Onisifor Ishchenko

Onisifor Ishchenko was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1872 into a peasant family at Rubanskoe, Bratslav district, Kamenets-⁠Podolsk province. He reposed on 28 September 1938. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Onisim Karpovich in the world, he was silent and humble from childhood and liked to walk alone in the forest admiring nature, always with the same thought: if the earth's nature is so beautiful, how beautiful must God's paradise be. He became a monk on Athos. The life of a gentle and silent monk remains an unopened book to outside observers, but, says the biographer, true humility cannot be without love, and even the most hidden ascetic cannot hold back the outpourings of this virtue. He reposed on 28 September 1938.