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Under St. Nicholas patronage Nickolo-Padovitsky monastery, situated in Egorievsk disrtict (140 km from Moscow), was founded in c 15 AD by monk Pakhomy which had came from Greece. After death of Foty, his spiritual teacher, Pakhomy decided to spend the rest of his life in prays and silence, so he found a remote place in the lake island amidst virgin forests. The place reminded him his home Athos. He settled here, built a semi-underground cell and a small wooden church. The people looking for the same kind of life started to gather in the island and the monastery began. Later due to the limited space the monastery had been relocated to the bank where 4 new brick churches devoted to Our Lady, Joachim and Anna, St. Peter and St. Paul were built. The old wooden church in the island was kept by the monks for the very special prays. At the end of c 15 the monk Iona Rogozha saw a vision of St. Nicholas walking across the waters towards island. The white strip at this place still can be seen on the water surface. The wooden carved icon of St. Nicholas had been carefully preserved in the monastery till it's close. This icon healed thousands of people of their diseases including those incurable. In 1925 atheistic authorities closed the monastery. The churches and buildings were destroyed and the unique library burnt. The Holy Lake, a beginning of the monastery, was partially filled with the ground. The ruins of the temples and the miraculously preserved gold plated cross still witness the monastery's former grace. But no one can defeat the God. The time of confession has began. The hieromonk Augustin has been nominated a new abbey for the reviving monastery.
Egorievsk District Administration. Department of Culture. 9 Ryazanskaya st, Egorievsk, Moscow Region, Russia 140300
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