Keyword: «hagiographic text of the xvii century»

The article analyzes the autobiographical narrative of Epiphanius, who took monastic orders in the Solovetsky Monastery. Epiphanius Solovetsky is an Old Believer writer of the XVII century, an opponent of the church reforms carried out by Patriarch Nikon, an associate and associate of Protopop Avvakum in exile in Pustozersk, a monk martyr (burned by royal decree on April 12 (24), 1682). In the life of monk Epiphanius, contexts where the word "saint" plays the role of an adjective are identified, stable constructions with this unit, their meaning, are characterized by the peculiarities of the functioning of the name. The results are a description of traditions and innovations in the use of the adjectival saint.