Abraham of Mirozh

Venerable Abraham of Mirozh was the builder and first abbot of the Transfiguration Monastery of Mirozh, at Pskov, and reposed on 24 September 1158. He is honoured by the Russian Church among the venerable fathers. His commemoration is on 24 September and on the third Sunday after Pentecost, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Pskov, in which he was entered on 10 April 1987.

Very little has been preserved about his life. He was buried, it is believed, in the monastery, in the Transfiguration cathedral. The date of his death is known from a calendar of the seventeenth century. His local canonization took place, it is believed, before the beginning of the seventeenth century.

The Mirozh Monastery is a twelfth-⁠century Russian monastery complex in Pskov, famous for the frescoes in the Transfiguration cathedral. It takes its name from the river Mirozha, at whose junction with the Velikaya it stands, on the left bank. The monastery's main church is one of the two pre-⁠Mongol buildings that survived in Pskov, and has frescoes of the twelfth century. The monastery, together with the cathedral, is part of the Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture, which became a World Heritage Site in 2019. The exact date of its founding is not known, only that it was in the twelfth century, and the monastery is associated with Nifont of Novgorod. The oldest buildings, apart from the cathedral, have not survived; the present ensemble comprises the Transfiguration cathedral (twelfth century to the beginning of the twentieth), the prior's house (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries), the church of Saint Stephen (seventeenth century), the dormitory, cells, bathhouse and outer wall (1799 to 1805). The monastery is twenty minutes' walk from the Pskov Kremlin and was one of the cultural centres of the city.