The life of St Euthymius of Novgorod
The igumen Pachomius received him warmly and tonsured him a monk under a new name, Euthymius. Called later to serve in Novgorod, he worked for years under Archbishop Simeon before being made his steward, and for four years after that quietly administered the whole diocese himself while putting off his own installation as archbishop. Only in 1434, at Smolensk, was he finally consecrated by Metropolitan Gerasimus, and he went on governing the see of Novgorod until his death in 1458.
Those decades left their mark on the city itself: Euthymius gave himself to rebuilding what fire had damaged, richly adorning the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom and raising new churches within the Novgorod Kremlin, becoming remembered as one of the most devoted patrons of art and architecture any archbishop of that city ever was.
His sanctity was formally recognized at the Moscow Council of 1549, a shepherd remembered as much for what he built as for what he taught.
