Herodion of Ilo-⁠Ozero

Venerable Herodion of Ilo-⁠Ozero was a disciple of Venerable Cornelius of Komel and fell asleep on 28 September 1541. He is venerated by the Russian Church among the venerable, and his commemoration is on 28 September, by the old calendar.

A short report about Herodion was written in the seventeenth century on the occasion of a church inquiry into his life and miracles, carried out in 1653 by Archimandrite Mitrophan of the Kirillo-⁠Belozersky monastery (1652 to 1660), commissioned by Archbishop Nikon of Novgorod. From it it is known that Herodion, after the death of his teacher, founded a monastery a few versts from Belozersk on an island of Lake Ilo, made himself a cell and founded a church in honour of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God. Around it there arose the Ilo-⁠Ozero Ozadskaya hermitage, also called the Herodion Ilo-⁠Ozero Nativity of the Mother of God hermitage.

Herodion fell asleep on 28 September 1541 and was buried in the chapel he had built, where his relics are kept now.