Synaxis Белоезерские свв.

The Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Belozersk honors the memory of numerous ascetics who founded monasteries and hermitages in the Belozersk lands (modern Vologda Oblast, Russian North) beginning in the 14th century. The most venerated rare icon (Russia, early 18th century, 32.7×28.5 cm, now in the collection of the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art in Moscow) depicts the saints standing in prayer before the Theotokos with the Christ Child: in the upper row are Venerables Cyril, Ferapont, and Martinian of Belozersk (founders of the Kirillo-Belozersky, Ferapontov, and Ferapontov-Luzhetsky Monasteries) and Venerable Nil Sorsky, founder of sketic (hermit-community) monastic life in Russia; below are depicted kneeling 16th-century Trans-Volga elders — tonsured monks of the Kornilievo-Komel Monastery, continuers of the tradition of non-possession and solitary monastic labor established by the Venerables of Belozersk. No separate fixed universal church feast day specifically for this synaxis was found in the sources checked; the individual saints comprising it are venerated on their own individually established feast days.