Macarius of Meniuga

Venerable Macarius of Meniuga was a monk who revived the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Menyuga. The Azbyka page says that his memory is kept on 28 June, which is 11 July in the new style, and that he died around 1684.

Macarius raised the monastery again a few years after the burial and finding of the relics of the holy boys Jacob and John. Travelling from Pskov to Novgorod, he passed the place where the relics of the holy boys rested. Suddenly he was struck by a fierce illness, with no hope of recovery. In this grievous and bitter state he somehow reached the saints' relics, prayed before them with all zeal and faith, and was healed at once. Full of deep gratitude for the mercy received, he resolved to stay by their relics, intending to use all his effort to find the means to renew the former Menyuga monastery. By the mercy of God, at the prayers of His saints and through the labour of Macarius, the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Menyuga was renewed and lasted until 1764. After it was abolished that year, there remained a wooden church of the Holy Trinity, with a side chapel in honour of the holy boys Jacob and John.

The saint is commemorated on the movable day near 11 July, in the new style, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod.