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Venerable

Sebastian of Solovki

The hermit

Venerable hermit of Solovki, venerated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.

Feast
August 9old style August 22
Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Sebastian of Solovki was a hermit. The sources consulted preserve no life of him, so no further facts of his time and labours can be given.

He is commemorated, in the new style, on 11 July, a movable date, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, and on 22 August in the Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki.

Commemorated the same day August 9