Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov (c. 1386 – May 15, 1481) was a Russian

monk A monk (, from el, μοναχός, ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedica ...

and founder of a monastic community. Euphrosynus was born as ''Eleazar'' in Videlebe, a village near Pskov. He entered the Snetogorsky monastery in Pskov, where he took the monastic name ''Euphrosynus''. Around 1425 he began living in a hermitage, where he reported religious visions, and began attracting followers. Gradually, novices began to gather around him, the monastic community of the future began to take shape Yelizarov Convent. In 1477, he built a church and instituted a monastic rule for the community, setting up his follower Ignatius as

hegumenos Hegumen, hegumenos, or igumen ( el, ἡγούμενος, trans. ), is the title for the head of a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, similar to the title of abbot. The head of a convent of nuns is called a hegume ...

. He died a few years later, in 1481.

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