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Venerable

Basil Sokolovsky

Venerable monk, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Basil Sokolovsky is remembered together with his brothers by flesh, Tikhon and Nikon. All three struggled in the sixteenth century in the neighbourhood of Moscow. On an ancient icon in the church of the village of Sokolovo, Zvenigorod district, Moscow province, they are shown in the garments of schema monks.

They are buried in the Sokolova grove. They are commemorated on the Sunday after 12 July (18 July, a movable date) and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, in the new style. A service has also been composed for them.