No information has survived about his origins and early years. He began his exploits in Moscow, then moved to the Kostrama Vozdvizhensky Monastery, where, after taking monastic vows, he lived for 13 years. Blessed Ferapont became renowned for his miracles.
Once, he appeared in a dream to two monks of the Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery, Pafnuty and Andrian, and commanded them to establish a monastery on the banks of the River Monza. Avoiding human glory, he withdrew from the Vozdvizhensky Monastery and lived as a hermit for a time. When the monastery on the River Monza was built by Elder Andrian, the blessed one glorified it with two miracles: appearing in a dream to a fisherman and a blacksmith, he foretold that their children would be healed in the new monastery. Indeed, both youths were healed.
Blessed Ferapont came to the Blagoveshchensky Monastery and asked the igumen Andrian to become his spiritual father. The two years he spent in the monastery were a time of great humility and ascetic feats. The monastery was always dear to him, and he wonderfully aided in its establishment and protection.
Foreseeing the day of his death, the saint took leave of the brethren and peacefully passed away on December 12, 1597. Before his death, he requested to be given holy water, and fulfilling his wish, they gave him holy water, which he swallowed. The monastery's chronicle describes numerous healings at the grave of the blessed one. He saved a ship from disaster while passing through the rapids on the Kostroma River and foretold the famine of 1601.
Twenty years after his death, his incorrupt relics were found, with even his vestments remaining intact.
