Misail of Turnu Monastery

Venerable Misail of Turnu Monastery was, with Saint Daniel, one of the hermits who withdrew to the foot of the Turneanu ridge in the Cozia massif, on the left bank of the Olt, close to Cozia Monastery. Their cells, carved into the rock, can still be seen.

Venerable Misail built a small wooden church there, dedicated to the Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple, and so became the founder of Turnu Skete. In 1676 Metropolitan Varlaam of Wallachia, a former abbot of Cozia, built a church of stone and brick on the site of the wooden one and placed under it the relics of Saints Daniel and Misail. The two proved to be chosen vessels of the Holy Spirit, bearers of spiritual gifts and lights by their holy lives. The Romanian Orthodox Church canonized them together with Neophytus and Meletius of Stânișoara.

Saint Misail is commemorated on 5 October (new style), together with Saint Daniel.