Venerable (Monastic) · 16th century
Venerable Joseph of Volokolamsk
Also known as Joseph of Volotsk · Joseph the Wonderworker
Founder of the Volokolamsk Monastery, a defender of the faith against heresy and a great organizer of cenobitic monastic life (1515)
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The Enlightener (Prosvetitel)
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Notes
His feast is also kept on Oct 18 Also commemorated Oct 18.
Sources: Synaxarion