St Pachomius of Keno Lake

Commemorated on January 7

Saint Pachomius is commemorated on the Saturday after Theophany. He founded a monastery dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Lord near Lake Keno, and tonsured St Anthony of Siya (December 7) as a monk in 1508. He did not entrust St Anthony to one of the other monks, but he himself took him under his wing and trained him in asceticism and in the spiritual life. St Anthony possessed every virtue and resisted every temptation, purified his mind and soul from the passions, and freed himself from worldly attachments.

When the time came for St Anthony to leave the monastery and live in solitude, St Pachomius blessed him to follow this path saying,."May the Lord bless you, my child. May the Lord's will be done."

St Pachomius was a great ascetic and a clairvoyant Elder, a good and faithful servant who entered into the joy of his Lord in 1515.








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SAINT OR FEAST POSTED THIS DATE 2010(with 2009's link here also and further, 2008's, even 2007!)