Eleazar of Olonets

Holy Venerable Eleazar of Olonets, also called Eleazar of Murma, lived in the fifteenth century and, together with Saint Nazarius, founded the Saint John the Baptist Monastery on the island of Murma in Lake Onega. In handwritten calendars they are sometimes called Greeks, from which it is supposed that they were disciples of Saint Lazarus of Murma, who came from Constantinople.

The sources gathered here say no more of their lives. They are commemorated on 11 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, and the Greeks commemorate them on 4 June.