Memnon Tyurin

Memnon Tyurin was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1878 into a peasant family at Sudnikovo, Ryazan province. He reposed on 29 March 1967, aged ninety. The surviving elderly monks confessed that the last great elder of Rossikon had left them, keeper and enhancer of the spiritual experience of the monastery's renewers, the elders Arsenius, Hieronymus and Macarius. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Mikhail Ivanovich in the world, he came to Athos on 22 December 1901, aged twenty-⁠three, and asked to be received at St Panteleimon, where he was given the refectory obedience. On 5 April 1903 he was tonsured a rassophore with the name Memnon, and on 24 March 1906 into the mantle, and was made sacristan; he left the church only for the refectory and spent the rest of his time in church. In his inner life he had two visions of the Lord. The sixty-⁠six years of his monastic life passed outwardly monotonous but inwardly rich. He used to say: with love it is so easy to live, one need not deceive anyone, betray or humiliate; ask with love and everything will be given you; why ruin yourself with sinful devices when one can be happy so simply: love selflessly, and all will love you.