Zosimas of Solovki

In the mouth of the Suma River, he met Herman, a monk, who previously spent several years with Savvatiy on Bolshoy Solovetsky Island.

Zosima and Herman traveled again to Solovetsky Islands, and soon monks started to arrive there.

Soon he had to build a wooden church and to organize the monks into a monastery.

The bishop of Novgorod, Iona, twice appointed hegumens to the monastery, but these hegumens left without being able to bear the conditions of life in a Northern island.

Since 1547, Zosima is venerated as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.