Isaac Golovin

Venerable Isaac Golovin, in the world Ilya Matveevich Golovin, was a hieromonk, born in 1825 in the village of Gorki in the Voronezh governorate and dead in 1903 at the Sviatogorsk hermitage. He is venerated as a local saint in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, in the diocese of Donetsk, in the Synaxis of the saints of Sviatogorsk.

He was born in 1825 in the village of Gorki, now in the Novousmansk district of the Voronezh region, in a peasant family. In 1847 he entered the Sviatogorsk hermitage as a novice. In 1865 he was tonsured a monk, with the name Isaac. He bore the ascetic labor of foolishness for Christ. In 1885 he was ordained hierodeacon, and in 1890 hieromonk, and was moved to the infirmary church, where he lived until his death. He was glorified by gifts of foresight and of healing.

On 8 May 2008 the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine decided on his local canonization in the diocese of Donetsk, in the Synaxis of the saints of Sviatogorsk. The service of glorification took place during the visit to the Sviatogorsk Lavra, on 12 July 2008, of the primate of the Church, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv and all Ukraine, in the Dormition cathedral.