Pancratius of Rossikon

Pancratius of Rossikon was a Russian schemamonk, a peasant, who came to Athos in 1838 and was tonsured into the schema at St Panteleimon Monastery. He reposed in 1853. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Paramon in the world, his birthplace is not known. Seleucus Trofimov describes him as a rare old man, a great sufferer, with a child's love: when someone came he leapt from his bed and cried his usual word, Good, embraced him long and entertained him with all he had. One leg was rotting, full of worms, but he said he forgot the pain when people came. His suffering made him receive Communion often. Tormented by the thought that he had erred by praying for a man who had hanged himself, he received a stern answer from an elder; from then on he remained ill, asking God not for health but for the spirit of patience to bear his cross. He reposed in 1853.