Sava of Moscow

Venerable Sava of Moscow was abbot of the Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour in Moscow and reposed about the year 1410. He is commemorated on 13 June, in the synaxes of the saints of Moscow and of Radonezh.

He was a disciple of Venerable Andronicus of Moscow. After his teacher's repose he was appointed abbot of the Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour. He was buried in the same grave as Andronicus.

Pachomius the Logothete, writing about fifty years after the repose of Venerable Sava, said of him that he kept the flock entrusted to him in piety, purity and great holiness, that he was honoured by the grand princes and in all lands for his great virtues and his admirable life, that under him the flock of virtuous and honourable men grew, and that he lived many years pleasing to God.

At the Andronikov Monastery there is preserved an icon of Venerable Andronicus and Sava dating from the second half of the nineteenth century, in which Andronicus is shown as an old man in a monastic mantle, with a long beard and the prayer rope in his left hand pressed to his chest. Between 1980 and 1990 several icons of Andronicus appeared, painted by Moscow icon painters. In 1995 Archpriest Vyacheslav Savinykh, the abbot of the monastery, painted for the Cathedral of the Saviour its principal icon of Venerable Andronicus and Sava of Moscow.