On the day when the Church remembers the miracle of Archangel Michael in Collossae (Chonae), the Arkhangelsky skete of the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery celebrates the patronal feast.

Beginning from the 16th century, a rich village Ezdakovo was located at the present site of the skete. The stone Church or Protection of the Mother of God could not fit in all the local faithful, so the peasants of Ezdakovo began the construction of a new stone church in May 1895. Bishop Nazary of Nizhny Novgorod consecrated the newly built church in honor of Michael the Archangel of God.

The Arkhangelsky church operated for thirty-five years. On June 16, 1938, at the general assembly of 355 collective farm workers, 277 of them voted for its closure. The church was made a warehouse for combustion materials and spare parts for farming equipment and later turned to a granary. In the 1970s, Ezdakovo was ranked a “depressed village,” its residents moved to the nearby Shatovka, and by the early 1990s, an empty field and two dilapidated church buildings were all that was left of it.

In 1995, the lands of the former Ezdakovo were transferred to the Diveyevo monastery under an agreement of unlimited duration for agricultural use. The restoration of the Arkhangelsky Church had begun. On November 19 1998 it was consecrated by Metropolitan Nikolay of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas in commemoration of the miracle of Archangel Michael in Collossae (Chonae).

The vigil service, the prayer service with a water blessing and paraklesis, and Divine Liturgy were served on the feast day there.

Holy Hierarch Gregory the Great writes that at the time when other angels appear to deliver the news to the people, Archangel Michael always comes as a Messenger announcing the miraculous power of God. Almost every significant event in biblical history takes place with the participation of Archangel Michael.

The miracle of Archangel Michael in Collossae (Chonae) took place in the fourth century. In Phrygia (western part of modern Turkey), there was a church named for the Archangel Michael. There was a spring nearby where, through the intercession of Archangel Michael, a mute daughter of a local resident was healed. In memory of this miracle, a grateful father built this church. Not only did Christians begin to come to the spring for healing, but also pagans. In so doing, many of the pagans turned from their idols and were converted to the faith in Christ.

At the time, a certain pious man by the name of Archippus served as church custodian at the church Holy Archangel Michael. Once, the pagans thought to destroy it and kill Archippus. Toward this end, they directed the combined flow of two rivers and directed it against the church. But through the prayer of St. Archippus, Archangel Michael appeared at the temple, and with a blow of his staff, opened a wide fissure in a rock and commanded the rushing torrents of water to flow into it.  The temple remained unharmed and the pagans, seeing such an awesome miracle, fled in terror. Archippus and the Christians gathered in church, glorified God, and gave thanks to the holy Archangel Michael for the help. The place where the rivers plunged into the fissure received the name “Chonae”, which means “flaw” or “split.”