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Venerable

Abramius of Yaroslavl

A venerable monk of Yaroslavl, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
May 23old style June 5
Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Abramius of Yaroslavl was abbot of the Savior Monastery in Yaroslavl and lived in the thirteenth century; after the year 1219 no details are known of him. He is mentioned under 23 September in the so-⁠called Uvarov Menologia. The Savior-⁠Transfiguration Monastery in Yaroslavl was founded in 1216, and detailed information about it begins only in 1299. Archimandrite Leonid Kavelin supposed that Abramius was abbot of the monastery in the thirteenth century and was buried in the monastery. He is commemorated on 5 June, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.

Commemorated the same day May 23