Dionysius of Ostrov

Holy Venerable Dionysius of Ostrov was among the disciples of Venerable Alexander of Svir, buried at the Oyat Ostrov Monastery of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple. No information has been preserved about his life.

Local canonisation took place, it seems, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was confirmed by the entry of his name in the Synaxis of the Saints of Karelia, established in 1974, and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, whose celebration was renewed in 1981. Short descriptions of his appearance are found in the icon painters' guides of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under 3 October: Russian in appearance, with the beard of Saint Basil the Great, in venerable's vestments. 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.