Преподобный Трифон Печенгский, апостол лопарей = The venerable Tryphon of Pechenga, apostle of the lapps = Pyhittäjä Trifon Petsamolainen, saamelaisten valistaja = Den aerverdige Trifon av Petsjenga, samenes apostel / [под редакцией епископа Митрофана (Баданина)]. - Санкт-Петербург ; Североморск : Ладан, 2017.

26 A Short Hagiography o f the Venerable Ttyphon fulfilled exactly six years later. In December 1589, when a band of Swedish Finns invaded the monastery, the overwhelming majority o f the monks displayed true obedience, to the point o f death, to their abbot, who forbade them to fight inside their church. As a re sult, they met a terrible death on their knees. According to Tryphon s prayers, one hundred and sixteen Pechenga monk-martyrs entered the abodes o f paradise, for through their martyrdom he “presented them to Christ purified". Full understanding o f this great miracle performed in the 16th century by the Pechenga elder was only granted us recently, when in the autumn o f 2003 , with the blessing o f the Patriarch o f Moscow and All Russia, Alexy II, the monks o f the Pechenga monastery, who were killed with their abbot, Gury, were glorified as Venerable Martyrs. The fate of the Pechenga monastery After the tragic events o f 1589, a few surviving monks moved to the town o f Kola and the protection o f its fortifications. This Kola- Pechenga monastery lasted until it was dissolved in 1764 under Catherine the Great’s decree on the secularization o f church pro perty. The revival o f the monastery in its historical location only began in 1876. That was a most fruitful and eventful period for monastic life in the north-west o f the Kola region, which was violently inter rupted by the revolution o f 1917. After 1920, the monastery was on Finnish territory. The Soviet-Finnish Winter War in 1940 and the Second World War in 1941 -1945 brought about the complete col lapse o f the monastery. The abbot, hieromonk Paisy (Ryabov) was shot by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD ) on 28 March 1940. Due to the active military hostilities in the Petsama