Evgenii Mordasov

Evgenii Mordasov was a Russian hieroschemamonk, a peasant from Stavropol province, a struggler on Kapsala, who died in 1898. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Yefim Ivanovich in the world, he entered Sarov hermitage young, where he was tonsured with the name Evstratii. After twenty-⁠five years in the monastery he wished a more hermit-⁠like monastic life and went to Athos. In 1878 he arrived there and settled in a hermit's hut on Kapsala, where he was tonsured into the schema with the name Evgenii and ordained hieromonk. Soon he became confessor of all the hermits of Kapsala. After his death, Patriarch Joachim III, living on Athos, remembered him and asked: Where is my sworn brother? He was told that he had died two and a half years before. The patriarch blessed the opening of the grave, though three years had not passed; the bones were found clean and yellow, and the patriarch said: This man lived in understanding.