Locally venerated saint
File:Bogolep Chernoyarsky.jpg, venerated in Chyorny Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia]]
A locally venerated saint or local saint (in Russian Orthodox Church: {{lang|ru|Местночтимый святой}}, mestnochtimy svyatoy) is a saint who was canonized within a particular diocese or venerated only in a certain region.Juvenal Poyarkov, [https://web.archive.org/web/20191106003700/http://www.orthodox.spbu.ru/kanoniza.htm О КАНОНИЗАЦИИ СВЯТЫХ В РУССКОЙ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ ЦЕРКВИ]{{ill|Georgy Tertyshnikov|ru|Георгий (Тертышников)}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170126040207/http://aliom.orthodoxy.ru/arch/021/021-tert_kanon.htm КРИТЕРИИ КАНОНИЗАЦИИ МЕСТНОЧТИМЫХ СВЯТЫХ В РУССКОЙ ПРАВОСЛАВНОЙ ЦЕРКВИ]
See also
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Further reading
- Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Alan Thacker and Richard Sharpe (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2002