Joasaph of Pskov

Venerable Joasaph, martyr, was hegumen, founder and first abbot of the Snetogorsk monastery, on the right bank of the river Velikaya, a few kilometers from Pskov. He was killed by the Livonian knights on 4 March 1299, together with the venerable hegumen Basil of Mirozh and many monks. He is commemorated on 4 March by the old calendar.

By the strict cenobitic rule that Venerable Joasaph set up in his monastery, the life of the monks was filled with prayer, abstinence and labor. The Serbian sources say that seventeen other monks were killed with him. At the same time the venerable Basil, hegumen of the Spaso-⁠Mirozh monastery of Pskov, was also killed.

Their relics are in the Holy Trinity cathedral of Pskov. They are venerated as holy venerable martyrs and are commemorated on 4 March by the old calendar and in the Synaxis of the saints of Pskov.