Ananias of Novgorod

Venerable Ananias was an icon painter at the Antoniev monastery in Novgorod and died on 17 June 1581. He is commemorated on 17 June.

According to tradition, Ananias painted “wonderful icons of many holy wonderworkers” and kept his monastic vows so strictly that in thirty-⁠three years he never once went beyond the wall of the monastery.

He departed to the Lord on 17 June 1581 (the year 7089 from the creation of the world by the old reckoning), the day on which his memory is also kept. He was buried in the Antoniev monastery, and his relics rest under a covering.