Saint Bogolep, disciple of Saint Paisius of Uglich

Saint Bogolep lived during the XV and XVI centuries and was a disciple of Saint Paisios of Uglich (June 6). The Yaroslavl Paterikon (1912) credits Saint Bogolep with finding the wonderworking Icon of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1482, which is mentioned in the Life of Saint Paisios. The Life states that "a certain baker" from the Uglich men's Monastery of the Lord's Theophany (later called Protection) went to the Volga early one morning for water. On the shore under the mountain he saw an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. It is not known how it came to the Monastery. The monk ran to the Monastery and reported the incident to Saint Paisios. That baker was Saint Bogolep, who had worked as a baker when he was still in the world. After entering the Monastery, he carried out the same obedience.

Because of his piety and humility, Saint Bogolep was ordained as a priest before his death, and was tonsured into the Schema.

The date of Saint Basil's local glorification is not known. His Feast Day is celebrated on August 22, perhaps because the martyr Theoprepios (Феопрепий in Russian), who suffered martyrdom in the IV century with Saint Agathonikos of Nikomedia, is commemorated on that date.

The local canonization of Saint Bogolep was confirmed with the inclusion of his name in the Synaxis of the Rostov-Yaroslavl Saints, by the decision of His Holiness Patriarch Alexei I of Moscow and the Holy Synod on March 10, 1964.

The Synaxis of the Rostov-Yaroslavl Saints is celebrated on May 23/June 5.