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Venerable (Monastic) · 16th century

Venerable Nikander of Pskov

Also known as Nikon · Nikander the Wonderworker

A peasant-born ascetic who longed for solitary prayer from childhood and lived in the wilderness near Pskov, revered as a wonderworker.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints