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He lived during the reigns of Anastasius, Justin and Justinian and died around 620. Dorotheos was a disciple of John the Farseer in the Palestine monastery of Abba Serida (Aug. 13); Moreover, he himself possessed significant scientific knowledge, which he acquired in his young years, he subsequently led others in the Palestine monastery he established (for example, St. Dositheus, whose memorial is on February 19), and after his death he left his instructions for the guidance of the monks. Dorotheus edifyingly describes his studies in science in his early youth. “When I studied external teaching,” he writes, “at first I was very burdened by the teaching, so that when I came to take a book, it was as if I was going to an animal. But when I began to force myself, God helped me, and I got so used to it that I didn’t know what I ate, what I drank, how I slept from the warmth I felt while reading. They could never lure me to a meal with any of my friends; I didn’t even go to them to talk while reading, although I loved the company and loved my comrades. When the philosopher dismissed us, and I washed myself (for I had to cool off with water every day, since I was dry from excessive reading), then I went to where I lived, not knowing what I would eat, because I did not want to waste time making orders about food. Dorotheus applied the same zeal to spiritual life when he retired into the desert. “When I came to the monastery,” he writes, I said to myself: if there was so much love, so much warmth for external wisdom, so that from everything else I was free and accustomed to one thing, it should be even more so for virtue, and thus I was strengthened” 29 . This mental and high spiritual development of Dorotheus did not remain abstract: he applied it to practical activities, lovingly serving the sick and wanderers. “At that time,” he writes, “I had just woken up from a serious illness. And so, strangers came in the evening, I spent the evening with them, and there were camel drivers, and I prepared what they needed; It happened many times that when I was going to bed, some other need would arise and I would be woken up, and then the hour of vigil would come.” Human nature became tired with such continuous activity, moving from one subject to another; In order to more successfully overcome natural exhaustion, Dorotheus begged one brother to wake him up at the time of the church service, and the other to not allow him to doze off during the vigil. “And believe me,” he adds, “I respected them as much as if my salvation depended on them”... St. torment. Dorotheus, Bishop of Tire Saint Dorotheos, Bishop of Tire, during the cruel Diocletian persecution, abandoned his throne and hid in unknown places until the pacification of the church by Constantine the Great. Then he returned to Tire again and ruled the church until the time of Julian the Apostate. Even now escaping his tormentors, he retired to Thrace and fell into the hands of idolaters, who subjected him to cruel torture in the city of Odyssos (now Varna) and killed him (362). Dorofei was then 107 years old. He owned many works on the Church. stories, some of which have come down to us. † Memory of the murdered Prince Igor, George, in monasticism Gabriel, the blessed Grand Duke of Kiev The painful death of blessings. Prince Igor was a matter of the willfulness of the people, brought up by the weaknesses of the princes. Prince Igor, the son of Oleg Svyatoslavich of Chernigov, baptized George 30, in 1146 ascended the grand-ducal throne, after the death of his brother Vsevolod. Although the latter declared him his heir, Olgovich’s will meant little for Russia. “They didn’t like the Olgovichs, and Vsevolod’s deeds irritated the people of Kiev so much that only Vsevolod’s resourceful mind could hold back the indignation for a while. Therefore, after Igor ascended the throne, the people of Kiev asked the prince to deliver them from the tiuns of Vsevolod. Igor promised to replace the robber judges; but, not fulfilling his promise quickly, he increased the displeasure of the people. The people of Kiev secretly let the prince know. Izyaslav Mstislavich, the grandson of the beloved Monomakh, that they were ready to recognize him as the Grand Duke. Igor knew the danger and demanded help from his relatives, the princes of Chernigov. They bargained, demanded profitable cities, and, satisfied, gathered to help. But their slowness gave the conspirators time to think about and take measures to implement the plan. Therefore, when Igor and his allies prepared for battle, they suddenly saw that Izyaslav’s banner was flying in the Kyiv regiments and Igor was left with only hired helpers. After the unfortunate battle, the captive Igor was first imprisoned in the Vydubitsky monastery, then sent in chains to the Pereyaslavsky Ivanovsky monastery. - So he barely spent a week on the grand-ducal throne. The dreams of power have disappeared. Deprived of everything, abandoned by everyone, tormented by shackles, Igor turned to himself, to his eternity. In the past he had few happy days, but there were also things that were difficult for his conscience. Brother Vsevolod, ascending the Kiev throne (1139), promised Chernigov to Igor, but gave it to his cousin Vladimir; Igor took up arms more than once to take Chernigov away from Vladimir, but there was no success. In 1141 he and his brother Svyatoslav persistently demanded from the Grand Duke the Chernigov volosts, refusing the Kyiv one; they wanted to take Pereslavl, promised by him, from Vyacheslav, but were repulsed; only Blessed Nicholas Svyatosha persuaded the cousins ​​to stop the feud; Igor was given three cities on the Dnieper, including Rogachev. In 1143, Igor took part in the war between his brother Vsevolod and the Galician prince - peace was concluded on the condition that the Galician prince would help Igor in acquiring Kyiv after Vsevolod’s death; a year later - again a war with the Galician prince, according to the calculations of Olgovich Vsevolod, who did not value his conscience too much 31. - So life passed in the worries of vanity, in quarrels and noise of war - sins multiplied. Because of what? My soul is empty and cold. – Igor’s father, the famous Oleg, was not a teacher of piety; but among Igor’s closest relatives are uncles Yaroslav and David of holy life, cousin Nikolai Svyatosha - a high ascetic. There was someone to learn piety from. That is why Igor, even in happy times, amid the brilliance and bustle, sometimes wanted to part with the disturbing light. Now, under the weight of troubles and sorrows, a decisive change took place in his soul. He bitterly repented of the sins of the past; the sorrows of the repentant soul, combined with the sorrows of imprisonment, exhausted his strength, and he hastened to ask for mercy - renunciation of the world. - "Brother! I am very sick and ask you for tonsure; I wanted this when I was still a prince; and now, in my need, I have become very ill and I don’t think I will survive”; This is what he sent to tell the Grand Duke on his own behalf. Izyaslav took pity and ordered me to tell him: “if you had the idea of ​​​​being tonsured, then you are free; and I’m letting you out anyway for your illness.” They carried him out of prison until he was so ill that for eight days he could neither drink nor eat; but he who was tonsured with the name Gabriel by Saint Euthymius recovered his health; Then brought to the Kiev Feodorovsky Monastery, he asked the abbot to clothe him with the schema and began to live for prayer and work. The icon of the Mother of God, before which he prayed in his last days, speaks to later descendants about his prayerful exploits. Blessed Igor parted forever with peace and dreams, but his relatives did not part. His brother Svyatoslav, not so much out of love for his brother as out of calculations of power and pride, wanted to return Igor to the throne of the Grand Duke at any cost. Even worse were the Davidovich cousins. First, they decided to take away their inheritance from their cousins ​​and aroused hatred of Igor in the Grand Duke. “Igor is angry both with you and with us, hold him tightly,” they said to Izyaslav; and they sent to Svyatoslav to say: “get out of Seversky Novgorod to Putivl.” A bloody war began, in which Davidovich and Izyaslav were drawn. At first the war went happily for the Davidovichs, but then, with the help of the strong Yuri, Svyatoslav gained victory after victory. The Davidovichs changed their plan of action. They made peace with Olgovich and by cunning they wanted to capture and kill Izyaslav. Insidious plans were revealed. Izyaslav, who was standing on Supoi, sent treaty letters to the Davidovichs; and he let the people of Kiev know about the Olgovichi’s deeds and called them to war. This was in 1147. The people of Kiev, gathered at the veche, responded to the call of their beloved Monomakhovich: “We are glad that God preserved you for us; We’ll all follow you and the children.” But at the same time, one of them said out loud: “We are ready to go for the prince, but first we need to resolve another matter: even under Izyaslav Yaroslavich, evil people released Vseslav from captivity and made him their prince, and yet there was a lot of evil to our city; now Igor, the enemy of our prince and us, is not in prison, but in the Feodorovsky monastery; We’ll kill him and then we’ll go to Chernigov for our prince.” Hundreds of voices rang out: death to Igor, and the people rushed to the monastery. Izyaslav’s brother Prince Vladimir told them: “My brother did not order you to do this; Igor is being guarded; Let’s go to our brother, as he told us.” The people of Kiev answered: “We know the will of the prince; but we also know that neither you nor we will end well with this tribe.” “Metropolitan Clement held them back in vain. - “Do not commit sin, children, listen to me; otherwise you will incur the wrath of God, and the enmity between the princes will not be satisfied,” he told them. They did not want to listen to either him or the thousand, they went to the monastery. – Vladimir threw himself on his horse in order to rush there and save Igor; but, forced to make a long detour along the way, he could not even make it to the monastery on time; the people warned him. Igor, standing in the liturgy, heard what the rebellious crowd wanted. He prepared himself for everything with thoughts about the exploits of the martyrs; then he fell in tears and prayed: “Lord! look at my weakness, so that, trusting in You, I can endure everything; I thank You that You have humbled me; deign to take me from this rebellious and gloomy world into Your light.” Fierce rebels, not respecting the holiness of the church of God, burst into the church, grabbed Igor, tore off his robe and dragged him out of the church. “Igor told them: “Why do you want to kill me as a robber? Even if you broke your oath before me, God will forgive you; He has vouchsafed me the monastic rank, and that is enough for me.” The rebellious crowd shouted: “kill, kill.” They also tore off Igor’s cassock, leaving him in just his shirt. “Unfortunate ones! what are you doing? For me it’s all the same; Naked I came from the womb, naked I will lie in the ground,” said Igor to the rebellious; but he was dragged to the gate. At this time Vladimir arrived in time. Igor, seeing him, said: “brother! where are they taking me? Vladimir, jumping off his horse, dispersed the crowd, dressed Igor in his cap 32 and said to the Kievans: “My brothers! don’t do evil, don’t kill Igor.” But the crowd did not listen and began to beat Olgovich; Vladimir was also showered with blows; however, with the help of the boyar Mikhail, he managed to bring Igor to his mother’s house and locked the gate. But the rebels, having beaten Mikhail, tore off his cross and chain with a golden hryvnia, broke down the gate; Seeing Igor in the entryway, they smashed the entryway, pulled the prince off it and threw him unconscious to the ground. Then, tying a rope to his feet, they dragged him from Mstislav’s courtyard, to the prince’s courtyard, to the Tithe Church; from here, putting it on some wood they found, they took it to Podol and threw it in the square. So the suffering prince died on September 19, 1147, Friday 33. The murder was completed and the people's fury began to subside. Seeing the bloody innocent sufferer, some began to cover his nakedness with their clothes, others took his blood to heal themselves - from illnesses. Lazarus of the Thousand said to the people: “You killed Igor, let’s bury him now.” They answered him: “It was not we who killed him, but Olgovich and Davidovich, because they intended to kill our prince, and God protected him.” The body of the holy prince was taken to the Church of St. Michael, the parish of the Novgorod merchants. “Here at night God showed a sign: the candles lit themselves over the body of the martyr. On Saturday morning, the Metropolitan sent the Feodorovsky abbot Anania to sing the funeral hymn over the prince in the monastery of St. Simeon, built by the piety of grandfather Igor. The abbot dressed the body of the prince-monk in monastic clothes and performed funeral singing 34. The pious abbot wept bitterly and said out loud to everyone: “Woe to the vain age and cruel hearts! Where is the love? At that very time, thunder roared and the earth shook, and a pillar of light appeared above the church. The people exclaimed in horror: Lord, have mercy 35. In 1148, the Chernigov princes sent a message to Izyaslav: “since Igor was killed, he went to God, where should we all be, then God will judge us all.” Izyaslav agreed to peace. And yet, Prince Georgy Dolgoruky forced Izyaslav to flee from Kyiv to Volyn 36. In 1150, “Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich transferred the relics of his brother Igor to Chernigov and they were placed near the Holy Savior in the tower.” It was July 5, 37. - From that time on, they began to celebrate “the memory of the blessed Prince Igor” 38. – The icon of the Mother of God, in front of which the blessed monk prince prayed, is now in the great church of the Pechersk Lavra 39. “Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities: for there is no authority except from God, but the existing authorities were established by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists God’s decree, and those who resist will be condemned” (Rom. 13:2). This is the conclusion of the life of Saint Prince Igor! † Repose of the blessed prince Theodore Yaroslavich Holy Prince Theodore was the eldest son of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, born in 1219. According to the chronicles, he and his younger brother Alexander were left by their father in Novgorod in 1228, as representatives of his authority. And less than a year had passed before a rebellion arose and forced them to secretly leave for their father; at the end of 1230, Yaroslav was again called up by the Novgorodians and again left Theodore and Alexander to reign with them. This time life in Novgorod was very difficult. A terrible famine and pestilence exterminated the people; and a terrible fire devastated almost half the city. In 1232, the young Prince Theodore had to go to war. Grand Duke George then sent his son Vsevolod against Mordva. – Prince Theodore Yaroslavich and the princes of Ryazan and Murom took part in Vsevolod’s campaign against the rebellious savages. Next year we see Theodore again in Novgorod. The young prince, by the will of his father, was supposed to marry here; the bride was already ready for him, the guests had gathered and the feast was ready. But the preparations did not end with wedding fun, but with funeral lament: the groom died. This was June 5, 1233 40. The body of the young prince was laid to rest in the Yuryev Monastery 41. In 1614, during the invasion of the Swedes, who cursed all that was holy, the coffin of the holy prince was taken out and opened by insolent Swedish soldiers. According to the news of 1634, “The Germans in the church of the Great Martyr George, in the monastery, looking for luggage, found a man intact and indestructible in a princely attire and, taking him out of the tomb as if alive, placed him at the church wall 42. Metropolitan Isidore, having heard about this, asked Delagardia for permission to move the coffin to the Novgorod St. Sophia Cathedral; At this time, not only did the relics of the virgin prince turn out to be incorruptible, but they exuded healing. Since that time, the holy relics have rested openly at the entrance to the chapel of the Holy Forerunner 43. “Be ready, too; For at an hour you do not think, the Son of Man will come” (Luke 12:40). “Work for your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). †Memory of Saint Peter of Corish The manuscript of the Rila Monastery reads the life of St. Peter, in the Korishskaya Mountain 44. Not having this life in our hands, we limit ourselves to information about St. Peter of Corisha, collected by a recent traveler in the places of St. Peter’s exploits. “We drove through a terrible slum,” the traveler writes, for more than half an hour, along the edge of Mount Mravinitsa, now rising and now falling, and finally reached a platform formed by rocks above a deep gorge. The Korishsky Monastery was built here. It was abandoned long ago and the village of Korisha itself, located somewhat higher in the mountains, passed into the hands of the Arnauts, Muslims. The place in which the young hermit, Saint Peter of Korishsky, was saved, in its solitude, in the terrible abyss and formidable rocks with which it is surrounded, resembles the monastery where his body now rests, the Chernoretsky monastery... We entered a small cave in which Saint Peter built a church. The image of the Savior written on the rock is still quite well preserved; next to the image we could read the words: Not far from this cave there is another lower, but longer, in which, as they say, a hermit fasted and in which a church was later built... a little further on there are the ruins of a majestic building. Tsar Dushan (1337–1351), in order to adequately honor the memory of the holy youth whom he knew and loved, soon after his death decided to build a large magnificent church near his cave; but how could it be placed on the mountainside, where nature had formed only a few small ledges and narrow platforms? Dusan boldly threw the arcade into the depths of the gorge and founded a church on the arcade. The arches still stand almost intact, but the Muslims destroyed the church; only a large piece of one of the walls survived, and precisely the one that stands above the abyss itself, not adjacent to the mountain. On it you can also see images written in three rows, one above the other” 45. Elsewhere, the same traveler writes: “in the Chernoretsk church there is a shrine with the relics of a young man, St. Peter of Koriš, who (it seems during the time of Dušan) led a fasting life in the mountains near Prizren. When the church he built there was destroyed; then people from the village of Briyaki in Kolasin, who belonged to the Kosachi clan, transferred his relics to the church of St. Archangel, built by St. Ioannikis, adjacent to their village, and placed them here. The shrine also contained a book that Saint Peter of Corish, as they say, always carried with him; the book was still intact last year” 46. Holy Martyrs Marcian, Leonidas, Apollo The holy martyrs Marcian, Leonidas, Apollo and seven others with them, for confessing the name of Christ, they were killed by hunger and thirst in Egypt, during the reign of Maximin (308-312). The teaching of Abba Dorotheus (10) about chastity and faithfully following the path of God. Christ. Thurs. 1830 In the memorial of the Yeletsky Monastery: “Prince. George killed in Kyiv"; in the Lyubetsky Synodik: “v. book George of Kyiv, to the foreign workshop of Gabriel." – According to the chronicles, neither the name of baptism nor the monastic name of the saint is known. book Igor, – Khavsky: “Saint Igor, he and David, Olegovich” (see Archangel Cathedral, p. 11. M. 1862). Where did this come from? G. Khavsky believes St. Igor for one with the blessed one. prince Chernig. David, a contemporary of St. bishop Theoktista (see Aug. 6), because this David is praised in the steppe. book; but blessed book David was the uncle of St. book Igor and deceased in 1123 Pogodin's Chronicles; research VI, 73. 74. Vladimir “jump off your horse with fire and basket.” See “Russian Saints” June 31, pr. 218. Degree. book I, 276: “killed sept. on day 9." Kyiv. l.: “I went to God Sept. at 7 p.m. on Friday.” Collection l. II. 34. According to Nikon. l. (Collected l. IX, 176): “I would have been killed on the heel.” Soph. years. (Collected l.5:159): “killed the month. Sep. on day 19." Friday 1147 was September 19, not September 9. Collection l. 2, 22–24. 32. 33. I, 136–138. Karamz. 2, pr. 398. Step. book I. 268. Hr.-min. and prologue on June 5. Collection l. 2, 34–45. 53. “We took it to the end of the city to the monastery of St. Simeon... Transferred. relics - Igor from Saint Semyon from Kopyrevo end." Kopyrev end - between the mountains. Kiselevka and Skavitsa, near Konstantinovskaya street. Collection l. 2, 53. H.-min. June 5. In a collection of the 15th century. from Rumyantsev No. 406: “with you (Antony and Theodosius) we honestly please Prince Igor by honestly accepting the torment who made a pure sacrifice to God. If only Kiana reproachfully placed an honest Black Risen image on (the) one, and in that you will receive an incorruptible crown, without reproachful glory you will merit eternal torment for yourself.” Shrine of Kiev, p. 20. K. 1850. Photograph at Fundukley. Collection l. 3, 43. 44–49. I, 196. 220. Proceedings of the community ist. 3, 1, pp. 169–171, where extracts from the chronicles about the burial place of St. the prince and his mother. – The Vladimir collection (M. 1857, p. 78) repeats the old mistake, following the meager followers of the meaning of the meager. Read General ist. 1862, book. 4. Description Blush. music., p. 352. Inscription from Karamz. 4, pr. 39. Next. Psalter. Description Novg. Soph. sob., p. 104. Grigorovich's journey, p. 187. Hilferding in the west geogr. total XIII, 217–219.