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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Barbara of Syvar

A venerable nun of Karelia, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
August 30old style September 12
Era
unknown
Place
Karelia
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Barbara of Syvar is remembered in the calendar of the Orthodox Church of Finland, on 30 August, together with Sergius, as "Barbara and Sergius of Oyat". Russian sources speak of a chapel of Saints Sergius and Barbara at the Entry into the Temple convent at Oyat, in the Leningrad region. The name in our record, "of Syvar" (Svir), seems to point to the same region.

The calendar of the Orthodox Church of Finland remembers on 30 August, as venerable saints, Cornelius, Dionysius, Ferapont, Ignatius, Leonid, Theodore and Athanasius of Ostrov, disciples of Saint Alexander of Svir. Alongside them, on the same date, it remembers the venerable Barbara and Sergius of Oyat.

The sources consulted keep nothing about her life.

Commemorated the same day August 30