September 10/August 28 - Finding of the relics of St. Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaevtranslated

The Monk Job of Pochaev lived in difficult years for Orthodox Russia, when on its western outskirts the Orthodox people of Volyn and Galicia were subjected to ecclesiastical and political oppression by Polish-Lithuanian magnates.

At the age of ten, the boy left his parents' home and asked the abbot of the nearby Ugornitsky monastery to allow him to serve the brethren. With his zeal, he soon won the love of the monastic brotherhood, and the perspicacious abbot foresaw great spiritual gifts in him. In the twelfth year of his life, John took monastic vows with the name Job; in the thirteenth, after many monastic feats, he was ordained to the priesthood (he later accepted the schema).

News of his spiritual exploits spread widely throughout the region. Nobles began to come to the Monk Job, asking for spiritual guidance. He began to enjoy special trust and patronage of the famous defender of Orthodoxy in Volyn, Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky. Prince Konstantin turned to the abbot of the Ugornitsky Monastery with a request to release the Monk Job to his princely Dubensky Cross Monastery. The abbot agreed, and after some time the Monk Job was placed in charge...