Ieronim Silin

Ieronim Silin was a Russian archimandrite, born in 1866 at Serbilovo, Vladimir province, into a peasant family, abbot of the Skete of St Andrew. He died of a heart rupture on 10 January 1920, while chopping wood. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Ivan Vasilievich in the world (also called Khamilin), he lost his mother Varvara early, and his father, very devout, became a monk and went to Athos, to the Skete of St Andrew. The boy grew up at his uncle's, among many nephews, often thinking of his father and his life. He too came to the skete. Later, as abbot, he was sure of the rightness of the expulsion of the Name-⁠glorifiers, but as a man he could not overcome the pain of his heart, troubled by separation from his brethren and the start of the decline of his own monastery. He died of a heart rupture on 10 January 1920, though outwardly healthy.