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Venerable

Gurias of Talitsy

A Russian monastic saint, commemorated in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Feast
December 5old style December 18
Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Gurias of Talitsy was an igumen in the Talitsy region, in northern Russia, and is commemorated on 5 December, by the old calendar.

The igumen Gurias is known only through the consecration of the church of the Annunciation in the monastery of Euphrosynus at Sineozero, and appears in the life of Saint Euphrosynus (20 March). His memory is nonetheless kept with honour in the monastery, for the strictness of his life. No other details are known.

Commemorated the same day December 5