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St. torment. Adriana and Natalia One day imp. Maximian, having arrived in Nicomedia, ordered to look for Christians, and then he was presented with 23 people captured in a certain cave. The emperor ordered them to be mercilessly scourged for not agreeing to renounce Christ and then taken to prison. When the confessors were brought to the praetor to record their names and testimonies, Adrian, one of the commanders, who saw their torture, asked them: “Tell me, what reward do you expect from your God for your torment? I think you're hoping for something great." The confessors answered: “our lips cannot tell, our ears cannot contain, and our minds cannot comprehend the great joys of reward from our Lord.” Adrian: “Perhaps your prophets and your books have explained them to you?” Confessors: “And the prophets themselves could not fully comprehend the blessings of those, but spoke according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It is written about the future reward: eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and the heart of man has not entered into the things that God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9). Then Adrian said to the scribes: “Write my name with these saints; because I too am a Christian, and with joy I will die with them for Christ God.” The scribes immediately informed the emperor that Adrian had become a Christian and was asking to have his name included among those condemned. Maximian called him and asked: “Are you mad, Adrian? Do you really want to die? “I have not gone mad,” answered Adrian, “but I have come to my senses from madness.” Emperor: “Don’t say much, but ask for forgiveness and admit your guilt to everyone!” Adrian: “I will now begin to pray to the true God for the forgiveness of my sins, which I committed in pagan error.” The emperor ordered him to be shackled and thrown into prison with other confessors of Christ. One of Adrian’s slaves hurried home to notify his wife, Natalia, about what had happened. Natalia, a secret Christian, rejoiced in her soul over her husband’s conversion, went to prison, consoled him and ministered to him and the other prisoners. After seven days it was planned to torture the prisoners; but since everyone except Adrian was weak from previous torture and could soon die, Adrian alone was first flogged with rods, then scourged with sticks. Finally they took him to prison, and here, like the others, their arms and legs were crushed on an anvil. Their bodies were put on fire; Natalia and others collected their remains and sent them to Byzantium, where she herself soon retired, and stayed there until her death. Hadrian suffered for twenty-seven years, around 290 A.D. Memory of St. Adrian Ondrusovsky In the life of Rev. Alexander Svirsky, according to the description of his student, we read the following: 9 versts from the place of the exploits of St. Alexander, lived in his homeland the nobleman Andrei Zavalishin, a hunter of wild animals. One day, in the midst of the hunt, Andrei saw a deer and rushed to catch up with it; the hunter rushed with such speed that he left his hunting companions far behind him, and yet the deer disappeared from his eyes. Zavalishin instead saw in front of him a hut and traces of a hermit, in such a wild place where, it seemed, no human foot had ever set foot. He knocked at the hut and a worker appeared before him, exhausted from fasting and labors, in shabby clothes. The ascetic’s story about his wondrous life made a deep impression on Andrei. This was in 1493. After that, Zavalishin often came to St. Alexander (it was he) to listen to his instructions and delivered bread to his associates. From conversations with the hermit, having learned the sweetness of desert life, Zavalishin decided to follow the example of his life. One of the villages of the Kamepun volost is still called Andreevshchina: but Zavalishin left his rich estate and retired to the Valaam desert; here he accepted monasticism with the name Adrian and spent several years here in the exploits of the hostel. Then, with the blessing of St. Alexander, he chose a secluded place for his stay on the peninsula, on the shores of Lake Ladoga. Disciples and followers gathered to him. A church was built in the desert in honor of St. Nicholas - Zavalishin was known in Moscow, and in. K. Vasily († 1534) granted alms from his treasury to the monks of the Hadrian Hermit with a letter, ordering them to give them forward, too, “stepping after two years, without red tape,” and at the same time forbade the governors to take duties from the monastery hunters and tones. According to local legend, Adrian met on his way with people who threatened not only the existence of the monastery, but also the lives of the hermits; The meeting was quite ordinary at that time: but how did it end? В дремучем лесу острова Сала (дебрь), напротив Адриановой пустыни, укрывался недобрый человек, Ондрус, с шайкою подобных себе, живший на счет пловцов Ладожского озера 225 . Близкое соседство пустынника, начавшего собирать к себе других, тревожило атамана разбойников; he announced that the hermits should voluntarily leave the island, otherwise it would be bad for them. Скорбно было Адриану расстаться с пустынным местом, особенно потому, что великий наставник его благословил ему здесь жить. He begged the robber to give this place to peaceful workers; не имея у себя денег, чтобы предложить выкуп за место, Адриан обещал атаману ходатайствовать за него пред Богом – и советовал ему расстаться с худым ремеслом. The robber laughed at the words of the hermit. Adrian begged the robber for a long time and with bitter tears; Finally the chieftain relented and said: live. На каменистом мысу Ладожского озера, называющемся поныне Сторожевским, тогда же жил другой разбойник с шайкою, сторожа пловцов. Envying the happiness of Adrian's neighbor, he tried to capture and exterminate him. It happened that both chieftains, traveling with gangs for fishing, met and a battle broke out between them. The inhabitants of Sal were defeated and their shackled leader was thrown into the boat of his enemy. The unfortunate man knew that after terrible torture, death awaited him; he remembered the advice of the hermit, bitter repentance penetrated his soul and - now he sees Adrian before him. “By the mercy of the Lord, for whom they asked you for mercy to the desert brotherhood, you are free,” said the one who appeared and disappeared; The ataman saw himself without shackles, on the shore, and no one near him. Struck to the depths of his soul, he came to the monastery and found Adrian and his ascetics singing psalmody. It turned out that Adrian did not leave the monastery. The chieftain fell at the feet of the abbot and asked to teach him the ways of salvation. Left in the monastery, he ended his life here in quiet repentance. And his rival in the craft, through the prayers of Elder Adrian, finally came to his senses. Feeling the ruin of his life, he founded a monastery of prayer on the site of a den of robbers and labored in it under the name of the monk Cyprian. With his new life, charitable for many, blessed. Cyprian not only brought his previous bad deeds into oblivion among his contemporaries, but enjoyed their respect; and the good and merciful Lord, for his feats of sincere self-denial, glorified the deceased ascetic with miracles 226. The life of St. Adrian was so beneficial for the remote region. In 1546, Tsar John Vasilyevich ordered the Novgorod authorities by letter “from the birth of Christ, from year to year, to give in lieu of alms: to the abbot (Ondrusovsky) 5 sparrows of rye, 5 sparrows of oats, two pounds of salt, and a Novgorod hryvnia of money; for 12 brothers, for each brother 2 boxes of rye, 2 boxes of oats, and a pound of salt, and 2 altyns of money; Yes to the Most Pure One and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker 2 pounds of honey for the eve and 2 pounds of wax each for candles, and 5 boxes of wheat for bread.” The founder of Hadrian's Hermitage was so famous for his holiness of life that he and Gregory of Pelsham received from St. baptism of King John's daughter Anna. This was in August 1549 227. - When St. the elder was returning from Moscow to his monastery and was already not far from it: near the village of Obzhi, evil people attacked him and killed him; The villains hoped to find money from him and found nothing. The brethren waited a long time for their abbot and, after a long wait, no longer knew what to think about him? Two years later, one night, in a dream vision, the monk appears to several of the elders of the Ondrus Hermitage, tells them about his painful death, indicates the place where the villains hid the body and commands them to transfer it to the monastery. – The next day, May 17, the monks found the incorrupt body of the passion-bearer in the swamp and interred it near the wall of the church of St. Nicholas. So the whole life of the Rev. Adriana was mainly a struggle against evil people and the Lord crowned him with the crown of a martyr. Therefore, it is not surprising that they soon began to honor his memory on August 26, and on May 17, the transfer of his relics 228. The act of 1659 says: “by the grace of the venerable father of our superior, abbot Adrian, a contribution was given to the house of the reverend. Theotokos and the Wonderworker Adrian" 229. Imperial Alexander, while inspecting the province (1819), wished to venerate the Venerable Martyr Adrian, took a peasant as a guide and, without an entourage, went to the saint’s tomb; Here he prayed for a long time with tears and then sent vessels and books for the church. - In 1828, the relics of the saint were transferred to a new stone church - Presentation of the Mother of God into the church 230. Celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Virgin Mary In 1395, the terrible conqueror of the East Temir-Aksak or Tamerlane (the iron lame), entering Russia, horrified it. With his hordes, he approached the borders of Ryazan, took the city of Yelets, captured the prince of Yelets, beat many Christians, rushed to Moscow and approached the banks of the Don. Grand Duke Vasily Dimitrievich with his army went to Kolomna and stopped on the banks of the Oka, prayed with his Christ-loving army and all the faithful subjects of God and the Most Holy. to the Mother of God for the deliverance of his fatherland, he called upon the great saints of God Peter, Alexy and Sergius for help; wrote to Metropolitan Cyprian from Kolomna, so that the coming fast before the Feast of the Assumption would be dedicated throughout the entire Moscow principality to the most diligent prayers and feats of repentance. In the churches of God, from morning to evening, people crowded for prayer, the priests incessantly performed prayers for the prince and the Orthodox army; The Metropolitan almost never left the church, either comforting those who remained in the capital, or praying for those going to battle for the faith and the fatherland. The Grand Duke sent to Vladimir to pick up from there the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, with which Andrei Bogolyubsky defeated the Bulgarians, and bring it to Moscow to protect this capital city of the Russian reign. The saint, having thanked God, who put such a thought in the heart of the Grand Duke, immediately sent to Vladimir for St. icon of the honorary clergy of the Assumption Cathedral. The clergy sent to Vladimir, after the liturgy and prayer service on the day of the Dormition, took into their hands the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, at the touching sight of the people who cried out: “Where are you leaving us, Lady! Why do you leave us orphans, why do you turn your face away from us?” After 10 days, the sacred procession with the icon approached the walls of Moscow. Countless people on both sides of the road, bending their knees, cried out with zeal and tears: “Mother of God! save the Russian land!” The clergy of Moscow with a procession of the cross, members of the grand ducal family, boyars and citizens solemnly greeted the shrine outside the city and escorted the icon to the Assumption Cathedral. The faith and reverence in the prayers of the Orthodox were not in vain. On that very day and hour when the inhabitants of Moscow met the icon of the Mother of God, Tamerlane was dozing in his tent and saw before him in a dream a great mountain and from its top many saints with golden staffs coming towards him, and above them in a radiant radiance - a woman of awe and indescribable greatness, who commanded Tamerlane to leave the borders of Russia, surrounded by lightning-like darkness warriors, who all menacingly rushed towards Tamerlane. He trembled, woke up and, calling the nobles, asked about the meaning of this vision. “This majestic wife,” answered the wisest of them, is the Mother of God, the protector of Christians.” “So, we will not defeat them,” said King Jagatai, and ordered his regiments to go back, to the amazement of the Russians and the Tatars themselves. “So for the sake of the virtuous life of Grand Duke Vasily Dimitrievich, says one ancient letter, God glorified him, and the Russian Orthodox land was pardoned from the presence of the godless Temir-Aksak, with the coming of the miraculous image of his most pure Mother, his God-voiced Luke wrote.” In memory of such a glorious liberation of Moscow, by the grace of God and the prayers of Rev. Mother of God, on Kuchkovo Field, where the image of the Mother of God was greeted by the residents of the capital, when it was transferred from Vladimir in 1395, the Sretensky Monastery was erected, and on the day of the Presentation, August 26, it is supposed to be celebrated throughout all of Russia with the presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, for the deliverance of Russia with help and intercession from the invasion of Tamerlane. In Moscow itself, on this day a religious procession was established from the Assumption Cathedral to the Sretensky Monastery in order to more vividly remember the initial meeting of the miraculous icon from Vladimir to Moscow. In the Vladimir Cathedral, instead of the one transferred to Moscow, another icon was placed in the measure and likeness of the original, painted according to the legend of St. Peter Metropolitan, when he was still abbot of the Ratsky Monastery in Volyn. Both before and after the invasion of Tamerlane, chronicles report the gracious help of the Vladimir Mother of God during such events that the Church did not commemorate with its festivities. Such assistance was provided in 1408 against the Horde king Edigei, who unexpectedly approached Moscow. There was neither a prince nor a metropolitan in Moscow; residents of the capital, not expecting help from people, cried out with tearful prayers before the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Edigei, who was preparing to lay siege to Moscow, heard about the disturbance in the Horde and hastily retreated from Moscow. A similar offensive took place in 1451, when the Nogai prince Mazovsha approached Moscow with his father’s troops. On July 2, the Tatars already set fire to the suburbs of Moscow. Under the flames of the spreading fire, Saint Jonah performed religious processions along the walls of the city. Seeing the monk of the Chudovsky Monastery, Anthony, known for the holiness of his life, the saint said to him: “Anthony, more diligently pray to God for the deliverance of the city.” “You are a great bishop of God,” answered Anthony, and the Mother of God, our ambulance, will not despise your prayer: she has already begged Her Son to save the city.” The Muscovites fought with the Tatars until nightfall; At night they expected a new attack. But in the morning the Muscovites do not see the enemy under the walls; They learn that the enemy hastily left Moscow at night, taking with him only light carts. According to the chronicle, the Tatars, hearing an extraordinary noise in the distance, imagined that the Grand Duke was coming at them with a strong army, and in confusion they fled. The Grand Duke, after such an unexpected removal of enemies from the capital, hurried to the church of Our Lady of Vladimir and with tenderness and tears glorified the heavenly Intercessor of the faithful. Eight years after Mazovsha’s invasion, his father Sedi-Akhmet took up arms against Moscow and boasted of enslaving Russia. The son of the Grand Duke John drove out the evil army from Russia. St. Jonah attributed the destruction of Akhmet's boast to the intercession of the Mother of God and in the Assumption Cathedral in 1459 he built a chapel in praise of the Mother of God (See May 21 and June 23). In the history Hier. III, 98 is not correct. Ondrusova Nikolaevskaya hermitage, abbot. Daniel, St. Petersburg 1856. In the Gatehouse of the Zaguba parish, near the church wall, there is a chapel and in it on the official slab the inscription says: “in this place the head of the holy monastery was buried - the builder, Rev. Kidrian, who reposed in the year 7000.” Stone church in honor of St. Nicholas and the Epiphany, and on the lower floor there is a throne in honor of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Swedish about mon. 422. 423, where, however, there are inaccuracies. On the site of the monastery is now the village of Storozhnya, otherwise Storozhevsky Nos, with an attached church. - So, Mr. Kostomarov’s doubts about Cyprian (Northern People’s Day 2, 361.) have been resolved. In the RKP. noted in the Olonets Breviary on May 17; “On this day, the relics of our predecessor Adrian, abbot of the Nikolaev Monastery, are transferred to Lake Ladoga, on Ondrusov Island, in Olonedsky district, a new miracle worker, and his memory is celebrated on August 26.” RKP. Saints: "Reverend Adrian, abbot of the Nativity (Vvedensky) Monastery of the Mother of God, which was on Lake Ladoga, on Ondrusov Island, in Olonets district, wonderworker; reposed at the age of 7000 May at 17." The murder of the saint and his appearance to the elders is depicted on the icons of the monastery. According to the inventory of 1582, in the Ondrus Monastery the Church of St. Nicholas is stone, but the other wooden church, in honor of the introduction of the Mother of God, was “burned by German people” - the Swedes. 1581 village the fence, the abbot's cell and 7 brethren's cells were also burned. Nevolin. Oh five. 156. Ondrusova Nikolaevskaya Pustyn, pp. 23–26. St. Petersburg 1856 In the news of the Son of the Fatherland in 1836, page 78, it is said that the emperor sent 25,000 rubles. for a new church, but the money for the new church was collected by the builder from various benefactors.