one of the monks.

On November 31, 1952 he became a monk and the abbot made him Treasurer of the Monastery.

On December 17 of the same year in Chalkida he was ordained a deacon two days later chaplain.

The monk continued the aggressive behavior in the monastery, but the abbot appreciated James.

In fact, James indulged in daily practice and performance of the Divine Liturgy.

In 1953 he explored the area and discovered the small cave that was the hermitage of Saint David.

In 1975 the new Metropolitan of Chalkis Chrysostomos Vergis appointed Iakovos as Abbot of the Monastery.

However, especially after 1970, it had become very popular, with the result that many people entered the Monastery for confession and pastoral guidance.

In addition to the liturgical life and the spiritual guidance of the faithful, James continued the renovation works of the monastery

which numbered three monks in total and so a bell tower, cells, chapels and other necessary spaces were erected.

He confessed with understanding and grace, while he was strict only with himself.

The Elder 's hard exercise often worsened his health.

Thus, from the first years, significant health problems appeared. Such was a major problem in the middle that plagued him since 1956.

In 1964 he developed a problem with the formation of purulent tonsils to the point that his kidneys became ill.

The Elder was very hardworking with little rest and because of this other problems arose.

In 1967, he underwent surgery inguinal hernia and appendicitis with peritoneal reaction and prostate problems.

Due to standing and kneeling he had a problem with varicose veins and for this reason in 1974 he underwent surgery at the NIMTS Hospital in Athens. In 1980 he was diagnosed with heart failure.

On November 13, 1986, a pacemaker was placed - although he wanted to avoid it - at the Athens General State Hospital.

On September 23, 1990, he was hospitalized with a cardiac arrhythmia.

At the same time and a few days later, Andreas Papandreou underwent surgery at the same hospital where they met and the Elder blessed him, at the urging of his family.

After emergency treatment in the intensive care unit at the end of September 1991, he returned to the Monastery, where he suffered an infection that developed into pneumonia.

At the suggestion of the local doctor to go again to the General State Hospital, he replied that he did not manage to go again, feeling the end of his life.

On November 21, 1991, Fr. Iakovos passed away, after first participating in the Divine Liturgy of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and receiving the Body and Blood of the Lord.

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