Intercession: patronal feast of the destroyed Simbirsk Intercession Monasterytranslated

October 14 is the Feast of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“This is a special great holiday. Just as the Cross of Christ is an image of the feat of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of the human race, so the Intercession is an image of the intercession of the Mother of God for each of us,” said Metropolitan Longin of Simbirsk and Novospassky at the end of the all-night vigil on the eve of the holiday.

The Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is the day of the patronal feast of the Simbirsk Pokrovsky Monastery, which was destroyed in the 1920-1930s.

After the Divine Liturgy in the Spaso-Voznesensky Cathedral of Ulyanovsk, which was performed by the cleric of the cathedral, Hieromonk Hilarion (Khrol) and the clergy of the church, in memory of the inhabitants of the monastery, a lithium was celebrated at the chapel installed on the site where the Intercession Monastery was previously located. The litiya was performed by the cathedral cleric, Hieromonk Anthony (Zazheko).

Those gathered prayed “for the deceased and murdered brethren of this monastery, for all those buried in this cemetery and for all the deceased Orthodox Christians.”

Simbirsk Intercession Monastery was founded in 1697 on the outskirts of the city. Its founder and benefactor was the clerk Pyotr Ivanovich Muromtsev (clerks are the predecessors of modern notaries). On your own…