Russian Ascetics of Piety: April

Compiled by New-hieromartyr Nicodemus, Bishop of Belgorod
Paperback: 404pages

Russian Ascetics of Piety was the most extensive work compiled by St Nicodemus, Bishop of Belgorod. This multi-volume set was originally published by the Athonite Monastery of St. Panteleimon between the years 1906 - 1910. It contains a large collection of the lives of holy ascetics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Since the publication of this work, many of these ascetics have been recognized as saints. The compiler himself died as a martyr at the hands of the Communists in 1919.

Translated from the original Russian. Contains the lives of the following ascetics:

The Ascetics of Glinsk Hermitage

Nun Magdalene of Elets

The Male and Female Ascetics of St. Abramius Women’s Monastery of Vladimir

Titus the Silent

Paul the Russian Captive

Schemamonk Ignatius

The Memory of Father Abramius Nekrasov, the Archpriest of the Arzamas St. Nicholas Women’s Monastery

The Pious Elder Simeon Klimych

Schemamonk Theodore of St. Alexander of Svir Monastery

Hieromonk Hilarion, the Father Confessor of Moscow’s Simonov Monastery

Hieromonk Arsenius, the Treasurer of Valaam

The Memory of Hieromonk Mardarius, the Ascetic of Nizhegorod Caves Monastery

Monk Martyrius the Faster, an Ascetic of Glinsk

Monk Ananias the Physician, an Ascetic of Glinsk

Hieroschemamonk Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage

Igumen Innocent

Archimandrite Matthew, the Steward of Ulyanovo Monastery

His Eminence Gregory, Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

Nun Anastasia, in the World Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna

Monk Peter, an Ascetic of Glinsk

Archpriest Father Matthew Alexandrovich Konstantinovsky

Archimandrite Melchisedek of Optina

Igumen Isaiah of Sarov

Eldresses Martha and Eudokia, the Recluses of Khotkov

The Pious Priest Father Alexis

Hierodeacon Methodius of Optina

Archimandrite Theodosius of Verkola

Schemanun Augusta

The Righteous Priest Tikhon and Igumen Mark the Wilderness-Dweller of Migoloshchi

The Steward Elder Basil, the Superior of White Shores Hermitage

Monk Arsenius, a Close Disciple of Elder Basil

Archimandrite Alexander, the Superior of the Arzamas Savior’s Monastery

Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov

Schemamonk Joannicius

Schemanun Martha of Arzamas (M. P. Protasyeva)