Venerable-Martyr · 14th century
Venerable Martyrs Cassian and Gregory Abbots of Avnezh
Also known as Cassian of Avnezh · Gregory of Avnezh
Two ascetic abbots of the Avnezh monastery in the Vologda lands who were slain during a Tatar raid in 1392.
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Notes
Named pair commemorated as one.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints