Righteous Longin of Yarenga

Righteous Longin was a monk of the Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery during the abbacy of St. Philip (Kolychev), later Metropolitan of Moscow. Together with his companion Righteous John (see the separate entry john_yarengsky), he set out on monastery business aboard a vessel laden with building materials; en route they were caught in a storm on the White Sea, and both drowned (dated variously, by different sources, to 1544/45 or 1561).

Their incorrupt bodies were later found washed ashore at the mouth of the Sosnovka River near the village of Yarenga, about 120 versts from the monastery. Following an investigation of miracles (begun 1625), their relics were solemnly translated to a newly built church on July 2, 1638 — this event marks the beginning of their joint commemoration. Longin is separately commemorated on October 16/29.

They are included in the Synaxis of Novgorod Saints (since 1831), the Synaxis of Karelian Saints (1974), the Synaxis of Solovetsky Saints (1993), and the Synaxis of Saints of the Arkhangelsk Metropolia (2018).

IMPORTANT IDENTITY CORRECTION: the original stub called him "Jonah of Yarenga" — targeted searching found no saint by this name in any source (pravenc.ru, azbyka.ru, drevo-info.ru, patriarchia.ru, Wikipedia) — every search result pointed exclusively to the pair John and Longin of Yarenga. It was established that "Jonah" is most likely a distortion of the name "Longin"; inspection of the surviving images confirmed a connection to the Yarenga pair (though no individual image confirmed the identity specifically — see below). The original five commemoration dates ("March 31/June 15/May 27/September 22/October 5") were established as foreign contamination: three of them (March 31, May 27, June 15) actually belong to St. Jonah of Kiev (see jonah_of_kiev), and the date September 22/October 5 belongs to the Old Testament Prophet Jonah; none pertain to Longin/John of Yarenga.