Venerable Cornelius of Pereyaslavl 8/4/2013
Cornelius was tonsured a monk at age fifteen by an elder called Paul. Later on, he withdrew into the wilderness to a life of silence. Cornelius lived in silence for thirty years not speaking to anyone, not even a word, and many considered him to be a mute. He became so withered through fasting, that he resembled a skeleton. Before his death he received the Schema (The Great Angelic Habit) and found repose in the Lord on July 22, 1693 A.D.
