Righteous Tikhon of Medyn and Kaluga

Venerable Tikhon of Medyn and Kaluga was a fifteenth-century Russian ascetic, traditionally said to have come from Kyiv. As a young man he traveled to Moscow and received monastic tonsure at the Chudov Monastery. Drawn to solitude, he withdrew into dense forest on the bank of the Vepreika River, about seventeen versts from Kaluga and fifteen from Medyn, where he lived in the hollow of a great ancient oak, subsisting on wild plants and water from a spring he dug himself. Prince Basil Yaroslavich of Kaluga, encountering the hermit while hunting, raised his whip against him in anger, whereupon his hand became paralyzed; healed through Tikhon's prayer, the prince repented and granted him the land to found a monastery. Tikhon built a wooden church of the Dormition of the Theotokos and headed the resulting monastery, now known as Tikhonova Pustyn, until his death in 1492, having received the great schema. His relics rest beneath the Transfiguration Cathedral of the monastery he founded; his general veneration was established by the Council of 1584.