Artemius of Verkola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Child saint venerated in the Russian Orthodox Church
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1532
Place of Birth: Russia
Date of Death: 06-Jul-1545
Profession: child actor
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Artemius of Verkola
- Artemius (Artemy) of Verkola (Russian: ??????? ???????????; 1532 - 23 June 1544) is a child saint venerated in the Russian Orthodox Church. According to his hagiography, he was an unusually pious peasant child who lived in village Verkola in northern Russia.
- He was struck by lightning while helping his father plow the fields and was killed instantly.
- He was interred in a clearing and a wooden shell was placed around his body, with a fence constructed around it. Thirty-three years after his death a local deacon saw a light emanating from the boy's resting place and supposedly discovered the boy's body showed no sign of decay.
- Miracles of healing happened to people who venerated the boy's relics and he was proclaimed a saint.In 1648, by order of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich of Russia was founded the St.
- Artemius of Verkola monastery, and relics of the saint was moved into it. Iconographer Philip Zimmerman of New Florence, PA received a waking vision of the child saint who asked him, "to paint what he saw.
- For the children at the Village." After much discernment and 5 years of contemplation Mr.
- Zimmerman painted what he saw at the direction of Father John Namie of the Antiochian Village Camp located in Bolivar, PA.
- This icon is still enshrined within the camp precincts and is still venerated each year by the children attending this Antiochian Orthodox Christian Youth Camp.
- Many following visitations and revelations to Mr.
- Zimmerman by the saint have confirmed what he saw in his dream about the history and he hagiography of this 16th Century Wonder working child saint.
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