Nectarius of Bezhetsk

Venerable Nectarius of Bezhetsk was a monk of the Holy Trinity monastery of Saint Sergius, and died in 1492. In the middle of the fifteenth century he settled in a dense forest, on the highest ground of the Bezhetsk region, where he struggled in a way pleasing to God and built himself a cell. A multitude of monks gathered there, who in a short time built a church of the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple and surrounded it with a wall. The new monastery was one of the poorest and, in the words of the monastery's chronicler, was built "with tears, fasting and vigil". By the unanimous decision of all the brethren, Nectarius, the founder, was chosen abbot.

Venerable Nectarius fell asleep in peace on 3 April 1492. He is commemorated on 18 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Tver (new style).