Euphrosynus of Pskov

Euphrosynus of Pskov was a Russian monk and the founder of a monastic community. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and commemorated on May 15.

Life

Euphrosynus was born as Eleazar in Videlebe, a village near Pskov, Russia. He entered the 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 as Yelizarov Convent. In 1477, he built a church and instituted a monastic rule for the community, setting up his follower Ignatius as hegumenos. He died a few years later, in 1481.
He was canonized as a saint at the Makaryev Sobor of 1549.