NILOV MONASTERY
Having flown in a helicopter over the breathtakingly beautiful lakes, rivers and forests, you will come to visit one of the Russian sacred places – Nilov-Stolbny Monastery.
The monastery is named after Saint Nilus and the Stolbny island in lake Seliger, where Nilus lived for 40 years and was buried in 1554. His relics are still stored in one of the churches, and the pilgrims pray to him asking for help.
The saint hermit led an ascetic way of life, spending his days in prayer and labor.
Many people came to him for homilies and he led them to repentance. With his prayer Nilus saved those who dared to swim in the lake during the storms.
In the face of death, he predicted to his confessor Sergy that a monastery will be built on the spot where he lived. And so it happened: coenobite Herman, who revered Nilus, founded a monastery here and became its first Farther-Superior. In the late 16th century celibate priest Herman and hagiographer Philophey Pirogov, a coenobite of the Gerasim-Boldinsky Monastery, wrote the St. Nilus Hagiography. There are five basic editions of the Hagiography, which are stored in various museums, the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg and the State Archive of Tver oblast.
The Nilov-Stolbny Monastery stays a source of spiritual consolation and a popular pilgrimage destination for Orthodox believers from all over Russia.
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