Jonah and Companions

Holy Venerable Martyrs Jonah and Companions were the hieromonk Jonah, a disciple of Saint Tryphon of Pechenga, and the brethren of the Pechenga monastery in northern Russia, killed on 25 December 1589 by a band of Swedish and Finnish invaders (some sources give 1590). The chronicle speaks of fifty monks and sixty-⁠five laymen killed by the attackers, and the wooden monastery was burned. The place of their burial was lost, but in 1708-1709 the church of the Meeting of the Lord was built there, and the monastery was revived in 1886. They are honoured by the Russian Church and remembered on 25 December (the same date in the old style of the Menaion).