Anthony of Kozheozero

Holy Venerable Anthony of Kozheozero was the disciple and successor as igumen of Venerable Serapion at the Kozheozero monastery, in the Kargopol region. In the schema he received the name Abraham and was buried in the same monastery. He is commemorated on 7 June, by the old calendar.

The Book of the Russian Saints says that Anthony, in the schema Abraham, was Serapion's disciple and successor in governing the Kozheozero monastery. Archimandrite Leonid, in "Holy Russia", calls him "hermit of Kozheozero", who died after 1565 and is locally venerated; his relics rest under cover in the abolished monastery. Another note says that "the venerable fathers Serapion and Anthony, hermits at Kozheozero, in the Kargopol region, reposed in the year 7000 (1492), on 27 June". The menologion of Dimitry Sambikin points out that little is known of him.