Adrian of Uglich

Venerable Adrian was a hieromonk in Uglich, disciple and cell attendant of Venerable Paisius of Uglich, and first hegumen of the monastery of Saint Nicholas Grekhozaruchny. He died after the year 1504, shortly after his teacher. His veneration is local, in the Russian Church, and his commemoration is on 26 August (8 September by the new calendar).

The little we know of his life comes from the life of Paisius. Adrian was his disciple and cell attendant from the founding of the Epiphany monastery of Uglich, later the Protection monastery, that is before 1462. In 1483 he took part in the consecration of the monastery's new stone cathedral of the Protection of the Mother of God.

In 1489, together with Paisius, he founded for novice monks the monastery of Saint Nicholas Grekhozaruchny, dependent on the first, and became its first hegumen. He gathered up to thirty monks there. He took part in the burial of Paisius on 6 June 1504 and arranged to be buried beside him, on the site of his teacher's first cell.

The time of his local canonization is unknown, but it may have taken place in the seventeenth century, since in 1610 Paisius was locally canonized and a service and a life of him were soon written. There existed an icon, no older than the eighteenth century judging by a photograph, of the appearance of the Mother of God to the venerable Paisius, Cassian and Adrian of Uglich, in which Adrian is shown with a halo. His name was entered into the Synaxis of the saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl on 10 March 1964.