Joseph of Volokolamsk

Joseph of Volokolamsk
(c. 1439–1516)
   Order Founder and Saint.
   Joseph was the founder of the important monastery of Volokolamsk, near Moscow, Russia. It was a well-endowed, disciplined and educated community and many of its members attained high office in the Russian Church. The order expanded in the sixteenth century and many monasteries were found on the Volokolamsk pattern.
   I. Smolitsch, Russisches Mönchtum (1953) [no English translation available].

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