Orthodox Calendar: September 10 — The Finding of the Relics of the Venerable Ioann, Igumen of Pochaevtranslated

Fifteenth Week after Pentecost.

Today, September 10, 2026, the Orthodox Church commemorates St. Moses Murena (c. 400); the Holy Fathers of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, especially St. Feodosius of the Distant Cave; St. Anna the Prophetess, daughter of Fanuel, who met the Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple of Jerusalem (I); St. Susanna, Countess of Rance (V); the finding of the relics of St. Ioann of Pochaev (1659); St. Savva of Krypetsk and Pskov (1495); Presbyter Alexius (1918); Presbyter Alexander; Presbyter Nicholas (1931); Martyrs of Kazan: Sergius, Lawrence, Seraphim, Feodosius, Leonid, Stephen, George, Ilarion, John, and Sergius (1918); Presbyter Basil (1937).

No fast today.

The Venerable Ioann, Igumen of Pochaev, in the world Ivan Zhelazo, was born in the middle of the 16th century in Pokutia in Galicia.

At the age of ten, he came to the Transfiguration Ugornetsky Monastery, and at twelve years old he took monastic vows. He then governed the monastery for more than twenty years during a time when increasing persecution against Orthodoxy by Catholics and Uniates was intensifying.

In the early 17th century, the Venerable withdrew to Pochaev Mountain and settled in a cave near the ancient Uspensky Monastery, famous for its miraculous Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God…