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Venerable Alypius the Stylite Alipius was the son of pious parents who lived in Adrianople of Paphlagonia in the 6th century. Even before his birth, his mother had a mysterious announcement that he would shine in the world - having seen in a dream that he was holding in his arms a lamb, on the horns of which two lighted candles were burning... Having been widowed when Alypius was still a child, his mother entrusted his upbringing to Blessed Theodore, the bishop of that city, who, having taught the youth St. Scripture, took even more care to instill in him zeal to fulfill what the Holy One teaches. Scripture, and, having succeeded in this and noticing the extraordinary intelligence and meekness of Alypius, as he grew older, ordained him to the deacon. However, he did not remain in service for long in this rank; he was more attracted to the silent and solitary life, and so, having asked for the consent of his mother and distributing his property to the poor, Alypius retired outside the city and settled in a deserted place, in one of the Elli tombs that were here. This place was considered terrible among the people; Everyone ran around him, and Alypius did not escape the temptations of the fear that attacked him in his unusual solitude, but he was calmed by the vision of an Angel who told him: “there is a holy place, where a person who loves God will want to live pleasing to God.” Above the tomb in which Alypios settled was a stone pillar with an idol on top; Having broken this idol, the hermit replaced it with a cross. Having prepared his soul through no small asceticism, Alypius, whose solitude was broken only by significant Divine visions, extracted from them the instruction to build a church in this place in the name of St. Euphemia, who also appeared to him in dreams. He himself wanted to strengthen his feat by standing on a pillar... and for 53 years, without leaving it, he endured all the changes in the air, all kinds of fatigue and illness - only 14 years before his death, when his legs became covered with ulcers from standing, he could no longer stand, but lay, with his suffering, and patience, and thanksgiving to God for everything, reminding Job... Many people began to flock to this place, previously terrible, but now glorified by the exploits of the stylite and no small miracles, the gift of which God honored him with. Others wanted to settle near his home and over time built male and female monasteries here. Alipius died at the age of 118 in 640, during the reign of Heraclius. His life, described by his disciple, testifies in the writer as a contemporary and compatriot to the saint; so, for example, describing the return of Alypius to his fatherland, he says: “God was pleased to show us such mercy that He bestowed the saving fruit on the very city in which it grew”; at the end of the biography he prays to him: look at us and have pity on us, whom you gathered and left as orphans, and so on. 404. The Church sings the praises of St. Alipiya: “Thou art a pillar of patience, O venerable forefather. To Job in passions, to Joseph in temptations, and disembodied living, who is in the body; Alypie, our father, pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved!” (Trope.). † Repose of St. Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk Branch of the ancient noble Volyn family of Kulchitsky, V blessed. Innokenty received mental education at the Kyiv Academy 405. In the Kyiv Lavra he was tonsured a monk and received the priesthood here. In 1710, he, along with two others, was sent to the post of teacher at the Moscow Academy; in 1714 he received the title of prefect here and in the same year he was transferred to the Nevsky Lavra, with the title of cathedral hieromonk. Here he served as chief hieromonk of the fleet, otherwise he was the head of the naval hieromonks, supervised their behavior, resolved their doubts and communicated with the Synod about spiritual needs. In 1720, Archimandrite of the Lavra Theodosius Yanovsky was consecrated as Bishop of Novgorod, and Innocent was entrusted with correcting the position of vicar of the Lavra 406. When Tsar Peter I, on the recommendation of the Siberian governor, ordered that there should be a bishop at the Russian Beijing mission, as well as at the Roman mission, Blessed was appointed for such a great service. Innocent. At the same time, the Holy Synod on February 14, 1721 reported to the sovereign: “Designated to the Khin state, Hieromonk Iinokenty Kulchitsky, bishop of Irkutsk and Nerchinsk, for proximity to this state, should he be consecrated and separated from the Siberian diocese for the most convenient treatment?” The Emperor answered: ordain him a bishop, but it would be better without the title of the cities, since these cities are bordering Hina, so that the Jesuits do not misinterpret and cause disaster 407. Blessed. Innocent was consecrated bishop on March 5, 1721, and so that, in accordance with the conciliar rule, he was called a bishop of a certain Church, he was named Bishop of Pereyaslavl. The Chinese government at that time was well disposed towards the Russian court and was very pleased with the first Russian mission for Beijing, which was headed by Archimandrite Hilarion. This gave hope that Blessed. Innocent will be favorably received by the Beijing court. On April 19, the new saint left St. Petersburg with two hieromonks, five choristers and 3 ministers. Silver vessels and an omophorion were given to him from the patriarchal sacristy; other utensils, by order of the Synod, were taken in Suzdal from the sacristy of the Metropolitan. Ephraim 408. In March 1722, the saint arrived in Irkutsk and in Selenginsk, beyond Lake Baikal, he had to await orders on the way to Beijing. To support him and his retinue, 1,500 rubles were allocated from Siberian revenues. The Emperor, who knew the people well, saw and made it known that the Jesuits could harm St. business and therefore caution is needed in business. Unfortunately, in his absence (he went on the Persian campaign), the Senate wrote a letter to the Chinese Tribunal in the following form: “in the place of the deceased archimandrite, for the conduct of church services and for all other church affairs, by the will of the sovereign, a clergyman, Mr. Innocent Kulchitsky, with two hieromonks, two deacons and several ministers is sent. The Senate kindly requests that the Khinsky Majesty allow the aforementioned Mr. Kulchitsky and those with him to perform the Divine service in Beijing according to Christian custom, and to visit his fellow believers in other places. For this, the Tsar’s Majesty promises to fulfill the wishes of the Bogdykhan within the Russian borders.” Envoy Izmailov, who was supposed to open the way for the mission in Beijing, was kindly received by the Beijing court. He did not conclude an agreement with the court of Bogdykhan, because border affairs had not yet been resolved; but they promised to give him a place in Beijing for the Russian merchants and to build a courtyard for the Russian mission. After that, one must regret that the Senate’s attitude towards the mission did not find Izmailov in Beijing. He, of course, would have been able to dispel the suspicions of the Chinese, aroused by the careless paper of the Senate, with personal explanations. Without him, the Mungalsky tribunal sent an answer: “by Bogdykhan’s decree, it was not ordered to allow Mr. Innokenty Kulchitsky into Beijing, because there is no letter about him from the Siberian governor and there is no seal attached, which was given to Izmailov” 409. They hastened to send the attitude of the governor and the press. But the tribunal then directly wrote: it cannot let Innocent pass, because he is called a spiritual person and a great lord. So Saint Innocent had to stay in Selenginsk and wait for a solution to his perplexities. And he stayed here for three whole years. One can imagine how painful this uncertainty of the situation was! How hard it was to wait and wait and see no end to the waiting! This time was the time of cleansing the depths of the saint’s heart. Now his soul was learning patience and complete submission to the will of God. But the saint also found in Selenginsk objects for his activities that were consistent with his purpose. - The Holy Synod appointed him as a preacher of St. faith, although not within Russia. – The saint tried to fulfill this assignment within the circle accessible to him. He preached to St. faith to the pagans who wandered around Selenginsk, the Buryats and Mungals. – And his preaching was not fruitless: he converted a significant number of pagans to the light of Christ. In the handwritten akathist the saint reads: “you patiently endured bitter trials, arguing with hordes of infidels and superstitious people.” Another akathist sings: “having heard the cunning verbs of Hinn, as if it was not fitting for you to be accepted into their kingdom, you turned with the Gospel to the language of your kingdom, Mongolian... Rejoice, as you brought the preaching of the Gospel into the Mongolian language, cruelly putting to shame the deception of human souls.” The saint's stay in Selenginsk was also beneficial in that it strengthened the faith and piety of the native Christians, who were quite weakened by the influence of the temptations of paganism. The akathist hymn sings to him: “thou didst enlighten the unbelieving Mongolian languages ​​with the light of the Gospel of Christ; In March 1725, by decree of the Synod, the saint moved to the Irkutsk Ascension Monastery to await new orders about his mission. Here he met his temptations. The rector of the monastery, Archimandrite Platkovsky, sought and hoped to be the rector of the Pevinsky mission; and at the same time there was a man with the most unbridled passions: everyone he touched complained about him; he was already on trial, by decree of the Synod: but did not want to answer anyone about his actions. When the saint arrived at the monastery, the offended turned to him with complaints; the saint consoled the unfortunate as much as he could. Inquisitor Iovlev more than once asked the saint to protect him through trial from the attacks of Platkovsky. The saint declared that he was not in the mood to consider the affairs of an archimandrite who was not under his jurisdiction; The archpastor's very servants received strict orders from him not to enter into intercourse with anyone from the monastery. The Metropolitan of Tobolsk, having heard about the call of Blessed. Innocent in Irkutsk, wrote to him: “Most Reverend to the Bishop of God! my benefactor! Many many Irkutsk clergy, due to lack of organization and lack of invention, are forced to investigate the affairs of their worthy workers, Your Eminence, asking that you deign to order to investigate those of their affairs, to whom Your Eminence pleases. “Consecrating to ourselves in your hope the inalienable love in everything, we clearly put it here.” Three cases are presented, including the one about the Irkutsk archpriest. Then Metropolitan. Anthony and the governor, Prince Dolgorukov, at a joint meeting, asked the blessed one. Innokenty to investigate, by order of the Synod, the wild deeds of Platkovsky. But the saint did not take upon himself anything, either in one respect or another, since the highest authority showed him other activities 410. In June 1725, by the will of the emperor. For the final resolution of affairs with China, Catherine was ordered to send Count Vladislavich-Raguzinsky as a plenipotentiary envoy and go with him to His Eminence Innocent, if there is no obstacle from the Chinese. – Raguzinsky was ordered not to announce to the Chinese about Innocent’s episcopal rank, but only to call him a clergyman. In the spring of 1726, the Right Reverend Innocent went to Selenginsk to await the envoy. – Chinese border officials greeted Raguzinsky with honor at the border; he was also honorably received in Beijing; after some difficulties they agreed to the contract; Raguzinsky instructed Commissar Lang to write and conclude an agreement, but about the mission of the blessed. There was no trace of Innocent 411. And Raguzinsky did not want to do anything for the saint. When he was in Selenginsk, he did not honor St. Innocent even to see him. Back in Irkutsk, he gave his word to the fellow Platkovsky that he, Platkovsky, and no one else would be the head of the mission in Beijing. Therefore, even when Raguzinsky had not yet left China, in St. Petersburg, in the Supreme Privy Council, a matter was decided on a subject that concerned more the Church than the state. Saint Innocent, while staying in Selenginsk, received an unexpected decree on March 24, 1727. “This is the 7th day of January,” says the decree, in the decree of Her Majesty from the Supreme Privy Council of St. It is written to the Synod: the Illyrian Count Savva Vladislavich, sent to the Chinese court by Her Majesty's Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, reported to Her Majesty from the Chinese border from the Bura river, on August 31 (1726), that the Chinese ministers (?), who received him at the border, did not allow Your Eminence to go there with him, the Count, to China without Khinsky's decree, and he does not expect that your Eminence The Chinese accepted; “Only because of his efforts, when he was at the Chinese court, where he had already gone from Siberia, the archimandrite and priests would be accepted in Beijing, but your Eminence would never be allowed in, and he represented Count Vladislavich to send Ascension Archimandrite Anthony, who lives near Irkutsk and teaches several children the Mungal language and has been to Beijing.” The council decided to make an order in agreement with the envoy's opinion. The Holy Synod ordered His Grace Innocent to reside in the Irkutsk Ascension Monastery 412. Why is it so that St. was the cause of the gospel in ruins? There is no doubt that the intrigues of the Jesuits were at work here, fearing that the Chinese would open their eyes to them. It also meant a lot that the then reigning Yong-Chiseng, on the occasion of the discord that occurred between the missionaries of the two Latin orders, declared a ban on the adoption of Christian law. But both of these reasons do not yet explain the whole matter. The plenipotentiary envoy managed to force the Beijing court to do many things that were far more important for the Beijing court than the reception of the Russian bishop 413. In the handwritten akathist to the saint we read: “You have patiently endured all sorrows and bitter trials, Father, as a good warrior of Christ, enduring slander and slander from the treacherous head of the mission and his minions.” – According to these words, Archimandrite Platkovsky strongly opposed the sending of the saint to Beijing. This is natural for him: as frantic in bad deeds as he is cowardly in the face of misfortune, he used all measures to get rid of troubles by appointing him to Beijing. The unfortunate man did not escape God's judgment. No matter how much he hid behind Raguzinsky, in 1731 they took him from Beijing past Irkutsk shackled 414. But, if Platkovsky could act against the saint with slander, then there was someone who accepted the slander and spoiled the whole holy work. Who is this? Of course, Envoy Raguzinsky. Was he acting out of a passion for slander? Raguzinsky, a merchant, under the protection of Menshikov, was a robber of Little Russia 415. Platkovsky offered all the monastery granaries at the disposal of the merchant, as they would open later, and the merchant presented Platkovsky as the most capable missionary for Beijing and unnecessary - the saint. It is pleasant for every Orthodox Christian that Platkovsky was appointed to Beijing without any participation of the church board. The Council disposed of the IIO at its own discretion, without even asking the Synod for information about who Platkovsky is? That is why people are pitiful because, while they dream of their wisdom, capable of knowing everything and managing everything, they do things that only cause them shame and dishonor. The Holy Synod, for its part, was not slow in bringing St. Innocent from his difficult situation. He decreed the same definition of blessedness. Innocent, which he believed even under Peter V. By decree of January 15. 1727 The Irkutsk Church, which until then was part of the Tobolsk diocese and since 1707, ruled by a suffragan bishop, was placed among independent dioceses, and Saint Innocent was named Bishop of Irkutsk and Nerchinsk. Thus he began the ranks of saints of the Irkutsk Church! It was not long before the definition of the Synod reached St. Innocent, but it got there. Upon receiving the decree, the saint sent out a district letter to his flock with pastoral instructions. “With the blessing of God,” he wrote, Her Imperial Majesty, having her gracious heart in the hand of God, but the report is Holy. The Governing Synod, by its merciful decree, deigned to appoint me to the Irkutsk diocese as a real bishop and title myself according to that diocese, for this sake I pray, first of all, to make prayers for Her Imperial Majesty and all her high family, the Holy Governing Synod, also for our humility, titling us Irkutsk and Nerchinsk. We pray to you and archpastorally exhort you, so that you may philosophize with one accord, do one another great honor, have peace and love among one another, just like St. Apostle Paul teaches. The Elika is most honorable, the Elika is most lovable, the Elika is most praiseworthy, learn from these, follow these, hold on to these, so that you will be worthy of inheriting both temporal and eternal good. We sincerely wish this and send blessings. Amen. Sep. 1st 1727" 416. The Tobolsk Metropolitan transferred 3 monasteries, 9 city churches and up to 34 village churches to the jurisdiction of the new Irkutsk archpastor; The Irkutsk Voznensky Monastery was given by the Synod to the complete disposal of St. Innocent 417. There are people who, by their moral structure, are such that they cause harm to themselves and inflict torment on anyone who, in any way, stands in their way. Such were Platkovsky and Raguzinsky towards the saint! Two weeks after joining the Irkutsk see, Saint Innocent received a letter from Ambassador Raguzgnsky, where he, having informed that affairs with Beijing were going peacefully and that Archimandrite Platkovsky had been appointed to Beijing, wrote: “order the archimandrite to give a good and skillful priest and a hierodeacon, only two people from the church teachers, and a third archimandrite, and three students of his choice, the archimandrite. And their salary is only 1250 rubles. for the first year. And they will be given that salary immediately from the monastery’s cash and from the confiscated inquisitorial money.” Then it is written to provide the archimandrite with the utensils given for the Beijing mission. The letter was delivered from the border by messenger, Raguzinsky's adjutant. The saint immediately made possible orders. The Transbaikal widow priest Filimonov, who expressed a desire to go to Beijing, was ordered to appear at the disposal of Archimandrite Platkovsky; The ambassadorial hierodeacon Serapion was also ordered to appear there; The archimandrite was given 300 rubles from the monastery. Sent to Ambassador Raguzinsky on September 13. the following answer: “Most Excellent Count, Savva Vladislavich, my most gracious benefactor! Let all thanks be to God, glorified in the Trinity, for your Excellency, through tireless labor and sweat, without bloodshed, will gain victory and, instead of battle, the longed-for gift of peace, for which not only I am unworthy and not only the entire Russian state, but also all the surrounding states, who want peace, will rejoice and rejoice and say: blessed is the man like him both into one, and did such a thing that was difficult to accomplish. Your Excellency wrote in a letter that was received this September 1727. 5 d. through the lieutenant to our humility: 1) that Archimandrite Anthony Platkovsky is going to China, and 550 rubles determined for him. and with him, 130 rubles are sent to one priest, one hierodeacon and 3 disciples. for the first time, give the salary from the money available at the Ascension Monastery. And the only cash I had in the monastery was 400 rubles. Of that number, 300 rubles were given to the archimandrite with our humility and with the aforementioned lieutenant and with the brethren of that monastery. And one hundred was left for various monastic needs, which cannot be used to pay even urgent ones. But the confiscated inquisitorial money does not belong to me: as it was, I was not in Irkutsk and did not know anything, and now how many there are is not known; - I don’t dare touch this money. The Irkutsk governor Izmailov, according to the decrees of Her Majesty, does as he wants with them. And the Irkutsk monastery was almost completely ruined by this sent archimandrite, for which, with this humble writing to your excellency, for the sake of testimony, I am sending an extract copied from the books of accounts of that monastery, that he was in money and goods, except for animals and others from copper, tin and glazed utensils and yuftas and other small things and grain donations and except for the school, which is in excess of what is required dependency was used, which, due to the short time after my perception of the Irkutsk diocese, has not yet followed, he took it from that monastery. Your Excellency can figure out how much money the archimandrite took from him and how much more money from that monastery is counted on him. From that number, he can allocate a salary for himself and others with him to the 300 shown, and the rest of the money, if your Excellency’s mercy is shown to the wretched monastery, order him to return it back to the monastery. 2) Your Excellency also wrote to give the archimandrite vestments, books and church utensils, which I took from the blessed and eternally worthy memory of His Emperor. V. by decree and decree of the Holy Synod from different places, which was also reported to the Holy Synod, where everything was and from whom exactly. Now, without an obedient decree from the Holy Synod, I did not dare to give away all the things that are appropriate to my bishop’s service, except for what belongs to the archimandrite’s service, about which the register is sent with this letter, in which he signed the things with his own hand.” Everything that the saint now offered breathed with intelligence, love, and humility—amazing. If the lost Platkovsky did not see his impudence from the gentle admonition of the Gvyatitelsky, this is natural for him. What is more amazing is that Raguzinsky did not understand his lies, which the saint so cleverly pointed out as a warning to him 418. Raguzinsky, out of pride, considered himself entitled to insult the saint again. Oct. 15 Platkovsky came to Irkutsk with a long letter from Raguzinsky. The ambassador wrote that he stopped the mission for three reasons. “I don’t think,” he said, that the Holy Synod would consider it disgusting if your Eminence would give enough of the confiscated inquisitorial money for such a necessary parcel. Secondly, the archimandrite brought with him a worldly priest, of whom the local residents prove that he is a constant drunkard. The third great one was informed from a letter from your Eminence that he, the archimandrite, ruined the monastery and took a lot of the monastery money by untruth - according to the register it is shown that the archimandrite was to blame for the monastery 3794 rubles; and the archimandrite announced that he was the monastery and did not blame anyone for a penny.” Therefore, the ambassador asks that the archimandrite settle accounts with the monastery or release him to the Synod to bring justification. All three claims are unfair and insulting, and are not to the honor of the ambassador. The first sounds like arrogance, accustomed to not respecting the law. Priest Filimonov before the saint was the Transbaikal inquisitor and, if he had a weakness, then there were no better ones, at least among those who would be willing to go to Beijing. The Eminence appointed a commission to settle the monastery's settlements with Platkovsky. Platkovsky hastened to send a request to the Tobolsk Metropolitan - to inform Irkutsk of a decree that gave him the right to receive income from the Ascension Monastery equal to the abbot of the Chudov Monastery, and at the same time allowed him to take the confiscated money of the inquisitor. The commission, after considering the entire case, with all the desire to please the terrible Raguzinsky, determined: 632 rubles spent by Platkovsky during his stay in Moscow. collect from him, equally collect 400 rubles, taken in the form of a salary commensurate with the salary of the Chudovsky Monastery, also collect 54 rubles. taken excessively - in all these cases, money is arbitrary; other subjects will be discussed at a later date. Platkovsky at first did not want to comply with the commission’s determination and announced that he was going to the Synod with a complaint. But this is just a trick of deceit. He understood well that the Synod would not treat him gently. Therefore, he declared in writing that he was paying his debts to the monastery and stopping any claim against him. The Tobolsk Metropolitan delivered information that there was no decree from the Synod about equalizing the rights of Platkovsky with the rights of the Chudovsky rector, and that 200 - 100 rubles should be recovered from Platkovsky, which he took from the archimandrite. Gideon Vishnevsky, and 100 rubles due to the Tyumen monastery. Meanwhile, Count Raguzinsky was informed by the party that, according to the records of Archimandrite Platkovsky, the debt of the ambassador and his retinue was listed as unpaid in the monastery books. This deeply stung Raguzinsky and forced him to change the tone of his treatment of the saint. In a letter dated February 8. 1728 he informs the saint that he never wanted to offend the monastery; the clerk of the embassy took various supplies from the monastery, totaling 60 rubles, and exchanged 5 horses for monastery horses and paid for everything, for which there is a receipt; Secretary Glazunov took supplies for himself for 6 rubles. and also paid Platkovsky. Therefore, in order to protect his honor, I asked him to pay attention to this subject, ending the letter like this: “recommending myself to your archpastoral holy prayers, wishing your Eminence the blessing, kissing your holy hands, I abide with the deepest respect.” When this letter was shown to Platkovsky, he hastened to deliver the money shown in the letter to the monastery. At the request of the commission, he paid another 400 rubles. Ambassadorial Monastery. And he hurried to Selenginsk 419. The unpleasant relationship between Raguzinsky and Platkovsky did not stop the saint’s activities in the diocese. Hegumen Pachomius conducted an investigation into the murder of the peasant Lobanov by priest Orlov and closed the culprit. Upon filing the complaint, a commission was appointed by the saint. Orlov, convicted by witnesses, confessed that he had played cards in a tavern with two clerks and Ilya Lobanov; in a quarrel, having fought with Lobanov, he pushed him away from him, and he, hitting the bench, died; He gave 6 rubles to investigator Pachomius. and two ends of the Chinese one. Pachomius also confessed to his guilt. The following decision followed: since priest Orlov played cards, and even in a tavern, and in a fight he killed a man, and after committing the murder he bribed the investigator and performed the service, then, in accordance with the regulations, subject him to cruel corporal punishment, depriving him of the right to minister; Send Pachomius to the bakery to sow flour, take a fine of 10 rubles, return the money and the Chinese coin to the owner. The saint’s instructions to priest Daniil Ivanov are very remarkable. “I will inform you of the Overseas (Trans-Baikal) order throughout the Selenga district, and in action act on these points: 1. You should go around the churches in your order and look at the entire deanery of the church and over the priests and over all the clergy, namely: they would not riot, the drunks would not make noise in the streets or in the church; Do they not drink wine in taverns and so on according to the addition of the regulations on priests? 2. Send out His Majesty’s decrees, and to send them out, send sextons and sextons in your order, unless there are quick and foamy companions; and take carts for sextons and sextons from church to church. 3. The priest should give you a crown of memory to all the churches of his order, according to the rules of St. Apostle and St. father and by orders of His Majesty; and if it is far away, then give orders to others; collect duties as usual without excess; also give decrees to sextons and sextons according to the decree of the Right Reverend with the collection of duties; in applications for places it would be stated whether he would be scolded, or would eat from the income, and that he was a kind, not suspicious person. 4. You should always collect salary money from all churches according to your order, according to the timesheet, without excess. If the chapels are resumed by decree, these salaries should be collected and given... 5. If someone submits a report to you about a priest or a clerk, you should look at it, and if there is an important matter, send it to the Irkutsk Bishop’s order for a decision, and if it’s about unimportant matters, decide them yourself according to the rules and regulations, without any pretense. 6. Report your decision on the case to the order. 7. Deliver metric notebooks and confessional records from all churches. 8. Ensure that there are no unregistered clergy in the area and, if there are any, bring them to the Right Reverend. 9 . Keep an eye on whether there are schismatics and, if there are any, report them. 10. Do not act beyond the right granted by the instructions, and perform the duties of the office diligently and conscientiously. 11. On paper, take ink from all churches in proportion to how much comes out; Likewise, the scribe should assign a ruble from each church, and not determine any more. 12. Distribute the carts among the priests and the clerics and collect money from them in one amount, according to the consideration of the parish, from whom more is due, from whom less, so that there is no offense to anyone; when any decrees come, then hire from the amount collected without excess and send it where it should be.” Irkutsk priests, believing that the Right Reverend, living in the Ascension Monastery, in the 5th faith. from the city, cannot know what is going on in the city, they continued, according to the ingrained custom, to serve the liturgy very early, to the displeasure of the citizens. The saint learned about the unrest and ordered the following decree to be sent (November 13, 1727) to the archpriest of Irkutsk: “It was known to his Eminence that the good news for the Liturgy of God happens very early in Irkutsk; and many, for the sake of guilt, for failure to dispatch the cases entrusted to them, are deprived of hearing the liturgy. For this reason, you are commanded that on small days the good news for the liturgy should be at one and a half hours (from sunrise), and on great days at 3 o’clock. For the sake of better order, everyone, when they can listen, sing the early liturgy every week in the cathedrals, namely at the time of the hour, without continuing the gospel, but only by striking the bell three times.” By the decree of the Synod of August 22, 1727, it was ordered to report on the state of the diocesan school. The saint, in accordance with the regulations, ordered (dated January 5, 1728) the clergy to immediately deliver to the Irkutsk theological school, opening in the Ascension Monastery, all children from 7 to 15 years of age; A Russian school was opened in the monastery that same year, and at the same time the Mungal school continued to exist, left by Platkovsky extremely unsettled. By order of the Synod in 1727, spiritual inquisitors were abolished, and the former inquisitors were ordered to strictly believe and again strengthen the priestly elders. The priestly elder chosen for Irkutsk and the Irkutsk tithe received two instructions from the saint: one depicts his permanent duties; another was given instructions to revise the churches of her district in all respects and, among other things, to take away the book: “The truth of the will of the monarchs.” Since at different times there were reports of various disorders taking place in Transbaikalian churches and parishes, in February 1728 the saint gave Abbot Pachomius instructions with which he should inspect Transbaikalia and, where necessary and possible, carry out an investigation. The disturbances, according to reports, related especially to marriage matters. One of the Irkutsk priests complained that the priest of a neighboring parish, and after the recent division of parishes, was correcting the requirements in his parish, to his offense. The saint, in two instructions (dated March 19, 1728), made it an indispensable duty “that priests should not go from their own to another parish to receive services, without the permission of the parish priest, except for necessary needs, and should not enter any house to pray, baptize, bury or give communion; It is not forbidden to accept those who want to go to confession from someone else’s parish, but to send them to their parish for communion, giving a letter of leave that they were at confession and worthy to receive communion, for better discretion, according to the decrees, that their parishioner is not a schismatic. And whoever from the world, the saint added, due to a quarrel with a priest, will call a priest from someone else’s parish to pray, baptize, give communion and marry, such will declare our unblessing.” The priest of the monastery Baldai settlement, for whom, due to his inability, his son signed, complained that the settlers, contrary to the agreement, had not delivered him 4 nuz of bread from the yard for three years. After investigating the case, the saint ordered that the full amount of grain be paid for 1727, and for other years, due to the poverty of the peasants who suffered from the shortage of grain, the priest would wait for payment until a better time. The settlers of the Kudinskaya Sloboda complained that their priest Theodore led a drunken life; on Easter, due to drunkenness, he left his vestments in a peasant hut, where they remained for 9 weeks, and meanwhile reported that the vestments had been stolen by a sexton. This priest, even according to the dean’s inspection, turned out to be very faulty. But there was no one to replace him - there were so few capable of priestly service! The Eminence ordered the priest to be punished with whips for his drunken life and for slandering the sexton, and to punish the sexton for proven drunkenness and return him to his place of service. The village priest, according to a note from the city priest Vasiliev, buried a hanged criminal near the church, contrary to paragraph 23 of the instructions of P. Adrian. The saint obliged both priests by signature to dig up the buried person and carry it on their shoulders to a poor house, and to pay Vasilyev 5 rubles. fine After a shortage of grain in 1727, a terrible drought began across Lake Baikal in the spring of 1728. On May 16, the saint ordered the churches of Irkutsk and the Irkutsk tithe to add a prayer for an end to the drought in each liturgy, to sing an akathist to the Mother of God on Saturdays, and to gather in the cathedral for a general prayer service on Sunday. The prayers, the saint said, should end on Elijah’s day. On July 30th, Raguzinsky left Irkutsk and was driven by a storm to the Ascension Monastery, where he said goodbye to the saint. The rain was so heavy that the water stood knee-deep in the streets of Irkutsk. The saint had to cleanse his flock of illegal marriages, which often happened in the flock left without the close supervision of the archpastor. The peasant Florov complained: his married son Matthew, due to illness, traveled to St. places in Russia. His wife Avdotya gave birth to a son illegally without him and then got married to the peasant Avvakum. The research, having justified this report, also revealed that Florov asked for 25 rubles. from Avvakum and received 8 rubles. for allowing his daughter-in-law to remarry. The saint approved this decision of his order: Florov for taking 8 rubles. and promised “a rebuke (vacation), to beat with whips mercilessly, so that it would not be common for others to sell their daughters-in-law like that”; She was punished with whips, sent to a monastery for repentance, and Avvakum was forbidden to marry. At the end of the year, Habakkuk asked the saint: since Matthew does not want to live with Avdotya, and for him, Habakkuk, given his youth, it is difficult to protect himself from sin, then to allow Avdotya to live with him. The saint wrote: “let the latter not be bitter, and the first husband renounced Avdotya, so that he could send her out of the monastery to her second husband.” The decisions about a soldier who married while her husband was alive had the same content. Irkutsk archpriest Pyotr Grigoriev ordered the village priest to marry his relative Elezov, whose wife was sick. This was before the saint entered the Irkutsk department. It is determined: the archpriest will serve for a year in the rank of ordinary priest; send the officiating priest to a monastery, depriving him of his parish; Elezov to live with his second wife; but for the fact that he did not ask for a legal divorce, collect 20 rubles from him. for the construction of the cathedral and 10 rubles. for office expenses 420. Since the decree of Peter I ordered that almshouses at churches should be maintained for candle money, the saint on April 8, 1728 demanded that he be informed about the state of the church almshouses. The elders replied that all the candle money was used for church expenses. The saint turned to the other side of the matter, ordered to confirm that church candles were sold in the form shown in the decree of the sovereign, and if the strong one turns out to be a violator of the law, then inform him. What was the consequence? One impudent person, caught with unshaped candles in the market, almost strangled the clerk who caught him. In the same year, the saint drew attention to those who had not been to confession and St. participles. In 1727, in Irkutsk alone, there were 420 people who had not gone to confession. The violators of the debt were reported to the provincial office for the collection of a legal fine. The office replied that, according to the manifesto, the fine was forgiven, but the perpetrators were instructed to comply with the decree of the Church. It is a remarkable case how wickedness is punished from above for deviating from fulfilling the will of the archpastor. When reviewing the list of clergy children, the saint ordered that the son of the priest Kozma be sent to school. The priest replied that his son was already filling the position of clerk. The saint wrote: this does not prevent him from studying at school. The crafty priest hastened to marry his son. But what happened? “Returning on horseback from the forest, the headman reported, Kozma’s son fell from his horse and was so hurt that he would hardly remain alive.” The Cossack son Fedor Evdokimov died suddenly on December 4, 1728. The wife asked the Eminence for permission to honor him with a Christian burial. As a result of the investigation, it turned out that Evdokimov was drinking with tribute money on December 3rd. The Right Reverend decided to bury him 2 versts from the village without a priestly burial. In the akathist they sing to the saint: “Rejoice, vigilant guardian of the souls entrusted to you, redeemed by the blood of Christ, preserved by vigilant prayer and the path of human strength through superior demeanor.” – At the beginning of 1729, the saint, on his winter road, surveyed the diocese on the left side of the Angara. Settlers of the Ascension Monastery lived in those places. The merciful saint had already forgiven them for two years of arrears. Now they collected a pound of wheat from the yard for the bishop's house. Although the saint did not receive a penny of salary either for himself or for the house, due to a strange oversight of his superiors, to relieve the settlers, he ordered the delivery of wheat on monastery carts. It was reported to the guard of the Tikhvin Church that he was in a drinking house with the church key and there, drunk, he got into a fight with another. The saint convinced the watchman to confess everything and ordered: the guilty person should be kept in the monastery bread room on a chain for a day, so that he would eat the flour; then let him go with a signature - in advance, do not carry the church key to the tavern and live soberly. In the Posolsky Monastery, one novice called another a runaway soldier. The investigation confirmed the complaint, and also that the offended person was not a soldier. If the name “runaway soldier” had been heard in the civil office, it would have threatened the monastery with troubles. Therefore, the Eminence ordered that the guilty person be punished corporally, in the spirit of brotherhood, as a warning to others. The task of collecting government taxes from the monastery peasants was not easy. The acquisition of wine sales especially caused a lot of anxiety and trouble. Tax farmers, through the civil office, insisted that they should not be prevented from selling wine not only in monastic villages, but even near monasteries. It was hard for the saint to see that they were corrupting the people with drunkenness and insulting the monasteries of prayer. He ordered the office to answer that the diocesan authorities had not received any decree on this subject from the Holy. Synod. The office turned a deaf ear to this and in a new paper threatened with fines and court action for failure to comply with the requirements. The saint was forced to give in to violence, especially since it was a long way to go from Irkutsk to the capital to find the truth. In March 1729, a monk of the Posolsky Monastery reported to the saint that the abbot of that monastery, Job, punished the monk Ignatius for carnal sin so cruelly that he soon died, and that those who carried out the investigation in this case hid the truth. The saint demanded the abbot and the monks to Irkutsk and here he instructed two investigators to find the truth. After considering the new investigation, the order was laid down and the Eminence approved: for the fact that Job begged and taught the brethren to hide the truth, to take 10 rubles from him; for ordering Ignatius to be beaten with whips, according to 154 art. charter, punish himself with whips; and because he discovered the sin of his spiritual son out loud to the brethren, he was deprived of the management of the monastery by temptation and sent to the Selenga monastery with a ban on priestly service for four years. The Selenga archimandrite, a venerable elder, already in July of the same year asked the saint to allow Job to serve in the priesthood. On July 30, 1730 it was written: “By the grace of God, the Right Reverend Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk and Nerchinsk, in the Holy Trinity Selengin Monastery, to the former abbot Job, who is now found. By the grace of the gift of the all-holy and life-giving Spirit, given to us from the Great Archpastor Himself, the Lord our God Jesus Christ, who gave the power to knit and decide, passed March 1729. On the 22nd, in accordance with the investigative case in our order, you were excommunicated from the Ambassadorial Monastery by the abbess and you were ordered to serve in the Trinity Monastery in the brotherhood for four years. But now, by the power of the Lord God, for the needs of the Trinity Selenginsky monastery, that there is not a single hieromonk for priestly service, we allow you, commanding you to be in the Trinity Monastery, to perform in your priestly office all the needs commanded according to the rules of St. An apostle and a father, but an archimandrite should be in obedience without contradiction. Hieromonk Job to carry out the above-mentioned decree according to this decree of our bishop.” – He was appointed priest as abbot of the Posolsky Monastery. Paisius was left by the judge in spiritual order. The royal charter of 1709 allowed the noble son Nikita Varlamov to build a monastery in Nerchinsk at his own expense and, upon appointment, to be an abbot, moreover, to choose, after Nikita, a capable layman to manage the monastery economy, and “abbots do not know the peasants, they only know the Church of God.” It is clear that in this state of affairs there could be no order in the monastery. Hegumen Pankratiy (formerly Nikita Varlamov), due to old age, refused the hegumenship, and the saint appointed hegumen of Nerchinsk as a priest. Nathanael. When Naphaiel arrived at the monastery, at first he had to listen to abuse and rudeness: quarrels and abuse, self-will and disobedience in the monastery - incessant. The murmur, at the instigation of the old man Pankratiy, especially intensified when the churches of the Nerchinsk monastery, according to the then procedure, were subject to a duty for the maintenance of the department. Nathanael, with reports on the deanery, was forced to appear in Irkutsk himself for personal explanations about the state of affairs. The saint sent on June 17, 1729 the following letter: “Decree of our bishops of the Nerchinsk Assumption Monastery to monks, investors and peasants. It is known to our bishops that it was done from reliable persons, and especially from that monastery abbot Nathanael, who last year, at our request, but by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, was promoted to you as abbot, that from the monks and Balti he receives reproachful, idle words, and in many cases and monastic works that happen for the general monastic benefit, disobedience. For this reason, we fatherly exhort and command you, so that you obey abbot Nathanael, like your father and superior, in everything and act in no way without his command and do not quarrel with each other like animals, under the unblessing of God and ours. If you do the repairs in a contrary way, and if he makes a petition against you in the future, then he will be held accountable according to the decrees of her Imp. The island will be taken to Irkutsk. The rest may the God of peace and love be with you and our unworthy blessing.” In 1729, the military church of the Yakut regiment, assigned to guard the Chinese border, came under the jurisdiction of the Irkutsk archpastor. Colonel Buchholz wrote to the saint about the regimental priest, Hieromonk Theophan of Canary: “he gets drunk and gets drunk on days other than those indicated and does not carry out his work; in Vel. during Holy Week he drank and committed obscenities”; the colonel asked to send another priest. But in the Irkutsk diocese there were few priests at that time; Moreover, from the hieromonk’s surname it is clear that he was a student of the Kyiv College, where St. Innocent. Therefore, the saint hoped that his admonition would bring the guilty one to reason. He wrote to him: “Honest Father Feofan! Even if you are not worthy of such an honest name, you are worthy of dishonor, just writing for politics. How is it not a reproach to your image that you are called from the Lord God for the whole world of St. sacrifice and feed the flock of His verbal sheep, for whom you will be tortured and give an answer on the day of the terrible test, but you do not hold that title, but you constantly drink and get drunk untimely, but you do not carry out your work and do many idle indecencies, which is evident from the writing to us of the excellent Mr. Colonel Ivan Dmitrievich and from words of honest people. Is it a priestly matter? We are writing this to you now, admonishing you in a fatherly manner, to improve yourselves. If you are not serviceable, know to yourself that you will be dishonestly transferred from the regiment, you will be called to us for trial and you will receive what is worthy of your deeds. But please, correct yourself. Bishop Innocent. Apr. 1730." Kanarsky died on March 28, 1731, and John Oskolkov was appointed in his place. In May 1729, with the approval of the parishioners, Job Zyryanov from the sextons was ordained priest of Treskovsky. The following year, a local sexton complained that Zyryanov, drunk and drunk, demanded “to bring the sexton to him as a spiritual order,” to announce that he was not a local sexton. The saint wrote: “A priest should not be brave when drunk and should not call his house a spiritual order; If in the future his lack of shame is revealed to Job, he will be severely punished; and the sexton will remain as before.” Notified that in some Irkutsk churches priests did not perform services on Sundays and holidays, the saint ordered that they report to him every week about faulty clergy. It was reported that the lama living with Ivan Shunkov had built a prayer house. Shunkov naively admitted to providing assistance to the construction of the shrine, for the reason that the lama, he said, would pray to his god and his children would be kept by him. The Nerchinsk city office was informed: to publicly punish the superstitious Shunkov as a warning to others. Commissioner Zasukhin demanded a fee from priest Dmitriev for the bathhouse. The priest said that he had a church bathhouse, for which the parishioners should pay a fee. The commissar put the priest under arrest for two days, and when the priest noticed that the commissar did not have the right to dispose of the priest, but must report him to his superiors, he replied with impudent insolence that he did not want to know the spiritual superiors. The saint ordered the provincial chancellery to be informed so that it would confirm to Zasukhin and others not to arbitrarily arrest priests and to report the guilty to the spiritual authorities, in full confidence that the guilty would not be left without trial, and to refrain from impudent words about the clergy and their superiors. By decree of 1723, the chapels were closed; but then it is allowed to renew them with the blessing of the archpastor. The priest Grigory Smagin, without the will of the saint, allowed in 1729 for the river. Angaro, a mile from the church, to restore the chapel and hire a convict as a sexton, and ordered another chapel to be restored in the village. Evseeva. The saint ordered the unauthorized priest to be “flogged” and to collect 5 rubles from him, and to abolish the chapels. The saint's warmest concerns were directed to the Mongolian school, opened by decree at the Ascension Monastery. She was unsettled under Platkovsky in every respect. The saint put its premises in order and ordered that they study Church Slavonic there; called in capable teachers and increased their salaries; fined 15 rubles. those spiritual ones who did not send children 7–15 years old to school. The school also accepted children of secular people. In 1728, the son of Lieutenant Izotov signed a statement that “until he completely learns the Mungal language, he will not leave school.” There were 32 students in the school, whereas in 1809 there were no more than 70. The saint also took great care in supplying the school with the necessary books. In 1729 he wrote to Lang: “Noble Mr. Lavreny Lavrentievich! My forever friend! in the current February 28, 1729, the teacher of the Mungal school, the unbaptized Lama Lapsan, gave us a denunciation and announced that he teaches the children collected by decree in the school of the Mungal language, and he has a small number of Mungal books; and those that exist, those other students have studied and there is nothing left to teach; and there are books beyond Baikal from various lamas, without which it is impossible to stay in the teaching of the Mungal literacy. And which books and which have them were included in the registry when reporting. He asked that these books, by decree of His Majesty, be taken from the lamas for correspondence to the Irkutsk school; and when they correspond, they will give themselves back to those lamas. Last July 1728, against the verbal announcement of the teacher Lapsan about the books, I sent a promemory to the Irkutsk provincial office about sending overseas, to whom it should be, His Majesty's decree to take for the sake of copying those books from the lamas. This March 18, the office responded to me that Commissar Chechetkin was written about the confiscation of those books last July, but there has been no response from the commissar to this day; and now a decree has been sent to Commissioner Beighton about this. For this reason, I ask your honor to try to take away the books from the lamas and send them to us in Irkutsk for copying them; and as soon as they are copied, I will send the old ones to those lamas for return to your honor. And which books and who exactly has them and which ones are most necessary, is enclosed with this letter a register. I hope this comes from your honor sooner than from Beighton. March 29th, 1729." Three months later, Lang sent the following books: 1. Sundu, it contains 237 l. 2. Takozh Sundu, 259 l. 3. Paima Mingata, 447 l. 4. Chinggis Khankitu. 5. Gus Lamain Tuku. 6. Khotola Teduseksen Khan Kabuduna Tuku. 7. Odesek Hane. All these books were immediately written off, the lists were given to Lapsan for school against receipt on July 27, 1730, and the original ones were sent by express for return to the lamas. The maintenance of the Mungalo-church school cost the saint considerable worries and sorrows. According to the decree of the Synod, the monasteries of Kirensky, Posolsky and Seleyiginsky were to deliver bread and clothes to the school. But Metropolitan Anthony of Tobolsk, even contrary to the previous order, forbade the Kirensky abbot to deliver bread for the maintenance of the Irkutsk school and ordered the Kirensky Monastery to be under the jurisdiction of the Tobolsk Metropolis. St. Innocent ordered the Nerchinsk monastery to deliver bread to support 7 disciples out of 35, but the monastery burned down. All that remained for the saint was to support the Mungalo-church school from the income of the Ascension Monastery, which also supported him. Due to a strange oversight in the definition of St. Innokenty no order was made regarding salaries for the Irkutsk diocese. The boundaries of the Irkutsk diocese were also not determined by the Synod, and the Tobolsk Metropolitan, due to the type of economy of his house, even wanted to retain some districts that were under the jurisdiction of the vicar of the Bishop of Irkutsk. This was also a strong burden for churches located 1,000 and 2,000 versts from Tobolsk. St. Innocent presented to the Synod about the need for a salary and about the boundaries of the Irkutsk diocese, required by the area itself. Reports about both were sent in 1728 with proxies, by order of the Synod. The Holy Synod made a decision on August 29, 1729, both on the assignment of salaries and the amount for the construction of the bishop's house, and on the boundaries of the diocese, which included, in accordance with the petition of St. Innocent, not only the Selenga district, but also the Yakut and Ilimsky districts. This definition was communicated to the Senate; but we had to wait a long time for the Senate order. St. Innocent struggled with extreme needs. In his hands were the means given to him for the Chinese Way. But only in 1730, when the exchange of goods began in Kyakhta, did it become possible to get rid of the Chinese salary; Yes, and here we encountered troubles. In May 1730, the saint wrote to the Irkutsk provincial chancellery: “On July 10, 1726, I accepted, by decree of the blessed and eternally worthy memory of His Imperial Majesty Peter the Great, for the Chinese way from the Irkutsk provincial chancellery from the state treasury, in salary, soft junk goods, into the Chinese hand, in which office and signed; with the goods paid and I had a route to Selenginsk, where I lived for about a year, waiting for my reception in China. But by decree of Empress Catherine, my path to China was stopped, and I was ordered to go to Irkutsk. He took the goods with him because at that time it was not ordered to go to Urga with soft junk for sale. And now at the Kyakhta fortress of soft junk, trade is carried out freely with Chinese merchants. That’s why I want this product, given to me as part of my salary, to be sent from Irkutsk for sale to Kyakhta with the investor of the Ascension Monastery, Savva Bokov, and with the choirboy Andrei Popov. I ask that the Irkutsk Provincial Chancellery favor the sale of goods in the Kyakhta fortress for the knowledge of the local commanders Bokov and Popov and the decree of Her Imperial Majesty about the pass at the Nikolskaya outpost and in the suburbs and forts.” At the same time, a list of the goods complained about is attached: “Ten thousand Yakut ermines, three thousand Yakut squirrels, four lynxes, one corso, two hundred white foxes, one ermine fur, four hundred arctic foxes.” Voivode Izmailov recognized the goods as government salaries and not subject to customs duties and issued tickets to Bokov and Popov. In October, a notification was received from Kyakhta customs that Russian goods had been exchanged for Chinese ones. All that remained was to exchange the latter for money. Meanwhile, the Tobolsk Chancellery demanded that, no matter what, they collect duty on the goods. The saint was forced to explain the matter to the Tobolsk governor Pleshcheev in a humble letter and in a formal manner. Due to these obstacles, the Russian goods remained unsold until the death of the saint. Almost two years passed, and the Senate did not respond to the Synod’s message about the Irkutsk bishopric. On March 31, 1731, the Synod again reported this to the Senate, but even after that the Senate was silent for six months. Finally, on October 27, 1731, the Synod came up with a report to the Empress herself. The definition of the boundaries of the diocese was approved. Then the Senate hastened to order the payment of a salary to the Irkutsk bishop and the release of funds for the construction of the bishop's house. But these fruits of the saint’s care had to be used by the successors of the saint. Innocent, and not to himself. Through the thorny path of shortcomings and sorrows, the saint approached the end of his earthly life 421. St. Innocent never enjoyed good health during his service in Irkutsk 422. During the months of October and November 1731, he lay sick and was not able to perform ministry, even for those awaiting ordination as deacons and priests. During his illness, he thanked those who served him; promised, if he recovered, to reward everyone from his own hands; He especially cared about the construction of a stone church in the Ascension Monastery, in place of the previous wooden one, which was extremely dilapidated. He regretted that the government did not assign a salary to him and his house, of which the first thousand rubles had long been promised to them for the construction of a stone church. He commanded the brethren, in the event of his death, to take care of the church, especially since he had already taken a lot of care in collecting funds for it. On November 24th, feeling the intensification of his illness, he ordered 300 rubles to be taken out of the pantry. I will satisfy everyone with a salary, and make the other amounts of the monastery known to all the brethren exactly, put seals and inscriptions on the bags about the amount of the amount; Then he ordered his favorite fox fur coat to be brought and presented it to the governor Paisius for his services. On November 25th he ordered prayers in the churches of Irkutsk for relief from his suffering, which was done. On the morning of November 27th, the saint of God rested peacefully, not in the years of advanced old age, but exhausted by the worries and sorrows of life. According to appearances from the afterlife, the saint was like this: dark brown hair, thick, oblong and partly curly, dark complexion, average height, light brown beard. In 1764, on the occasion of work being carried out under the altar of the Tikhvin Church, the saint’s coffin was seen completely intact; even the velvet with which it was upholstered was not damaged by the dampness of the place; when they opened the coffin, St. the body turned out to be completely incorrupt and emitted a very pleasant smell. Under Emperor Paul, senators Rzhevsky and Levashov, who inspected the Irkutsk province, reported to the sovereign about the incorruptible relics and miracles of the saint. In 1800, the Synod ordered clergy to believe the senators' report on the spot. A strict investigation fully justified all their news. Then, it is prescribed to celebrate the memory of St. Innocent throughout Russia on the 26th day of November. Here are some of the saint's miracles: In 1770, the wife of the Irkutsk registrar Pelageya Sudeikin, who had been suffering from fever for two weeks, saw a vision: she imagined that she was in the Tikhvin church and the saint was performing Matins in the altar. She asked to bless her, and he came out of the altar, blessed, then sent her part of the artos with the angelic youth; she tasted the artos and felt healthy. Then she wanted to thank the healer, but, not knowing how to call on him, she asked: what prayer should I read to him? The saint, stopping his service, came out to her and unfolded a scroll in front of her, where Pelageya read: “my merciful mentor, treasure of good fortune, teacher of orthodoxy, praise of bishops, helpless intercessor, our father hierarch, pray to Bora for us.” The awakened Pelageya found herself completely healthy and immediately stood up. Yakut merchant Pavel Serg. Lebedev broke his leg and no longer expected to be alive. On the night (January 3, 1785), the saint entered his bedroom with a staff and said: “ask for help from Innocent, who is in Irkutsk.” The merchant woke up, but, not giving any meaning to the vision, he fell asleep again. The saint appears again and, reproaching him for unbelief, hits the floor with his staff. The patient, upon awakening, sees a sign of a blow on the floor and begins to believe. Before the morning he sees the saint for the third time and already receives relief from the pain - the previous ache in his leg is replaced by itching. In the morning he could already walk without a crutch and hurried to go to the saint’s tomb. In 1786, Archpriest Jacob Zagoskin, who had long suffered from an eye disease and finally almost completely lost his sight, called on the saint to help him. Sitting in an armchair, he fell into a light slumber, and suddenly Saint Innocent appeared to him in full vestments, in which he rests in the tomb, put his hand on his head and ordered him to call on his name more often. After a little while the room became clearer for the blind man, and then he began to see everything clearly. The Irkutsk tradeswoman had wounds all over her body, and she did not move for six years. In a light doze, she sees an old man in a white robe, with light brown hair and gray beard, of average height. He told her that he had “come to heal her,” and gave her a drink that she found pleasant to the taste; then she was able to make the sign of the cross, which she had not been able to do for two years, and even got out of bed and moved to another room. The one who appeared was exactly the same as the saint appeared in the icon she saw of him. One weak-minded woman, brought to Irkutsk from Yekaterinburg, being seriously ill, asked for money from her benefactors, in whose house she lived. “What do you need it for?” they asked her. “It is necessary,” she said, to go across the river, light candles where those dressed in black dresses live and the old man is buried.” The weak-minded woman quickly swam across the Angara and forced the beggar to show her the way to the Ascension monastery. Here she prayed earnestly, throughout the entire liturgy, before the icon of the Mother of God and often went to the window of the altar tent, where the saint’s tomb was located. “Two days later, she was not only healed of the disease, but also became full of common sense. She now told who she was and where she came from. Before, no one knew this; She also said that the saint appeared to her in a dream, ordered her to confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries, adding that soon, on such and such a day, she would die. Indeed, on the day appointed by the saint, she died. This incident took place in 1796 423. “Monthly. East." archim. Serg. vol. II, part 2, p. 373. Life is sacred. in Irk. side described according to the act. Irk. in Irk. epar. Ved. 1863 and 1864. Only here there is a lot that does not relate to the life of the saint, and there is not much that was included in the circle of the life of the saint. Innocent. East. Moscow spirit. acad. p. 206. M. 1855 Savva index of the synodal sacristy p. 114. M. 1858 Izmailov was given one hundred wax seals in Beijing. printed, for applications them to the passport. about free passage of Russians to Beijing. - East. Hier. 2.461. Irkut. epar. led 1863 No. 18. 19. 1864 No. 6. In paragraph 5 of the treatise, by the will of Bogdykhan, it is said: “koen (house), cat. now for Russian. is found in Beijing, it will be for them and those who come in the future, cat. will live in this house. And what about the Russian ambassador, Illir. gr. Savva Vladislavich presented the structure of the church, and it was built in this house through the diligence of the Chinese nobles... One lama (priest), now living in Beijing, will live in this house, and three other lamas will be added who will arrive, as decided.” There are errors and inaccuracies in the dictionary on page 121. Irkut. epar. led 1863 No. 21 and 24. Encyclop. Plushard's dictionary XI, 78, 79. Decree of the Senate of May 1732. Slovtsov review. Siberia 1, 368. M. 1838. Judge mater. ist. 2, 419–421. Irkut. diocesan Ved. 1863 No. 22. The dictionary says (p. 121) that St. Innocent was only a vicar. bishop. Irkutsk Not true! If the bishop with all his retinue (2 hieromonks, 5 singers, 3 ministers) appointed ruler. 1,500 rubles, from which Raguzinsky appoints the archimander. from 5 persons 1250 rub.? The saint skillfully points out the strangeness of this generosity when he says that the hieromonk, like the 3 boys, Platkovsky demands 130 rubles each. for each Moscow 1846 No. 8. Mixture 53–57. Irk. Ep. Ved. 1863 No. 28. 32. Irkut. diocesan Ved. 1863 No. 35–38. 41–46. Irkut. diocesan led 1864 No. 3–8. 13.15 19–22. 33–36. Archbishop. The order, instructing churches to pray for the relief of the suffering of the sick, sanctifies. (dated 26 n. 1731), wrote: “His episcopal visit from God has been plagued by illness for several years, from which, as in the offering of salvation for Orthodox Christians to the Divine Service, so in spiritual corrections there is a stop. But this illness sometimes diminished. And now, after three weeks, it has increased even more.” RKP. description miracle St. Innocent. Irk. Ep. Ved. 1863 No. 7. 1864 No. 48.