Tags: Saint.
Saint Gregory of Sinai (1260s – November 27 1346) was instrumental in the emergence of technical (Athonite) Hesychasm on Athos in the early 14th century.Born in Smyrna he was captured by Seljuk Turks as a young man he was eventually ransomed to Cyprus and became a monk at Saint Catherine’s Monastery. Later he moved to Crete where he learned the practices of Hesychasm from a monk named Arsenios and in 1310 to Athos where he remained until 1335.