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† Repose of Rev. Princess Sofia The young daughter of boyar Yuri Konstantinovich Saburov unexpectedly had a brilliant fate. For the heir to the Moscow throne, by the will of the Grand Duke, brides were collected, the best in beauty and health; out of 500, 10 were chosen, and from these ten, the young Prince Vasily chose his bride 207. It was Solomonia Yuryevna Saburova. Sep. On the 4th of 1505, a legal marriage took place, and from October 28, Vasily was already the Grand Duke. - But five, ten, 15 years have passed, and the Grand Duchess is childless. This is grief for the spouse, and even more so for the wife. “The Grand Duke at first lost interest in his love for his wife, then began to show indignation. One envoy at court led. The prince says: “having no children, Vasily did not respect his wife, so while I was in Moscow, I had to petition for the freedom of her brother, who was in prison for a minor crime” 208. – Finally, in 1525, the Grand Duke decided to divorce the barren Solomonia in order to marry Princess Glinskaya. The state, they said, needed an heir to the throne. If Vasily did not have brothers, a good goal does not justify an illegal means, and it is not the blessing, but the wrath of God that brings illegal deeds down on the state. The best contemporaries of Vasily 209 said so, among other things, Rev. Maxim Grek. “But the law is powerless against force; The prince's passion for Glinskaya was recognized as an insult to himself by the voices of a clear conscience 210. They demanded that innocent Solomonia accept monasticism voluntarily. She replied that she did not feel such a desire in herself. She was taken out of the palace. On November 25, 1525, “Grand Duke Vasily ordered his Grand Duchess to be tonsured” 211. In carrying out this will, the prince's servants went so far as to scold and even beat the former princess. She was tonsured at the Nativity nunnery with the name Sophia and sent to the Suzdal Intercession nunnery 212. “Here I am, Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich of all Russia, granted Elder Sophia in Suzdal my village of Vysheslavsky with villages and new villages - after her death, this village will go to the house of the Most Pure Mother of God, to the Intercession”: - this is what Vasily wrote in a letter dated September 19. 1526 213, i.e. a year after the princess was imprisoned in a monastery. It was hard for Sofia to bear her lot at first, when she herself did not think of parting with the world. - But he carried the letter. The prince shows that at the end of the year she had already begun to come to terms with her share. 1530 Aug. On the 28th at Vel. The prince had a son from Elena and “then became a formidable sovereign” 214. – The birth of Vasily’s son undoubtedly humbled Sofia even more. She has now completely turned to the Lord and banished worldly dreams from her soul. She began to cleanse the heart, which is so unclean in all of us, with spiritual vigilance, self-reproach, repentance, and prayer. Thus, ascending from perfection to perfection through grief and struggle with herself, the Monk Sophia lived in the monastery for 17 years and outlived not only Prince Vasily († 1533), but also the depraved Elena, who died from poison (1537); having reached high perfection, she died on December 16. 1542 215 . Prince Kurbsky calls him blessed. princess venerable martyr 216. According to the sedate book, Sophia, “having lived gratefully and pleasing to God, departed to God” 217. Already a wife. book Theodore Ioannovich sent “to the Grand Duchess Solomonida, and to the foreign workshop Sophia,” a velvet cover with images of the Savior and saints 218. Another ancient cover depicts the princess nun herself with the caption: “Holy Grand Duchess Sophia, Suzdal Wonderworker” 219. – This cover belongs to the time of the patriarchs. Joseph. P. Joseph wrote to the Suzdal Archbishop Serapion: “You, son, wrote to us, the patriarch, that in the current year 1650, according to our decree and charter, in the Suzdal Intercession nunnery you testified to the relics. Princess Sophia, and the blessed Grand Duchess, buried under the cathedral Church of the Intercession, lies hidden. Having heard your letter, we ordered to send you our letter in response. When our letter comes to you, then you order to put a cover on the tomb and sing dirges and prayers, as is customary, but do not order to dismantle the tomb and tear up the ground” 220. - Sacristan Anania writes that “many miracles and healings flowed from the tomb of St. Sophia for those who flowed in faith, to the glory of Christ our God.” He describes the miracles themselves. “Aug. 1st 1598 Reverend miss. Grand Duchess Sofia forgave the maiden Anna, daughter of Princess Alexandra Nogteva, at her grave”; She was blind for six years, but at Sophia’s tomb she received her sight and became healthy. In 1609, Suzdal was saved from ruin by the protection of St. princesses. The famous Lisovsky’s hand became paralyzed from her menacing appearance, and he vowed not to destroy the cities and monasteries. In 1610, at the tomb of the saint, three paralytics were healed, and a blind woman received her sight. In 1647, one insane person, one deaf person, three blind people and one paralytic received their health. The miracle of 1654 is remarkable: the Yuryev peasant Jeremiah had a headache and did not sleep day or night; in a subtle drowsiness the monk appeared to him. Sophia healed from illness 221. † Memory bliss. Feofaniya, queen The fruit of the prayers of a mother who had been childless for a long time, the daughter of the nobleman Constantine Martinakia and Anna, received an excellent education; her parents loved Feofania dearly and spared nothing for her upbringing 222. Imp. Basil the Macedonian chose her as the wife of his son Leo, and with the marriage crown, the royal crown was placed on Feofania, as the wife of the heir to the throne 223. But happiness did not caress Feofania for long. Theodore Santavarin, an evil and treacherous man, advised Leo to wear a sword under his clothes in case of danger for the king-father, and also slandered the king that his son was impatiently waiting to sit on his father’s throne and intended to kill him with a sword hidden under his clothes. “Lion and his wife were locked up in a fortress and spent three years in heavy imprisonment. On the day of the prophet Elijah, at the request of the nobles who vouched for the innocence of his son, Vasily returned freedom to his son and daughter-in-law. But Feofania’s health, upset by the unexpected misfortune, never returned to her. She had only one daughter and she, as soon as she was born, died 224. The blessed one saw that the earth was pushing her away from itself with sorrows and that she had to look for peace, just not on earth. Where is the peace so desired by the soul? The soul itself knows where its peace is: created in the image of God, it yearns for Him, its God - there is its light, there its joys. Temporary blessings, changing earthly images, seduce the soul, carry it along with them, but this is only seduction, deception: after it there is only emptiness and bitterness in the soul. So the blessed one turned with all her soul to her Lord. She diligently practiced prayer and read St. Scripture 225. Dressing in royal clothes for the sake of decency, she wore a hair shirt on her body. Her bed was royally luxurious, but she slept on the bare floor. Her food consisted of bread and vegetables. She treated those who served her kindly and meekly; no one heard a word of anger from her. She did not like secular idle talk, nor did she like the gaiety of forgetful absent-mindedness. Concerns about poverty served as a consolation for her. Everything she received from the court was used to help orphans, unfortunate widows, and monasteries and churches. She lived in thoughts of eternity and died peacefully on December 16, 892, having been married for 12 years. Her husband is the imp. Leo, knowing the holiness of her life, built a church and wanted to dedicate it to her name; but, on the advice of others, the church was consecrated in the name of all saints, and a convent was founded here 226. “Respecting his first wife, Blessed Theophany, Leo created a monument in her name near the Church of St. Apostle, where he laid her body, says the Greek historian 227. A Russian admirer of shrines wrote in 1342: “I went to St. Constantine, to the women's monastery: there lies the body of St. Archbishop Clement and Queen Feofaniya" 228. Nothing is known about St. the prophet Haggai until the time when he began his prophetic ministry, shortly after the return of the Jews from the captivity of Babylon (at the beginning of the 6th century BC). He reproached them, who lived in good houses and neglected to complete the church of the Lord, which they began to restore upon their return from captivity. “Thus said the Lord: - the prophet conveys what was announced to him by the spirit - this people says: the time has not yet come, it is not the time to build the house of the Lord. And is it time for you to live in your decorated houses, while this house is desolate?” “Therefore now,” thus says the Lord of hosts, “turn your hearts to your ways. You sow much and reap little; eat, but not to the point of satiety; drink, but don't get drunk; getting dressed, but not warming up. You expect a lot, but little comes out; and what you bring home, I will scatter - for what? says the Lord of hosts: for my house, which is desolate, while you flee every one to his own house. That is why the heavens are closed and do not give you dew, and the earth does not give you its fruits." Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn your hearts to your ways. “Go up to the mountain, and carry wood, and build a church; and I will favor him and be glorified, says the Lord." “And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel (ruler of Judah), and Joshua the son of Jesedek (the great priest), and all the rest of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as one sent by the Lord their God, and the people feared the Lord. Then Haggai said to the people: I am with you! says the Lord. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, and Joshua, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came and began to work in the house of the Lord of hosts their God." And the Lord encouraged all the people of the earth: “I am with you! - He said to him through His prophet, “My covenant, which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and My spirit remains among you: do not be afraid!” “For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once more, and it will be soon, I will shake heaven and earth, sea and dry land; I will shake all nations, and the One desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” “and the glory of this last church will be greater than the first, and in this place I will give peace,” says the Lord of hosts.” And the Lord, through the prophet Haggai, completes His promises about the triumph of the New Testament, the Establisher of which will appear in the newly created church, the One He promised: “I will shake heaven and earth; And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms, and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the heathen, I will overthrow the chariots and those who sit on them, and the horses and their horsemen will be overthrown, one by the sword of the other. On that day I will take you, Zerubbabel my servant, and will hold you like a seal; for I have chosen you, says the Lord of hosts”... 229. Herberstein Rer. Moscov. com. r. 25. Pskov. chronicle: “v. the prince tonsured Princess Solomonia, and took Elena for himself: and all this is for our sin... If anyone lets his wife go and marries someone else, he commits adultery.” Karamz. VII, pr. 343. Kurbsky, p. 4. 5. Life of St. Maxima Jan. 21 d. Prince Simeon Kurbsky, a man of strict life, was exiled into exile for condemning the prince’s illegal desires (Herberstein p. 60). Prince monk Vassian was locked up in the Joseph Monastery for the same thing. Letop. at Karamz. 7, pr. 280. Herberstein comm. r. 25. Kurbsky: “he cut her into a minority, she didn’t want it and didn’t think about it.” Page 4. Nestor’s successor, page 383, writes that it was as if she herself led. The princess asked her husband to tonsure her as a monk due to her illness and childlessness, and it was as if Vasily only yielded to her urgent request. – But evidence that Solomonia was forced to cut her hair is also a search for the means that the unloved wife used in her situation (Act. Ist. 1. No. 130. Coll. l. IV, 295. 296. V. 30. A. e. 1, 340). We are not talking about the mentioned witnesses. Ananias about the city of Suzdal, page 183. “The Life of the Blessed. V. book Solomonia, in the monastic rite of St. Sophia" - in Rumyantsev No. 165. Herberstein de reb. Moscov. p. 26. Karamz. 7, pr. 280. The diploma was given under Abbess Ulyana; confirmed by lead. book Ivan Vas. Mar. 30th 1534 under Elder Elena Shastova. Music Rumyantseva, p. 77. RKP. life of Rumyants. No. 165. Ananias about Suzdal, p. 56. Step. book 2, 203. Ananias, p. 183. Vladimir collection, p. 90. M. 1857 Antiquities of the state Ross. dept. VI, ,24. Ananias about Suzdal, page 56. Ananias, pp. 183–186. Life of St. Sophia. RKP. Saints: “the holy righteous princess Sophia, a nun, who was once a maiden in the Intercession Monastery, a wonderworker.” Her life was described in the Panegyric by Nikephoros Gregoras. Lambec. Comm. Vindob. 1.61. Extraction – in Chetye-Mineya Dec. 16 and in Synaxar Greek. Menaia. Du-Cangii famil. byzant. p. 141. Skylitza p. 599. Simeon Logothetes item 5. Glykas. Zonara at Du Cange. Constant, chr. d. 152, famil. byzant. p. 114. Stefan Novgorodian on his journey, hero. Zosima remarked in 1420: “There is a monastery there, called Philostratos, in which are the relics of St. Clement of Ancyra and Feofaniya." Book of the prophet Haggai: Hag.1:2,4,5,6,9,10,7,8,12,13,14 2:4–9,21–23.