St. Prochorus the Abbot in the Vranski Desert on the river Pshina in Bulgaria
Commemorated on January 15
Saint
Prochorus of Pshina pursued asceticism in the Bransk
wilderness at the River Pshina, and he founded a
monastery there. He is renowned as one of the great
ascetics of monastic life. He died at the end of the
tenth century. Miracles occurred from the
saint’s relics. According to the Serbian
Chronicles, the pious King Milutin (1276-1320) built
a church in honor of Saint Prochorus.