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St. Great Martyr Marina Marina was the daughter of an idol priest in Antioch of Pisidia 218; Having lost her mother soon after her birth, she was given by her father to be raised by a nurse who lived in a village in the vicinity of the city. Here, when she was 12 years old, Marina had the opportunity to get to know Christians who, avoiding the persecution erected at that time at the command of Diocletian against Christians, hid in the mountains and deserts, and under the guise of beggars, spread the word of God among the people. Thus, Marina heard the “good news” and accepted it with all her heart. Having heard about Christ and what He did for people and what He taught people for their salvation and eternal happiness in union with Him in His Kingdom, young Marina fell in love with Christ with all her soul and only thought about learning more and more about Him and learning to live according to His law. She greedily sought and took advantage of every opportunity to talk about the life and teachings of Christ and grieved that she could not immediately receive St. baptism, since neither in the city nor in its environs there was a single Christian priest to perform this sacrament. Love for Jesus Christ burned so much in the heart of young Marina that she could not hide it and openly confessed her faith in the crucified Savior, although she knew how cruel persecution she could be subjected to for this. Indeed, soon her father was the first to hate her, who learned with horror that his daughter was a Christian; this was a difficult test for Marina, but she remained firm in her feelings and became even more attached to the Heavenly Father, placing all her trust in Him alone, asking Him for strength to remain faithful in serving Him. And the Lord did not reject the prayer and chose her as an instrument for glorifying His name. One day, going out into the field outside the city to look at her father’s sheep, Marina met Hegemon Olimvrius, who was passing into the city - a cruel persecutor of Christians. Struck by the beauty of this fifteen-year-old girl, he stopped and began to ask her who she was. “If you are the daughter of free parents,” he immediately proposed to Marina, “then I want to have you as my wife, but if you are a slave, then I will ransom you and then marry you.” Marina answered Olimvriy’s questions with sincerity and did not hide from him that she was a Christian. Then he ordered his men to take her to the city and hand her over to the care of some honorable woman, hoping that he would be able to persuade her to renounce the Christian faith and accept his proposal. “The very next day, after arriving in the city, the hegemon called Marina to trial and began to persuade her to make a sacrifice to the gods, promising her all kinds of benefits, otherwise he threatened her with death. “I want nothing more than to remain a faithful servant of my Savior!” - answered Marina, “and I should not be afraid of your threats, they should not stop me from accepting all kinds of suffering for the One who Himself suffered for all people... Realizing that it was impossible to convince the young Christian woman to renounce her faith, the hegemon ordered her to be tortured. Her blood poured out under the crushing blows, her whole body was torn; Many of those present, feeling sorry for her, tearfully persuaded her to obey the hegemon, and he himself covered his eyes so as not to see the torn body of the martyr... After the torture, Marina was taken to prison. Here she faced an even more difficult test: fear and despondency gripped her soul; exhausted physically, dark visions began to confuse her, but God was alive in her soul and protected her from temptation. He visited her with a joyful vision, among which the words that quenched her exhausted soul were heard: “Rejoice, Marina! you have defeated the malice of the enemy... rejoice: soon, like the wise virgins, you will enter the palace of your immortal Bridegroom. struck everyone who saw her in the full splendor of her former beauty and health, as if she did not tolerate the tortures that tormented her... Seeing this, many pagans, realizing the wonderful power of the true God, turned to Him. The number of converts increased even more at the sight of the patience of the martyr when she was given over to new tortures. Again her torn body was scorched with fire. She, unshakable in the midst of suffering, prayed: “Lord, who gave me the strength to go through fire for the sake of Your name, deign me to go through the water of baptism, so that I can come to You, washed from sins!” And indeed, as if suggested to the idea of ​​a new kind of torment by these words, the hegemon decided to drown the martyr, and she, tightly bound, was lowered into a huge vat of water. - God! loosen my bonds and may this water be for me the desired baptism and rebirth to eternal life! - exclaimed the holy confessor... - And at that very moment an earthquake occurred... Marina’s bonds were broken, and she, standing in the water, sang the praises of the Lord. The people, struck by wondrous signs during her suffering, believed in Christ in the number of 15,000, and all were put to death by order of Olymbrius, frightened by such a spread of the followers of Christ’s teaching that he was persecuting. Marina, among others, was beheaded. Her suffering was described by an eyewitness. Western Christians call her either Marina or Margarita (July 20) and is revered as an assistant in childbirth. The hand of the holy martyr is located in the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos and to this day heals all sorts of diseases. † Repose of Rev. Irinarch, abbot of Solovetsky Rev. Irinarch, having taken monastic vows at the Solovetsky monastery, zealously imitated the life of St. father of Zosima and Savvaty 219. His high virtues brought him fame. In 1614, after the death of Abbot Anthony, he was appointed abbot of the Solovetsky monastery by royal charter. – At this time, Abbot Solovetsky was a very significant person for the entire northern region. He was entrusted with protecting the north from the Swedes and Danes. – Although peace was concluded with the Swedes then, one could not rely on them either; and the Danes, carried away by the hope for the happiness of the Swedes, demanded from Russia that all of Lapland be given to them, and prepared to support their demand with a naval war. Tsar Michael, having given the blessed. Abbot Irinarch, in addition to the duty-free sale of salt and fish, a government tax from the monastery peasants and another 10 government share from fishing on the Norwegian coast of the sea, ordered that all the fortified buildings of the monastery be brought into full defensive condition in case of war 220. How much care and work for the abbot! On the eastern side of the monastery there is a second stone wall with two huge towers; two buildings for military people were built inside the monastery; On the northern and southern sides of the monastery there are deep ditches lined with stone. New fortifications were made in the Sumy and Kem forts. In them and in the monastery the number of military people was increased to 1040 people, supported by the monastery. In 1623, the Danes came to Korelsky Island on four warships, robbed some Russian industrialists, but did not dare do anything else and returned 221. With such concerns about protecting the monastery from external troubles, Rev. Irinarch, as he himself was an example of spiritual life, was so zealous to arouse and support concern for spiritual life in the monks subordinate to him. This jealousy forced him to ask the king to remind the forgetful monks of their duties with a word of royal power. And the Tsar wrote on February 9, 1621: “We know that in the Solovetsky Monastery some of the brethren dare to live not according to the sacred charter, not according to the rules of St. The Apostles and God-bearing Fathers, not according to legend, St. Fathers Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky miracle workers, want to walk according to their own will. Hearing this, we are amazed that in such a famous monastery they begin to live so weakly, considering the traditions of their fathers as nothing. As soon as our letter comes to you, you, our pilgrims, introduce strict supervision and do not allow those who want to live weakly, deviate from worldly affairs or hold (intoxicating) drink, leave the monastery and say prayers, to fulfill their will; strictly supervise that the brethren and novices live according to the rules of St. fathers, and not according to their own lusts, and would diligently go to church. Let the newcomers be in complete obedience to you, our Bogomolets, the abbot and the famous elders, and let them not do anything of their own free will - they will not bring disorder into the monastery. Beware lest by unrighteous deeds the name of God be blasphemed among unbelievers, and lest such weak living bring on the wrath of God. Those of the brethren who will not listen, you humble according to the monastic tradition and do not allow them to act arbitrarily” 222. Under the spiritual guidance of Rev. Irinarch formed several sincere servants of God, such as Rev. Eleazar. The blessed abbot not only gave the blessing to the blessed one. Eleazar decided to start a monastery life on the island, but he provided him with funds for setting up a monastery and wrote about it to the patriarch. Philaret; At his request, the patriarch sent a letter for the construction of a church in the monastery, and the king sent utensils for the church 223. Throughout the reign of his reverend. Irinarch was distinguished by his condescending meekness towards others and severity towards himself. Having spent his last two years without the affairs of authority, in feats of silent prayer, he reposed on July 17, 1728. His relics rest hidden in a chapel named after him 224. Rev. Irinarch more than once appeared with heavenly help to the inhabitants of the harsh north in their struggle with nature. Eg. in 1629, the residents of Dvina spoke about themselves in the Solovetsky monastery. In the spring they went to the mouth of the sea for sea animals. Suddenly a storm arose and carried them away from the shore into the open sea; A storm tore through them for several days, and they began to call on the saints for help; In a dream, an old man appears to a lawyer in the clothes of a priest and with a cross in his right hand. “Call, he said, the Solovetsky miracle workers for help, and great mercy will soon appear to you.” Then suddenly a wind rose from the sea and carried the hunters to the shore; near the shore, one of the villages found many sea animals, and they became their prey 225. † Repose of Rev. Leonid Ustnedumsky Blazh. Leonid, born a villager in the Poshekhonsky district, had a dream in the 50th year, commanding him to go to the Morzhevskaya Nikolaev Hermitage, on the Dvina, to take the icon of the Most Holy One there. Mother of God Hodegetria and build a church with her on the river. Lusa in Turin Mountain. He did not dare to follow this vision, considering it a simple dream, and went to the Kozheozersky monastery, where he took monastic vows and lived for about three years 226. From here he came to the Solovetsky Monastery, where he worked in a bakery. The dream was repeated to him here again. He moved to the Morzhevskaya hermitage and a year later revealed his vision to the abbot. Having received the icon of Hodegetria, he went to the river. Luza and near Turin Mountain, near the river. Yakutitsa (80 years from Ustyug), built himself a hut from brushwood; then, yielding to the violence of the villagers, he retreated along the river. Luze, two miles away, and here, with the help of a villager, built himself a cell and a chapel; ordained a hieromonk in 1608, built he is a church in the name of the Presentation of the Mother of God, where he placed the icon of Hodegetria 227. Nowadays it is in the 80th century. from the city of Lalsk. The swamps surrounding this place made the monastery almost inconvenient for a hostel. To drain them, Leonid dug a canal from the Luza River to the Black Lake, from the Black Lake to the Saint and from the Saint to the Black River; In total, he dug 840 soots. During this work, Leonid was stung by a snake near the Black Lake and at first became alarmed by the thought of the consequences of the poison; but then, with trust in God, he decided not to think and remained healthy. On this occasion, he named the canal the Nedumaya River, and the monastery was called Ust-nedumskaya. The region where the worker settled was a deserted and deaf region. For a long time afterward it was called “Luskaya Permtsy,” i.e., a part of the country of wild Permians 228 . It is now clear what significance the Leonidas desert had for this wild region in church and civil terms. Rev. Leonid is rightly revered as the enlightener of the Permians. How much struggle he endured with inhospitable nature! The canal, built through his labors, significantly drained the swamps; but Luza flooded the deserted monastery during floods. Therefore, the monk was finally forced to move the buildings to the cape overlooking the Black Lake. The church built here was consecrated on May 25, 1652, and in 1654 on July 17 by Rev. Leonid ended his toiling life at the age of 100 from birth. His hair shirt is still preserved in the former monastery, now parish, Vvedenskaya church; here his relics rest in secret 229. Celebration of the Svyatogorsk Icons of the Mother of God There are two Svyatogorsk icons of the Mother of God. They reside in the monastery of the Opochsky district of the Pskov province, founded on the ridge of the mountain, which was formerly called Sinichya, and according to the appearance of St. icons of the Mother of God to a certain Timothy the Fool, called Saint. The first Svyatogorsk Icon, which is called the Icon of Tenderness, appeared to Timothy in 1563. One evening he saw in the air, and then on Sinichya Mountain, the same icon that was in the parish church of the suburb of Voronocha. At this appearance, Timothy heard a voice that in six years the grace of God would shine on the same mountain. Six years later, in 1569, the second icon of the Mother of God, Hodegetria, appeared. Many miracles and healings took place from the revealed Svyatogorsk icons, which, after a thorough examination of their authenticity, the Pskov royal governor, Prince Georgy Tokmakov, reported to the sovereign. The Emperor sent new investigators and, having become completely convinced of the truth, ordered a chapel to be erected at the site of the appearance of the icons and a procession of the cross from Voronoch to be made into it. Once upon a time, the chapel into which the miraculous icons were brought was completely burned down, but the icons remained unharmed. After examining this event, they built a church on the Holy Mountain in the name of the Dormition of the Mother of God, and then a monastery for the stay of St. miraculous icons of Tenderness and Hodegetria. These icons are annually on the first Friday of Lent. The apostles are brought to Pskov and on the next Sunday they are walked around with them near the inner second wall of Pskov. From August 29 to September 8 there is a walk with them to Novorzhev and Opochka. “Monthly. East." archim. Sergius, vol. II, part 2, p. 207. “The legend is about Rev. Father Irinarch, the abbot of the Solovetsky Monastery, wrote about the phenomenon and miracles. by the former abbot of Kolyazin Hilarion in 1644, Tsar’s No. 744. Ak. ist. IV, 359. Ak. e. III. No. 110. A. e. No. 38. 46. 119. 137. Description. Solovets. m-rya 124–128. A. e. 3. No. 331. Sl. A.I. 4, 359. 360. Description Solovetsk. m-rya, pp. 129. 317. 319. 320. Description Solovetsk. m-rya, p. 129. 244. 305. In the RKP. Saint Irinarchus was installed without indicating the day and year of his death. The Legend of Rev. Irinarch and his miracles. Kozheozersky Monastery in Moscow. Ved. 1852 No. 33. 34. Here he was a cellarer and so on. lived for more than one year (Encyclopedic Dictionary. 3. 153). Glory to Our Lady 3, 2, pp. 67. 68. East. Hier. 6, 581–583. Swedish about the monastery 76. 77. According to the charter of 1691, “beyond the Nedumskaya desert” there were “15 polovniki households” of those who cultivated the monastery land, with half of the income retained in their favor (A. e. 4, 452).