Veniamin of Zheleznyi Borok

Venerable Martyr Benjamin († late fifteenth or early sixteenth century?) was abbot of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist at Zheleznyi Borok (today the village of Borok, Buy district, Kostroma region). He is venerated as a local saint; he is commemorated on 11 April and 23 January, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma.

According to the monastery's synodikon of 1657 (lost), Benjamin was the fourth abbot, after the founder of the monastery, Venerable Jacob of Zheleznyi Borok († 1442). Archimandrite Leonid Kavelin wrote that he was killed in 1429, at the time of the invasion of the Kazan Tatars into the Kostroma land, but at that time the abbot was still Jacob, and Strogov's lists do not mention him, naming after Jacob Nifont (1536-1542). Archbishop Demetrius Sambikin supposed that he was abbot between 1442 and 1536. In the nineteenth century his grave was already lost. The date of his canonization is not known; his commemoration is on the same day as that of Venerable Jacob, 11 April. Local canonization is confirmed by the entry of his name in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma, set in 1981 at the initiative of Archbishop Cassian of Kostroma and Galich.