Epiphanius the Wise

[3] Historian Serge Aleksandrovich Zenkovsky wrote that Epiphanius, along with Stephen of Perm, Sergius of Radonezh, and the painter Andrei Rublev, signified "the Russian spiritual and cultural revival of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century".

[7] Epiphanius started to write the Life of Sergius a year after the death of the saint according to his own memories and his recollection of the accounts of other contemporaries.

His literary style was given the name pletenie sloves, or "the weaving/braiding of words", and is marked by an abundance of neologisms, in which Epiphanius liked to form a large number of noun or adjective-noun combinations.

The ordinary words of a common man "...are incapable of expressing the greatness of the deeds done by holy men to the glory of Christ.

[12] A 1413 letter of Epiphanius, who knew Theophanes, to Cyril of Beloozero provides the principal source of information about the great icon painter.