Glycerius Nikitin

Glycerius Nikitin was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1822 in a peasant family in Penza province. He reposed on 20 May 1892. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Grigory Petrovich in the world, nothing is known of his earlier life; at fifty-⁠three he decided to become a monk. He reached Athos in 1875, entered St Panteleimon and was tonsured into the mantle on 14 October 1876 with the name Glycerius. First he served in the hospital, caring for the sick, then worked in the garden. After his tonsure he was sent to Kalamaria, where the monastery had farmland. The Russo-⁠Turkish war began, and with it persecutions; later, in a letter to the abbot, he asked leave to come to the monastery for a time, to confess his sins and the sorrows of his soul. He reposed on 20 May 1892.