Parthenius

Venerable Parthenius of Old Agapia lived in Moldavia, in the hermitage of Old Agapia, together with Venerable Raphael, and is commemorated with him on 21 July (new style). According to tradition, he reposed about the year 1660.

Parthenius had the gift of healing and boldness in prayer before God, and he drove out unclean spirits. Raphael rose through pure prayer above earthly things, knew people's thoughts and had the gift of foresight. Both remained in the memory of the faithful as two hermits of Old Agapia, a place regarded as one of the oldest monastic settlements of Moldavia.

The Romanian Orthodox Church has numbered them among the saints, and Old Agapia is a place of pilgrimage.