This little book of the life and teachings of Saint Ephraim of Katounakia is the third in the Holy Mountain Series, a new book series created to help quench the spiritual thirst of our brethren with the empirical, ascetic teaching on the spiritual life of the Holy Orthodox Church, which has been lived to perfection on the Holy Mountain by countless monks for over ten centuries. The Holy Mountain, also known as Mount Athos, has given birth to thousands of saints in the Orthodox Church, most of whom are known to God alone.