Saint Nilo el Joven

In the territory of Tuscolo (Frascati today), the young saint Nilo, Abbot, a native of Greece, spiritual, cultivator conversationalist of the life of abstinence, humility and pilgrimage, and enlightened in the gift of prophecy and doctrine wise, who founded a famous monastery in Grotaferrata, endowing it with the regulation of the Eastern fathers, and there, prayerfully, and nonagenarian gave his spirit to God (1004 / 1005).