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Venerable (Monastic) · 16th century

Venerable Jonah Abbot of Yashezersk

Also known as Jonah of Yashezersk

Founder and abbot of a monastery near Yash Lake in the Russian north, where he gathered monks and established monastic worship in 1580.

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