Sergius of Radonezh was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of Eastern Orthodoxy's most highly venerated saints in Russia.
Icon of Sergius of Radonezh, 17th century
Vision to the Youth Bartholomew, by Mikhail Nesterov (1890).
Sergius of Radonezh blessing by Sergei Kirillov
Statue of Sergius outside the Trinity Lavra
Eastern Christian monasticism
Eastern Christian monasticism is the life followed by monks and nuns of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Church of the East and Eastern Catholicism. Eastern monasticism is founded on the Rule of St Basil and is sometimes thus referred to as Basilian.
St. Anthony the Great, considered the Father of Christian Monasticism
Nun of the Church of the East
1779 illustration of a Catholic Armenian monk of the Order of St Gregory the Illuminator, united with and wearing the habit of the Dominican Order.
St Theodore the Studite: 11th-century mosaic from Nea Moni Monastery, Chios