Spiridon Pokvala

Spiridon Pokvala was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1858 into a peasant family at Bolshoy Tokmak, Taurida province. He reposed on 8 August 1942, after fifty-⁠two years of faithful service to the monastery and brotherhood. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Spiridon Feodosievich in the world, he had a very devout father, who died on 26 July 1892, whom he accompanied from childhood and imitated. He became a monk on Athos. He spent the last part of his life in the monastery hospital, suffering from rheumatism that deformed the joints of his hands and feet and deprived him of the ability to work. He reposed on 8 August 1942, ever with God.