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Venerable (Monastic) · 15th century

Mark Jonah, and Bassa of the Pskov Caves

Also known as Mark of the Pskov Caves · Jonah of the Pskov Caves · Bassa of the Pskov Caves

Honored as founders of the Pskov Caves Monastery. Mark was the first hermit to settle in the natural caves by the Kamenets stream; Jonah established the monastery there, and Bassa, the wife of Jonah, became a nun and was among its first.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints