Theodosius of Glushitsa

Venerable Theodosius of Glushitsa was a monk in Russia in the fifteenth century and is venerated by the Russian Orthodox Church. He is considered a disciple of Venerable Dionysius, founder of the monastery of Glushitsa-⁠Sosnovets of Saint John the Forerunner, in the Vologda governorate. In that monastery Theodosius lived most of his life as an ascetic.

Almost no information has survived about his childhood and his life in the world, and the later details about him are very few and scattered. The year of his death is not known. His relics rest under the ground in the monastery of Glushitsa.

His memory is kept on 12 October, with a service common to the other saints of Glushitsa. He is also remembered on the third Sunday after Pentecost, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda. In the troparion to the venerable Amphilochius, Macarius, Tarasius and Theodosius of Glushitsa, they are praised as bright lights who wisely left behind the beauty of the earth, went into the inner desert, learned humility and every virtue, and found immortality, offering themselves to Christ through fasting, vigil and other forms of abstinence. He is venerated chiefly in the Vologda region.