Macarius Zhabynsky, reverend

The Monk Makarii Zhabynskiy, Belevskiy miracle worker, was born in 1539. In his early youth, he took monastic vows with the name Onuphrius and in 1585 founded the Zhabynskaya Vvedenskaya Hermitage near the Oka River, not far from the city of Belev. In 1615, the desert was completely devastated by Polish troops under the command of Lisowski. Returning to the ashes, the monk became the renewer of the monastery. He again gathered the brethren, and instead of a wooden one, a stone temple was built in honor of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple, with a bell tower on the gate.