Vlasii Osipenko

Vlasii Osipenko was a Russian monk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1885 into a peasant family at Alexandrovka, Yekaterinoslav province. He reposed on 20 February 1963. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Vasily Yakovlevich in the world, the son of Matrona, he married Nadezhda in 1905 and had a happy family and a good farm inherited from his father. Later he became a monk on Athos. From entering monasticism he kept a diary, through which we know him as an observant and gripping storyteller; from his notes the daily life of the monastery in the 1950s can be reconstructed. He reposed on 20 February 1963.