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Nilus of Sora
Born
1433 Moscow
Died
7 May 1508
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodoxy
Canonized
1903 by Russian Orthodox Church
Feast
May 7
Nilus of Sora (also Nil Sorsky or Nil Sorski; Russian: Нил Сорский; secular name: Nikolai Maikov; Russian: Николай Майков; c. 1433 – 7 May 1508)[1] was a Russian Orthodox monk, spiritual writer, theologian, and the founder of the Sora Hermitage. He is best known as the founder of a tendency in the Russian Orthodox Church known as the non-possessors (nestyazhateli) which opposed ecclesiastic landownership.[2] The Russian Orthodox Church venerates Nilus as a saint, marking his feast day on the anniversary of his repose on 7 May.[3]
^Terras, Victor (1 January 1985). Handbook of Russian Literature. Yale University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-300-04868-1.
^On Nil Sorsky, see David M. Goldfrank, "Recentering Nil Sorskii: The Evidence from the Sources," Russian Review 66, No. 3 (2007): 359–376.
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