Governor Sergey Sitnikov visited the service in the Epiphany-Anastasia Monastery

The press service of the governor of the Kostroma region reports that on Sunday, September 27, on the eve of the day of memory of Nikita Kostroma, Sergei Sitnikov visited the Epiphany-Anastasiysky Monastery, where he congratulated Abbot Innocent on the 600th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery.

The monastery was founded in 1426 by the Monk Nikita, who was born in about 1396 (exact date unknown) and was one of the disciples of the holy wonderworker Sergius of Radonezh and received his blessing. The Monk Nikita made his feat of faith already after he was practically blind in 1415, and being already an elderly and seriously ill man, he left the High-Pokrovsk monastery and went to Kostroma, where he founded the Epiphany Monastery on the outskirts of the city. Saint Nikita showed an example of selfless service and mercy and became the spiritual father of monasticism in Kostroma.

Today, Kostromichi honor him as the heavenly patron of the city. The modern history of the monastery is a chronicle of asceticism, a great role in the restoration of the monastery belongs to the abbess Innocent, who since 1991 is her abbess.