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The Complete List of Saints from The Synaxis of the Saints of Belarus


The Synaxis of the Saints of Belarus is commemorated on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost.

The feast day was originally established pm April 3 1984 through the initiative of Metropolitan Philaret (Vakhromeyev) of Minsk. Within 20 years, the number of saints grew from 14 to 54. In 1999 23 new martyrs of the Minsk Diocese who were martyred between the 1930s to 1950s  were canonized. In 2000, during the council of bishops additional saints were canonized and added to the synaxis because their life and work was closely connected to the Belarussian land. Several other saints were added in 2007 and 2012 resulting in the following list of The Synaxis of the Saints of Belarus:

Saint Mina, Bishop of Polotsk (+ 1116, Commemorated on June 20)

Venerable Martin of Turov (+ 1150, Commemorated on June 27)

Saint Boris of Turov (Around  1160, Commemorated on June 23)

Saint Rostislav of Smolensk (+ 1167, Commemorated on March 14)

Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (+ 1173, Commemorated on May 23)

Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Polotsk (+ 1182)

Saint Kirill, Bishop of Turov (+ Around 1183, Commemorated on April 28)

Saint Lawrence, Bishop of Turov (+ 1194, Commemorated on January 29)

Saint Eupraxia, Princess of Pskov (+ 1243 Commemorated on October 16)

Venerable Elisha of Lavreshev (+ 1250, Commemorated on October 23)

Saint Charitina the Princess of Lithuania (+ 1281, Commemorated on October 5)

Saint Simeon the Bishop of Polotsk and Tver (+ 1289, Commemorated on February 3)

Martyrs Anthony, John and Eustathius of Vilnius (+ 1347 Commemorated on April 14)

St. Theodosius (Prince Theodore of Ostrog) (+ 1438, Commemorated on August 11)

 Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Kiev (+ 1497, Commemorated on May 1)

Saint Virgin Juliana, Princess of Olshansk (+ around 1540-1550, Commemorated on July 6)

St. Gennady of Kostroma (+ 1565, Commemorated on August 19 and January 23)

Childmartyr Gabriel of Bialystok (+ 1590, Commemorated on April 20)

Saint Nikifor, Martyr and Archdeacon, exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (+ 1599)

Saint Sophia of Princess Slutsk, (+ 1612, Commemorated on March 19)

Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest-Litovsk (+ 1648, Commemorated on July 20, September 5)

Hieromartyr Macarius of Pinsk (+ 1678, Commemorated on May 13, September 7)

Saint George Konnissky, Archbishop of Mogilev (+ 1795, Commemorated February 13, July 23)

Saint Meletius, the Archbishop of Antioch (+ 1840, Commemorated on February 12)

Saint Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (+ 1862, Commemorated on April 7)

 Saint John of Karmiansk (+ 1917, Commemorated on May 18 , September 27)

 Saint Mitrofan, Martyr and bishop of Astrakhan (+ 1919, Commemorated on June 23)

 Holy Martyr John Vechenko, Priest (+ 1933, Commemorated on April 4)

Holy Martyr Nikolai Okolovich, Protopriest (+ 1934, Commemorated on August 30)

Holy Martyr John Pommer, Archbishop of Riga (+ 1934, Commemorated on September 29 )

Holy Martyr Pavlin (Kroshechkin) Archbishop of Mogilev (+ 1937, Commemorated on October 21)

Holy Martyr Ioasaf (Zhevakhov) Bishop of Mogilev (+ 1937, Commemorated on November 22)

Holy Martyr John (Pashin) Bishop of Rilsk (+ 1938, Commemorated on February 26)

Holy Martyr Nikolai Gavarin, Presbyter (+ 1938, Commemorated on April 11)

23 New Martyrs on the Minsk Diocese (Commemorated on October 15)




Translated from https://drevo-info.ru/articles/11310.html

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