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The town of Mutalask in the Cappadocia region was made famous by this great saint of the Orthodox Church. Sava was born there to father Jovan and mother Sofia. At the age of eight, he left his parents’ home and became a monk.
After 10 years, he moved to the Palestinian monasteries, where he remained for the longest time in the family of Saint Euthymius the Great (see January 20) and Theoctist. Euthymius prophesied that he would be a famous monk and teacher of monks, and that he would establish a laurel greater than all the laurels of that time. After the death of Saint Euthymius, Sava went to the desert, where he spent five years as a hermit in a cave, which the angel of God showed him.
After that, when he became a perfect monk, according to God’s Providence, many desirous of spiritual life began to gather around him. Soon so many of them got together that Sava had to build a church and many cells. When his father died, his mother Sophia, whom he consecrated a monk, came and gave him the cell he was in for the rest of his life. This holy father suffered many attacks from close people, heretics and demons. But he defeated them all, in the following way: close people with kindness and indulgence, heretics with an unshakeable Orthodox faith, and demons with the sign of the cross and asking God for help.
He had a particularly great fight with the demons on Monte Castello, where he founded his second monastery. He founded seven monasteries. He and Theodosius the Great were considered the greatest saints and pillars of orthodoxy in the East. They corrected kings and patriarchs in faith, and served everyone and everyone as an example of the humility of God’s holy and miraculous power.
After a difficult and very fruitful life, Saint Sava died in 532 at the age of ninety-four. Among many other miraculous and good works, it should only be mentioned that he was the first to organize the act of worship in the monasteries, known as the act of the Jerusalem Church.
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