The Monk Makarii of Oredezhsk

Commemorated on August 9

      The Monk Makarii of Oredezhsk was a student of the Monk Alexander of Svirsk (+ 30 August 1533). He pursued asceticism at the River Oredezha at Lake Ladoga, where he founded a monastery. He died in the year 1532.

© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.