Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Russia

Life

Peter was born in the Volyn region, and in his twelfth year he received the monastic rank. He was a wondrous ascetic and iconographer and founded a monastery on the Rata River, where he was abbot. Even against his will Peter was appointed Metropolitan of Kiev and consecrated in Constantinople by Patriarch Athanasius. As metropolitan he suffered much from envious persons and heretics. Peter governed the Church for eighteen years as a good and zealous shepherd. During his life he built himself a tomb in the Dormition Cathedral, where to this day his holy and wonderworking relics repose. Peter reposed in the year 1326 and passed to his true homeland.