Nikoni wa Sparta

Mozaiki yake huko Hosios Loukas.

Nikoni wa Sparta (930 hivi - Sparta, Ugiriki, 998) alikuwa mmonaki na mkaapweke sehemu za Asia magharibi, halafu aliishi miaka mingi bila makao maalumu akijitahidi kwa ari ya Kiinjili kurudisha maadili ya Kikristo katika kisiwa cha Krete kilichokombolewa kutoka utawala wa Waislamu.

Baadaye tena alizunguka kote Ugiriki akitangaza toba kwa kukariri daima "Tubuni!" katika hotuba zake.

Hatimaye alianzisha monasteri huko Sparta, alipofariki dunia.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake ni tarehe 26 Novemba.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

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• Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0-8028-4680-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Louth, Andrew (2007). Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681–1071. Crestwood, N.Y.: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Makrides, Vasilios (2009). Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches: A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present. New York, New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-9568-4. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Neville, Leonora Alice (2004). Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83865-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Runciman, Steven; Freely, John (2009). The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03405-1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Thurston, Herbert; Attwater, Donald (1956). Lives of the Saints, Volume 4. New York, New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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