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St. torment. Andrey Stratilat From a young age, Andrei revered the name of Christ, and although Ine was baptized, he turned away from everything unpleasing and led a life of abstinence, praying to God and keeping the commandments of the Gospel. In 301, from a tribune (commander of a thousand) he was made a stratilate, that is, the head of a legion (consisting of six tribunates) and distinguished himself in the war that was then taking place with the Persians, during which he converted many of his detachment to Christ. Envious comrades reported on him that he was a Christian. Antiochus, the ruler of Syria, interrogated him and reported everything to Emperor Maximian. Maximian ordered the release of the glorious warrior and his fellow believers, so as not to cause unrest in the army, and then find another guilt and beat them. The liberated went to Tarsus and received St. baptism. Then, under the guise of chasing those who had left their banners, the ruler of Cilicia was ordered to go and seize them. The squad from Tarsus headed towards the borders of Armenia, but in the gorges of Mount Taurus they were overtaken and beaten without any resistance (in 302 or 303). Celebration of the Don Icon of the Virgin Mary The Don icon was brought by the Don Cossacks, who came to the aid of Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich Donskoy, mounted on a pole as a banner when he had a fight with Mamai, and remained throughout the war with the Russian army. On the day of the glorious Battle of Kulikovo, which took place in 1380, between the Don and Nepryadva rivers, it was carried among the rights. soldiers to encourage and help them against the Tatar, Lithuanian and Ryazan army. After the defeat of the enemies, through the intercession of the Mother of God, the icon was brought by the Cossacks as a gift to the Grand Duke, who transferred it from the banks of the Don to his capital Moscow and placed it first in the Assumption Cathedral, and after the construction of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, he moved it here, and in memory of the victory won with its help over the Tatars on the banks of the Don, it was named Donskaya. With her help, the miraculous deliverance of Moscow from the Crimean Tatars took place during the reign of the pious Sovereign Theodore Ioannovich, in 1591. This year, the Crimean prince Nuradyn, with his brother Murat-Girey and a large militia, invaded Russia, approached Moscow and settled nearby on the Sparrow Hills. During his sudden invasion, Tsar Theodore Ioannovich, not hoping to repel the enemies with his own forces, turned with a prayer for help to the heavenly Intercessor of the faithful - the Mother of God. He ordered a religious procession around the city with the icon of the Don Mother of God and other icons and to place the Don icon in his marching church among the military ranks. The pious king devoted the whole night to unceasing and fervent prayer to the Mother of God, asking for her invincible help in defeating his enemies, and received notification from her that by the power of Christ and her intercession he would win a glorious victory over his enemies. The day has come; the Tatars fiercely rushed towards the Russian militia and fought with them for a whole day; but, suddenly frightened by an invisible force, they fled, leaving on the battlefield many killed, wounded and their entire camp. In gratitude to the Intercessor, in the same year, on the spot where the prince took up arms against the Crimeans and where the miraculous Donskoy icon stood among the soldiers, the Donskoy Monastery was founded. A miraculous icon was placed there and an annual holiday was established on August 19 in honor of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, “which was for the sake of mercy from St. her icons", with a religious procession from the Assumption Cathedral to the Donskoy Monastery. After the death of Theodore Ioannovich, the religious procession, which took place at different times until 1646, from that time, at the request of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in gratitude for the victory over the Tatars who devastated the Kursk region, won with the help of the Mother of God, was established annually and is still held on the day of the holiday, August 19. In 1686, on May 7, the Don Icon was released to the regiment of Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn, and upon its return on September 10, it was greeted by the sovereigns John, Peter and Princess Sophia.