Synaxis Соловецкие свв.

The Synaxis of the Solovki Saints is the collective commemoration of the ascetics who shone forth at the Solovetsky Monastery of the Transfiguration and its surroundings over nearly six centuries, from the 15th to the 20th. The monastery on the islands of the White Sea was founded in the 1420s–1430s by Saints Herman, Savvaty, and Zosima of Solovki, whose labors and miracles established one of the greatest spiritual centers of the Russian North. In the centuries that followed, dozens of known and unknown ascetics labored there — hermits, cell-attendants, and monks — among them St. Eleazar of Anzer, founder of the Holy Trinity Skete on Anzer Island; St. Philip (Kolychev), Metropolitan of Moscow, who in his youth was abbot of Solovki; St. Irinarkh, Abbot of Solovki; and many others. In the 20th century, when the monastery grounds became the site of the infamous Solovki special-purpose camps, numerous new martyrs and confessors of Russia suffered death there. The feast of the Synaxis of the Solovki Saints was established by resolution of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia on April 3, 1993, and is kept on August 9/22 — the day after the feast of Saints Zosima, Savvaty, and Herman of Solovki.