Saint Dorothy of Kashin

September 24th
Troparion (Tone 8)
In thee, O mother, was truly preserved what is according to the image of God; for, having taken up they cross, thou didst follow after Christ, and thou didst teach in act to despise the flesh for it passeth away, but to be diligent over the soul as a thing immortal. Wherefore thy spirit, O St. Dorothy, doth rejoice together with the Angels.

St. Dorothy was born in 1549 to a noble family.  She lived during a time of civil unrest.  She was married to Theodore Ladygin and she bore one son, Michael.  They lived just north of Moscow, near Kashin.  When her husband was killed defending the sity against the Polish and Lithuanian invaders, St. Dorothy, then close to sixty years old, became a nun.  She moved into a cell she built from the rubble of a monastery in Kashin.  She gave all money she had left to the monastery and to the poor and helped in any other way she could.  She found the Korsun icon of the Mother of God in the rubble and kept it in her cell.  The icon became known for its miracles.  Once the danger of unrest subsided, other nuns started coming back to the monastery.  They urged St. Dorothy to become the abbess, but she humbly refused.  St. Dorothy was held with great respect and served as an example to the other nuns of the monastery.  She prayed constantly for her husband, the monastery, and the city of Kashin.  She remained there as a nun for twenty years.  She fell asleep in the Lord when she was about eighty years old on September 24, 1629.  She was buried on the north side of the restored monastery with a white stone as a marker.  

This Icon is by the hand of Paul Drozdowski.  Inscription is in French.  

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