Saint Feodosiy Kavkazsky

Theodosius of the Caucasus (born Fyodor Fyodorovich Kashin; November 4 (16), 1868, or according to other sources May 3 (15), 1841, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire — August 8, 1948, Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Krai, RSFSR, USSR) was a hieroschemamonk of the Russian Orthodox Church who served on Mount Athos, in Constantinople, Jerusalem, the Kuban, and the Caucasus. He led a women's monastic community. From 1927, he associated with the non-commemorating clergy, though he did not submit to any specific non-commemorating center, living an extremely reclusive life. The primary sources of biographical information about him are the memoirs of the women who lived with him and whom he tonsured as nuns, as well as the recollections of dozens of his spiritual children and their descendants. Much of Theodosius of the Caucasus's biography remains unclear or distorted. No scholarly monograph dedicated to him has yet been written. In 1995, he was canonized as a locally venerated saint in the Stavropol Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church at the initiative of Metropolitan Gedeon (Dokukin). He is also venerated by a number of True Orthodox jurisdictions. He is considered the patron saint of the city of Mineralnye Vody.