St. Titus the Wonderworker

Titus was born in the late seventh century in the region of the Hellespont and entered monastic life as a young man at a monastery near the small town of Studios — well before the great patriarchal foundation of the Studite monastery was built by the patrician Studius at Constantinople. He received the monastic tonsure from an abbot named Demetrius and rose through the offices of the community to become himself the abbot.

He is called "the Wonderworker" by the Greek tradition for the manifest gift of healing he exercised through his prayers: the sick of the surrounding region came to the monastery in considerable numbers, and the synaxarion records that many were healed of long-standing illnesses through Titus's intercession. He was also known for the meek silence he kept under provocation — particularly during the iconoclast disturbances of the eighth century, when imperial commissioners came to the monastery and accused the community of harboring icons; Titus refused to argue, refused to surrender, and his calm so impressed the commissioners that they withdrew.

He died in extreme old age around 780. His feast falls on April 2.