Andronicus of Radonezh

Venerable Andronicus of Radonezh was a disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh and the founder of the Saviour Monastery in Moscow, called after him the Andronikov Monastery. He reposed on 13 June 1374.

When Metropolitan Alexis was returning by sea from Constantinople, a violent storm on the Black Sea threatened to sink the ship. The metropolitan vowed to build a church in honour of the saint or feast of the day on which the ship reached harbour. The storm subsided on 16 August, and Alexis began, as promised, the monastery of the Saviour on the bank of the Yauza river in Moscow. He asked Sergius for a disciple, Andronicus, entrusted him with the building, and around 1360 made him abbot of the new monastery.

The relics of Andronicus, together with those of Savva, his successor who died in 1378, rest in the monastery, in the church of the Image of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, which Alexis had brought from Constantinople. The saint is remembered on 13 June, old style.