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Venerable Cyriacus the Hermit The Monk Cyriacus, a Corinthian, son of a priest, eighteen years old (about 465) went to Jerusalem secretly from his parents and, St. places, spent the winter in a monastery nearby and then went to the desert monastery of St. Euthymius (January 20), who, having tested, was tonsured a monk and sent to the Jordan to the Venerable. Gerasim (March 4). Gerasim ordered him to live in a common monastery on various obediences. After the death of Rev. Gerasim (475), Kyriakos returned to the monastery of St. Euthymius (who died a little earlier) and asked Abbot Elijah for permission to live in a secluded cell. This was in his twenty-seventh year of age. He had as an interlocutor only the monk Thomas, who was perfect in his life, but even with that he was soon separated. For, sent to Egypt on monastic affairs, Thomas was retained by the Patriarch of Alexandria Timothy and consecrated bishop of Abyssinia. He spent ten years in the Lavra and was made a deacon; then, on the occasion of discord between the monks, he retired to the Sukiysky monastery (Old Lavra), where, only after four years of trial, he was admitted to deaconal service, and three years after this, he was awarded the presbytery. Having stayed here for thirty years, seventy-year-old Kyriakos retired to a silent life in the desert and spent 15 years there. Then he returned to the Suki monastery and reposed here, more than 107 years old, in 557. Holy Rev. Mary of Palestine She was a reader at the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem; the evil spirit wounded many with her beauty. Having learned about this, she went into the desert; where she lived for 18 years, eating soaked beans and water taken when she left. desert, but which were not exhausted by the grace of God until her death, which followed in 553. For more details on her life, see February 7th, along with the life of St. Mastridia and two ascetics unknown by name. † Repose of Rev. Cyprian of Ustyug During the time of the Rostov prince Konstantin Vsevolodovich, so says the Ustyug chronicler, the landowner of the Dvina third and the Ustyug volost, despising the delights of the world, took on the monastic image and was named Cyprian. When he accepted monasticism, the citizens of Veliky Ustyug convinced him to build a holy monastic monastery near the city of Ustyug in a convenient location. - Having walked around the city, examining the places convenient for the monks to live, he chose a place near the lakes, behind the Ostrog talus. Here he set up a small cell for himself. In 1212, the monk Cyprian began to build a monastery in honor of the Entry of the Mother of God into the church and St. Archangel Michael. Citizens, seeing his God-pleasing life, brought what was necessary for the establishment and maintenance of the monastery; and others began to live with him. He received everyone with joy and love, and by example of life he taught how to achieve salvation and get rid of eternal torment. – Subsequently, he gave the monastery all his property, villages, villages, arable and hay land, which he had in Ustyug and many other volosts. From that time on, his holy monastery began to spread and had no need for anything. “Reverend Father Cyprian was recognized as the head of the holy monastery and the shepherd of Christ’s flock.” So says the chronicler 461. To this day, a wild stone is preserved in the monastery - a monument to the exploits of the monk: this stone either served as his head, or he held it in his hand during his studies, so as not to allow himself to sleep and to pray cheerfully in spirit 462. “On the 29th day of September 1279,” continues the chronicler, monk Cyprian, head of the Arkhangelsk monastery, died and was buried in his monastery near St. gate Subsequently, the Church of the Midsummer was built over his tomb, and his tomb remained inside the church, behind the left choir, against the wall; a tomb was built over him" 463. According to the news of the 17th century, in 1621, one of the monastery servants, returning from Verkhoturye, near the Pyskorsky monastery, carelessly gnawed the root of some plant, given to him in the form of medicine, and as a result he became so sick with his stomach that they could hardly bring him, barely alive, to his monastery. Here he lay sick for a whole year. Having tried various medicines and received no benefit, he turned with fervent prayer to St. Cyprian, “promised to serve a requiem mass in the chapel over his tomb and to lay a veil on the tomb.” As soon as the funeral service was over and the cover was laid, the sick John became as healthy as if he had never been sick 464. In Savvaitov's description. Ustyug Monast., pp. 34–40. St. Petersburg 1848 East. Hier. III, 692. 312. Karamz. 3, pr. 186. Savvaitova described. mon., p. 140. Mixed. about mon. 60. In Savvaitov's description. mon. 44. Saints: “Rev. Cyprian, builder of the Arkhangelsk monastery, similar to Ustyug.”