Trifilii Malkov

Trifilii Malkov was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1830 in the village of Staritsa, Astrakhan province, a former fish merchant. He reposed on 22 September 1901. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Trofim Naumovich in the world, at eighteen he left his parents' home for Ostrog, where after twenty years he had his own trade and a fish-⁠processing guild. He was married and had children. One day he met the Athonite monk Timon (Shcherbatov), who had come to collect gifts; the conversation impressed him greatly, but caught in the whirl of affairs he had no time to think deeply. In the end God's grace called him to monastic life and changed him from an ordinary mortal into one like the angels. Father Vladimir (Kolesnikov) writes that he lived very piously, attended to his salvation and wept at almost every service, especially when lives of saints were read. He reposed on 22 September 1901.