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Venerable

Spiridon of Vologda

The hermit

Venerable hermit of the Vologda region, venerated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.

Feast
December 5old style December 18
Era
unknown

Life

Holy Venerable Spiridon of Vologda was a hermit. The sources consulted preserve no life of him, so nothing can be said of the time and place of his struggles.

He is commemorated on 11 July, a movable date, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda, in the new style.

Commemorated the same day December 5