Nicetas of Solovki

Holy Venerable Nicetas of Solovki is remembered as an ascetic of the Solovki monastery, in northern Russia. He has not been officially canonized.

The only information about him is given by the menologion of Dimitry Sambikin, which mentions a manuscript of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (no. 232 in the Bolshakov collection) containing a short life of Venerable Nicetas. It begins with the words: "In the year 7110 (1602) there was a man named Nicetas, who came from Great Novgorod". The author of the menologion observes that neither Archimandrite Sergius (Hagiology of the East), nor Archimandrite Leonid (Holy Russia), nor the Historical Dictionary mentions a Nicetas of Solovki.