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Venerable

Evmenius of Murom

A venerable ascetic of the Murom monastery near Lake Onega.

Feast
June 4old style June 17
Era
unknown
Place
Lake Onega

Life

Venerable Evmenius of Murom is remembered on 4 June among the ascetics of the Lake Onega region.

The calendar of the Orthodox Church of Finland remembers on 4 June the venerable Eleazar, Nazarius and Evmenius of Aunus (Olonets), saints of Karelia. According to a Russian calendar, Eleazar and Nazarius founded the monastery of Saint John the Forerunner on the island of Murma in Lake Onega; the manuscripts sometimes call them Greeks, which may make them disciples of Saint Lazarus of Murom, who came from Constantinople, but this remains a conjecture.

Evmenius appears only in the Finnish calendar, beside Eleazar and Nazarius; no further details of his life are kept in the sources consulted.

Commemorated the same day June 4