Daniel of Shuzhgora

Venerable Daniel of Shuzhgora was a wonderworker of the sixteenth century and the founder of the Transfiguration monastery of Shuzhgora, also called the Daniel of Shuzhgora monastery. He died at the end of the sixteenth century. He is commemorated on 21 September.

He was born in Moscow. He was tonsured a monk at the Kornilievo-⁠Komelsky monastery and lived there for a time. He then left the monastery, withdrew to a desolate place, and on Mount Shuzhgora in the Beloozero district founded the Transfiguration monastery.

Few other reports of the life of the venerable one have been preserved. His relics rest hidden, under a covering, in the Transfiguration church of the former monastery. His commemoration is also kept, according to the source, on the Sunday of All Saints, that is, the third Sunday after Pentecost.