مراسلات بخصوص اكتشاف رفات القديس ديمتريوس مطران روستوف

Body of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, buried in October 1709 in the Rostov Yakovlevsky Monastery, forty-three years later, precisely on September 21, 1752, under Empress Elisaveta Petrovna, it was found incorrupt when the church floor was corrected in the Rostov Yakovlevsky Monastery. After that, it was placed in a tomb on top of the ground and, after witnessing miracles from the relics of the saint, it was transferred to a silver shrine on May 24, 1763, in the presence of Empress Catherine II. - Then it was established to celebrate his memory on September 21. From the papers attached here relating to the glorification of the relics of St. Demetrius, it is clear that the matter of finding St. the collection of his relics lasted for quite a long time, from 1752 to 1762. These are the papers: 1. رسالة من أرسيني ماتسكيفيتش، متروبوليت روستوف، إلى الإمبراطورة إليسافيتا بتروفنا حول ذخائر القديس ديمتريوس الإمبراطورة العظمى الأكثر هدوءًا وسيادة، الإمبراطورة إليزابيث بتروينا، المستبدة لعموم روسيا، الإمبراطورة والأم الرحيمة. Unless something new is discovered from the miracles of the Right Reverend Demetrius of Rostov, I will not leave it to your Imperial Majesty to announce, and now I have nothing more to write, except to refer to the report on the miraculous discovery of the relics of the shown bishop, which I sent to the Synod in 1752, and now through a courier sent from the Synod to me in the last days of last November, as I replied, I am enclosing an exact copy for your Majesty, and with this, for your royal health and spiritual salvation, constantly praying to God and the high patience of your Imperial Majesty, entrusting to me the care and non-abandonment, I remain forever Your Imperial Majesty, Empress and most merciful mother, most submissive servant and humble man of God, Arseny, Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl. من ياروسلافل، ١٤ ديسمبر ١٧٥٦. 2. تقريره إلى المجمع القديس حول ذلك تقرير إلى المجمع الحاكم المقدس. من عضو المجمع صاحب السيادة أرسيني، متروبوليت روستوف وياروسلافل. This November 28th day, according to the decree sent by Her Imperial Majesty the All-Russian Autocrats from the Most Holy Governing Synod to my humility, sent by the power of Her Highest Imperial Majesty's named decree with the specially sent synodal ensign Fyodor Baranov, it was ordered that the body of the late Right Reverend Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, be buried in the ground whether, or whether it exists above the earth, also whether there are any phenomena, miracles and healings, and what kind and over whom and when exactly, send news to the Synod, having examined the matter with the very truth according to the jury of my position for reporting it to the imperial majesty, and moreover, if there were any miracles, phenomena and healings for the sick, what kind of evidence was there, and what truly turned out to be about it, to whom and when was it given to know, and for what purpose? وبسبب الضوابط الروحية، لم يتم إعلام المجمع المقدس بهذا الأمر بعد؛ إرسال معلومات مفصلة إلى المجمع الحاكم المقدس عن طريق تقرير. Upon receipt of the decree at the very speed and on this decree of Her Imperial Majesty, I respectfully offer the following to your Holiness: The body of the Most Reverend Demetrius was buried in the ground in the year 709, and not on top of the ground, and how it appeared incorruptible and that, after the transfer of the church floor, it was already placed at the top of the tomb, about this in my report sent to your Holiness in October 752 10 days, presented in التفصيل وهو تقريري والمذكور في المرسوم الحالي. وما لم أعرضه بعد على قداستكم بشأن الشفاء حدث بطريقة لم أفكر فيها في البداية. However, I did not quickly demand the notebook shown, and when I did demand it and saw some notable miracles there, I was not able to quickly report to your Holiness about my vanities and illnesses, reasoning that such a matter still requires further consideration, and then this year, just as I began to think and intend to report, then on September 25th I received a scripture from her imperial confessor Majesty Father Archpriest Theodore Dubyansky, so that I could send news of the miracles shown to him to report هذا إلى صاحبة الجلالة الإمبراطورية، وهو ما فعلته في أسرع وقت ممكن، والآن أرسل نفس المعجزات إلى قداستك. According to my confession, there is no small miracle that after such a long time, that is, after forty-three years, the body of the Right Reverend Demetrius, lying in the ground and mud, did not completely decay and the vestment did not turn into dust and ashes, and such a miracle as a miracle is a danger to my conscience, so as not to fight God and the extreme exhaustion of my mind, how to respond to schismatics and atheists. وبعد أن عرضت هذا على اهتمام قداستكم العميق، أبقى، التقرير الأصلي موقعًا على النحو التالي: المبتدئ المتواضع أرسيني، متروبوليت روستوف وياروسلافل، من المجمع الحاكم المقدس. 29 نوفمبر 1756. 3. تقرير المجمع القديس إلى الإمبراطورة إليسافيتا بتروفنا حول عدم فساد ذخائر القديس ديمتريوس إلى الإمبراطورة العظمى الأكثر هدوءًا وسيادة والمستبد لعموم روسيا. التقرير الأكثر خضوعًا للمجمع. 3) All-night vigils and prayer songs are allowed to be sent to the people who wish to open the opening, and allow the service appropriate for that Saint Demetrius, especially to whom the Synod will order, to compose, and in the printed church books, in which the discovery of holy relics is due, with the appendix of his life 1 along with other saints, allow to be included, and about this the Synod has to expect your imperial Majesty's highest decree. For better insight into the aforementioned miracles and healings occurring from those holy relics, the Synod most submissively presents an extract to your Imperial Majesty 2. And what miracles will occur from those holy relics from now on, order the said Right Reverend Arseny, Metropolitan of Rostov, to have, through whom it is appropriate, a faithful and detailed note, with which, according to self-personal intelligence about the truth with reliable witnesses, send reports to the Synod every third من السنة. خادم وحجاج صاحب الجلالة الإمبراطورية المتواضعين: سيلفستر المتواضع، رئيس أساقفة سانت بطرسبرغ. المتواضع ديمتريوس أسقف ريازان. المتواضع أمبروز، أسقف بيرياسلاف. أثناسيوس الأرشمندريت من الثالوث الأقدس لافرا. برلعام، أرشمندريت الدون. 19 مارس 1757. السكرتير ميخائيلو أوستولوبوف. 4. رسالة من الإمبراطورة إليزابيث بتروفنا إلى رئيس الأساقفة أرسيني بشأن إرسال صورة لوجه القديس ديميتري We were notified that in the monastery where your Eminence is found, there is an image of the person of St. Demetrius the Metropolitan, the newly-minted Rostov wonderworker, copied when this St. Demetrius was still an archimandrite in that monastery, and please send this image of the person to us with this messenger.” التوقيع الأصلي وراء توقيع صاحبة الجلالة الإمبراطورية بيدها هو: إليزابيث. في 5 أغسطس 1757. في بيترهوف. 5. تعليمات مكتبية للساعي فاسيلي يازيكوف Find Arseny, the former Archbishop of Pereyaslavl and Archimandrite of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, now located in the Chernigov diocese, in the Seversky Transfiguration Monastery, and accept from him the image of the person of St. Demetrius Metropolitan, the newly-minted Russian miracle worker. 6. إجابة من رئيس الأساقفة أرسيني الإمبراطورة العظيمة الأكثر هدوءًا وسيادة الإمبراطورة إليسافيتا بتروفنا ، المستبدة لعموم روسيا! الإمبراطورة الرحمن الرحيم! Your Imperial Majesty's highest decree commanding me to send to your Imperial Majesty the image of the person of St. Demetrius Metropolitan of the newly-minted Rostov wonderworker, copied when this St. Demetrius was still an archimandrite in the local monastery, I most servilely convey that the image of the person of this St. Demetrius Metropolitan, which was in in the local monastery, according to a letter from Your Imperial Majesty the confessor sent to me last July on the اليوم الثالث والعشرون، أرسل مني إلى بلاط صاحب الجلالة الإمبراطورية إلى اعترافه في نفس يوم 26 يوليو. خادم جلالتك الإمبراطوري الأكثر تواضعًا وعابدًا، رئيس الأساقفة المتواضع أرسيني. 1757، اليوم الخامس عشر من أغسطس، من دير سباسكي، نوفغورود سيفيرسكي. 7. رسالة من الكونت شوفالوف إلى المتروبوليت أرسيني ماتسيفيتش حول ترتيب ضريح فضي للقديس حضرة الأسقف الجزيل الاحترام، Her Imperial Majesty has the permission to make a silver shrine here for the relics of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, the newly-minted miracle worker; but first it is necessary to have from the coffin, in which the relics of his saints rest, a measure of length, width and height, and, moreover, a plan and profile: for which Alexander Kokorinov, Alexander Kokorinov, was sent to your Eminence with a special office-courier of Gezel architecture; وبهذه الطريقة، أرجو أن تسمحوا لغيسيل كوكورينوف برفع الإجراء المعلن بحضوركم. صاحب السيادة، الخادم المطيع الكونت بيوتر شوفالوف. في 17 ديسمبر 1757. 8. تعليماته الخاصة التي أصدرها المكتب إلى الساعي جافريلا بوبيدينسكي لترتيب الضريح. According to the personal decree of Her Imperial Majesty, you should go to Rostov with Gezel Alexander Kokorinov and upon arrival, appear and present the envelope sent with you to the local Eminence Metropolitan Arseny, and with his Eminence it was ordered that the declared Gezel Korinov be removed from the tomb in which the relics of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, the newly-minted wonderworker, rest. measure the length, width and height, and then the plan and profile, go with all of it back to St. Petersburg, take postal carts for yourself and Gezel Kokorinov along the road taken from the Yamsk office to Rostov and back in four. في 17 ديسمبر 1757. وقعه الجنرال feldtseichmeister والفارس الكونت بيوتر إيفانوفيتش شوفالوف. 9. Letter from Adam Olsufiev to Metropolitan Arseny Matseevich about cancer for St. Demetrius سماحة سيدي العزيز! ومع ذلك، عندما أعهد بنفسي إلى صلواتكم المقدسة، يشرفني أن أكون مع الاحترام الواجب والحقيقي. 10. رسالته إلى المتروبوليت أرسيني عن السرطان سيادة الأسقف! سيدي العزيز! In my letter dated the 22nd of this month, which Mr. Major Shadeev had to hand over to your Eminence at the time of cancer, although it is quite explained that until the decree it should be kept in a special dry place, in the vicinity of the church and behind the guard left there by Shadeev with one non-commissioned officer of a team of soldiers; however, in order to ward off any misunderstanding in this regard, according to the exact command of Her Imperial Majesty, and I must confirm this again to Your Eminence: as for the most gracious empress’s own arrival in Rostov, therefore, without the presence of Her Majesty, this cancer was not placed at all, about which I have the honor to announce with due respect to your Eminence my gracious sovereign most humble and obedient servant Adam O. 6 February 28, 1763 11. رد المتروبوليت أرسيني على أولسوفييف سيدي المحترم، السيد المستشار الخاص وعضو مجلس الدولة للشؤون الخارجية، وزير مجلس الوزراء والفارس آدم فاسيليفيتش! فاعلي الرحيم. Sending God's blessing and my humility to you with your name and congratulating you on the current holy day of Pentecost, I earnestly wish you to be worthy of the suffering and risen Christ to worship and from Him to receive all joy, peace, health, long life, prosperity and salvation. And as for the delivery of this shrine to the craftsmen, they were given from us: which Mr. Major himself can convey to your Excellency in detail. Having offered this and for your health in my prayers, I will forever remain Your Excellency, benevolent pilgrim and humble servant Arseny, Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl. 7 1 مارس 1863. روستوف. Arseny, Metropolitan of Rostov, was determined by the Synod to compose together and with a life a special service in a short time for the newly-minted wonderworker Saint Demetrius, as can be seen from the most submissive report of the Synod to Empress Elisabeth Petrovna dated April 30th day, 1757. Under the aforesaid all-submissive report of the Synodal, the following were signed: Sylvester, رئيس أساقفة القرية. Petersburg, Dimitri, Bishop of Ryazan, Ambrose, Bishop of Pereyaslavl, Athanasius, Archimandrite of the Holy Trinity Lavra and Varlaam, Archimandrite of the Don. The extract contains a description of 17 miracles performed at the newly revealed relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov, namely: 5 people received their sight from blindness, 2 received healing from demonic possession, 10 from relaxation. تم التوقيع على هذا المقتطف من قبل فارلام، أرشمندريت الدون، والسكرتير أوستولوبوف. By decree of the Empress Elisaveta Petrovna addressed to the General Feldzeichmeister Count Shuvalov, silver for the shrine of St. Demetrius was entrusted to his order, which was received from the Kolyvano-Voskresensky factories, and had eighty-two spools of pure silver in a pound. تم صنع وعاء الذخائر على شكل وعاء ذخائر القديس المبارك الأمير ألكسندر نيفسكي. تم أخذ مبلغ بناء الضريح من عاصمة دار سك العملة. From a note given on January 10, 1758 from the office of Her Imperial Majesty to Lieutenant Tarkhov, it is clear that the decoration of the shrine was entrusted to the sculptor Vesterinius. Its masters were Pyotr Zakharov, Gavrila Surikov, and vussers Yakov Ilyin, Vasily Vereshchagin, who completed the work in August 1758. The craftsmen were paid 2844 rubles for the work. 69 kopecks, as can be seen from the note of the breeder Ivan Shlater dated May 26, 1759. In the shrine for the relics of the newly-minted wonderworker St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, there was a weight with a lid and with all the accessories of 10 poods, 24 pounds, 31 spools; يوجد في الأيقونسطاس ذو الزخارف حول الصورة 8 أكياس، 19 رطلاً، 8 مكبات؛ في المجمل كان هناك في الضريح وفي الأيقونسطاس وزن 19 رطلاً. 3 جنيهات و 39 بكرة ولكن الحد الأقصى للسعر هو 12877 روبل و 57 كوبيل. في المجموع، تم إنفاق 16384 روبل على تركيب وعاء الذخائر المقدسة مع الحاجز الأيقوني. 82½ كوبيل الكلمات التالية محفورة على السرطان: “The Almighty and Incomprehensible God, with wondrous acts from time immemorial, revealed His holy, magnificent glory, and in our days, during the blessed reign of the most pious, autocratic, great Empress, Empress Elisaveta Petrovna, Autocrat of All-Russia, with new miracles in Russia, the holy man who rests here, His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitri of Rostov and Yaroslavl, who gave God, shone forth with new miracles. God by faith, meekness, abstinence, teaching, hard work; the crown prince, with jealousy and patience Peter the Great fought against the sophisticated schism. This resident of heavenly Jerusalem was born in the God-saved city of Kyiv, around 1671. The angelic image took on 18 years. Genvar was elevated to the holy throne on the 4th day of 1702; Shepherded the Church of God for 7 years, 9 months, 26 days, lived for 38 years, and entered into eternal rest on October 1709, 28 days. Having written the lives of the saints, he himself was honored to be included in the ranks of the saints in the summer of 1757 on April 9th. مقطوعة الأبيات التالية المتعلقة بالانشقاقيين: عن! You, who honor the deity within the close limits, His likeness to me to be in the bodily parts, Focus on the thought of what this saint taught, What now speaks to you from the face of the heavenly powers, Incline to the mercy of the Most High, to the truth, And to your mother, you will be reconciled to the Church. كتب من موسكو في 22 فبراير 1763. 3 عامل مياوم. من رسالة الإمبراطورة كاثرين الثانية إلى ن. Panin on May 23, 1763, about the transfer of the relics of St. Demetrius in Rostov (printed in the 1st volume of the papers of Empress Catherine II, p. 288), it is clear that the transfer of the relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov followed on May 24, 1763, in the presence of Empress Catherine II.