Paisii Platonov

Paisii Platonov was a Russian hieromonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1850 at Orel in a merchant family. He reposed on 19 September 1917. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Pyotr Vasilievich in the world, he learned Greek and German and was well educated. His parents counted on his inheriting the trade, but already during gymnasium he had resolved to give himself to God's service. The conflict with his parents grew, but he became a monk on Athos. Near the end, God sent him an illness that allowed him to give his life wholly to prayerful communion with his Creator: his legs were paralysed and for his last ten years he did not leave his cell. He reposed on 19 September 1917.