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While Joseph’s position, with the power of the secular as well as clerical worlds, came to dominate the Russian culture, the life of the non-possessors served to moderate the excesses of the possessors. Nilus did not live long enough to see the end of the struggle that was continued by his successors Patrikeyev and Artemis.
Nilus died in on May 7, 1508, at the age of seventy five, leaving in his will instructions for a simple burial and regimen for the continued life in the skete after his death: ''It has always been my earnest striving as far as my strength allowed to receive no honor or praise in this monastery life, so be it after my death. I beg all to pray for my sinful soul, and I ask pardon from all as I forgive all. May God pardon us all.''
==References==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil_Sorsky Nil Sorsky]
*[http://essenes.net/nilus.html Nilus Sora]
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsIconFeastSaintsLife.asp?IPFSID=may%2F0507aNilusofsora%2Ejpg&FSM=5&FSD=7&SN=Repose+of+the+Venerable+Nilus&LN=Repose+of+the+Venerable+101310 OCA:Nilus+the+Abbot+of+Sora]
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