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[[Image:Dmitri Prilutsky.jpg|right|thumb|205px|Dimitri Prilutsky by iconographer [[Dionisius]]]] Our holy, God-bearing Father '''Dmitri Dimitri of Priluki''', also '''Demetrius of Priluki'''(Димитрий Прилуцкий), was a Russian [[monasticism|monastic]] and Wonderworker of the fourteenth century who pioneered monastic life into the Russian North and founded the Nikolsky Monastery, now the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky. A [[disciple]] of St. [[Sergius of Radonezh]], he is commemorated on [[February 11]].

Little is known of the early life of St. DmitriDimitri. He was born into a rich merchant's family in Pereyaslavl-Zalessk in present day Yaroslavl Oblast and entered early on a religious life. He was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] at one of the monasteries in Pereyaslavl. Later, he founded the [[cenobitic]] [[monastery]] of St. Nicholas near the city on Ss. Boris and Gleb Hill on the shore of Lake Plescheevo. He became its [[hegumen]].

In 1334, Dmitri Dimitri met St. Sergius of Radonezh who had come to Pereyaslavl to visit the local hierarch, Metropolitan Athanasius. From this meeting a close friendship grew as they would often conversed with each other. The holiness of hegumen Dmitri Dimitri spread widely. He became the [[Godparent |godfather]] to the children of Grand Prince Dmitri Ioannovich. As he became more famous, and encouraged by St. Sergius, Demetrius looked to a more isolated life and decided to move to a remote place.

At an isolated spot not far from the city of Vologda, Dmitri Dimitri decided to establish at a bend of the Vologda River the first cenobitic monastery of the Russian North. The people of Vologda and the surrounding area welcomed the monks and gladly consented to help DmitriDimitri. The monastery was built on land owned by Elias and Isidore who even trampled down a grain field so that a [[temple]] might be built immediately. By 1371, a wooden [[cathedral]], dedicated to the Savior, was built and brethren began to arrive at the new monastery, including many disciples of Dmitri Dimitri who came from the Pereyaslavl monasteries. The monastery would later be known as the [[Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery]].

Dmitri Dimitri established a life at the monastery that combined prayer and strict [[asceticism]] with kindliness. He fed the poor and hungry and took in strangers. He conversed with those in need of consolation and gave counsel. And he loved to pray in solitude. His Lenten food consisted of [[prosphora]] with warm water. On [[feast day]]s, he would not even partake of the wine and fish that was permitted by the Rule. He wore an old sheepskin coat during both winter and summer, and, even in his old age, he joined with the brethren on common tasks. St. Dmitri Dimitri accepted contributions to the monastery cautiously, so that the welfare of the monastery would not be detrimental to those living nearby.

The Lord granted His servant the gift of clairvoyance, in which the saintly monk attained a high degree of spiritual perfection. On February 11, 1392, St. Dmitri Dimitri died at an advanced age. As the brethren approached his [[cell]] at the time, they found him as though asleep and with his cell filled with a wondrous fragrance.

Miracles associated with the [[relics]] of St. Dmitri Dimitri began in the year 1409, and during that century his veneration spread throughout all Rus. By the year 1440, the Priluki monk Macarius recorded his Life (Great Reading Menaion, February 11) based on the narratives of St. DmitriDimitri's disciple Igumen Pachomius.