Venerable
Adrian of Volokolamsk
A Russian monk of Volokolamsk, venerated as a holy monk.
- Feast
- May 8old style May 21
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Adrian of Volokolamsk lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and is counted, together with Saint Zosima, a founder of a monastery on the bank of the river Sestra, near Volokolamsk. The relics of the two were buried in the Dormition church of the monastery they founded. The sources consulted give no other details of his life.
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