Venerable (Monastic) · 15th century
Venerable Cassian the Greek of Uglich
Also known as Cassian of Uglich
A Greek nobleman who came to Russia in the retinue of a princess, and there forsook the world to become a monk, founding a monastery near Uglich.
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Notes
Oct 2 = his Uglich commemoration.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints