Basil Glubokorechensky

Holy Venerable Basil Glubokorechensky, an abbot, came from Cappadocia. In the tenth century, perhaps in the reign of the emperor Nikephoros Phokas, he founded near the town of Triglia in Bithynia the monastery of the Deep Rivers. He was its first abbot and struggled there to the end of his life.

Information about him is found in the life of his nephew and successor, Venerable Ignatius. Venerable Nikodemos the Hagiorite confirmed that the uncle of Ignatius and Saint Basil of the Deep Rivers are one and the same person. His veneration was long local, and his commemoration is not found in the handwritten Greek calendars, but it entered the printed Menaion published in Venice in 1591. Saint Basil is commemorated on 14 July (1/14 July in the Greek calendar), in the new style, but his name is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.