Archimandrite
Saint Tryphon, archimandrite of Vyatka, was born in the Arkhangelsk province. From a young age, feeling a calling to monastic life, he secretly left home for Ustyug, where he lived with a parish priest, spending his time in fasting and prayer. He then moved to the Pyskor Monastery on the Kama River, where he took monastic vows from Abbot Varlaam and served in the bakery. After being healed from illness by Saint Nicholas, he went to the mouth of the Mulnyanka River, where he converted pagans to Christianity. Later, he founded a monastery on the Chusovaya River in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos and in 1580 established the Dormition Monastery in Khlynov, becoming an archimandrite. Saint Tryphon, being a strict ascetic, wore a hair shirt and heavy chains, striving for the salvation of the lost. Before his death, he left a testament calling for spiritual love and prayer. He died in 1612 and was buried in the monastery he founded in Vyatka.
