Ambrose of Optina, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian Orthodox elder, monk, and saint
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About Ambrose of Optina
- Saint Ambrose of Optina (Russian: ???????? ?????????; birth name: Aleksander Mikhaylovich Grenkov, Russian: ????????? ?????????? ???????, December 5, 1812, Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, Tambov guberniya – October 23, 1891) was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in the 1988 convention of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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