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Venerable

Sabbas of Stromyn

Venerable monk, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
July 6old style July 19
Reposed
139214th century

Life

Holy Venerable Sabbas of Stromyn was a disciple of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh and founded, together with Venerable Leontius, the Stromyn Monastery. From 1381 to 1392 he was abbot of the monastery he had founded.

Venerable Sabbas departed to the Lord in 1392 and was buried in a wooden chapel of the Stromyn Monastery. He is commemorated on 19 July in the Synaxis of the Saints of Radonezh and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, in the new style.

Commemorated the same day July 6