MELETIOS GIUNIORE. – Pilgrim monk, born at Mutalasca in Cappadocia around 1035, died as abbot of Symbolon in 1105. Venerated as a “saint” on account of his miracles and as one of the “myroblites” (from whose body healing balsam flows), but his feast is not recorded in the Greek-Slavic ecclesiastical calendar.
Rejecting marriage, he left at a young age for Constantinople, to the monastery of Chrysostom. He soon, however, undertook a pilgrimage to Palestine and Rome, but at Thessalonica received a revelation instructing him to suspend II. Having withdrawn to the environs of Thebes, he built a church dedicated to S. Giorgio, which he later transformed into the great monastery of Symbolon.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 S. Giacomo di Compostella. It should be noted that M. was a contemporary of Michele Cerulario and that the schism had already been complete for several years (1054). On his return to the East, he lived for a long time on Mount Miupoli, where he built a chapel dedicated to the Saviour (1085) that later became a monastery, and where he was ordained a priest by the patriarch Nicola.