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Venerable

Cyprian of Storozhevo

Russian monk venerated in the village of Nadkopanye in the Leningrad region.

Feast
August 26old style September 8
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Cyprian of Storozhevo (Storozhensky) was a Russian monk of the sixteenth century, the founder of a monastery on the shore of Lake Ladoga. He is commemorated on 26 August and 2 November by the old calendar.

According to tradition, Cyprian had formerly been a robber, then repented and became a disciple of Venerable Adrian of Andrusov. He founded the monastery of Saint Nicholas at Storozha on Lake Ladoga, in the place now called Storozhno, in the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region.

It is not known when he departed to the Lord. His relics are kept hidden, under a covering, in the monastery he founded.

On 12 June 2010, in the village of Nadkopanye, beside the church of the Nativity, a monument to him was raised.

Commemorated the same day August 26