Joachim the Korsunian
Russian bishop and saint
Feast: 10 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Joachim of Korsun (Russian: Иоаким Корсунянин) was the first bishop of Novgorod the Great (r. ca. 989 – 1030). His surname suggests he probably came from the Byzantine town of Cherson (Korsun) on the Crimean Peninsula and, according to the chronicles, arrived in Kievan Rus' around the time of the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988. Upon his arrival in Novgorod, he cast the idol of the god Perun into the Volkhov River and built the Peryn Monastery on the site where it once stood. He also built the first, wooden, Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, “with 12 tops,” on the site of a pagan cemetery.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2623840 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Joachim of Korsun (CC BY-SA)
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