Cyril of Beloozero

Icon of Cyril, presumably painted by Dionisius Glushitsky, now located in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1424)

Cyril of Beloozero (Russian: Кирилл Бело(е)зерский, romanizedKirill Belo(e)zersky; secular name: Kozma; 1337 – 1427) was a Russian monk. He is venerated as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church. Cyril was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh. In 1397, he founded the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in northern Russia, in present-day Vologda Oblast.


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