Gedeon Malyshev

Gedeon Malyshev was a Russian monk of St Panteleimon Monastery (Rossikon) on Athos, shot in 1930 for his faith. He is venerated by the faithful as a venerable martyr, without a synodal canonization.

He was born in 1873 in the village of Grigorievskoe, Poshekhonye district, Yaroslavl province, in a peasant family. On 12 September 1898 he was received at St Panteleimon, on 26 March 1903 he was tonsured a rassophore, and on 22 July 1907 he received the mantle with the name Gedeon. He worked at the Odessa metochion and in the tailor's shop at Rossikon. In 1912 he took part in the movement of the Name-⁠glorifiers (imiaslavtsy), and on 3 July 1913 he was forcibly removed from Athos, with hundreds of other monks, aboard the steamer Kherson, to Russia. Until 1924 he lived at New Athos Monastery, and after its closure in the valley of the Pshu river. He was arrested on 24 April 1930, sentenced to death on 8 October by the OGPU Collegium and shot on 26 October 1930 at Novorossiysk. The Russian source gives 26 October as his day of commemoration.