Philip of Sukhona

Saint Philip of Sukhona was a hermit on Mount Yankov, on the left bank of the Sukhona River, two versts from the city of Ustiug. The Ustiug inhabitants built a monastery at the place of his ascetic deeds, so as to learn monastic life under his guidance. In 1654 they built a church in honor of the Mother of God "Of the Sign," with a chapel in the name of Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow. Brethren soon gathered. Philip, while refusing no one his guidance, would not, in his humility, accept the office of abbot. He died at the monastery as a simple monk on 17 August 1662. He is commemorated on 17 August (new style; 30 August on the old calendar), and on the third Sunday after Pentecost at the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda (in Russian practice, also on 11 July).