Philip and Isaac Korenev

Philip and Isaac Korenev were two Russian monks of the cells of Athos, relatives, who died between 1848 and 1850 (Philip) and on 25 September 1860 (Isaac). They are venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Fyodor Mikhailovich and his cousin Ivan in the world, they bought together an abandoned cell and lived as hermits under the guidance of the elder Arsenius, who later tonsured them into the mantle with the names Philip and Isaac, and then into the great schema, with the same names. Their cell was beautifully set on a high hill. A pilgrim wrote of them that nothing is more touching than the union of spirit, strict abstinence, amazing labours and stillness of such hermits, an image of high hermit life. Philip's brother Vasily became a monk at St Panteleimon (Vitaly, then Vasilid) and died on 30 March 1873. After Arsenius's death, Philip was elder of the cell and guided newcomers. He died between 1848 and 1850. Isaac, left alone, chose complete stillness, and his disciples dispersed to monasteries. He died on 25 September 1860, sitting on the porch of his cell, in good health, falling asleep for ever; a neighbouring hermit found him dead in the morning.