Abraham and Kopry of Pechenga

Venerable Abraham and Kopry of Pechenga, of the Vologda region, were the founders of the Spasskaya hermitage, in 1492, on the Pechenga river, in the Gryazovets district. They lived in the fifteenth century. They are commemorated on 17 February, which is 4 February by the old calendar.

Much patience and labor were needed to raise, on a deserted place and without means, the Pechenga Gryazovets monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior and to bring it to due order. The blessed laborers spared themselves nothing and struggled zealously for the Lord to the end.

The monastery was abolished in 1764. In the church of the former monastery, later a parish church, the relics of Venerable Abraham and of his fellow worker Kopry rested beneath the floor, unrevealed.