Преподобный Феодорит, просветитель Кольский = Venerable Theodoret the enlightener of Kola = Pyhittäjä Feodorit, Kuolan valistaja = Aerverdige Feodorit, Kolas opplyser / [под редакцией епископа Митрофана (Баданина)]. - Санкт-Петербург ; Североморск : Ладан, 2017.

A Short Hagiography of the Venerable Theodoret 15 both unique and worthy of admiration, testifying, as they do, that he was mani festly chosen for a life of asceticism from his earliest years and that his great deeds and achievements were blessed by the Lord. From the age of seven, the young deacon Theodor (Fyodor) lived in the small Vladychny (Episcopal) Monastery attached to the Archbishopric of Rostov, working at transcribing books for the li brary of the monastery on the Solovet sky Islands in the White Sea, and dream ing of repeating the achievement of St Stephen, who in the XV century had enlightened the pagan peoples of Great Perm through the light of Gospel faith. Young Theodor possessed all the personal qualities and talents necessary for the accomplishment of this worthy mission. He inher ited in full measure from his remarkable predecessors1evident lin guistic, philological, philosophical and theological abilities. At the end of the fifteenth century, from 1493, the twelve year old boy was already among the novices of “the monastery on So lovetsky Island, located in the Sea of Ice”. According to the Rule in troduced by the Venerable Zosima Solovetsky, the trial period for novices there lasted at least three years, but Abbot Dosifey took the 1 We maintain our earlier supposition that Theodoret ( “Theodor Zhidenov”) is re lated to the famous scribe o f the XV century, Theodor Zhidovinov, author o f a famous translation o f the Psalter and the Epistle to the Hebrews. See Father Mitrofan (Badanin). The Venerable Theodoret o f Kola, Enlightener o f the Lapps. Historical Materials for the Glorification o f His Memory and the Composition o f a Hagiography. Murmansk, 2002. P. 7 9 -8 3 .