MELETIOS GIUNIORE. – Pilgrim monk, born at Mutilasca in Cappadocia ca. 1035, died as abbot of Symbolon in 1105. Venerated as a “saint” for his miracles and as one of the “myroblytes” (from whose body healing balsam flows), yet his feast is not recorded in the Greek-Slav ecclesiastical year.
Refusing marriage, he left home while still young for Constantinople and the monastery of the Chrysostom. Soon, however, he set out on pilgrimage to Palestine and Rome, but at Thessalonica he received a revelation to suspend his journey. Retiring near Thebes, he built a church to St George, which he later converted into the great monastery of Symbolon. After many years (1070) he was able to satisfy his desire to visit the Holy Places of Palestine, the tombs of the Apostles in Rome, and that of St James of Compostella. It should be noted that M. lived at the same time as Michael Cerularius and that the schism had already been consummated for several years (1054). On his return to the East he dwelt for a long while on Mount Miuopoli, where he erected a chapel to the Saviour (1085) that later became a monastery, and where he was ordained priest by Patriarch Nicholas.