Avgustin Korra

Avgustin Korra was a schemamonk of Athos of Ukrainian origin, venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization. He was born in 1882 in the Poltava province; his worldly name was Anthony Korra and his parents were Nicholas and Catherine. As a youth he was a novice in a monastery at home. A temptation he went through there made him leave, to guard himself from such dangers. He took the blame on himself so as not to expose the one who had caused it, and asked the abbot's blessing to go to the Holy Mountain.

He reached Athos in 1908 and settled in the kalyva of the Precious Cross of the Lord, which belongs to the Monastery of Karakallou. In 1910 he was tonsured a monk and received the name Augustine. Saint Paisios the Athonite writes of him that everyone spoke of his holiness, that he had the gift of seeing from afar, and that he bowed to the ground before everyone, saying that the grace of Holy Baptism was on them. He had great compassion for animals: old and crippled ones were left near his cell. The workers who loaded timber at the shore took everything he had, and he gave it gladly. He was always radiant and full of joy.

When he began to go blind, the fathers of the Monastery of Philotheou took him in. There he sang It is truly meet without ceasing, his eyes full of tears of joy. His face shone three times like lightning at the moment of his passing. He reposed in the Lord on 27 March 1965, aged eighty-⁠three.