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      🏛 Skete and Cave of St Sabbas

      Звенигород, Ратехинское ш., вл. 8, стр. 26

      The monastery's skete in a ravine below the monastery: the cave where St Sabbas prayed, a chapel and a holy spring.

      Skete and Cave of St Sabbas
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      Skete and Cave of St Sabbas
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      Skete and Cave of St Sabbas
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      • The skete lies about a kilometre from the monastery: besides the church with the little cave, there is a cell building with a house church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, and a bathing pool.
      • According to his life story, Sabbas dug the little cave for solitary prayer himself.
      • Sabbas died on 3 December 1407 and was canonised at the church council of 1547.
      • Alexander Pushkin retold the short life of Sabbas of Storozhevsk in the language of his own day.
      • According to legend, Sabbas saved Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich from a bear during a hunt.

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      • Zvenigorod: monastery, Gorodok and the Moskva River

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