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St. Muchch. Nazaria, Gervasia, Protasia, Kelsia, Vitaly and his wife Valeria St. Nazarius the Roman was the son of the Jew Africanus and the Christian Perpetua, who accepted St. baptism from St. Apostle Peter. Having reached adulthood, Nazarius wished to devote himself to the enlightenment of the pagans and went to preach the faith of Christ in different cities. - Having come to Mediolan, where at the time of Nero’s persecution the Christians Gervasius and Protasius, twin brothers, were kept in prison, Nazarius, for visiting them and for helping them, was subjected to torment and was expelled from the city. From here he went to Gaul, baptizing, among others, the young man Kelsius, a native of the city of Media (Cimella - near Nice), whom his mother let go and accompany him who baptized him. Continuing his journey for the purpose of preaching, Nazarius was repeatedly beaten and imprisoned in chains in prison. Returning to Mediolan, where Gervasius and Protasius were still kept in prison, he again visited them together with Kelsius, and for this both of them were captured and beheaded by order of the ruler Anulin. Soon after, both Gervasius and Protasius were put to death - Gervasius was beaten to death with tin rods, and Protasius was beheaded. – The relics of these martyrs were discovered by St. Ambrose of Milan, who thus conveys about this event: - “when in the past St. Lent, after communion of St. Tain, I was praying at night, then, dozing off, I saw two young men praying with raised hands. When I woke up, they became invisible. Not knowing how to explain this vision, not knowing whether it was from God, I fasted intensely and the next night I saw the same vision. On the third night the same young men appeared to me, no longer sleeping, but wondering, and they appeared accompanied by St. The Apostle Paul, as he is depicted on icons, and the Apostle said to me: “These young men, having listened to my words, despised the world and wealth and followed our Lord Jesus Christ. Having renounced all earthly and carnal desires, they lived here in Mediolan, serving the one God, and were honored to be martyrs for Christ, whose bodies you will find in the place where you pray... To my question about the names of those young men, the Apostle answered: at their head you will find a letter that tells about both their birth and their death. You take their bodies out of the grave and create a church in their name. Then, calling the brethren and bishops, I announced to them about the vision, and together we began to dig up the earth at the indicated place, and found an ark with the fragrant bodies of the martyrs. At their head they found the following written about them: - I, the servant of Christ - Philip, having stolen the bodies of the martyrs - Gervasius and Protasius, hid them in my house and buried them. Their father, the warrior Vitaly, and their mother, Valeria, lived in Mediolan and secretly professed the faith of Christ. But, having once gone to Ravenna with Judge Peacock, Vitaly was recognized as a Christian, tortured and buried alive in a ditch filled with stones. His wife Valeria, refusing to eat food sacrificed to idols, was so beaten that on the third day after returning home, having only managed to bequeath instructions to her children Protasius and Gervasius, she died. “The note further repeated what Paul said about them and also about the martyrdom of Protasius and Gervasius and the burial of the Christian Philip and his son” 174. Regardless of the message attributed to Ambrose of Milan in the Roman Church about his discovery of the relics of the martyrs, the event of this discovery is undoubtedly proven by another work of St. Ambrose - by his letter to his sister Marcellina, a virgin dedicated to God, who lived in Rome, in which, describing the discovery of St. relics of Protasius and Gervasius, he says that “both men are of extraordinary size, that their bones are completely intact, and there is a lot of blood with them, and that they healed a blind man.” From this letter it is also clear that the discovery of the relics took place in June 387. Another St. Father Augustine in his confession speaks of the discovery of St. the relics of Protasius and Gervasius as a result of the revelation to Ambrose and about the miracles that occurred from them, in particular about the healing of a blind man. This event took place a year before Augustine's baptism. Being later a bishop, St. Augustine, in a word to his Hippo flock on the day of these martyrs, says that while he was in Milan at that time, he himself saw miracles from them and the healing of a blind man; in the book about the City of God, narrating the same thing, he says that at that time the emperor was there and that miracles happened among countless people. Presbyter Paulinus testifies to the same thing in the life of Ambrose, written in 411. Peacock, an eyewitness to the discovery of the relics of the other two martyrs - Nazarius and Kelsia, says: “we saw in the coffin in which lay the body of the martyr (Nazarius), about the time of whose death we still know nothing, the blood of this martyr was so fresh, as if it had flowed out on that very day; his head was intact and undamaged, with hair and beard, so that it looked as if he had just been washed and laid down. Moreover, we perceived a fragrance that could overcome all aromas. Having raised the body of the martyr and placed it on a stretcher, we turned with prayer to the martyr Kelsius, who was laid in the same garden.” At the site of the discovery of the relics of Kelsius in the garden, a church was built by Ambrose or his successor, restored in the 10th century, and the body of the martyr was rediscovered, then examined in the 12th century and then again in 1776. The discovery of the relics of Nazarius and Kelsius took place between 395–397 175. † Memory of our venerable mother Petka-Paraskeva of Bulgaria “The law of love is this,” says the describer of the life of St. Paraskeva, that he encourages us to renew in the memory those dear to our hearts, so that we can contemplate their image in our minds and paint their speeches. All the more gratifying for the heart is the memory of God’s saints, which is so useful for everyone. Just as on summer days, under the beneficial rays of the sun, everything comes to life and grows, so a spiritual story, driving away the cloud of sadness, cheers and enlivens the soul and, giving strength to our zeal, leads us to the best. Already in all of Mysia, Thrace and Dalmatia the name of the Venerable Paraskeva is glorified” 176. The parents of Blessed Petka were Slavs and not poor people who enjoyed fame; they lived in the town of Epivatos (Pivat, Turkish Bayados), on the seaside, between Silimvria and Constantinople. In addition to their daughter Petka, they had a son. They sent him to school, and his daughter was raised in her parents' house, under the supervision of her mother. A fiery desire to live for the Lord was revealed early in Petka. “If anyone wants to follow Me, let him deny himself”: these words, heard by her in the church, pierced her heart like an arrow, and she, upon leaving the church, gave her rich dress to the poor man she met, exchanging it for his rags. Her parents scolded her for her changed outfit; but her heart burned with love for the Lord. After some time, she again gave her clothes to the beggar and then repeated the same thing more than once. They scolded her sharply; but she felt that she could not live otherwise. Petka’s brother, when he was sufficiently taught the Holy Scriptures, wished to become a monk and, with the consent of his parents, took monastic vows under the name of Euthymius. Ascending gradually in spiritual life, he became a firm man. Due to the knowledge of his high life, he was elevated to the episcopal see of the diocese of Madita; here he became famous for his virtues and his fight against heretics. He died at a ripe old age and his body was laid in the cathedral church, where miracles exuded. Michael Psellus, in his eulogy to St. Michael Cerularius (1043–1058), speaks with praise of Saint Euthymius as a contemporary or somewhat earlier who flourished at the see of Madita, on the seashore 177. Upon the death of his parents, Blessed. Petka decided to part with the world completely. According to the information collected by the holy mountain dweller Nicodemus, before she retired to the Palestinian desert, she visited Constantinople and walked around its holy places; here she listened to the instructions of zealous ascetics. On their advice, she settled in the suburb of Irakli at the secluded Church of the Intercession of Our Lady; she spent five years here in prayer, fasting and tears. Fulfilling her long-standing desire, she went to Palestine and, having venerated the places sanctified by the life of the Savior, remained to live in the Jordan Desert. – The Lord alone knows all the exploits of the desert life of St. virgins Melting now from the heat, now from the cold, she ate only grass, and then only after sunset. The evil spirit tempted her with dreams and ghosts; “But good Petka of the Most High, take refuge for yourself.” So she spent her life until old age, giving herself no rest, waiting for the heavenly Bridegroom. One day, when she was standing in prayer, an angel appeared to her and said: “Leave the desert and return to your fatherland, where you must leave your body on earth and go to the Lord with your soul.” - The venerable one rejoiced that the time for her release from the body was near; but she was sorry to part with the deserted solitude. Obeying the will of heaven, she went to her fatherland and experienced a storm at sea. Arriving in Constantinople, she visited St. Sophia and in the Blachernae Church she prayed before the miraculous icon of the Mother of God. Returning to her native town of Pivat, she did not find anyone alive, either from her acquaintances or at the church of St. The Apostles remained in prayer. Two years have passed since her return from the desert. The blessed one prayed in her solitude and during prayer she gave up her spirit to God. Her body was buried by Christ-loving people, like the body of a wanderer who did not tell anyone about herself where she was from. This was in the first half of the 11th century. Near the place where the saint was buried, a stylite labored. A sailor happened to die and his body was thrown not far from that place. The stench from the body was so strong that the pillar was forced to descend from the pillar and ask close residents to bury the body of the unfortunate man. Pious people began to dig a grave and found a body that was not touched by corruption. At first they were frightened and perplexed: what to do? As strangers to spiritual things, out of simplicity, they left the incorruptible body in the grave and immediately buried the stinking corpse. Then, when one of them, the pious George, after evening prayer, lay down to rest, a maiden dressed in a royal robe, surrounded by soldiers, appeared in a dream; the light surrounding her was so strong that he could not look; one of the soldiers came up and, taking him by the hand, said: “George! Why did you despise the body of the reverend so much? Paraskeva? immediately take him out of the stinking grave and place him in a shrine; The king wants to glorify her on earth.” Then the wondrous maiden said to the embarrassed George: “Hurry to take out my relics - I can’t stand the stench; my homeland Pivat, where you live.” That same night, the reverent wife Euphemia had a similar vision. When both apparitions were announced, they hurried to the grave and took out the incorruptible body of the holy virgin; it was solemnly laid out in the cathedral church of the Apostles, and streams of healings flowed from it: the blind received their sight, the lame began to walk, those sick with serious illnesses received health. Almost two centuries have passed since the death of St. Paraskeva. Constantinople and the places close to it were in the hands of the papists - the crusaders. The Bulgarian Tsar John Yasen, the son of the eldest Yasen, decided to free St. the relics of Paraskeva from the evil power of the papists 178. The Franks trembled Ash. Therefore, when he announced that he wanted to transfer the relics of the saint to his capital city, they immediately agreed to let them go. So the Tsar and Patriarch Vasily greeted them with triumph in Ternov, and they were laid (1238) in the church built for them by St. Paraskeva 179. When Sultan Bayazet took Ternov, all the shrines were plundered; The Wallachian ruler managed to take the relics of the saint, dressed in only rags, and transferred them to his capital. In 1396, Wallachia also fell under the rule of the Mohammedans, and its ruler was exiled to Brussa. The pious Princess Serbian Militsa, visiting the Sultan, begged for the relics of St. Paraskev, and they were transferred to Serbia 180. Under the ruler Vasily Lupul, in 1641, they were reverently transferred to Iasi, and they rest to this day in the Iasi Cathedral Church of the Three Saints. – With the glory of their miracles, they everywhere glorified, as they glorify, the faith of Christ, to strengthen the weak in the faith 181. † Repose of Rev. Nicholas Svyatoshi, Prince of Chernigov |The son of the pious Chernigov prince David Svyatoslavich, Prince Svyatoslav Svyatosha, in baptism Pankratiy, and in monasticism Nikolai, was married and had children; one of his daughters was the wife of the blessed one. Prince Vsevolod-Gabriel 182. In 1097 we see him as the prince of Lutsk, but in the same year, besieged by Bonyak and David, who blinded the unfortunate Vasilko, he voluntarily left Lutsk for Chernigov 183, Although the Terrible Tsar unfairly calls the prince. Svyatoslav-Nicholas the Grand Duke of Chernigov 184, but the tsar, of course, had in mind the monuments that the prince, who lived in Chernigov since 1097, owned lands in the Chernigov principality and thereby provided peace for his family - his wife and children; Chernigov legend firmly remembers that Navoz and Pakul with their surroundings, located on the banks of the Dnieper, belonged to the blessed. Prince Nicholas Svyatosha and they were then given to the Lavra, which owned them until very late times. In 1107 he left his wife, children, worldly fame and Feb. 17 took monastic vows at the Pechersk monastery 185. “Three years,” writes the blessed one. Simon, he spent his time in the kitchen, working for the brethren: with his own hands he chopped wood for boiling the brethren’s peas; often carried water from the shore on his shoulders. His brothers, Izyaslav and Vladimir, could not keep him from his exploits. As a sincere novice, he lovingly begged permission to cook millet gruel for the brethren for a year. After that, he was assigned, as proven and capable, to the gates of the monastery and stayed here for three years, not leaving anywhere except the church 186. It took a lot of firmness to bear the reproaches for the prince’s determination on the life of an unrequited novice. At that time, none of the princes, in the years and position of Svyatoslav, doomed themselves to the labors and humility of monasticism. Svyatoslav's brothers tried to return him to the world, especially through the doctor who settled for Svyatoslav in Kyiv. The doctor pointed out how harmful the harsh life of a monk was to the prince’s health. “And your pious brothers, Izyaslav and Vladimir,” said the doctor, suffer humiliation from your poverty. - Which prince did this? Is your blessed father David, or your grandfather Svyatoslav? Which of the boyars wished for this, except Varlaam, who was the abbot here? But the blessed one answered: “Brother Peter! I thought a lot and decided not to spare my flesh, so as not to raise a fight against myself; let her, constrained by her labors, humble herself. You say the truth that none of the princes did this before me; but let me be the first, and whoever wants to follow in my footsteps. “I thank God that He freed me from worldly work and made me a servant to His servants, these blessed monks.” - Let my brothers listen to themselves. Dying for Christ is my gain. Experience showed who was right in their thoughts. The ascetic prince was not well, but every time before the doctor came, he recovered. Once a doctor fell ill and very seriously. The monk prince sent to tell him that if he did not drink grass, he would be healthy; and if he does not obey, he will suffer a lot. The doctor did not listen and barely escaped death. The doctor was seriously ill another time. The blessed one sent to tell him: “If you do not receive treatment, on the third day you will be healthy.” The doctor obeyed and recovered. “After that, Peter began to change his thoughts, then he decided to become a monk and, as the blessed one had appointed, he soon died. The last time was in the sixth year of Svyatoslav’s stay in the monastery; and the monk prince lived after that for another 30 years 187. After the position of gatekeeper, “he was commanded,” writes Blessed. Simon, to serve at the meal, then by the will of the abbot and the brethren he was forced to have his own cell. Having built it, he started a garden next to it, where he planted plants with his hands. They also say about him that he was never idle during the entire time of his monasticism: he was constantly engaged in handicrafts, singing psalms, and thereby earned his livelihood. Although he received property, he did not use it for himself, but distributed everything to the poor and for church buildings” 188. The last words of the blessed one. Simon give credence to the legend that the Church of the Holy Trinity above St. gates and the hospital church of St. Nicholas were built through the zeal of St. prince-monk 189. According to Kalnofoysky, the Trinity Church above the gates is of the same facade as the Church of the Annunciation above the Golden Gates of Yaroslav. – This serves as a new justification for the idea of ​​the builder of St. vrat - prince-goalkeeper. “We have many of his books,” Simon also says to the Pechersk monk. It is now known that St. the prince diligently encouraged others to study books. At his request, the monk Theodosius translated the message of St. into Slavic. Leo the Pope against Eutyches 190. In 1142 we see the prince-monk as a peacemaker between the princes. At the request of prince, he reconciled the princes of Chernigov with his brothers. book Vsevolod 191. This was his last service to the Church and his homeland. The following year, on October 14, he rested from his labors 192. “All of Kyiv gathered for his burial. “His brother Izyaslav begged for the blessing of the deceased’s cross.” After some time, Izyaslav was so ill that they despaired of his life. – Lying unconscious, the patient asked for water from the Pechersk well. The abbot sent the water with which the relics of St. Theodosius were washed, and the hair shirt of St. Nicholas. The messenger had not yet returned when the sick man said: “Go to meet St. Theodosius and Nicholas.” When the messenger entered the house, “Nikolai, Nikolai Svyatosha!” said the patient. They gave him the water of Theodosius to drink, covered him with Nicholas's hair shirt, and the patient instantly recovered. “The prince later put on the saint’s hair shirt when he went to war, and remained unharmed. King John, retelling Simon's story about St. Nicholas, says: “and after his death, demons ran from the wooden bench on which he sat at the gate” 193. Blazh. Simon, having finished his story, says to the monk Polycarp what is necessary for others: “What did you do like that? Did you leave behind any wealth? But you didn't have it. Is it glory? But you didn't own it. You went from poverty to fame and happiness. Think about this prince. None of the princes did anything like him; none of them willingly entered into monasticism: truly he is higher than all the Russian princes. - How can your baseness compare with his hair shirt? You were born for nakedness and adorn yourself with clothes. Won't you be deprived of incorruptible clothing for this and condemned as someone who does not have a wedding garment?.. Yesterday you were a monk, and you are already renouncing monasticism. Having not learned monasticism, you desire episcopacy and present yourself as a formidable legislator. Having not learned humility yourself, you want to humble others. You think highly of yourself, you command proudly, you answer in defiance. I learned about this from your lips. You think about earthly things and not about heavenly things, about carnal things and not about spiritual things, about lusts and not about abstinence, about wealth and not about poverty. – You moved away from the light and turned into darkness. Taking up a weapon against the enemy, he plunged it into your heart. Wake up, brother, and think carefully about your life" 194. Yakhromskaya Icon of the Mother of God Yakhromskaya or Yakhremskaya St. The icon is located in the Kosmin monastery in the Vladimir province, 40 versts from Vladimir, on the Yakhroma or Yakhrem river. This holy icon appeared in 1482 on October 14 to the pious youth Cosmas, who was accompanying a sick man. One day they stopped on the way by the Yakhrema stream. During the sleep into which the sick man plunged, the youth suddenly sees an extraordinary light and hears a voice: “hear and understand the words of life, show a life pleasing to God and wish for the joy of the righteous, so that you may enjoy eternal blessings.” Cosmas saw that the rays of light that flashed at him came from the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God, which appeared on the tree. The youth approached and took the holy icon from the tree, from which the sick man immediately received healing. Following heavenly inspiration, Cosmas with the icon of the Mother of God secretly withdrew from the healed man, who was no longer needed, and arrived at the Pechersk monastery of Kyiv, where the original of the icon that appeared to him was located, and here he took monastic vows. After many years of monastic deeds, with which he marked his spiritual life and glorified himself, Cosmas, at the secret inspiration of God, taking with him the icon that appeared to him, retired from the Kyiv monastery to the place where St. icon, and here, with the help of Christ-loving Christians, he built a church in the name of the Dormition, in which he placed the Yakhroma icon, and he himself settled at the church where Kosygin’s monastery was formed. See "Thu." Min." October 14th. See Poly. Months Vost.”, vol. II, part 2, p. 330, archim. Sergius. Life of St. Paraskeva, described by P. Euthymius around 1385, ex. in Glasnik VIII, 131–141, but according to a list in which the sheets are broken, and the publisher did not bother to put them in order. Tsar's list No. 135. Slightly modified by St. Demetrius in Chetya-Minea Oct. 14 days. Wiltsch kirchl. Statistik 1. 425. Leonis expositio ecclesiarum p. 46 ed. Tafel. Legend: “I lost the kingdom of Greece to the scepter, by the permission of God the Romans... the reigning city was lost, I took all the holy loans without cold, and also the honorable relics of the saints, all the church utensils and all the royal property and everything, just say, the beauty of the city. Let everything go to Rome and relax... To the pious Tsar of Bulgaria John Asen, the son of the old Tsar Asen, I am horrified by those barkings, and even more so in time to find it safely, jump up bravely on the wicked and the whole Macedonian will embrace the whole Macedonian and also Ser” and lr. Macedonia and Thrace were taken from the Latins and Greeks by Old Ash, and not by the son of Old Ash. The son finished his father’s work: he restored the Bulgarian nation, using almost no drastic measures. Stritten Bulgarica § 267. 274. 277–281. Prologue Oct. 14. Ed. acad. VII, 153. 154. Church of St. Petki is now a mosque. Grigorovich 173. In Tsarsky No. 135, “the legend of how the saint was brought to the glorious Serbian land was copied by Gregory Tsamblak.” In the list of Russian cities of the 14th century: “I will touch the country of the Danube, Tranov, where St. lies. Friday". Daskalova's discovery in Ternov, in reading. total ist. 1859, book. 2. Grigorovich's journey. 173. P. Nektarios (in replies to the papist Peter), listing the saints of modern times, writes: “we also know the new Paraskeva, honored with blessed celebrations throughout Bulgaria, but her body was transferred from Constantinople to Moldova and heals, as we ourselves saw, many.” Karamz. 2, pr. 211. About his wife and children he himself is with Simon: “I have left everything for Christ’s sake, both wife and children and house and power.” Vsevolod took his daughter for himself in 1123 (Collected l. 3:5) et seq. after removing him to a monastery. According to the synodics, his wife is K. Anna. Collection years. 1, 115. 11. V. 155. VII, 20. IX, 140. 11, 287. 1 Epistle of Simon to Polycarp on the RKP. Simon in the Epistle; step. book 1, 235–240. Simon; step. book 1, 236. 336. Description laurels, pp. 32. 33. Shrines of Kiev, pp. 36. 37. It is in vain that the construction of the gates is dated to 1106. This translation with a preface and afterword ex. in reading total ist. 1848 No. 7. “My lord Cyrus Nicholas knows that there is no transformation worthy of your aspirations... I call on your servant Theodosius, my patriarch, to pray.” Epistle of Simon; step. book 1, 239.240. Sl. Chernigov, p. 39. Chern. 1863 Epistle of 1578 in history. act. 1, 381. Life of Nikolai Ave. in the RCP. prologue of the 17th century at Rumyantsev No. 325. RKP. message about the book Saintly.