Methodius of Peshnosha

Venerable Methodius of Peshnosha was a disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh and the founder of the monastery of Saint Nicholas at Peshnosha. He departed to the Lord in 1392. The Russian Church commemorates him on 4 and 14 June, by the old calendar.

He was a monk at the monastery of the Holy Trinity in the years when it was still a monastic skete. With his teacher's blessing he withdrew into the wilderness near the river Yakhroma and gathered around him zealots of salvation. The name "Peshnoshsky" comes from the fact that Methodius raised his monastery by carrying heavy logs on his shoulders across the river. He founded a new community of common life, the monastery of Saint Nicholas at Peshnosha, and in 1391 became its hegumen.

He departed to the Lord in 1392 and was canonized at the Moscow Council of 1549.