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(St. Artemy of Verkola) Monastery
In the 17th century in the village of Verkola there was a monastery founded in honour of the Righteous Artemy. The exact date is not known, but the name of the founder who constructed the church solely at his expense has survived – it was the then voevode (governor) of Kevrola and Mezen Afanasy Pashkov. The Cloister was founded by him in gratitude for curing his son due to the prayers of the Righteous youth Artemy. It happened after the year of 1635. Miracle healings by the relics of the Holy youth had been widely known in Rus – the people were saved from getting ill with fever which raged across the whole of the Pinega Land at the end of the 16th century. The Holy youth cured different diseases – detailed descriptions of 80 miraculous cures have survived since 1577, the year when the relics of the Holy man were obtained, to the end of the 18th century.
The Monastery flourished up to the middle of the 18th century when it was excluded from the monastery lists (1764) and deprived of all its estates. By the 1840s it was planned to be closed forever.
Once surrounded by densely populated villages where life was in full swing, it plunged into oblivion in the 20th century. The revival of the Cloister started thanks to the initiative of the writer Fyodor Abramov, a native of these places, and of his wife. Since the 1990s the monastic life and service were revived in the Cloister of the Righteous youth Artemy.
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