Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of Totma

Theodosius, called Sumorin, was a monk of the Spaso-Prilutsky monastery near Vologda. According to the accounts of his life, he was sent to the town of Totma to oversee the monastery's salt works there. He found a place by the confluence of the Kovda and Pesya Denga rivers, lived at first in a hut and then in a dugout, and in 1554, with the permission of Tsar Ivan IV and Metropolitan Macarius, founded the monastery of the Saviour, of which he became abbot. He died on 28 January 1568 and was buried in his monastery, known today as the Spaso-Sumorin monastery.