The circumstances of the saint's life in the world are unknown. He began his ascetic path in the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery and received the monastic tonsure in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. He then withdrew to the vicinity of the town of Lomska and founded a hermitage, which he soon entrusted to his disciples, while he himself retreated to a forest skete, practicing silence. He earned his sustenance by weaving bast shoes, which he left by the roadside, and passersby exchanged them for bread. In these places, the saint built a church in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, at which the Vadoiskaya Theotokos Hermitage was founded. In the 18th century, this hermitage was abolished, and only the Church of the Savior on the Loma remained, where the relics of the saint, renowned for miracles, rest. The holy ascetic reposed in 1591.
