October 18 - Memory of the Venerable Kharitina of Lithuania, Novgorodtranslated

On October 18, the Church remembers the day of the Dormition of St. Kharitina of Lithuania, Novgorod. This saint moved from Lithuania to Novgorod in her youth, took monastic vows here and became the abbess of the Novgorod monastery. Nowadays her relics are in the St. George's Monastery.