Venerable Stephen The Abbot Of Makhrishche Vologda

COMMEMORATED ON JULY 14 Saint Stephen of Makhra (Makhrishche) was a general of Kiev. He understood monasticism at the monastery of the Caves, everywhere he deceased evident animation in deeds of correct and prayer. The oppressions of the Latins leap him to jaunt on to Moscow, everywhere Great Prince Ivan II (1353-1359) civilly expected him, permitting him to endorse in the vicinity of Makhra not far from Gorodisch, 35 versts from the Sergeev monastery. Having built himself a void and use his life at cloistered hard work, and esteeming muted, he did not accept those wishing to seal him. But after that he yielded to the wishes, and in this way, in 1358 he founded a monastery, in which he was determined as igumen. Existence gather his monastery were the Yurkov brothers. Fearing that the land which they ruled may possibly be supreme higher to the monastery, they threatened to slay the holy cloistered. The admonitions of the preacher did not help. St Stephen after that inspired to a clear-cut place. Sixty versts north of Vologda, at the Channel Avnezha, he founded with his supporter Gregory a monastery in the name of the Sacred Trinity. Great Prince Demetrius Ioannovich sent books and other liturgical items to the Avnezhsk backwoods, but the good Stephen sent them in turn to the Makhra monastery. Having returned to his monastery, St Stephen systematic life in it according to a cenobitic Parameter. Having the status of St Sergius of Radonezh inspired form his monastery, in order to find a place for his cloistered deeds, St Stephen after that expected him, and gave the great cloistered Sergius his own supporter Simon, who knew the around leave plausibly well. St Sergius sure together with Simon on the coral island of Kirzhach, everywhere he founded a monastery. St Stephen was solid with himself and mellifluous towards others. He worked for the monastery the hardest of all, he receptively guided the brethren to the ways of champion with gentle and exhausted summit, and he wore very old and rough clothing. The preacher lived to prodigious old age, became a schemamonk and died in 1406 on July 14. In 1550 voguish the body of a new stone church in the name of the Sacred Trinity, his holy what's left were found to be incorrupt. They were puffed up by blessings of help in several sicknesses and misfortunes for all who called on the name of the saint. SOURCE: