Cassian Kamensky

Holy Venerable Cassian Kamensky, the wonderworker, an abbot, was abbot of the Spaso-⁠Kamenny monastery on Lake Kubenskoye and died around the year 1463. He is commemorated on 11 July (new style, a movable day), in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda.

He was tonsured a monk at the Spaso-⁠Kamenny monastery, but spent the rest of his life at the monastery of Cyril on the White Lake, even in the lifetime of Venerable Cyril, and from the year 1445 was abbot of the White Lake. Grand Prince Vasily Vasilievich and Metropolitan Jonah of all Rus twice sent him to Constantinople, to the patriarch, with questions concerning church needs. After these missions the grand prince rewarded him generously and, at his wish, let him go to the Kamenny monastery as abbot, the post left vacant after the death of Abbot Euthymius.

Venerable Cassian died there, as the Chronicle of the Kamenny monastery says, "not long after the repose of the blessed Prince Joasaph", whose guide he had been, around 1463, in the time of Grand Prince Ivan Vasilievich, and was buried on the south side of the Saviour-⁠Transfiguration cathedral.