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St. torment. Lawrence the Archdeacon, Sixtus the Pope and others with them After the martyrdom of Pope Stephen in 257, Sixtus took his place and ruled the church for eleven months, after which he was taken with two deacons as the head of the Christians, and after double interrogation, for confessing the name of Christ, he was beheaded along with them (Aug. 7, 258). When they led him to prison, Archdeacon Lawrence exclaimed to him: “Where, father, are you rushing without your archdeacon?” St. Sixtus said to him prophetically: “I will not leave you, my son; in three days you too will follow me; In the meantime, go and distribute the church property at your discretion to the poor and needy.” Just before the execution of Sixtus outside the city at the church of Mars, Lawrence exclaimed to him: “Don’t leave me, father! because I have already distributed the treasure entrusted to me.” The soldiers, hearing about the treasure, captured Lawrence, and beheaded the pope and two clerics. At night, the faithful buried the bodies of the martyrs. The Roman prefect, calling Lawrence from prison, told him: “Do not resist and show us the treasures!” He wanted to justify his demand by law, according to which the property of those executed for state crimes was confiscated in favor of the state. Lavrenty answered: “Give me time for two or three days, and I will show them to you!” The prefect agreed. Lawrence gathered in three days a multitude of beggars, widows, orphans, the blind and other crippled people and, bringing them to the prefect’s chamber, said: “These are the owners of the treasures, and whoever entrusts his property to them will receive it back in abundance in the kingdom of heaven. Then the saint was tortured and demanded to renounce Christ; Finally, they laid him on an iron bed that looked like a lattice, and hot coals were placed under the bed, and the saint’s body was baked like meat.” “Make a sacrifice to the gods,” shouted the executioners. “I sacrificed myself to my Lord,” answered the martyr. The servants added more and more fire and lit the grate; All those present were horrified by the cruelty of the judge who ordered to bake a living person. The martyr thanked God, who strengthened him, and finally said to the prefect: “turn around the part of the body that has already been sufficiently fried, and make an experiment on the other.” The prefect ordered it to turn around. Then Lavrenty said: “ready, eat and decide whether fried meat is more pleasant or raw.” After this, he raised his eyes to heaven and gave up his spirit to God. “The Christians took his body from the place of torture and buried him. † Repose of the blessed. Lavrenty, the holy fool of Kaluga An ancient settlement on the left bank of the river. Yachenki, half a mile from the present city of Kaluga, remains a monument to ancient Kaluga for the troubled times of the 15th and 16th centuries. the place, protected by the sinkholes of the earth, was very convenient for the city 73 - Prince Simeon Ioannovich lived here, who in 1505 received the Kaluga inheritance from his father 74. He was a good prince. That is why the servant of God Lawrence lived in his house from time to time. Nothing is known about Lawrence’s father and mother, says an old note. He walked barefoot in winter and summer, wearing a shirt and a sheepskin coat: this is how he is depicted on ancient icons. “He lived in the prince’s house only from time to time, acting like a fool in the eyes of people, but not before God. He spent most of his time where the monastery named after him is now. Here, half a mile from the city of his time, on the top of a mountain covered with dense forest, stood a secluded church of the Nativity of Christ: near the church there was a hut of the blessed one. Lawrence; at night he came out of it onto the porch of the church and said prayers, and to listen to the daytime prayers of the church, a passage was dug from the hut in the ground to the church and Lavrenty, invisible to people, went to the church to listen to her prayers 75. Through his exploits of self-denial, he rose so high in spirit that during his lifetime he became famous for his miracle. An ancient message says: “in 1512 the Hagaryans attacked the city (Kaluga); The prince (Simeon) and the citizens came out against them: and the righteous Lawrence, who was in his house, suddenly said in a loud voice: “Give me a sharp ax; the dogs attacked Prince Simeon; it is necessary to defend it from the dogs; and grabbed (the ax) and left. While Prince Simeon was fighting at that time from a nasad (ship) on the Oka, and the Hagarians surrounded the prince in large numbers, righteous Lawrence suddenly appeared on the nasad and strengthened him and the entire army with the words: “do not be afraid.” At that same hour, the prince defeated the Hagarians and drove them away, and the righteous Lawrence again appeared in the prince’s house and made a foolish noise: “he defended Prince Simeon from the dogs.” – The prince, returning from the battle, told how the righteous man appeared and with his help the enemies who attacked the city of Kaluga were defeated 76. Righteous Lawrence is also depicted on ancient icons with an ax mounted on a long ax handle. According to the chronicles, this attack of the Crimean Tatars took place in May 1512 and was completely unexpected. Mengli-Girey had hitherto been on friendly terms with the Grand Duke of Moscow. The gold of the Lithuanian king and secret intrigues caused the sons of Mengli-Girey, with crowds of predators, to unexpectedly burst into Russia, plunder Odoevsky places like bandits, after Kaluga they rushed to Ryazan: but the commanders of the Grand Duke were in a hurry to meet them in the field and the predators hastily left for the uluses 77. Thus, Kaluga owed its salvation from ruin, and the prince also owed the preservation of his life to the righteous Lawrence. In the RKP. in the calendar we read: “St. the righteous Lawrence, like the holy fool for Christ's sake, the miracle worker (in another sp. that in the Rozhdestvensky Monastery), reposed in l. 7023 (1515) m. August in the tenth day.” Probably, Prince Simeon, who owed the righteous man his salvation, built a monastic monastery in his memory. In 1565, Tsar John wrote in his letter to the monastery: “the monastery of the Nativity of Christ, where Lawrence lies, where the holy fool of Christ is” 78 . This makes it clear that even then the righteous man was already locally honored. In the RKP. The life of the righteous man records several of his posthumous miracles. The first of them dates back to 1621. This is the healing of the paralyzed boyar Kologrivov. He had no control over his arms, legs, or tongue. They brought him and laid him near the tomb of St. Lawrence. During the singing of the prayer service, when the Gospel was being read, the paralytic spoke, raised his right hand and began to make the sign of the cross on himself; then he stood up, walked over in the shrine and kissed her. At the end of the prayer service, he spoke freely and became as healthy as he had been before. Then the possessed townsman and two blind girls were healed. In 1641, the son of a Kaluga citizen was brought to the shrine of the righteous: he was sick in his legs and the good father carried him on himself; but at the shrine of the righteous the sick man recovered and was able to go to his own home 79 . In the monastery there is a gospel of M. 1686 with the inscription: “Princess Tatiana Mikhailovna came to the monastery of St. Lawrence the Wonderworker." Shchekatova Dictionary 3, 157. 158. Nikon. years. V, 179. Will c. K. John in the collection. gr. I part 144. Kaluzh. epar. led 1862 I, 4. 5. Collection l. VIII, 253. Karam. 7, 32. 33. Kaluzh. epar. Ved. 1862 5. 85. 102. It is also said here that the memory of the righteous Lawrence is celebrated in Kaluga on August 10, the day of his death. There are 162 errors in the dictionary. The description of Lawrence's miracles in the monastery is known from a list written under Abbot Karion, who was abbot - abbot from 1698, archimandrite from 1708 and died in 1722. He probably described both miracles and service to the righteous. Kaluzh. Ved. 8–13.102.