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cellarer, entered the names of the benefactors in the Obituary, so as 

 to be mentioned in their prayers; and then resumed his ordinary 

 work like the lowest lay brother. With the alms collected in Moscow 

 he built a separate church for those who were newly baptized in the 

 name of Sts. Boris and Glieb near the river Pazreka.-^ 



Such was the humility of the holy Triphon that, having obtained 

 the charter from the Tsar, he wished that his name should not be 

 mentioned in connection with the monastery he founded. 



Even in his old age he did not cease to work. On one occasion 

 he bought in Kola a manual grindstone for corn, and carried it to the 

 monastery on his shoulders, a distance of 1 5 8 versts. It was in vain 

 that his pupils begged him not to labour under such a load : 

 " Brethren, " he said, "a heavy burden rests on the sons of. Adam; 

 how can they turn to mirth ? No, Triphon, it were better for 

 you to hang a millstone round your neck ,than to lead astray the 

 brotherhood." 



One day a bear entered his cell, overturned the kneading trough 

 and began eating the dough, when Triphon entered and said : " My 

 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, commands you to leave this cell and 

 to stand still." The bear went outside, and stood at the feet of the 



from the Arctic Ocean on the Murman borders, Abbot Gouri and the brotherhood of the 

 Pechenga Monastery of the Most Holy and Eternal Trinity, or whoever may in said 

 Monastery hereafter be Abbot or Brothers, instead of prestimony, and in place of dues for 

 masses and thanksgiving prayers, for their use and maintenance, in patrimony ; the 

 Matotsky, Ilitzky, and Oursk bays, and the Pechenga, Pozransk, and Nordinsk bays, with 

 all their fisheries and all that the sea may throw up, whether it be a whale or a seahorse, or 

 any other animal ; and all their seashores and islands and rivers and rivulets, their upper 

 reaches and marshes and hilly plains and fields, forests and wooded lakes and hunting 

 grounds, and those Laplanders in the Matotsky and Pechenga bays which now are or in 

 future may be our vassals, with all meadow-lands and money taxes due to us, the Tsar and 

 Grand Duke ; and with all dues and volost-tithes, for their sustenance and to build the 

 Monastery ; and our Novgorod and Dvina boyars, and the Chancellor's officers of the 

 Volost of the Mouth of the Kola, and all people on the seashores, and the Korelsky 

 Children, and the Laplanders or any one else must not take possession of this patrimony." 

 ^ This church, renovated, stands to this day as a sentinel of the Orthodox Faith on the 

 frontier of Norway. On the 23rd July 1870 this church was visited by His Imperial 

 Highness the Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich ; and later, on the 23rd June 1873, by the 

 King of Sweden and Norway, Oscar IL ; and finally, on the 2nd July 1887, by the heir- 

 apparent to the throne of Sweden and Norway, Gustav Adolph, and his consort, Victoria. 



