Michael Maleinos [SEP] canonization status
well as on Athanasius the Athonite.
Athanasius, who started his monastic life at Michael's monastery about the year 953, later modeled the Great Lavra, Mount Athos upon Michael's establishment.
Michael Maleinos died at Mount Kyminas on 12 July 961.
Veneration.
Michael Maleinos was a patron saint of Mikhail Feodorovich, the first Romanov tsar. Owing to this fact, he was greatly revered by the Romanov dynasty and many chapels were dedicated to him in Russia.
External links.
- Hagiography of Saint
of Emperor Theophilos ().
- Anastasia, known only through a single reference in the late 10th-century "Life of Basil the Younger" hagiography. She might be identifiable with Anastaso, the daughter of the "patrikios" Adralestos, who later married into the Maleinos family and was mother to Constantine Maleinos and Michael Maleinos.
- Olga of Kiev is sometimes considered as having been created a "zōstē" during her visit to Constantinople
- Miroslava of Bulgaria, daughter of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria (),