Vassian of Uglich

Venerable Vassian of Uglich, also called Ryabovsky, was a Russian ascetic who lived at Uglich and in its surroundings, a disciple of Venerable Paisius. He was born around 1439 and departed to the Lord on 12 February 1509. He is commemorated on 12 February, on 6 June together with his teacher Paisius, and on 23 May, in the Synaxis of the saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.

He was born in the village of Rozhalovo and came of the Shestikhinsky family. At thirty-⁠three he met Paisius of Uglich, after which he received tonsure and was for about twenty years a monk of the Protection monastery. In 1492 he left the monastery and stayed for a time at the Nikolo-⁠Uleima monastery, after which he struggled as a hermit thirty kilometers south of Uglich. Vassian founded near Uglich the women's hermitage of Ryabovo. The women's monastery near Ryabovo was turned in 1764 into a parish church, which still exists and bears the name of the Holy Trinity.

On 12 February 1509 Venerable Vassian departed to the Lord. After a few years, at his relics a possessed man, Gerasim, and a paralytic, Valerian, received healing. In 1548 the venerable one was glorified by the finding of his incorrupt relics.