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Saint Tikhon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Amathunta Saint Tikhon was born in the city of Amaeunt, on the island of Cyprus, received a Christian upbringing and was taught the Holy Scriptures. From a young age, he was distinguished by his piety and kindness of soul, evidence of which was preserved, among other things, in the legend that when one day his father, who sold bread, instructed him to sell bread, he began to give it to the poor as a gift. When his father began to scold him for this, he answered: “Father, I do not give bread away for nothing, but I lend it to God and I know from the Holy Scriptures that he who gives to God will receive from Him a hundredfold.”... Over time, having earned respect for his exemplary life, Tikhon was ordained to the rank of deacon by the Amaphuntian bishop Memnon; when Memnon died, Tikhon was elected in his place and ordained by Epiphanius, Archbishop of Cyprus. At that time there were still quite a few pagans on the island of Cyprus, and Saint Tikhon zealously and successfully converted them to Christ. He died in 425 at a very old age, having become famous for his miraculous power; Among other manifestations of it, the following was preserved in the people's memory: in one garden they cut out dry branches from the vines and threw them out. Saint Tikhon, having collected them, planted them in his garden and prayed that they would take root, bear good fruit and ripen earlier than others. And indeed, with the reverence of God, certainly attracted by the prayer of the righteous man, a large vineyard was formed, bearing the most delicious fruits and ripening earlier than in other vineyards. Greek verse prologue 197 says that “the vine branch planted by St. Tikhon, still produces early grapes on the day of the saint’s memory.” June 16th, in memory of St. Tikhon, ripe bunches of these grapes were brought to the church and a bloodless sacrifice was made using the wine squeezed from them during the liturgy. Saint's Day Tikhon in Rus' is known as "Tikhon's Day". “On Tikhonov Day everything calms down; On this day, the mother of kindness is quiet, the earth is damp. And the sun flows quietly across the sky. And the songbirds have become quiet since Tikhonov's day. The quiet light of the holy glory of the Lord shines on Tikhon's day. From it all the herbs are filled with full juice and remain in healing juice until Midsummer. On Tikhonova dew, old people say, you need to pick grass, dig roots, collect flowers” ​​198. † Memory of St. Tikhon of Medyn In the RKP. in the calendar we read: “Rev. Tikhon, head of the monastery, similar to the river. Ok, he died in L. 7000". Here is shown the “disciple of St. Tikhon Rev. Nikifor." According to the ancient service to the monk and according to local legend, St. Tikhon in his young years took monastic vows in Moscow and, out of love for solitude, retired to the dense forest of small Yaroslavets, which was in the possession of the prince. Yaroslav Vladimirovich († 1426), son of Prince. Vladimir Andreevich Brave. Here, on the banks of the Vopreika River, a tributary of the river. Oka, the hermit’s home was the hollow of a gigantic oak tree, the remains of which are preserved to this day; the food was grass (“they were self-grown”), and the drink was the water of the well dug by him. When they learned about the servant of God, some began to come to him for spiritual advice, others to stay with him ascetics. Life was hard with various kinds of deprivation. But it was necessary for the sorrows to be aggravated by a special misfortune; only this time patience was rewarded with a tangible calmness of the sky. The prince, the owner of the Voprei forests, hunted wild animals. Inadvertently, or, more likely, at the direction of bad people, the prince attacked the solitary residence of the hermit. “How dare you settle here without my will?” the owner said with anger and raised his hand to hit the hermit with his whip. The hermit did not touch, but the hand of the angry one went numb. The prince came to his senses and not only allowed the hermit to remain in his place, but promised to help him in setting up the monastery. The disciples pestered the mentor to begin building the monastery. Not far from his oak tree, the monk built the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God. At the request of his disciples, the monk assumed the rank of hegumen and was a zealous mentor in spiritual life, entrusting himself to his leadership. “Governing them with humility, he had a meek custom and acquired a kind heart. Following the Shepherd Christ, he fed the hungry and thirsty, accepted the strange, “protected the offended” (ikos) Before his death, he accepted the schema and died peacefully no later than 1460. In the insert book of the monastery it is written: “given on the day of the Most Pure Theotokos of Her venerable Dormition to the venerable father abbot Tikhon the great sovereign, the salary of the king and the ruler. book John Vasilyevich, The Throne Gospel." So it is clear that already under Tsar Grozny (1533–1584) Rev. Tikhon was considered among the saints of God. His memory is honored on June 15 by a significant gathering of people from the surrounding area. His relics rest hidden in the Transfiguration Monastery 199. Of the many wonders of his new time, we present two that are remarkable for our time. In the village of Boroditsk, Masalsky district, widow Alexandra Grigorievna Zhalkova suffered from body relaxation for 72 years. In the first 6 years, she was treated by various rural doctors, but that made her feel even worse. Then she already lay unconscious and recognized only a few. “At one time,” said the already healed Alexandra, “it was on June 15, 1842, at noon, lying in a hut, I saw an old man walking towards me. He was wearing a black, long robe, a semicircular cap on his head, with embroidered green crosses (schemnik, kukol), he was short, thin, with a gray beard and not long. Approaching the bed, the elder, taking his hand, said: “Why are you lying there, Alexandra?” “Father,” I answered, “I know I have angered God, everyone has already abandoned me.” “No,” said the elder, “don’t anger God, Alexey Nazarovich (merchant Lyadov) is visiting you.” Pray to God! For your simplicity I came to treat you. Do you want it? “I wish, father, but I no longer hope that I will be healthy,” I answered.” The elder said: “I will sprinkle you with water from my well, and you will be healthy.” Then he took a glass jug out of his pocket, sprinkled it with a broom, then gave me a drink and said: “Here’s your health.” At that very moment I felt relief - I stood up and joyfully asked: “Who are you, uncle? I will remember you." He said: “I am Tikhon from the desert, I live from Kaluga in the 19th century. And you will be healthy and begin to feed on your labors.” And he left the hut. A. N. Lyadov then came in and, seeing me healthy, asked with surprise: “Are you Alexandra, who cured you?” “Uncle Tikhon cured me,” I answered and told everything that happened to me. A.N. said: “The elder who appeared to you was not Uncle Tikhon, but Rev. Tikhon, the miracle worker of the Tikhon Hermitage, where are his relics.” Another event: recently, a peasant from Tikhonova Sloboda, Nikolai Samburov, had a vision that he came to the church of Tikhonova Hermitage, a gray-haired elder schema-monk came out of the altar and began to loudly read the “memorial book” in the middle of the church. The peasant came up and asked the elder: “Are mine recorded here?” “Yes, they are written down,” he answered and read the commemoration. Not hearing his sister’s name between the names of relatives, the peasant asked: “Isn’t your sister in the memorial?” “It was recorded, but excluded,” he answered. The peasant later understood why the sister was excluded, and, talking about the vision, said: “the poor sister, shortly before her death, turned into a schism and died in a schism” 200. † Repose of St. Tikhon Lukhovsky Rev. Tikhon, in the world Timofey 201, was born within the Principality of Lithuania and served there in military service. In Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, there were then more Orthodox churches than Roman churches. And yet the spirit of Roman pride greatly constrained the Orthodox there - they openly rebaptized the wives and children of Orthodox Christians, forcibly erected churches in Russian cities and abandoned Orthodox churches to desolation 202 . To the sorrow of sincere friends of Orthodoxy, apostates began to appear among the Orthodox Lithuanian nobles; for honor and a luxurious life they exchanged Orthodoxy for papism. “All this deeply offended the blessed one.” Timofey. Pressed by fanaticism, grieving for the weak, he retired to Moscow 203. This was in 1482, at the same time when Prince hastily fled from Lithuania to Moscow. Feodor Ivanovich Belsky, leaving there his young wife, with whom he had just married 204. Blazh. Timothy did not leave Lithuania in order to seek honor and money in Orthodox Moscow; he wanted one thing - to freely serve the Lord. With heartfelt consolation, having visited the monasteries where sincere piety blossomed, he distributed what property he had, accepted monasticism with the name Tikhon and retired to the Lukhov region. The city of Lukh with several volosts was then given to the prince. Feodor Ivanovich Belsky 205, with whom Timofey arrived in Moscow. Ave. Tikhon settled in the ancestral home of his beloved prince, not asking him for anything except a piece of land; on the river In Lukha, in the Kopytovka tract, he set up a cell for himself, not for peace, but for the labors of complete self-denial. Kopytovka was then an area in a dense forest and so sandy that no labor could obtain abundant food on it; Tikhon was content with very little. When two monks Photius and Gerasim arrived at the hermit, the monk, not for himself, but for his disciples, moved three miles from Kopytovka, to a place more convenient for permanent residence, to where the Lukhov monastery is now. The mentor and his disciples glorified the Lord with David and acquired food for themselves through labor; Tikhon skillfully wrote books and was a good turner. The fruits of his labors were sold and the meager means of subsistence were bought at the price of labor. That was not enough. The monk could barely move his legs due to a stomach illness, and yet he himself harnessed himself to the plow to plow the land to sow grain. Even with this visible self-denial, he warned his soul against vanity and self-indulgence. When any outsider came to the desert, the hermits immediately left their humble work. Tikhon did not like to talk with worldly people, in the belief that they were less ready to accept instructions than to harm an unwary mentor with their talkativeness. So he lived until a ripe old age, without asking anyone for alms. He did not accept the priesthood until his death, which followed on June 15, 1503. The poverty of the elder and his disciples was so great that the disciples did not know where to place the honorable body of the deceased ascetic; To console them, the bishop of Suzdal unexpectedly sent a scroll for the elder and the saint was buried in it. body. Soon after the death of the monk, a monastery was built in honor of the saint on the site of his exploits. Nicholas. Under Abbot Constantine, healings began to take place at the tomb of the saint; his relics turned out to be incorruptible; but the abbot, who placed them on top of the ground, was struck by blindness and received his sight when they were again hidden in the ground. From that time (since 1566) the memory of the saint began to be celebrated 206. “This says the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, which opens and no one can shut, who shuts and no one can open: You have little strength, and you have kept My word and have not denied My name. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may preempt your crown” (Apoc.3:7–8). Oh, when would we preserve the word of the Eternal Lamb, as St. Tikhon preserved! May it be so with us, through his prayers. See “Month. East." Archimandrite Sergius, vol. II, part 2, p. 170. Russian Bulletin, 1872, book. 8. Kaluzh. diocesan led 1864 No. 1. Research. about the ancient region of Vyatichi - in Chten. General East. 1862, book. 2. 46–48. In the calendar, the indication of the time of the saint’s death is uncertain: “he reposed in l. 7000". since the monk settled in the forest during the reign of Prince. Yaroslav († 1427) and was a contemporary of St. Paphnutius († 1471), he died no later than 1460. Handwritten service to Tikhon Ave. in Tikhon's Hermitage. There is also a book copied from the previous one in 1666. Read Obits. East. 1865 IV, 78. Kaluzh. diocesan led 1864 II. 2. RKP. life of the Rev. Tikhon at Tolstoy 3, No. 85; at Tsarskoe No. 565 with miracles, the last of which dates back to 1651. East. Russian Church III, 57–60. RKP. life: “I hated the fickle people of the Lithuanian Vertination; In spite of the pampering of many, I turn away from them into Latinism. I will come along with the book. Theodore." Karamz. 6, pr. 264. If Tikhon arrived with the prince. Theodore in 1482 (Project 136), it is falsely written that he lived for some time with St. Macarius on Lukha. See the legend about the life of Makaria Ave., M. 1852, pp. 29. 30. In spirits, in writing he led. book John 1504 it is said: “And what did the prince grant to you? Feodora Ivan. Belsky, gave to the family the city of Lukh with its volosts, and the volost of Vetluga and Kineshma and Chphachev; and book Theodore and his children serve my son Vasily, and keep that fatherland because it was with me.” Prologue June 16. Service to St. Tikhon at Tsarsky No. 416. 565. Service on 14 leaves and life on 24 leaves of the 16th century. in the collection of the Nizhny Novgorod Annunciation Monastery. In the patriarchal charter of 1678: “Rev. Father Tikhon Lukhovsky miracle worker.” Description of Lukhovsky Monastery M. 1836, p. 76. 21. Following psalter: “St. Tikhon the Wonderworker Lukhovsky, who died in 1492, and many disciples like him.” The latter happened after his death, which followed not in 1492, but in 1503.