Skip to content

Venerable Martyr

Visarion of Lainici

Abbot of Lainici Monastery

Archimandrite, abbot of Lainici from 1929 to 1951, who died a martyr in 1951; canonized by the Romanian Church in 2024.

Feast
November 10old style November 23
Reposed
195120th century
Place
Secuieni
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Venerable Martyr Visarion of Lainici was a Romanian Orthodox monk with the rank of archimandrite, abbot of Lainici Monastery between 1929 and 1951. He was born in 1884 and died as a martyr in 1951. His family name was Toia.

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized him at its session of 11-12 July 2024, with the title Saint Venerable Martyr Visarion of Lainici, and set his feast on 10 November.

Our sources do not relate the manner of his martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day November 10