Right-Believing Gleb of Vladimir

According to his Life, written in the early 18th century, Prince Gleb (baptized George) was the youngest son of St Andrew Bogolyubsky. From the age of twelve he lived a secluded life of reading, fasting and prayer, honoured the clergy and was merciful to all, and he died on 20 June 1175 aged nineteen or twenty, shortly before his father's murder.

Historical evidence about him is scarce: twelfth-century chronicles name three sons of Andrew — Izyaslav, Mstislav and George (Yury) — and Gleb first appears in fifteenth-century genealogies; the historian E. Golubinsky suggested Gleb was George's princely name. Tradition holds that his tomb was spared by fire when Batu's army burned Vladimir in 1238 and that flames burst from it when Tatar raiders tried to open it in 1410. On 30 November 1702 his incorrupt relics were placed in a silver shrine, which apparently marked his canonization. The relics, removed in 1919 and returned in the 1950s, rest in the Dormition Cathedral of Vladimir. He is commemorated on 20 June (3 July, New Style) and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir.