The Monks Konstantin and Kosma
Commemorated on July 29
The Monks
Konstantin and Kosma were monastic students of the Monk Varlaam of Khutynsk
(+ 1192, Comm. 6 November) and his successor, the Monk Antonii of Dymsk (+
1224, Comm. 17 January). In about the year 1220, having left the Khutynsk
monastery, they settled upon a wilderness peninsula, situated 3 versts from the
city of Staraya Russa, between the Rivers Polista and Smezhnya, and in time
they founded there a monastery in the name of Saint Nicholas, headed by the
Monk Konstantin until his death (+ c. 1240).
The Monk Kosma
continued with the exploits of his mentor. He was buried in the same grave with
the Monk Konstantin. Their bodies rest beneathe the vestibule of the Nikolaev
church, built in 1820 upon the place of burial of the saints.
© 1996-2001 by translator Fr. S. Janos.