Saint
Macarius Trifilly
A saint commemorated in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Macarius Trifilly is the name under which the archive records one of the eleven venerable martyrs of the Epiphany Monastery in Kostroma: Triphyllius, Macarius, Sabbatius, Phinogen, Varlaam, Dionysius, Job, Cyril, Maximus, Joasaph and Gurias. They died for Christ in the Time of Troubles, in 1608, at the hands of the Polish-Lithuanian soldiers led by Lisowski.
The Epiphany Monastery in Kostroma was founded by Venerable Nikita of Kostroma, and the eleven brothers are commemorated together with him. The council's table gives 15 September as the day and 1608 as the year of their killing; the sources consulted give no further details about each brother.
They are honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma.