Venerable Abramius Abbot of Mirozh

Abramius (also rendered Abraham) was a twelfth-century monastic of the Pskov region of northwestern Rus', remembered as the builder and first igumen (abbot) of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery of Mirozh. The monastery stands at the confluence of the rivers Velikaya and Mirozha, on the left bank of the Velikaya near Pskov, and takes its name from the smaller of the two streams. According to tradition, the monastery was founded around the year 1156, during the time of Svyatopolk Mstislavich.

The foundation of Mirozh is closely associated with Nifont (Niphon), Archbishop of Novgorod, who is credited with commissioning the monastery's Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the late 1130s. Under this patronage the community became a center of monastic life and missionary activity in the surrounding territories. Within this setting Abramius is named as the monastery's builder and its first superior, the figure who organized the new community and guided its early life.

Abramius is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on September 24. He belongs to the wider company of monastic founders who established the religious life of medieval Pskov and Novgorod, a region whose pre-Mongol churches and frescoes preserve some of the oldest surviving Christian art of Rus'.