student of sergius of radonezh, kirill belozersky at that time, cyril was the rector of the maskovsky simonov monasteryto serve god in full honor and respect, but something called him haunted this already far from young man. and so together with the monk theophant. cyril secretly left on foot from you to find the place that the mother of god indicated to him in a dream, the place that was to become the spiritual center for the emerging russia, and just think about it, but if you are now capable of this difficult process, both cyril and the feropont at the time of the undertaken name travel from moscow was in the lord, for 60 years, but the elders were practically for those times, but, it turns out, even in the furry centuries. it was the right age for important undertakings. ahead of cyril was still as much as 30 years of construction of the monastery and spiritual revival. contemporaries so honored cyril belozersky that they canonized the saints already 20 years after his death, and the first icon of the saint was then painted during his lifetime. yes, by the way, it is stored in the tretyakov gallery