Simiaon of Polatsk (1629 - 1680) (also Symon; Simeon)

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• From his entry in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus (Zaprudnik, 1998; p. 201):

  "Historical name of Samuil Piatrouski-Sitnijanovich, Belarusian and Russian poet, playwright, pedagogue, and cultural worker. A graduate of the Kievan Mahilanski Collegium and possibly the Jesuit Academy in Vilnia, he took monastic vows and taught for a while at a confraternity school in Polacak. In 1664, he moved to Moscow, where he become the court poet, teacher of the tsar's children, organizer of a printing shop, an author and publisher of books of poetry and moral teachings, and a propagator of unity of East Slavic peoples."

• Simiaon of Polatsk is also one of the 15 Belarusian saints honored by the [Russian] Orthodox Church of Belarus, on the Day of Belarus' Saints, established in 1984. This holiday takes place on the first Sunday after Pentecost. (Historical Dictionary of Belarus; Zaprudnik, 1998; p. 192):

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