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Venerable

Gerasim of Lukh

A venerable Russian father of the Lukh region, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
January 23old style February 5
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Gerasim of Lukh lived in the sixteenth century. Together with Venerable Thaddeus he was a disciple of Venerable Tikhon of Lukh. His name, with those of two other ascetics, Venerable Philaret and Venerable Photius, has been preserved in the old synodikon of Tikhon's hermitage and on an ancient icon of Saint Tikhon.

The relics of Venerable Gerasim and Venerable Thaddeus rest in the Saint Nicholas Tikhon Hermitage, a men's monastery in the diocese of Ivanovo-⁠Voznesensk.

He is commemorated on 5 February, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma.

Commemorated the same day January 23