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Venerable

Vikentii Glotov

of Rossikon Monastery

A Russian schemamonk of Rossikon; Athonite elder venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.

Reposed
192120th century
Place
St Panteleimon (Rossikon), Mount Athos

Life

Vikentii Glotov was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1850 into a poor peasant family at Ilinskaya, Yaransk district, Vyatka province. He reposed on 19 October 1921. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Vasily Iosifovich in the world, the son of Fekla, from childhood he went to the village church, near his house, where he liked to stand alone before the icon of the Mother of God. He became a monk on Athos and served as infirmarian, praying for all his patients, who saw in his pleasant appearance the radiance of a special inner spirit. A very large number of brethren, gathered from all Athos, came to his funeral to pay their last respects.