Euphrosynus was born as
Eleazar in Videlebe, a village near
Pskov, Russia. He entered the in Pskov, where he took the monastic name
Euphrosynus. Around 1425, he began living in a
hermitage, where he reported religious visions, and began attracting followers. Gradually, novices began to gather around him, the monastic community of the future began to take shape as
Yelizarov Convent. In 1477, he built a church and instituted a monastic rule for the community, setting up his follower Ignatius as
hegumenos. He died a few years later, in 1481. He was
canonized as a saint at the
Makaryev Sobor of 1549. ==References==