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Tikhon of Kaluga

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Tikhon of Kaluga
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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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