Lover of the Wilderness

Fr. Pimen was a great monk, an ardent lover of thewilderness, a good role model for monks, a teacher ofgenerations, who was long-suffering, patient, givingthanks to God in the most difficult conditions of hisillness."The honor of the dead is his burial, and the honor of themonk is not going out of his cell.""No one can draw another person to Christ unless hehimself is completely in Christ."-Fr. Pimen-