Synaxis Сибирские свв.

The Synaxis of Siberian Saints is a Russian Orthodox commemoration honoring ascetics whose spiritual labor was tied to Siberia. It was established in 1983–1984 at the initiative of Bishop Maxim (Kroha) of Omsk, with Patriarch Pimen's blessing; the first celebration took place on 10 June 1984 at the Intercession Cathedral in Tobolsk, on the feast of St. John (Maximovich), Metropolitan of Tobolsk. The feast falls on 10 June O.S. / 23 June N.S. The synaxis includes roughly 33 saints from the 17th–20th centuries: hierarchs who evangelized Siberia's indigenous peoples and organized its church life (St. John of Tobolsk, St. Sophrony of Irkutsk — already a separate card in this database, St. Innocent (Kulchitsky) of Irkutsk, St. Innocent (Veniaminov), enlightener of Alaska and the Far East, St. Paul (Konyuskevich) of Tobolsk — already a separate card, and others); monastic ascetics and missionaries (St. Herman of Alaska; Archimandrite Macarius (Glukharev), translator of Scripture into Altai); and righteous laypeople and holy fools (Simeon of Verkhoturye, Basil of Mangazeya, Daniel of Achinsk, Domna of Tomsk, Theodore Kuzmich). The synaxis testifies to the continuity of Siberian Orthodoxy from its earliest missionaries through the 20th-century new martyrs.