AGAPIOS, LANDOS. – Greek monk (secular name Atanasio), born in Candia (Crete) at the end of the 16th century, died in Venice before 8 March 1664.
He donned the habit at the great laura of S. Atanasio on Mount Athos. His life was divided between prayer and the composition of at least fifteen works: books of piety, with the exception of one, the Γεωπονικόν, a collection of agrarian prescriptions. The most celebrated of all is Ἀμαρτολῶν σουτηρίᾳ (The Salvation of Sinners, Venice 1641), frequently cited in refutation of the Protestants by A. Arnauld, P. Nicole, and E. Renaudot, in La Perpétuité de la foi de l'Eglise catholique sur l'Eucharistie. Many of A.’s works, and especially The Salvation of Sinners, continue to be republished among the Greeks.