Sophrony (Sakharov)
September 23, 1896 AD — July 11, 1993 AD · Feast day: July 11
Born into pre-revolutionary Moscow, Sophrony Sakharov abandoned a promising career as a painter to become a monk on Mount Athos — where, under St. Silouan the Athonite, he discovered that 'to acquire Prayer is to acquire eternity.' He died in Essex in 1993 and was canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2019.