Saint Serapion of Kozhe Lake was brought to Moscow among the
Kazan Tatar captives in the year 1551. They called him Murza
(Tatar-prince) Turtas Gravirovich. He was baptized with the name Sergius
and lived in the home of the Moscow boyar Zachariah Plescheev. Sergius
accepted the Christian Faith so sincerely, that he decided to devote
himself entirely to God. In 1560, on a desolate island of Kozhe Lake, he
encountered the hermit Niphon and stayed to live with him. At the
fervent request of Sergius, Niphon tonsured him into monasticism with
the name Serapion. In 1584, after the death of the monk Niphon, St
Serapion set off for Moscow and asked Tsar Theodore Ioannovich
(1584-1598) for a land deed for a monastery. After his return to the
monastery, St Serapion and the brethren made a clearing in the forest
and built two churches; one in honor of the Holy Theophany, and the
other in honor of St Nicholas. Patriarch Job (+ 1607) provided St
Serapion with antimensia for the altars. In 1608, when St Serapion had
become old, he made his disciple Abramius the igumen in place of
himself. St Serapion died in 1611 and was buried at a church of the
Kozhe Lake monastery. In 1613 the monk Bogolep of Kozhe Lake wrote an
account of the founding of the monastery and about its initial
construction under St Serapion. He compiled also a Life of St Serapion.
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