Venerable Silvanus of Nerekhta

Silvanus of Nerekhta is a venerable (monastic) saint of fourteenth-century Rus', commemorated on May 15. Almost nothing of his life survives in the available record: he is preserved chiefly as a name in the liturgical calendar, where he appears with the year 1384 and in close association with the Nerekhta region on the Kostroma frontier.

He is named on the same day and with the same year as Saint Pachomius, the abbot who founded the Trinity monastery at Sypanovo near Nerekhta, which has led him to be remembered within the orbit of that monastic community. No narrative of his origin, monastic tonsure, offices, or relics has come down in the reachable sources, and his entry remains an honest commemoration rather than a documented biography.