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Venerable (Monastic) · 19th century

Venerable Moses of Optina

Also known as Moses Putilov · Timothy Putilov

The abbot who gathered and built up Optina in its years of flowering, sheltering the great elders and making the monastery a haven of eldership and charity.

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Notes

Among the Optina Elders.

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