Performance of Saint Nektarios of Karyotis, part of the larger performance with Saints Damascene of Lavrio and Neophytus Vatopedno. The saint is depicted as a half-elf, with his head turned slightly to the left. He has brown hair and a brown-grey beard. He wears a tunic and cloak. He wears a solitary pendant adorned with a cross on a two-tiered base, has trillanimous ends of the antennae, and bears the symbols of the Passion. He raises his right hand in a gesture of speech and with his left hand he holds a closed scroll. Saint Nektarios was born in the monastery in 1406. During a raid by the Agarines, in order to avoid capture, his parents took refuge in a mountain. Then Nektarios’ father, with the consent of his wife, took his two boys and became a monk named Pachomios, in the monastery of Agioi Anargyroi, which was located at the foot of the mountain where they had hidden. But then a certain monk, Dionysios Iagaris, who belonged to the cell of the Archangels, near Karyes on Mount Athos, took Nicholas (his baptismal name) and took him to Mount Athos. There he became a monk named Nektarios and attached himself to the spiritual elder Philotheos, who had a clairvoyant gift. From then on Nektarios began an ascetic life and managed to face many trials and temptations. He slept peacefully on December 5, 1500.