Just outside of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a monument to its founder St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev, which was erected in 2007. Little is known about St Sabbas’ early life until he became a monk under St Sergius of Radonezh at the Troitse-Sergieva Monastery. He also became the confessor of Dmitri Donskoy’s widow Yevdokia and their son Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod. It was at the suggestion of Prince Yuri that Sabbas left the Troitse-Sergieva Monastery to set up the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery in 1398. Sabbas died in 1407 and was canonised in 1547. His relics were interned in the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Cathedral until 1919 when they were moved by the Soviets to the Lubyanka in Moscow. After being transferred to Moscow’s Danilovsky Monastery, the relics were eventually returned to their original resting place in 1998.