Ioann Patalii

Ioann Patalii was a hieroschemamonk of Greek descent, born in Kherson province but Russian by language and education, of St Panteleimon Monastery. He reposed on 23 July 1917, in the Rossikon hospital. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

He lived on Athos from 1857, was received by the confessor Hieronymus at Krumitsa, and from 1860 lived in the monastery and sang in the Protection cathedral; he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Cassian. Father Vladimir (Kolesnikov) writes that from the start of his monastic life he struggled in the prayer of the mind under Hieronymus's guidance and loved reading the writings of the holy fathers. In 1913, though he did not share the teaching of the Name-⁠glorifiers, he opposed their forcible expulsion from Athos and said so loudly, for which he was removed from the monastery. He spent his last years at the cell of the Exaltation of the Cross. He reposed on 23 July 1917.