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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Dositheus of Solovki

The Recluse

A Russian monk, a recluse in the Solovki lands on the White Sea.

Feast
August 9old style August 22
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Dositheus of Solovki was a venerable ascetic who lived in seclusion, that is, an enclosed recluse, of the Solovki Monastery on the White Sea. The sources gathered here contain no information about his life.

He is commemorated on 11 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, and on 22 August, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.

Commemorated the same day August 9