Sergius of Radonezh withdraws into the Russian forest
1345
A young Muscovite nobleman retreated into the birch forests north of Moscow to live as a hermit. Disciples gathered, and the hermitage became the Trinity Monastery, the spiritual heart of Russian Orthodoxy. Sergius would bless Dmitri Donskoy before Kulikovo and become Russia's most beloved saint - a monk who shaped an empire.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.