Athanasius of Ostrov

Saint Athanasius of Ostrov was a disciple of Saint Alexander of Svir and died after the year 1533. He is named as Alexander's disciple in the "Description of Russian Saints", a work of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is commemorated on 3 June, in the synaxis of the saints of Karelia, and on 11 July, in the synaxes of the saints of Novgorod and of Saint Petersburg.

According to that work, Athanasius was buried at the Oyat monastery, dedicated to the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple, which was restored in 1992 as a convent. The memory of the place of the saint's burial was lost in the nineteenth century. His local canonization took place, it seems, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.