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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Macarius of Solovki

Fisherman

A venerable father of Solovki, who worked as the monastery fisherman.

Feast
August 9old style August 22
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Macarius of Solovki, the fisherman, is commemorated in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki. The Azbyka page has no life of him and says nothing of his time, his labours or his end. We learn only his name and his epithet, "the fisherman", and his place in the synaxes.

His memory falls on 22 August, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki, and on a movable day around 11 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, in the new style.

Commemorated the same day August 9