Sebastian Sohotsky, Poshekhonsky
Venerable
Venerable Sebastian, who founded a monastery in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord on the river Sokhoti, taught the monks to work the land and to eat the fruits of their labors. He reposed around the year 1500. The monastery was later attached to the Voskresensky Monastery of Cherepovets and was abolished in 1764. In the mid-19th century, a stone church was built over the relics of the venerable.
