Venerable
Panteleimon Vazhenko
of the Russian kellia on Athos
A hieroschemamonk in the Russian kellia; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 191420th century
- Place
- Russian kellia / hermitages, Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Panteleimon Vazhenko was a Russian hieroschemamonk, born in 1849 in Kursk province, later registered among the townspeople of Kharkov, who died on 8 January 1914. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.
Named Pyotr Ivanovich in the world, he reached Athos in 1878 and, like another Peter, later elder of the Annunciation cell, Father Parfenii, became a disciple of the famed elder Hadji-Georgis, known on all Athos for the severity of his life. Reading the book On the Life and Labours of the Elders of the Holy Mountain of Athos, printed at Kiev by Archpriest G. Dyukov, we understand what ascetics Father Panteleimon had as models and what ideal he strove for all his life. He reposed on 8 January 1914.