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Iakinthos, originally from Caesarea in Cappadocia, was a bed servant (cubicular) of the emperor. Trajan. Having only 20 years of age, he suffered because he did not want to eat meat sacrificed to idols at a pagan festival and confessed his faith in the true God. The emperor ordered to beat him on the cheeks and lips, and then force feed him; but the young man clenched his teeth and mouth and did not allow desecration. After this, they ordered him to be scourged, imprisoned and given only food sacrificed to idols. Iakinthos did not take this food and died thirty-eight days later. When the emperor was informed about this, he ordered the body of the martyr to be thrown out of the city and left as prey for animals and birds. It lay unharmed for a long time; Finally, according to a special vision, Presbyter Timothy, a relative of the martyr, took it and placed it in his house, lighting a lamp every day next to the ark. Before his death, Timothy entrusted the holy relics to a certain pious widow. Much time passed, and then one man happened to go blind from a headache, and not a single doctor could help him. The holy martyr appeared to the blind man and said: “Do you want to be healed of your illness?” - “Who are you?” - asked the patient. “I am the servant of Christ, Iakinthos, a physician to all diseases,” said the one who appeared. Then the patient exclaimed: “Take all my property, if only I can see the light!” Iakinthos said: “My God will heal you for free, just take my body from such and such a widow and go with the faithful people to Caesarea, and anoint your eyes with oil from the lamp at my tomb, and you will see.” The sick man did everything he was told and received his sight; the relics of Jacinthos, sent to Caesarea, were placed in the house of his parents (who had already died). St. Anatoly, Patriarch of Constantinople Of the presbyters of Alexandria, he was elevated to the patriarchal throne in 449, after the death of St. Flavian 63, killed by the Eutychians; was present in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, at which he received for his see the right of equality with the see of the Bishop of Rome. Anatoly led an active struggle against the heresies of Nestorius and Eutyches and was killed by heretics in 458 - He is known in the Church for stichera on Sundays, on some of the Lord's holidays, such as the Nativity of Christ and the Epiphany, on the days of martyrs, such as Panteleimon, George, Demetrius and others. These stichera were the first attempt to replace the stichera of the Old Testament with Christian stichera. Anatoly compiled them in imitation of the Old Testament pyitic works, psalms, parables, which have long been called stichera. With their content, Christian stichera began to replace the readings of lives, whereas before that the days of saints were celebrated, among other things, by reading their “deeds.” (See “Teaching about Father Ts.” Philar. Chern., part III, § 227). Rev. Alexandra, the monastery of the never-sleeping founder Rev. Alexander, a native of Asia, studied science in Constantinople, then entered military service and was of considerable rank; but after some time (about 381) he left everything, distributed his property to the poor and retired to Syria, where he took monastic vows in a monastery. He lived here for four years, and then, having asked for a blessing from the abbot, he went into the desert. Here he labored alone for seven whole years, by the end of which he converted a large pagan village and the mayor of Rabula (who was later Bishop of Edessa, 405-435) to Christianity, and then, venturing further into the desert, converted a crowd of robbers to a good life and, reaching the Euphrates River, settled in the hollow of a certain tree (about 393). Brothers began to come to him and settle near him. He lived here for twenty years and established a communal monastery, in which there were up to four hundred monks; It was here that a new, previously unformed rank of vigilant monks was first established. Monks from the Greeks, Latins and Syrians, dividing into 24 alternations according to the number of 24 hours of day and night, continuously praised the Lord in two faces, singing drawn out psalms of David. At that time, in the countries near the Euphrates there were still many idolaters; therefore Rev. Alexander chose seventy of his most skilled disciples, following the example of the seventy disciples of Christ (Luke X ch.), and, having prayed, sent them two by two to all the surrounding pagan villages. And their labors were not in vain, because many of the pagans came to know the true faith. Twenty years later, having left Abbot Trophim with one hundred and fifty brethren to establish the monastery, he went to preach to the surrounding nomads and visited Palmyra, the inhabitants of which, however, did not let him into the city, saying: “Who can feed so many people!” The student and describer of the life of the monk, who conveys the news about this, notes that although the inhabitants of Palmyra were called Christians, they remained in many Jewish customs (it is known that back in 250-272 Palmyra was the capital of Zinovia, the Arab queen, Jewish by faith, and mainly Jewish merchants lived here). Rejected by the citizens, Alexander said: “It is better to trust in the Lord than in man; Don't lose heart, brothers! because God will visit us when we don’t expect it.” And they had barely walked a few miles when the nomads (Bedouins) they met received and treated them. From here, having traveled more than a hundred miles, they reached Antioch, where Theodotus, who assumed the see in 421, was a bishop. Here he wanted to establish a monastery, but both the bishop and the mayor were not kind to him. Therefore, taking with him twenty-four of the brethren, he went to Constantinople and settled with them at the church of St. Mina, where after a while up to three hundred brethren from the Greeks, Latins and Syrians gathered to him; a monastery was established and the order of the vigilant was established. As a representative of the famous brotherhood, Alexander was known to Patriarch Nestorius; and this one, not seeing him among the champions of his piety, demanded him to be tried as a heretic (because at the patriarchal court Orthodoxy was considered heresy). Presented to the judges and asked about his heresy, he only said: the princes sit and conspire against me, and Your servant meditates on Your statutes. Your revelations are my comfort, and Your statutes are my counselors (Ps. 119:23-24). He said no more, and the irritated judges kicked him out. But at the end of the same year (429), both he and many of the brotherhood of his monastery suffered imprisonment. After the pacification of the Church, the saint did not live long and died in 431. † Memory of the missus. Princes of Yaroslavl Vasily and Konstantin Vsevolodovich Prince Vsevolod Konstantinovich, father of princes Vasily and Konstantin 64 remained after his father in his youth and grew up under the supervision of his pious uncle, the prince. George; by the will of the same uncle, he married Marina, daughter of Oleg, Prince of Kursk. The fruit of this marriage were princes Vasily and Konstantin. They were also destined to enjoy the love and guidance of their parent for a short time. In 1238, their father, Prince Vsevolod, fell in a battle with the Tatars on the river. City, together with the blessed uncle, book. George 65. The orphaned princes had to learn goodness through the sorrows of life. The young prince Vasily had to gather his subjects scattered by the horrors of the barbarians, and feed the widows of their husbands who had fallen in the City. In 1242, he, along with other princes, had to go to the horde to bow to Batu; then the next year he went there with his uncle, c. book Yaroslav 66. Upon his return from the horde, he married Princess Xenia. The fruit of this union was a daughter, Maria, and a son, Vasily, who died as a minor. The life of the prince did not last long. Vasily; but we do not need a long life, but a good life, such as the prince led, tested by sorrows. In the winter of 1249 he went to Vladimir to meet with V. book Alexander died there too. His coffin from Vladimir to Yaroslavl was accompanied by his cousins, princes Boris and Gleb of Rostov, and himself. book Alexander: so they loved and distinguished with respect a prince young in years, but mature in spirit! His burial was performed by Kirill, Bishop of Rostov; His pure body was laid in the Yaroslavl Assumption Cathedral, on the north side 67. The younger brother took over the reign of the principality. - It was a difficult time. The young prince tried as much as he could to ensure the peace of his subjects; but the peace was disturbed every now and then by the Tatars. In 1252 they devastated the Suzdal principality. Bands of wild steppe dwellers appeared here and there to rob and kill. In 1257, the famous Daniil of Galich led a bloody fight against the Tatars. A similar thing happened at the same time in the Yaroslavl principality. In July, the Tatars approached Yaroslavl. Book Konstantin and his squad went to the other side of the river. Which, to the mountain. There was a bloody battle with the Tatars; many Tatars fell, and many Yaroslavl people too: the young prince laid down his life here for the peace of his homeland. It was July 3rd. The mountain on which the battle took place is still called Tugovaya, as a place of pain and tears shed by the orphaned Yaroslavl people 68. Yaroslavl, having lost the prince and many of its own, was not saved from the Tatar devastation; the body of the faithful sufferer of his homeland was buried with honor in the cathedral church, next to his brother Vasily. Both on Tugovaya Mountain and at the graves of its young princes, Yaroslavl lamented in the words of Job: “O poor lot of man! Instant guest of earthly gardens, Why were you born?.. for torment. As soon as it emerges like a flower, As soon as it blooms, he already sees Ready to cut off the guest of life. The days flash by like a shadow, like a dream. And who will stop their flight? You counted his days, measured them His mortal does not pass away" 69 In 1501, the Yaroslavl Kremlin was devastated by fire. When they began to dig ditches for the new cathedral church, they found two coffins with incorrupt bodies and learned from the inscriptions on the stone slabs that these were the coffins of princes Vasily and Constantine. – After the cathedral funeral service, the coffins were lowered into the ground. But a storm arose with thunder and downpours of rain and lasted for two weeks. - Yaroslavl was afraid, perhaps because of anger from heaven that the relics of the princes who prayed for the Yaroslavl country were hidden in the ground. – The fear is all the more natural because Yaroslavl firmly remembered how, 40 years before, the distrust of some in the relics of St. Prince Theodore was punished, apparently for everyone. At the request of the people, the bishop and clergy triumphantly transferred the incorrupt relics from the Kremlin to the Church of St. princes Boris and Gleb. V. Prince John III then ordered the construction of a stone cathedral and when it was built, he himself came to venerate the relics, from which healing flowed. Name of St. a chapel in the cathedral has long been dedicated to the princes 70. † In memory of the teacher. John and Loggina, Yarenga miracle workers Blazh. John and Loggin were disciples of St. Philip, when he was still abbot of the Solovetsky monastery. Spending their lives in strict fasting and attention to their conscience, they were unrequited executors of the orders of the Venerable. abbot. Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as the Lord, and not as pleasing to man, the Apostle commanded (Col. 3:23). John and Loggin fulfilled the commandment of the Apostle with precision and grew in spiritual life. They were not bookish people, but nature served their attentive minds as an open book. They saw the boundless sea and ascended in their minds to the One who set the limit for the sea; myriads of stars turned their thoughts to the Lord of the worlds, who assigned his order to everything; they saw the light of the sun and in reverence glorified the original light. Thus they ascended from perfection to perfection. In 1561, they set out on ships for solid ground and, returning, were caught in a strong storm; a storm broke up the ships; bliss John and Loggin drowned. Their holy bodies were found incorrupt on the Korelsky coast, 120 miles from the monastery, at the mouth of Sosnovka and laid in the chapel of St. Nicholas s. Yarengi. The glory of the miracles performed at the relics attracted several monks to them, who built cells for themselves and laid the foundation of the monastery. In 1625, the monk Elijah Telov reported to P. Philaret about miracles performed at the relics of the righteous. As a result of this, Novgorod. M. Macarius ordered the Korelsky abbot Gerasim and the boyar's son Solonov to carry out an accurate research on the spot about the miracles of St. John and Loggin. According to a strict investigation, the information shown in the report of the monk Telov turned out to be correct 71. The most remarkable miracles: the healing of Mary, who suffered from demonic possession for three years; healing of a young peasant who suffered from epilepsy; healing of the peasant Euthymius, who suffered from stomach pain for six months and was summoned to Yarenga by the appearance of John and Loggin. In 1635, the Yarenga monastery with all the lands of the village. Yarengi was placed under the jurisdiction of the Solovetsky monastery, and in his charter the tsar wrote: “we granted the Yarenga churchyard by the sea, where the wonderworkers Ivan da Loggin lie.” M. Affony soon after wrote to the Solovetsky abbot Raphael: “at the request of the saint. p. The king of Joasapha granted you Yarenga at the edge of the sea, where the relics of the newly-minted miracle workers Ivan and Loggin lie”; then, ordering the construction and consecration of a new church, he says: “how that church will be completed and the relics of the newly-minted miracle workers Ivan and Loggin will be transferred to the new church and in which place in the church you will place those relics - and you would write about that.” On July 2, 1638, the relics of the righteous were transferred to the new church. Their memory from that time is celebrated on July 3 days 72. † Repose of bl. John the Fool of Moscow Bl. John 73, a native of the Vologda country, was called a water-carrier due to his occupation at salt factories; this name, which he retained in his old age, was a reminder of the toilful feat of his youth: in the saltworks he combined strict fasting and prayer with the hard work of obtaining salt solution. He moved from the factories to Rostov. Here began his new feat, a feat of a special kind. He was called the big cap because he wore a heavy iron cap on his head. But people, seeing this, did not see everything. On his body he also wore chains consisting of thick iron crosses, while on his fingers there were several rings. Once, having visited the blessed. Irinarch the recluse, he gave him advice to wear crosses on himself and, predicting an attack by the Poles, said: “And I’m going to Moscow to ask for land; there will be many visible and invisible demons in Moscow, but the Holy Trinity will drive them away” 74. In Moscow, he walked almost on his feet in the most severe frosts and with his hair down. When meeting with Godunov, he said out loud: “clever head, sort out God’s affairs; God waits for a long time, but it hurts." Before his death, he came to the Church of the Intercession of Our Lady, which is on the moat, and asked Archpriest Demetrius for a place where he could lie down. The archpriest, realizing what the holy fool wanted, promised to bury him; the blessed one pointed to the place of the grave. Upon leaving the church, the blessed one went to the living bridge on the river. Moscow; here he met the sick Gregory, who had not used his leg for two years; Having asked him about his illness, John, as if by accident, stepped on his foot, and his foot was healed; the blessed one ordered that the archpriest of the Church of the Intercession be told about this, no doubt so that the event of healing would prompt them to fulfill the promise of burial. Then he went across the river to the bathhouse and there, for the first time, taking off all his chains, he doused himself with water three times, preparing himself for burial; he lay down on the bench, putting all his weights under his head, and said: “Forgive me, brethren; when I die, take it to the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, to the tomb of the blessed one. Vasily, so that the archpriest and the brethren would bury my body.” With these words he died. It was July 3, 1589. – They hastened to fulfill the wish of the blessed one: the archpriest and his brethren transferred the deceased body to their church, and during the funeral service, the boyar’s son Eleazar Yuryev, who had suffered from eyes for 20 years, was healed. By the will of Tsar Theodore, who heard about the feat of the blessed one, the burial of the holy fool was performed by the Kazan Metropolitan, the Ryazan Archbishop and many monastery abbots. At the very hour of the burial, a storm raged with thunder and lightning: the sacristan of the Bishop of Ryazan was killed to death in the church itself; Pokrovsky deacon Pimen was carried out barely alive, priest John was hit on the ground, he lay unconscious for a long time and barely had time to confess before he died; many others were stunned and singed. Wasn't this a messenger about the storm of the interregnum, fanned by the Poles? After the storm, grace-filled healings began at the tomb of the saint of God: up to 15 healings are recorded in the memorial book of the cathedral. In the city of Oreshk, voivode Boris Petrovich Blagovo was seriously ill and expected to die. At night, half asleep, he heard a voice: “pray to the Lord and His Most Pure Mother, call upon John the water-bearer, called the big cap, for help, the Lord will heal you with his prayers.” After that, his illness passed, and he glorified the saint of God. – The relics of the blessed one, found incorrupt on June 12, 1672, rest hidden in the cathedral chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary 75. The path of foolishness, chosen by the blessed one. John, is not a common path. But the spirit with which Blessed John walked this path - complete self-denial - is a matter that concerns everyone, it is our common duty. “Enter,” the Savior tells everyone, “at the narrow gate, for the wide gate and the spacious way lead to destruction, and many go there. How narrow is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and how few find it!” (Matthew 7:13–14). † Repose of Rev. Nikodim Kozheozersky According to the RCP. saints, "pr. Nicodemus the hermit, wonderworker, reposed in L. 7148 (1640) m. July 3 d.” In the prologue, printed in 1662, the memory of St. Nicodemus on July 3, although there is no life of him. According to the RCP. life 76, Nikodim Ave., in the world Nikita, born in the village. Ivanovka, Rostov district. - Even in his youth, while in the field with his father, Nikita heard a voice: “Nikodim, Nicodemus!” Frightened by the call, he told his parents about it; It is right for you to be a monk, they said. After their death, remaining a poor orphan, in order to have a means of subsistence, he learned blacksmithing in Yaroslavl and came to Moscow. Here he lived with another blacksmith. A friend's evil wife decided to poison her husband and poured poison into the food. Not knowing his wife’s plan, the comrade invited Nikita to dine with him. My husband died after lunch. Nikita survived, but was left with severe stomach pain. Once a stranger met him and said: “What is your illness, Nikita? Go to the cathedral on the moat, there I will give you medicine Nikita went; the stranger gave him to drink from a vessel, and he became healthy. The strange man disappeared, and of course it was bl. Vasily. At another time, passing Kulishki, Nikita stopped at the booth of the holy fool Elijah, who was surrounded by a crowd; The holy fool, seeing him, shouted: “The hermit of Khuzyug has come.” – These words greatly struck Nikita: he took them for a calling to a different kind of life. – Having sold what he had, he came to Archimandrite Chudov mon. Paphnutia and asked to be accepted as one of the brethren. Having learned to read and tested his obediences, he accepted monasticism here with the name of Nicodemus. 7 years passed since Paphnutius (in 1602) was invested with the rank of Metropolitan of Sara and took Nicodemus with him to Krutitsy 77, but a year later Nicodemus, with the blessing of the bishop, went to the Kozheozersk monastery. He lived here for a year and a half. Then, wanting to work for the Lord in deep silence, in 5 ver. from the monastery, near the river Khuzyoga, he set up a cell for himself and began to asceticize in it. Here he lived hopelessly for 35 years, imitating Paul of Thebes. Near the hut he had a vegetable garden, where he himself cultivated the land; at other times he loved to fish with a fishing rod, but shared the fruits of his labors with the monastery; He carried water to himself from the river a mile away, performing prayer on the way; He only sat and dozed off, and spent the night in prayer. The wild deer were so accustomed to the meek hermit that they freely, without anxiety, walked around him and fed. Once the water in Khuzyug, during the high water, rose so much that it flooded the entire surrounding area, flooding the hermit’s cell until only the roof remained free; The monk, taking the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, with which the Reverend blessed him. Paphnutius climbed onto the roof of the cell and stood there in prayer until the water fell. Through suffering in the desert the monk achieved a high degree of spiritual life. In 1635, Pomeranians Ivan Peshkov and Kiriyak Kozlov told the following about themselves in the monastery: in the spring they left the river. Varguses at sea; a storm arose and carried them between the ice; their situation was desperate; calling on the saints for help, they remembered Elder Nicodemus. Suddenly an old man appeared at the stern. “Do not be afraid, children,” he said, “trust in God and His Most Pure Mother.” The boat, under the control of a wonderful helmsman, passed between the moving ice floes to the shore, a whole two miles. Patr. Joasaph I, having heard about the strict life of Elder Nicodemus, sent him his fur coat; but he, having kissed the holy gift, sent her to the monastery; “For my thinness, rags are enough,” he said. 7 days before his death, St. Alexy and Rev. arch. Dionysius appeared at the Sergius Lavra and told him about his imminent death. The monk was very weak from old age; abbot. Jonah convinced him to go to the monastery. Here, having received Holy Communion. Tain, he peacefully gave up his spirit to God, July 3, 1640. His relics rest in the church of St. Nicholas; the face is depicted on a tomb lined with copper. His hood and stole are intact. Rev. Isaiah, the hermit of Egypt In the monastery desert, south of Nitria, where, through shifting sands, could only be reached by the direction of the stars, he spent in the 4th century. the hermit life of Abba Isaiah, a contemporary of St. Orsisiya, student of Rev. Pachomius (memorial June 15th). After his death he left quite a few wonderful works; some of them have remained famous 78 . His sayings are placed between the memorable sayings of the fathers. Among other things, Isaiah said: “There is nothing more useful for a new monk than reproach: like a tree that is watered, so is a new monk who is reproached and who endures reproach.” Life of the book Vasily and Constantine were described under the Terrible Tsar by the monk Pachomius; but in the description there are more words than thoughts, little practical information and there are fables. The same is the canon to the princes, the composition of the same Pachomius, in the July Menaion. M. 1646, see review of literature, page 210. Cont. Nestor, p. 24. Step. book I, 365. Nikon. l. 3, 18. 19. Karamz. 4, pr. 37. Collection l. I, 206. 226. IV, 38. VII, 159. In Resurrection. l. it is said that bl. The prince was buried on February 8. 1249 Pachomius' description of his life. About Daniel's struggle collected. l. 2, 194. We cannot allow the idea that the Yaroslavl people were now dealing with arrogant Besermen, as was the case in Suzdal in 1262 and in Rostov in 1289 (Yaroslavl diocesan journal, 1860, No. 27). It is impossible because the census takers came in the winter of 1257 to record the entire Russian land (collection l. I. 203. IV, 38); and the battle on Tugovaya Mountain took place on July 3. Glinka freedom. imitate Job 14, 1–7. Yaroslav. diocesan led 1860 No. 14. Description Sol. Monast., pp. 388–391. RKP. Saints: “Righteous saints John and Loggin, Yarensky miracle workers in the St. Nicholas Monastery, reposed in l. 7050 (1542) July 3 days.” About the time of death both here and in the dictionary of the saint. 1836 readings are incorrect. Certificates - in description. Solov. mon., p. 390. 395. The legend of miracles and the transfer of relics and a complete service with two canons - the work of the Solovetsky monk and Ipatsky Archimandrite Sergius in the imp. publ. bib. No. 728. Canon for the Righteous, - the work of an unknown person, ibid. No. 727. Life and miracles are blessed. John in the RCP. Tsarsky, No. 128. Tolstoy 2, No. 237, in the Synod. bib. No. 850. In the RKP. Royal No. 128 Troparia and Kontakion to Blessed John. RKP. Saints: “Blessed John the Great Cap reposed in l. 7097 (1589); M. June 12 d. His relics were found in l. 7180 (1672) June 17th." According to the life of Sk. July 3. RKP. the life of the Monk Nicodemus, the work of the monk Jacob, who lived in the Kozheozersk monastery from 1624. Extract in Art. Kozheozersky Monastery to Moscow Ved. 1852 No. 33. 34. Arkhang. led 1848 No. 37. 38. In the RKP. Life says that Nicodemus, accepted by Paphnutius into the Chudov Monastery, lived here for 11 years. But Paphnutius was the archimandrite of the Chudov Monastery from 1595 and in 1602 he was ordained metropolitan of Sarsk. East. Hier. I, 438. 546. In history. Hier. your mistakes. - It is not said here that Paphnutius entered Chudov from the Pavlovsk Komel Hermitage (see about the Monk Adrian, May 5th) and that on Krutitsy his successor was Isaiah and then, from 1636, Paul. “Sunday Reading” 1856–1858 conveys in the Russian translation of Abba Isaiah to the blessed. Theodore - sayings of holy women.