Sisoi Savchenko

Sisoi Savchenko was a Russian schemahierodeacon, born in 1842 at Yeysk in the Kuban region, in a family of townspeople. He reposed on 17 April 1917, in his hut, aged seventy-⁠five, after fifty-⁠seven years of monastic life. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Nikolai Evstafievich in the world, he was raised in piety and loved the Lord with a child's simplicity. After seminary, not wishing to marry, he entered a monastery at eighteen, where he was soon tonsured into the mantle with the name Trifilii. He then came to Athos and lived as a hermit in a hut. He was buried at the very place where he reposed. After three years his bones were dug up, and his head, yellow as wax, was taken to his cell by Father Denasios (Yushkov), who venerated him, and kept until his own death.