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Venerable (Monastic) · 15th century

Venerable Makarios Abbot of Zheltovod and Unzha

Also known as Macarius of Unzha · Makarios of Zheltovod

A monk from his twelfth year who founded a monastery at Yellow Water Lake; carried off captive when the Tatars destroyed it, he was set free for his holiness and founded another community at Unzha, leading his people through the wilderness with the mercy of God.

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