Saint Eleazar of Anzersk was born in the city of Kozelsk into the merchant family Severiukov. With the blessing of his parents he went off to the Solovki monastery, where he received monastic tonsure from the igumen Saint Irenarchus.
The Holy Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus, Slavs by origin, lived at the beginning of the fourth century during a persecution against Christians by the emperor Licinius (311-324).
Irenarchus, Hermit of Rostov, was born into a peasant family in the village of Kondakovo in the Rostov district. In his thirtieth year, he was tonsured a monk at the Rostov Saints Boris and Gleb monastery.
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The “Akathist” Icon of the Mother of God is on the iconostasis of the Hilandar monastery’s katholikon.
Saint Eupraxia the Elder was the mother of Saint Eupraxia, maiden of Tabennisi. She was the wife of the pious senator Antigonus, who was related to the emperor Theodosius the Great.
