Arsenius of Konevets

Venerable Arsenius, founder of the Konevets monastery on Lake Ladoga.

Saint Arsenius was a coppersmith of Novgorod who became a monk and spent three years on Mount Athos. Returning with an icon of the Theotokos, he founded a monastery on the island of Konevets in Lake Ladoga in the late fourteenth century and reposed there in 1447.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Arsenius of Konevets is commemorated on June 12. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 25 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on June 12

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  Onuphrios the Great

  Venerable, Ονούφριος

  Great Venerable Onuphrius the Egyptian.

  Name days: Onyfrios

• Peter the Athonite

  Venerable, Πέτρος ο Αθωνίτης

  Venerable Peter the Athonite, first known hermit of the Holy Mountain.

• Antonina of Nicaea

  Holy Woman, Αντωνίνα

  Holy Virgin Martyr Antonina of Nicaea, who suffered under Diocletian.

  Name days: Antonina

• Synesios, Benedict and Timothy, Monk-Martyrs of Thessaloniki

  Martyr, Συνέσιος, Βενέδικτος και Τιμόθεος

  Monk-Martyrs Synesios, Benedict and Timothy, monastics put to death in Thessaloniki.

• Zeno the Venerable

  Venerable, Ζήνων

  Venerable Zeno, an ascetic whose memory is preserved in the synaxaria.