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St. Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus Romans by birth, noble dignitaries under Emperor Maximian, who enjoyed his trust. Sergius was the commander of the regiment of the allies (foreigners), and Bacchus was second in command. Since Maximian did not like Christians, Sergius and Bacchus hid their faith. But envious people inform the king that his trusted nobles are Christians and do not honor the gods. Maximian, wanting to be sure of the justice of the denunciation, once on a pagan holiday called Sergius and Bacchus to the temple and ordered them to make a sacrifice. They answered: “We honor one God and worship Him! He is the true and living God, while your gods are insensitive idols.” Then the king ordered to remove the signs of their rank from them, dress them in women's clothes and lead them around the city with iron hoops on their necks to ridicule. Then he called them and friendly advised them “not to be seduced by Christian fables and turn to the gods of Rome.” But the saints confessed the Divinity of the Christian faith and advised the king himself to know the truth. Then the king decided to send them to the ruler of eastern Syria, near the Euphrates, Antiochus, who himself received this position through Sergius and Bacchus. Antiochus was a hater of Christians, and Maximian hoped that the confessors would be driven to apostasy either out of shame or torment. When the saints were brought to Barbalis (60 versts from Aleppo), where Antiochus lived, he first kept them under honorary guard, and when he found them adamant in the faith, he ordered Sergius to be imprisoned and Bacchus to be scourged without mercy. He died in these torments, and his body was thrown outside the city as prey to wild beasts; but the believers buried him in a cave in which they themselves were hiding. Sergius, hearing about the death of Bacchus, cried and prayed to God. Antiochus, going to the city of Sura, ordered Sergius to be taken with him; here he again urged him to sacrifice to idols and, having received a refusal, ordered him to be put in iron boots with nails and driven to the city of Resafa (20 miles from Sura). At Resafa he condemned the confessor to beheading (about 309). From ancient times, the memory of these martyrs was highly revered in the East, and the city of Resafa itself, with its famous monastery of St. Sergius, was called Sergiopolis. Khozroes 2nd, King of Persia, sent a golden cross to this monastery, with the inscription on it: “since it was heard that the holy, all-honorable and eminent Sergius was giving petitions to everyone, then, relying on mercy, in the first year of our reign (591st) on the seventh day of January we began to ask for it and made a vow that if our horsemen killed the rebel Zadestram, or They will take him alive, and from us a golden cross decorated with stones will be dedicated to the honorable name of Sergius and sent to his house. And on the ninth day of the month of February they actually brought us the head of Zadestram” ... and so on. † Memory of Rev. Sergius the Obedient The name of the obedient one, with whom the Monk Sergius rests in Anthony's Cave 96, is worth a story. – It shows us that obedience is a great thing in the Christian life, a feat glorified by the Lord. “Recently, we have also begun to say, as the unfortunate Reformation said, that “in our time, submission to someone else’s will is unnecessary, now everyone is able to choose the best for themselves.” Completely, is this what God’s revelation teaches us? Doesn't it say that self-will is the most dangerous thing, a thing that has destroyed not only people, but also spirits stronger than people? ABOUT! May the Lord deliver every Christian soul from the thoughts and deeds of Satan! How is a saving transformation accomplished in the soul through blessed obedience? Self-love is the most terrible evil in our soul: all sins are branches of it. Obedience is the scourge of pride. As one rejects one’s will and devotes oneself to the will of God, self-love is constrained, weakened, and suppressed in the soul. This constraint of pride by obedience is painful: pride rebels against the will of others and wants to defend its own will. But the less the obedient one spares himself, the more victories he gains over the dominant evil of the soul. In the obedient, instead of self-love, love for the Lord develops and grows stronger: for whom, if not for the Lord, does he renounce his will? Thus he scourged self-love with obedience throughout his life and the saint died. Sergius of Pechersk is a servant of God and rests incorrupt! † Repose of Rev. Sergius Nuromsky Rev. Sergius Nuromsky 97 laid the foundation for monastic life on Mount Athos. Then he spent a considerable time in the monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh, under the leadership of this great ascetic. Loving silence, he retired, with the blessing of the Radonezh mentor, to the Vologda forests. Here, on the rocky bank of the river. Nurma, he settled then, as Pavel Obnorsky lived in the hollow of a tree. Having erected a cross and built a chapel with a cell, he labored in deep silence. He was attacked here twice by unkind people. The first time they beat him to the point that they left him barely alive; but through his prayer he soon recovered. “Another time they wanted to attack him during his midnight prayer. They had instruments of death in their hands: Sergius had only a rosary. “God, please help me,” cried the hermit. Fear fell on the robbers, and they fled from his cell, pursued by no one. “Rumor spread about the strict hermit, and those thirsting for spiritual salvation began to come to him. Some came to receive instruction for life, overwhelmed by earthly worries, and - from them, others brought him food; others remained at the cross of Sergius to strive according to his instructions. Little by little, up to 40 brethren gathered to him. He built the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the monastery of the hostel. - From time to time he went for conversations of love with the Rev. Pavel Obnorsky, who lived not far from the desert; at other times Paul visited him. – Ave. Paul respected Sergius so much that he accompanied him more than two-thirds of the distance from his monastery. The place where Paul and Sergius usually reached is marked by a chapel. - Feeling the proximity of his death, Rev. Sergius received holy communion. Tain and gave up his pure soul to God, October 7, 1412. In appearance, the Monk Sergius was gray-haired, with a sparse beard, and thick hair on his head 98. Several years after his death, Sergius appeared to one reverent monk of his monastery, at night, when he was in a subtle sleep, and ordered him to tell the abbot and the brethren to open his coffin, according to the will of God. "Who are you?" asked the embarrassed monk. “I am the sinner Sergius, the ruler of this place,” answered the one who appeared, and pointed to the place of his tomb. The vision was repeated a second and a third time. “The monk became very ill and then decided to reveal a vision to the abbot, fearing until then that he would be deceived by his dream. The coffin was opened under the church porch, and here above the coffin the sick monk received healing from his illness. When the icon of the saint was placed over the relics of the shrine, healings began to flow for the Bogomolets. Until 1584, up to 80 miracles of the saint were described. - Monastery of St. Sergius, closed in 1764, was located 4 versts from the Pavlovsk monastery, downstream of the Nurmi, in the Gryazovets district. Now the relics of the saint rest in the church under a canopy 99. “I beg you,” the reverend tells us. Sergius with your life, “walk in accordance with the calling to which you have been called, with all humility, meekness and generosity, bearing with one another out of love, trying to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:1-3). Mark was a student of the Rev. Silvanus or Silvanus, who first labored in Lower Egypt, in a monastery or desert located southwest of Alexandria, and moved in the middle of the 4th century with 12 of his disciples to Mount Sinai. This beloved disciple of the ascetic abba was distinguished by extraordinary obedience and humility; in the canon compiled in his memory, he is called “discreet and obedient.” Seeing the elder mentor’s special affection for Mark, the other 11 of his disciples grumbled and complained about the Abba’s partiality to the other skete elders, who one day gathered together to see Silouan and reproached him for his unequal affection for his disciples. Then Silouan invited them to go with him to the disciples' cells; he knocked on the door of each of them, calling the student and asking him to come out to him; but not one of them rushed to respond to the elder’s call, with the exception of Mark, who immediately responded to Silouan’s call and fulfilled the order given to him. - Where, fathers, are the other brothers? - said Silouan and entered with the elders into Mark’s cell, where they saw that Mark, at the time they called him, was busy rewriting a book for his mentor, but, hearing his voice, he threw down the pen without even finishing a letter, and hurried to go out to him. “Yes, you are fair that you love Mark more than others,” the elders noted, “it is true that God loves him more... Mark was a good scribe and wrote the life of the hermits. He died peacefully in the 4th century, having foreseen the day of his death. Description Kievsk. laurels 110. 289. 291. RKP. Saints: “teacher. Father Sergius the faster." From Kalnofoisky: “pr. Father Sergius"; in the canon “Sergius is the only one liking Nectarius the obedient.” RKP. The life of St. Sergius, described in many words by the monk Jonah in 1584, is in the Tsar’s No. 154 and 487. Afterword: “the life of this saint was written - to the then-former Metropolitan Dionysius and Bishop Varlaam of Vologda, in the summer of 7092 (1584). The life of this wonderworker Sergius was written by the monk Jonah, who was abbot that year at the cover of the most pure monastery of Dionysius the wonderworker, who was also on Glushitsa.” The Life was compiled according to the notes of Obnor Abbot Protasius, who discovered the relics of St. Paul in 1546. Buslaeva words. and art. 2, 352. East. Hier. 5, 366. Compiled. about mon. 73. Vologda. lips Ved. 1848 No. 19.