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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Alexander Orudov

of the Seven Lakes Hermitage

A monastic saint associated with the Seven Lakes Hermitage, who reposed in 1961.

Reposed
196120th century
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Alexander Orudov was a monk of the Sedmiezerna (Seven Lakes) hermitage, near Kazan, and passed away in 1961. He is honoured as a local saint of the Kazan eparchy.

The list of the saints of Kazan places him among the locally venerated venerable fathers of the twentieth century, alongside Gabriel Zyryanov (d. 1915) and the hieroschemamonk Seraphim Koshurin (d. 1969), all of the same hermitage. The sources consulted give no details of his life.