Arsenii Vorvulev

Arsenii Vorvulev was a Russian hieroschemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1835 into a family of serfs of Count Sheremetev at Borisovka, Kursk province. He reposed on 26 September 1910. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Alexander Kozmich in the world, having a good voice, he was chosen for the count's chapel choir and sent at eight to St Petersburg, where he stayed until eighteen. He then returned home and lived four years with his parents before entering the Akhtyrka monastery in the Kharkov diocese as a novice. Gentle and peaceable, he quickly won the brethren's love and was tonsured into the mantle. Later he came to Athos, to St Panteleimon. Near the end, after an illness, he died quietly and in a Christian way, strengthened with the Holy Mysteries. In the monastery archive are kept his notes and letters, a witness to his spiritual life.