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Passion-Bearer · 16th century

Right-believing Tsarevich Demetrius of Uglich

Also known as Demetrius of Uglich · Dmitry of Moscow

The young son of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who met a violent death at Uglich at the age of eight; venerated as an innocent passion-bearer, his relics were later found incorrupt and worked many healings.

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