The Monk Varlaam of Keretsk

Commemorated on January 15

      The Monk Varlaam of Keretsk served during the XVI Century as a priest in the Keretsk area of the Kol'sk peninsula on the White Sea. He was venerated as the patron of White Sea industrial workers and sea-farers. He was glorified by posthumous miracles, saving the drowning.

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