Artemius of Shuya

Holy Righteous Artemius of Shuya lived in the seventeenth century. Little has been preserved about him. He lived in the village of Kitovo, not far from the town of Shuya, in the present Ivanovo region. The area was later counted as belonging to the Vladimir diocese, so he is sometimes also called Artemius of Vladimir.

At the end of the sixteenth century a church stood here, whose rector was the priest Gregory. The people honour as saints this priest, his daughter Euphrosyne, and Artemius and Demetrius, who served at the church. According to tradition, their wonderworking relics lay in the wooden church and were burned in a fire in the middle of the seventeenth century. The same fire destroyed the documents that bore witness to the life and labours of the righteous ones of Shuya. Their names are mentioned in the history of the Russian Church printed on Valaam in 1991. Artemius is commemorated on 23 June, and on 20 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Ivanovo Metropolis.