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== Life ==
[[Image:Gury-relics-kazan.jpg|right|thumb|340px|Relics of Saint Gury, first Archbishop of Kazan and Sviajsk, and enlightener of Tatarstan's natives. (XVI s century) ]]
'''Gregory Grigoroevic Rugotin''' was born in Radonezh to a poor but aristocratic family<ref name="stjohndc">[http://www.stjohndc.org/Russian/saints/e_9812c.htm ''St. Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan''.] Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC.</ref>.
He entered the service of Prince Ivan Penkov. After some years he was
