Tarasius of Glushitsa

Venerable Tarasius of Glushitsa was an abbot, who died in 1440 (according to the Serbian source, on 25 October), and is venerated in the Russian Orthodox Church. He is commemorated on 12 October (old calendar) and on the third Sunday after Pentecost, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda. Almost nothing has been preserved about his childhood and worldly life, and the other data are few and fragmentary.

It is known that at first he was abbot of a monastery in Perm, set up by Saint Stephen of Perm, but he gave up the leadership and went to the Protection of the Mother of God monastery of Dionysius of Glushitsa, to Venerable Dionysius of Glushitsa, to live there under his guidance. Received by Dionysius, he lived beside him about ten years; he acquired the gift of compunction and unceasing weeping and led a strict ascetic life.

Tarasius of Glushitsa died in 1440, in the time of Abbot Amphilochius of Glushitsa, and his relics were laid under a slab in the Glushitsa monastery. His commemoration is kept on 12 October, the service being appointed in common with all the venerable ones of the Glushitsa monastery and performed from an ancient handwritten book. The troparion of the venerable Amphilochius, Makary, Tarasius and Theodosius of Glushitsa praises them as bright lights who wisely left earthly beauty and went into the inner wilderness, learning humility and every virtue and finding immortality, offering themselves to Christ by fasting, vigil and the other forms of self-⁠restraint.