Venerable (Monastic) · 20th century
Venerable Nikon the Confessor of Optina
Also known as Nicholas Belyaev · Nikon of Optina
The last of the elders to hold out at Optina as the monastery was closed, who continued to shepherd the faithful in secret and died of consumption in the northern exile of the Soviet camps, a confessor of Christ.
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Notes
Among the Optina Elders; modern confessor.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints