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Venerable (Monastic) · 15th century

Venerable Barlaam of Shenkursk

Also known as Varlaam Vazhsky · Vasily Svoezemtsev

A Novgorod boyar and civic leader of the Vaga region who in later life forsook the world for the monastic habit and founded a monastery on his own lands.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints