Menas Budanov

Menas Budanov was a Russian hieroschemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born on 30 September 1840 in Moscow and reposed on 3 December 1888. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Michael Ivanovich in the world, he was the middle brother of Agathodorus, of the rich Budanov manufacturing family. At the death of their parents he was twenty-⁠three and bore the care of the family; he ran the factory for a time, then it was sold, and he worked as a clerk. When his sister married, the three brothers were free to fulfil their old dream of becoming monks on Athos. In 1868 he followed his brothers. He loved to serve memorial services, commemorated many names, and it was noticed that he disliked commemorating Peter I. His feet were diseased, yet he served often and went to Old Rossikon and to various cells of the monastery. On 4 April 1884 he was tonsured into the schema. He reposed on 3 December 1888.