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† Rev. Spyridon and Nikodim prosphora and Rev. Anatoly – Pechersky It is instructive and gratifying for Christians of all times to see simple, unlearned people among those who pleased the Lord. The power of that faith is especially visible in them, which, having been preached by fishermen, transforms and elevates minds and hearts, like no human philosophy. Their example shows that the truth of Christ, life-giving and miraculous, is not the property of any selected class of people, as is the case with human wisdom, but it is given for all people and can be assimilated by everyone. – Their example shows that if some educated people do not accept heavenly truth, do not turn it into the life of their souls, this depends in them, as in uneducated people like them, not on heavenly truth, but on the nature of their hearts, because they are corrupted by passions. The Monks Spyridon and Nikodim were simple people; but how they rose in spirit! Their occupation was very simple - baking prosphora; but they did it with love for the Lord and the brethren, and love turned a simple occupation into spiritual service. Spiridon was from a village. Under Abbot Pimen (1132–1141), he came to the Pechersk monastery to work for the Lord. The abbot assigned him to bake prosphora. Humble and hardworking, full of the fear of God, he carried out the assignment with full zeal. He considered this assignment to be the great mercy of God, remaining with the conviction that the bread he prepared was intended for the bloodless service of God, for the great mystery of God. Spiridon entered the monastery completely illiterate - he “came not from the city, but as an ignorant peasant.” “But he realized that God’s law is the light of our paths.” And therefore, although he was no longer young, he began to learn to read and write and then studied the psalter. He so internalized this holy book in his soul that he knew it all by heart. After that, “whether he was chopping wood, kneading dough, heating the oven, or preparing prosphora for the oven, he constantly read the psalms. This is how the servant of God labored! And what spiritual courage, what miraculous strength he acquired by struggling in this way! One day the roof of his cell caught fire from the fire from the stove. The blessed one, taking his mantle, covered the stove with it; and having tied up the sleeves of his hair roll, he ran to the well, poured water, brought it to the cell and poured on the fire. “Neither his robe was burned by the fire, nor water spilled from the sleeves of the scroll. The brothers who came running saw this. Friend and collaborator Rev. Spiridon was Rev. Nicodemus, just like him, a simpleton, but wise for the Lord. He shared with Spiridon the labors of baking prosphora, carried firewood and water, kneaded dough, and at the same time remained in prayer and sang psalms. Thus they spent 30 years and the servants pleasing to the Lord died peacefully 427. – The Monk Spyridon rests in the position of a praying man. The first three fingers of his hand are connected completely evenly, and the middle and little fingers are bent to the palm. The hand is folded so tightly that if anyone wanted to give a different position to its fingers, he could rather break them than fulfill his desire. Here is a loud sermon for the imaginary Old Believers! M. Sylvester notes that the life of St. Spyridon extended until 1139 428; but since Rev. Spyridon under Abbot Pimen (1132–1141) had just arrived at the monastery, and his exploits ended, in all likelihood, not before 1148. Reverend Father Anatoly, following the example of the great Father Anthony, labored in retreat, at the same time as Spyridon and Nicodemus labored in the community. The Lavra sings: “Spyridon, the flower of kindness, and Nicodemus, named after victory, both holy prosphora-makers, preparing clean bread and a gift to God, prepared themselves as a fragrant sacrifice; Anatoly is also counted among them. We all call them all" 429. Rev. Anatoly rests incorrupt in the Anthony Cave in the same place where the relics of St. Spiridon and Nicodemus. In Kalnofoysky it is described as follows: “St. Elder Anatoly, laboring in seclusion until a very old age, achieved the gift of working miracles.” “Spiridone is kind! You extinguished the fiery furnace with your mantle, because in your heart you ignited the fire of love for the Lord. I beg you, extinguish the shootings of the Belial directed at us” 430. Holy Apostles Stium, Amplia, Urvana, Narcissus, Apellius and Aristobulus See about them on January 4th, in the Cathedral of the Seventy. Service to the fathers of the nearby cave. K. 1855 Opps. laurels, p. 110. 290. Teraturgima p. 17. According to the RCP. Saints commemoration of St. Spyridon and Nicodemus Oct. 31 d·, Anatoly Ave. will be remembered without reference to the day of remembrance. Meletius Sirig in the canon. Akathists, K. 1674