Anthony Antonievsky

Venerable Anthony Antonievsky was the founder of the Antoniev hermitage at the Black Lakes, in the diocese of Novgorod, in the Cherepovets district, on the shore of a small lake called Chernoe, two versts from the Sheksna river. The hermitage was later closed.

It is not known what his background was, when he built the hermitage, or with whose permission. The church there, of wood, was dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God. The saint's relics lie under the floor of a chapel. Old manuscript calendars of saints count him among the ascetics of Vologda and call him a hermit "from beyond the forest". His local commemoration is on 17 January, old style.