Editing Yaroslav the Wise (section)

== Veneration ==
{{Infobox saint
|name=       Yaroslav the Wise
|image=      Yaroslav1.jpg
|caption=    Yaroslav the Wise's consolidation of Kiev and Novgorod as depicted at Zoloti Vorota mosaics
|titles=     Holy Grand Prince,<ref name="Благоверный князь Яросла́в Мудрый">{{Cite web|title=Благоверный князь Яросла́в Мудрый|url=https://azbyka.ru/days/sv-jaroslav-mudryj|access-date=2021-07-09|website=azbyka.ru|language=ru}}</ref> [[Right-Believing]]
|feast_day=  20 February<ref name="patriarchia.ru">{{Cite web|title=Определение Освященного Архиерейского Собора Русской Православной Церкви об общецерковном прославлении ряда местночтимых святых / Официальные документы / Патриархия.ru|url=http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4367765.html|access-date=2021-07-09|website=Патриархия.ru|language=ru}}</ref>
|venerated_in= [[Catholic Church]]<ref name="Berit 216">{{Cite book |last=Berit |first=Ase |title=Lifelines in World History: The Ancient World, The Medieval World, The Early Modern World, The Modern World |publisher=Routledge |date=December 31, 2010 |isbn=978-0765681256 |pages=216}}</ref> <br/> [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<ref name="patriarchia.ru">{{Cite web|title=Определение Освященного Архиерейского Собора Русской Православной Церкви об общецерковном прославлении ряда местночтимых святых / Официальные документы / Патриархия.ru|url=http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4367765.html|access-date=2021-07-09|website=Патриархия.ru|language=ru}}</ref>
|canonized_date=  February 3, 2016
|canonized_place= Moscow
|canonized_by=    Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church<ref name="patriarchia.ru">{{Cite web|title=Определение Освященного Архиерейского Собора Русской Православной Церкви об общецерковном прославлении ряда местночтимых святых / Официальные документы / Патриархия.ru|url=http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4367765.html|access-date=2021-07-09|website=Патриархия.ru|language=ru}}</ref>
|major_shrine=     [[Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv]]
|attributes=       Grand Prince's robes, sword, church model, book or scroll<ref name="Благоверный князь Яросла́в Мудрый">{{Cite web|title=Благоверный князь Яросла́в Мудрый|url=https://azbyka.ru/days/sv-jaroslav-mudryj|access-date=2021-07-09|website=azbyka.ru|language=ru}}</ref>
|patronage=   Statesmen, Judges, Jurists, Prosecutors, Temple Builders, Librarians, Research, Scientists, Teacher, Students, Kievans<ref>{{Cite web|title=Святой благоверный великий князь Киевский Ярослав Мудрый {{!}} Читальный зал|url=https://xpam.kiev.ua/svyatoyi-blagovernyyi-velikiyi-knyaz-kievskiyi-yaroslav-mudryyi.html|access-date=2021-07-09|website=xpam.kiev.ua}}</ref>
}}

Yaroslav was at the earliest named a saint by [[Adam of Bremen]] in his "[[Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum|Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church]]" in [[1075]], but he was not formally [[Canonization|canonized]].{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} On 9 March 2004, on his 950th death anniversary he was included in the calendar of saints of the [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)]].{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} On 8 December 2005, [[Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow]] added his name to the [[Menologium]] as a [[local saint]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Имена святых, упоминаемых в месяцеслове. Имена мужские. Я + Православный Церковный календарь|url=http://days.pravoslavie.ru/ABC/mq.htm#qroslaw|access-date=2021-07-09|website=days.pravoslavie.ru}}</ref> On 3 February 2016, the Council of Bishops of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] held in Moscow established church-wide veneration of "Saint Blessed Knyaz Yaroslav the Wise", noticing that he was one of the saints widely venerated in the Russian Orthodox Church, but missing from the official church-wide veneration.<ref name="patriarchia.ru">{{Cite web|title=Определение Освященного Архиерейского Собора Русской Православной Церкви об общецерковном прославлении ряда местночтимых святых / Официальные документы / Патриархия.ru|url=http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/4367765.html|access-date=2021-07-09|website=Патриархия.ru|language=ru}}</ref>