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† Memory of the Venerable Gregory, icon painter of Pechersk The name of the icon painter, with which reverend. Gregory is mentioned in the RKP. Saints and is known in the cave, shows that he reverently and godly studied the writings of St. icons; according to the legend about the icon painters, “pr. Father Gregory of Pechersk, icon painter of Kyiv, holy saint. Alypius" (†1114) and "many St. painted miraculous icons.” – His relics rest in the Anthony Cave 71, and some of them are in the St. Sophia Cathedral 72. So sacred is the work of an icon painter, and sacred is the veneration of St. icons Also St. Gregory Dvoeslov wrote: “Which scriptures are delivered to those who know how to read them, icons are delivered to the unlearned when they look at them. “The icon serves the common people instead of a book.” It must be added to the fact that a person must serve his Lord not only with his mind, but also with his imagination, and feeling, and sight, and that; If we do not feed our feelings and imagination with sacred objects, they seek food for themselves in unclean objects. That is why the Reformation, acting according to the mind alone, constituted a service offensive to the mind, a service to God, without the participation of feelings and imagination. By her grace, instead of sacred objects, they began to so diligently depict low and unclean objects: nature one way or another takes its toll. And what a detriment to souls - seductive pictures! The charm of sin quickly passes from them to the very depths of the soul, desecrates and poisons the imagination, feeling, thoughts, will. Woe to the world because of temptations and woe to him by whom temptation comes (Matthew 18:7). Unhappy artist! What fate are you preparing for yourself by becoming a destroyer of souls? The Lord says: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6). On the contrary, how much good could you bring to your soul and thousands of Christian souls if you were only concerned with depicting objects of the holy faces of God’s slaves and handmaids. Follow the example of the saint of God Gregory and you will be pleasing to the Lord. On the same day St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus Emilian, together with other bishops (see May 23 and March 8), was exiled by the emperor. Leo the Armenian in 815 for refusing to condemn the veneration of icons. In response to the emperor’s convictions, he said: “If this is a church issue, as you yourself say, then let it be investigated in the church according to custom. Since ancient times, ecclesiastical issues have been studied in churches, and not in royal chambers.” Died 820 in exile. St. Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete St. Myron, born in the city of Ravkos, on the island of Crete, during the Decievo persecution, from among farmers, was elected bishop of his city for his virtuous life around the year 300. He died a hundred years old, around 350. Glorious was his charity and miracles. On the same day Gregory of Sinai Originally from Asia Minor, the village of Kalismena near Smyrna, he took monastic vows on the island of Cyprus and then labored in Mount Sinai, which is why he is known under the name Sinaita. Then he moved to Athos and from here to the borders of Macedonia, where in the so-called. Hidden Hermitage founded a monastery and died in it in 1846 (dated February 17 in the life of Ave. Theodosius and Roman). Just as during his lifetime he turned many to repentance and taught sobriety in thoughts and deeds, so after his death he guided the writings that remained after him “on commandments and dogmas, on threats and promises, on vices and virtues, on mental peace and prayer.” His choruses of St. The Trinity (It is worthy to truly glorify Thee...) howl at the Sunday Midnight Office in the canon. Celebration of the Tolga Icon of the Mother of God The appearance of this miraculous icon followed in 1314, when the Russian Church was ruled by St. Metropolitan Peter. This year, Bishop Prokhor of Rostov and Yaroslavl, and in the schema Trifon, surveying his flock, visited the monastery of St. Kirill of Belozersky, and from there he went by water down the Sheksna River to the Volga to Yaroslavl. Seven miles from the city, at nightfall, he stopped on the right inhabited bank of the Volga and, having ascended a mountain, ordered a tent to be pitched there over the bank for the night, opposite the place where the Tolga River flows into the Volga, on the other side of it, and where there was a dense forest at that time. At midnight, when everyone was sleeping, the bishop woke up and was surprised to see a bright light illuminating the surrounding areas. He left his tent and on the opposite side of the Volga he saw a pillar of fire, unusually bright, and a bridge drawn from the shore to this pillar across the Volga. Having prayed to God in bewilderment and fear, he took his staff and, without waking any of the sleeping people, stepped onto the visible bridge; but in fact it was not a bridge, but water condensed by supernatural force, along which he walked as if on a tree. Having thus crossed to the other side of the river and approaching the pillar of fire, the bishop saw the image of the Mother of God with the Child Jesus Christ, standing in the air, more than five cubits in height, so that it was impossible for a person to reach it from the ground with his hands. The saint prayed long and earnestly before this image with tears and kneeling, and at the end of the prayer he went back, forgetting his staff in the place where he had prayed. Having crossed the river again on a visible bridge and returning to his tent, he found everyone sleeping and until the next day he did not announce to anyone about his vision and about going beyond the Volga. The next day, after Matins, when the bishop wanted to go to the shore where his boat stood, the servants began to look for his staff, which had been placed in the tent the day before, but could not find it. Then he remembered that he had forgotten his staff on the other side of the river, and realizing that God wanted to make known the miracle he had seen, he could not say anything because of his tears, but only pointed with his finger in the direction where he had forgotten the staff; then in a quiet voice he recounted his vision beyond the Volga and sent his servants there to take his staff at the indicated place. When the servants moved across the river, they saw an icon of St. The Mother of God is no longer in the air, but on the ground between the trees, and next to her is the bishop's staff. Having prayed to the honest image and taken the staff, they returned to the bishop and told him what they had seen. Then the saint crossed the Volga with all the people who were with him and, there, seeing the icon of the Mother of God, he knew that it was the same one that was visible to them in the air at night by the light of a pillar of fire. He rejoiced in spirit, prostrated himself before the holy icon and prayed for a long time with tears, as did everyone accompanying him. Then, together with them, he began to cut down the forest with his own hands, prepare trees and clear a place for building a church, which was then founded on a small scale. As soon as the residents of Yaroslavl learned about the miraculous event, they immediately rushed to that place in large crowds and, having bowed to the newly appeared icon, diligently contributed to the construction of the church, so that it was completed by noon. The bishop consecrated it in the evening of the same day in the name of the Most Holy Theotokos, her venerable Entry, transferred the miraculous icon into it and established the celebration of its appearance on the 8th day of August. He also ordered the establishment of a monastery at this church, appointed an abbot for it, and as a result of this, a monastery was built here, first small, and over time much larger, existing to this day under the name Tolgskaya. From the day of the appearance of the icon of the Mother of God, in whose honor this monastery was built, many healings of the sick and other various miracles began to be accomplished by its grace-filled power. Shrines of Kyiv page 54. Description. laurels 110. 292. Buslaev has “the legend of St. icon painters." Verbal and art 2, 379. In Gerbinius, the relics of St. Gregory the icon painter are shown near the cave meal, but Kalnofoisky does not mention him. Description St. Sophia Cathedral 48. K. 1825.