Feoklit Pozdneev

Feoklit Pozdneev was a Russian hieroschemamonk, abbot of the Russian Skete of St Andrew on Athos from 1887 to 1891, born in 1833 in Moscow. He reposed on 18 October 1891. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Feodosy Andreevich in the world, the son of peasants from Guryevo, Tula province, he felt from youth the attraction of monastic life, visited monasteries, and the better he knew them the more he wished to leave the world. The abbot Feodorit, seeing that Father Feoklit progressed in spiritual life more than the other brethren, named him in 1878 confessor of the whole brotherhood, a service he bore ten years, winning the love of those who knew his experience and humility. He continued the works of his elder: he rebuilt the refectory with the church of the Holy Trinity, burned in March 1887, and continued the building of the main church of the Holy Apostle Andrew. He was abbot only four years, but left a good memory as an elder of high ascetic life and a loving, gentle father. He urged the brotherhood: keep peace, love and unity among you, remember that you are where the Mother of God herself is invisibly present. He reposed on 18 October 1891.