Venerable
Zosima of Volokolamsk
Russian venerable monk honored in the Volokolamsk region.
- Feast
- May 8old style May 21
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Zosima of Volokolamsk (also called Zosima of Sestra) was, together with Venerable Adrian, founder of the Sestra monastery on the bank of the river Sestra, and lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Their relics were buried in the Dormition church of the monastery they founded. The source we draw on gives no further details. The saint is commemorated on 5 September (a movable date, new style), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.
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