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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Mavra of Mount Ceahlău

Schemanun of Mount Ceahlău

A Romanian schemanun who lived as an ascetic on Mount Ceahlău in the 18th century, canonized in 2025.

Feast
May 4old style May 17
Era
18th century
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Venerable Mavra of Mount Ceahlău was a Romanian schemanun who lived in the eighteenth century on Mount Ceahlău, as an ascetic. It is known that she was born in the seventeenth century and died in the eighteenth.

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized her at its session of 1 July 2025, with the title Saint Venerable Mavra of Mount Ceahlău, and set her feast on 4 May.

Our sources do not say more about her life.

Commemorated the same day May 4