Nikon Sokolovsky

Holy Venerable Nikon Sokolovsky was one of three ascetic brothers, Tikhon, Basil and Nikon Sokolovsky, who struggled in the sixteenth century near Moscow.

Brothers by flesh, they lived and struggled in the sixteenth century. On an ancient icon in the church of the village of Sokolovo (Moscow province, Zvenigorod district) they are shown in schemamonks' garb, and they are buried in Falcon Grove (Sokolova Roshcha). Their memory is kept on 18 July (a movable day), on the Sunday after 12 July, and on 5 September (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, in the new style. A life of theirs was written by Archbishop Dimitri (Sambikin).