Ilia Torsky (d. 1645) - hegumen and renewal of the Gustynsky monastery of the Chernigov diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church .
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There was no information about Elijahβs worldly life; annals of him appear in 1639, when Elijah Torsky arrived from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra to the Superior Church in the Gustynsky Holy Trinity Monastery, which was in complete desolation after the flight of the former Father Superior Basil [1] ; after supporting leftist monasteries for popular uprisings against the gentry, Jeremiah Vishnevetsky began to punish not only Cossacks and peasants, but also monks. Abbot Vasily with the monks of the Gustynsky monastery, without waiting for their turn and grabbing everything of value, fled to Putivl , β to a strange land in Moscow, β as the chronicler wrote.
For some time the new hegumen with the brethren ate alms, but actively restored the monastery; Metropolitan Peter Mogila , visiting the Gustynsky Monastery in the same year, gave a blessing on the construction of a new church [1] . Peter Mogila ordered the construction of a new large church. For the construction of the church in 1641, the abbot asked for considerable help from the Moldavian ruler Vasily Lupu and from the Moscow Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich . For five years the monastery was restored, a church was built [2] .
Elijah Torsky died in 1645 [1] .
Notes
- β 1 2 3 Elijah (Torsky) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- β Chronicle of the monastery of Gustynsky
Literature
- βReadings in the Society of Russian History and Antiquitiesβ, 1848, No. 8.