Repose of Father Gedeon, the oldest Romanian monk on Mount Athos

Father Gedeon had gone to Mount Athos from Minneapolis. After staying at the monastery of St. Panteleimon, he lived in the Romanian Kelli of Saint-George at the Skete of Kolçu, an annex of the monastery of Vatopedi. In his youth, the future Father Gedeon had been incarcerated by the communists in the Piteşti prison camp, where he had been “reeducated” by the notorious torturer Ţurcanu. After his release, he managed