Venerable
Joasaph of Mashezero
A venerable father of the Mashezero lake region, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- May 21old style June 3
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Joasaph of Mashezero lived in the sixteenth century, in the time of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. He was tonsured a monk at the monastery of the Holy Trinity of Alexander of Svir and was one of its abbots. He founded the hermitage of Saint Elijah at Mashezero, on a small and picturesque island of Lake Mashozero, near the present town of Petrozavodsk. The Azbyka page has no further details. The Church commemorates him on 3 June, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Karelia.
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