Image: Police open an investigation into the fire at a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem on Feb. 26, 2015. Ultra-nationalist and anti-Christian graffiti on the walls leads investigators to suspect the fire may have been a hate crime. (Photo credit: Jerusalem Fire Department)
Father Philoumenos (Hasapis) was the Monk of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Jacob’s Well near the city of Samaria, now called Nablus (Neapolis), in the West Bank. The Saint experienced a martyric death November 16,1979 at the hands of extremist Jewish Zionists who massacred him with an ax in the evening, while he was performing Vespers at the Well of Jacob where he lived as a loyal guardian of the Holy Places and centuries old way of life.
