Venerable
Vassian of Krestomir
A venerable monk of Karelia, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- September 3old style September 16
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Karelia
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Vassian of Krestomir was, according to an old Russian dictionary of saints, the founder and head of the Transfiguration monastery at Krestomir (Krestimirov) in the Onega region near the White Sea; the monastery, founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century, was abolished. His relics rest in the former monastery church, now a parish church.
Nothing is known of his life, and no formal canonization is recorded. The calendar of the Orthodox Church of Finland remembers him on 3 September, as an "enlightener of Karelia".
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