Tikhon of Kaluga

Saint Tikhon of Kaluga
Icon of Saint Tikhon in his monastic cell
Hegumen, Venerable
Born	late 14th century or early 15th century
Died	16 June 1492
Honored in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized	1584
Feast	16 June

Tikhon of Kaluga (died 16 June 1492) was a Russian Orthodox hegumen and saint. He grew up in Moscow and was tonsured a monk as a young man. He then moved to a forest near Medin in Kaluga, living in the hollow of an oak tree. It was on that spot that he founded (and became the first hegumen of) a monastery dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God (and then to Tikhon himself after his death). He is commemorated with a feast day on 16 June in the Eastern Orthodox Church.^[1]

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