Nilus: Name Day
Orthros keeps the name day for Nilus on April 7 on the New Calendar and April 20 on the Old Calendar: the feast of St Nilus of Sora.
The saint
St Nilus of SoraBorn Nikolai Maikov around 1433, Nilus came to hesychast prayer through his formation at the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, and carried home from journeys beyond Russia's borders an older monastic pattern largely unknown there, the skete: a small settlement of hermits, neither the large communal monastery nor the solitary cell alone, living by their own labor and each other's support.Read the life ›Other saints named Nilus
St Nilus of StolobenskMay 27
St Nilus the Ascetic of SinaiNovember 12
St Nilus the Myrrh-Gusher of Mount AthosNovember 12
Questions
- When is the name day for Nilus?
- Orthros keeps the name day for Nilus on April 7 on the New Calendar and April 20 on the Old Calendar.
- Which saint's feast is the name day for Nilus?
- It is the feast of St Nilus of Sora.