Saturday, October 21, 2017

Venerable Theophilus and Venerable James the Abbots of Omutch, Pskov



Saint Theophilus and James, Abbots of Omutch in Pskov, lived the ascetic life on the island of Konev with Saint Arsenius (June 12). In the year 1396, in the Pskov diocese at the River Omutch, not far from the city of Porkhov, Saints Theophilus and James established a wilderness monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. They fell asleep in the Lord about the year 1412.

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