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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