Venerable
Venerable Sabbas of Pskov and Krypetsk
August 28 Old CalendarSeptember 10 New Calendar
Life
A Serb by origin. He first practiced asceticism in the Pskov Monastery of the Holy Theotokos, and was abbot of that monastery. But they praised him, and he fled from human glory, and withdrew to the shore of Lake Krypetsk, where he founded a new community in the name of Saint John the Theologian. Yet even there he could not hide from fame and renown. Prince Yaroslav of Pskov visited him with his wife. Sabbas did not allow the wife to enter the monastery, but blessed her and prayed to God for her outside the monastery, and healed her of a certain illness. This holy man of God reposed in the year 1495. His relics were and have remained wonder-working. Among his successors at Krypetsk, Abbot Dositheus is mentioned.
Sabbas did not allow the wife to enter the monastery, but blessed her and prayed to God for her outside the monastery, and healed her of a certain illness.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, August 28. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on August 28
The full reading for August 28 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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