Claudius Moshkov

Claudius Moshkov was a Russian monk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born to a peasant family in Kherson province. He reposed in the evening of 23 March 1876. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Kodrat Ivanovich Moshkov in the world, at twenty he asked his parents' leave to enter a monastery. In 1864 he went to Jerusalem and spent three years at the Russian Mission, as psalm reader. Tired of the noise of the city, he went to Athos and entered St Panteleimon, where he was guest-⁠master, sang in the choir, wrote memorial lists and was sent to the metochion at Constantinople. Before leaving in Great Lent of 1871 he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Claudius. He returned in 1873. Near the end a heavy tightness in the chest took him to the infirmary; he received Communion often and died in peace.