Venerable Prochorus of Pcinja

Life

A contemporary and companion of Saint John of Rila and Gabriel of Lesnovo. In answer to his prayer, God showed him the place where he would practice his asceticism. That place was a thicket by the river Pcinja. There Saint Prochorus practiced asceticism until old age and death. Only the all-seeing God alone knows all his labors and temptations which he endured in the course of his ascetic struggles. But by his myrrh-streaming relics and the countless miraculous healings which have not ceased even to this day, one can judge both the greatness of his ascetic labors and the greatness of the grace of God which was bestowed upon him for his great labors. Saint Prochorus reposed in the Lord and departed to the heavenly Kingdom in the eleventh century.