Theodore Kamensky

Holy Venerable Theodore Kamensky was, according to what the archives preserve, Theodore Vasilievich Kamensky, son of the sexton of the church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kamenskoe, Vasily Andreevich Kamensky. He was born in 1813 and studied in the lower division of the clerical school of the Vologda district. On 29 September 1829 he was appointed cantor (dyachok) at the church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Kamenskoe, Kadnikov district, Vologda diocese. In 1864, on 22 October, he was retired on account of poor health. He died on 10 February 1877.

His wife, Miropia Grigorievna, was the daughter of a cantor of the church of Saint Nicholas in Ustretsk and was sixty-⁠eight in 1882. The children: Asenefa, married to the deacon Prokopy Lyskov; Manefa, married to the psalm-⁠reader Afinogen Talitsyn; Anfisa, a prosphora baker; Exacustadian (Eugene), abbot of the Lopotov monastery and archimandrite of the John the Forerunner monastery in Kazan, steward of the bishop's house of Bishop Palladius of Kazan and Sviyazhsk; Nicholas, provincial land surveyor; Vasily, land surveyor; Michael, a townsman of Danilov.

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