Saint Nikon the Metanoeite

Nikon "the Metanoite" (Greek: Νίκων ὁ Μετανοείτε, Nikon ho Metanoeite; born circa 930, died 998) was a Byzantine monk, itinerant preacher, and Christian Orthodox saint.

Perhaps Nikon's most notable historical impact, according to historian Andrew Louth, is the light that his Life, the biography of Nikon written after his death by a successor abbot in his monastery, sheds on the re-Christianizing of reconquered sections of the Byzantine Empire.

It is also special in its references of localities in Crete and the central Greek mainland.

Nikon himself is special in that he is represented as a missionary monk, one who is constantly preaching rather than constantly praying.

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