18th–19th century
Saint Sabbas of Stagira
An Athonite monk from Stagira who foresaw his death in a vision and was killed by the Ottomans in 1821.
Biography
Sabbas was born in Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the late eighteenth century and became a monk at the Konstamonitou monastery on Mount Athos, dedicated to the Protomartyr Stephen.
During the Chalkidiki uprising of 1821, Sabbas had foreseen his own death in a vision. Indeed, as he was passing near the Zograf monastery, he was killed by the Ottomans together with another lay servant of the monastery, both natives of Stagira.