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Venerable Anatole II of Optina

Also known as Anatole the Younger · Alexander Potapov

An elder of Optina, a cell-attendant and disciple of St Ambrose, who in the years of the Church's affliction received the multitudes who came to him with consoling and discerning counsel.

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Notes

Among the Optina Elders; not Anatole I of Optina (OS-0539).

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