Gennady of Rossikon

Gennady of Rossikon was a Russian schemamonk from Vologda province, a peasant, who came to Athos with the hieroschemamonk Sergius Vesnin after the latter's pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He reposed on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God, in 1845. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Gregory in the world, he came first to Rossikon, where he liked life very much, but the elders did not accept him, as there was no room in the cells. Saddened, he withdrew for a time to the skete of Kavsokalyvia, where he could not remain, bored after the heavy toil of a peasant. Bound to Rossikon, he returned and, with the help of a blind pilgrim who interceded for him, was received. At the confessor's urging he received the schema and Communion. When asked whether it was better to live or to die, he was told it was better to die, since he had just received the schema and the Holy Mysteries. Saying Bless me, father, I will die, he died the next day, at the end of the Liturgy of the Dormition in 1845.