Parthenius Zablotsky

Parthenius Zablotsky was a Russian schemahegumen, born in Poltava province, a priest's son, chronicler of St Panteleimon Monastery. He reposed on 13 May 1894. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Pyotr Alexandrovich in the world, after seminary he did not wish to marry and be a priest. In 1860 he came to Athos and entered St Panteleimon, where he was scribe and singer, having a good voice and knowing music. Soon he fell gravely ill, and the elders tonsured him into the schema with the name Parthenius; after the tonsure he recovered fully. Being a good singer, he was sent to the embassy church at Constantinople, since the monastery, in restoration, sought support from Russian officials and sent there its best monks. In 1870 he returned to the monastery. He diligently recorded the events of the time, doing the monastery great service, and gathered facts from the lives of his contemporaries, whose lives he wrote himself and which later entered the books about the Athonite elders. He reposed on 13 May 1894.