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St. torment. Ermila and Stratonika of Belogradsky St. torment. Ermila and Stratonik Belogorodsky These saints, says the ancient menologist, became famous under the emperor Licinius. St. Hermil was a deacon of the Church of Christ. Licinius, being on the river. Danube, hearing about his glory, ordered him to be seized and, beaten with iron rods, ordered Stratonika to be kept in prison. Stratonicus, when he saw an Angel talking to Yermil through the prison window, believed in Christ and became Yermil’s friend. Yermil, taken out of prison, was forced to worship idols and, not agreeing to this, was beaten with sticks and then tormented with hooks in the belly and chest. Seeing this, Stratonicus could not help but cry. Recognized by this, he too was tormented. Both were finally thrown into the river. Danube and 173 people died there. “On the third day, their holy bodies were found on the surface and buried honestly, eighteen stadia from the city of Singidon, in one grave.” 174 According to the Roman martyrology, they suffered in Singidon in upper Mysia in 315. Singidon, or Singidom, is the dwelling of the Czech-Slav, present-day Belgrade. By such terrain and by the rank of wanderer-warrior, these martyrs are Slavs 175. St. James was called a miracle worker because of the many miracles he performed, and because of the abundance and height of spiritual wisdom he was called wise. The son of one of the appanage princes of Armenia, very educated, from a young age he renounced the pleasures of the world and, in 314, was elected Bishop of Nizibu, continued his ascetic life, cared for orphans and widows and edified everyone by his own example, as well as by word. Participated in the actions of the first Ecumenical Council (325) and in the double siege of Nizib by the Persians, 338 and 347, he showed himself to be a courageous shepherd and an ardent man of prayer before God; Already ready to invade the city, they, through the prayers of the saint, were driven away by a countless number of flies and mosquitoes, which caused disorder in their ranks. He died at an old age, around 450. When the city of Nisib was ceded to the Persians in 336, the evicted residents took with them the relics of the saint. He left many works of dogmatic and moral content. In the word on repentance, urging you to sincerely confess your sins, he says: otherwise the priest cannot know your illnesses. † Memory of Rev. Irinarch of Rostov St. Rev. Irinarch of Rostov The Monk Irinarch, in the world Elijah, was born into the agricultural life of the village. Kondakova, Rostov district 176. During the famine that happened here, he lived for two years in Nizhny Novgorod, and, having lost his father, moved with his mother and brother to Rostov, where he was engaged in trade. In the 30th year of his life, having left the world, he took monastic vows at the Rostov Boris and Gleb Monastery, on Ustye. In his spiritual life, the gradualness with which he moved from a difficult feat to a difficult one and then to a very difficult one is obvious; It is also obvious how the sorrows inflicted on him by people who did not understand him were beneficial to his soul. He began his asceticism by walking barefoot and in rags. The monk is barefoot and in rags - how indecent. So said those who valued their clothes, not their souls! To force Irinarch to wear shoes and a cassock, he was either locked in a cold cell for several days, or sent to ring the bell tower in the cold. The blessed one endured all this. When he was assigned to perform obedience at the monastery, the distance from the prayers of the church seemed unbearable to him, and he moved to the Abrahamic Monastery. Here he was assigned the position of cellarer. Strict with himself, he greatly grieved that others, without the fear of God, wasted the property of the monastery. After the death of his mother, he retired to the cell of the hermit Lazarus. At this time, Elder Pimen was laboring in retreat in the Abrahamic monastery, and conversation with him relieved Irinarch 177. Three years later, returned by the new abbot to the Boris and Gleb monastery, the blessed one appeared there with heavy chains on his shoulders and shackles on his legs. The sufferings of the crucified Savior became more and more the object of his love, his soul was filled more and more deeply with them. He prayed in the church before the crucified Savior to show him the path of salvation and, having received a secret notification, locked himself in his cell, took out a three-length chain and chained himself to a chair with it. The novice Alexy volunteered to serve the strict recluse and, with the name of Alexander, began to live with him; It was he who subsequently described the life of his mentor. On the advice of Blessed John the Great Cap, Irinarch made himself a hundred copper crosses and hung them on chains; He added 30 more crosses to them. This is how the worker of God labored for 6 years! They sent him a chain of 3 fathoms from Uglich; he attached it to his own and spent the next 6 years like that; Having then attached the third chain, he sat on the nine-foot chain for 13 years. People who did not understand either themselves or the ascetic again kicked him out of the Boris and Gleb monastery: but a year later, he returned to his retreat. Here he added even more weight to his body. At night he slept only two hours; Most of his time was occupied with prayer; at other times he was engaged in needlework - he sewed hair shirts and hoods, and distributed the money he earned for it to the poor. He was crucified with Christ, said the apostle. Without a doubt, he showed them the actual crucifixion of the selfish desires of the soul. But if for this crucifixion some kind of bodily suffering is used by good will: does not such a work of the will contain an internal crucifixion? This is the meaning of the exploits of the blessed one. Irinarcha! Through difficult and long labors, the saint’s spiritual vision was cleared and his spirit became so strong that he began to provide services not only to the Rostov region, but also to the whole of Russia. At one time, in a subtle dream, he saw Moscow on fire and in the power of the Lyakhov, and a voice said to him: go, tell the king about this. He appeared to Tsar Vasily Ioannovich and told about the vision; the tsar received him with honor, but he stayed in Moscow only for a day. His prophecy soon came true. In 1609, the Poles took possession of Rostov; The fierce lord Mikulsky appeared at the Boris and Gleb monastery and, entering the elder with other lords, asked: who does he recognize as the king? “I live in Russia,” answered the elder, “and I recognize the Russian; I don’t know anything else.” When Sapieha and his troops approached the monastery, everyone expected that the monastery would be exterminated along with the monks. Rev. Irinarch tearfully prayed to the Lord. Sapega came to the elder in his cell. “Bless dad! How can you endure this torment in such a prison?” Sapega said to the ascetic. “For God,” answered the elder. He does not pray for the king or for Demetrius, said those who came with Sapega. The elder repeated his previous answer, and Sapega said: “The truth in the old man is great: in which land you live, you serve.” The elder said to Sapieha: “Return, sir, to your land; It’s enough for you to ruin Russia: if you don’t leave Russia, or you come again, I assure you by God, they will kill you in Russia.” Sapega thought about it and said: “What should I give you? I have never seen such a dad anywhere, so fearless before our sword. “The Lord feeds me,” the elder answered, “but do as God instructs you.” Sapega sent 5 rubles of money and strictly forbade disturbing the monastery. Prince Dimitry Pozharsky, preparing to go to the aid of Moscow, was afraid of Zarutsky, through whose machinations Lyapunov was killed. The monk sent the prince a blessing and a prosphora, with the words: “go to Moscow, without fear of Zarutsky; you will see the glory of God." The prince himself came to St. the elder and the monk gave him his cross and blessing. Pozharsky, having accomplished a feat, returned the cross to the recluse and with his letter freed the monastery from delivering supplies for the army. Two years before his death, blessed Irinarch had to endure more violence from the monks, which he did not tolerate from the Poles: they pushed him out of the seclusion and broke his arm. Then the Lyakhs appeared again in Rostov; the monks fled; Irinarch remained in his retreat. “Bless dad! said the Polish commander who came to him; Sapega was killed near Moscow, as you said.” “If you do not go to your land, you will not live,” said the elder. The Poles left Rostov without touching anyone, out of respect for the elder. The ascetic of God exhausted his body for 38 years on his special path and died at the 69th year of his life, January 13, 1616 178. After his death, several healings took place for those who called for his prayerful help; especially those possessed by demons fear his cross and receive health when it is placed on them 179 . † Repose of St. Eleazar of Anzer St. Rev. Eleazar of Anzersky A native of the city of Kozelsk, the son of the merchant Sevryukov, Eleazar, while still a young man, came to the Solovetsky monastery 180 and, tested by obedience, was tonsured into monasticism; By strict fasting, strength in prayer, and deep attention to himself, he gained the respect of the brethren and the love of the abbot. Irinarcha. Zealous to serve the Lord with even more difficult self-denial, with the blessing of the Monk Irinarch, he retired to Anzersky Island, 20 miles from the monastery, and here he began to labor as a hermit, not entertained by anyone. At first he lived on a mountain near a lake. To feed himself on a deserted island, he made wooden cups with his own hands, placed them at the sea pier, and temporary guests - sailors - left bread and other food supplies for the hermit. 4 years later, in 1616, having been tonsured into the schema, he moved to the dilapidated church of the village. Nicholas, set up for temporary workers at the salt mines. Here he set up a small cell for himself and lived with the Lord. Little by little, several zealots of the skete life gathered to see him. The Monk Eleazar introduced the ancient rite of skete life for his associates. The cells of the silent hermits were located a mile away from one another. On Saturday evening they gathered for common prayer and the next day, having performed Sunday singing, they dispersed to their cells for contemplation of God. Prayer, psalmody, and handicraft according to their strength constituted their ordinary occupation. They opened up about their spiritual troubles to the elder. The monk was not only a great ascetic, but also a lover of spiritual enlightenment. “From many divine scriptures, it is said about him in the loose book of the monastery, various stories of the congregation and three books of the flower garden were written in his own hand by the charter; Likewise, the order of the monastic cell rule in the scriptures is based on skill and good interpretation.” At other times, the monk either knelt in prayer, or chopped wood and carried it on his back. He had to endure many temptations, either from the spirit of malice or from weak people. Once the tempter appeared to him in the form of a brother of the monastery, with an invitation to the monastery. The ascetic did not want to go on the journey before he had completed the rule of cell prayer, and began to pray. But when he was forced to read the Lord’s Prayer - Our Father, the imaginary brother left the cell; the ascetic was amazed and continued to pray. Finally, after several attempts to repeat the same story, the imaginary brother disappeared without a trace: and the ascetic saw that if he had gone to the monastery, the stormy sea would have swallowed him up. Tsar Michael, who grieved that he did not have an heir to the throne and learned about St. Eleazar from the former cellarer of the Lavra, and now the ascetic of Solovetsky Alexander Bulatnikov, summoned the elder to Moscow and asked for his prayers. The elder told the king that an heir would be born, and after the elder’s warm prayer, Tsarevich Alexei was born in 1629. The grateful Tsar Michael did good to the Anzersk monastery until his grave. Tsar Alexy, upon his accession to the throne, ordered the construction of a stone church in the monastery, which was begun by the will of his father, but the construction of which was stopped. He wanted to see the elder in person, and the elder, already decrepit, was again in Moscow. The elder was treated kindly by the king. But in the Solovetsky monastery they were indignant that the Anzersky monastery was granted independence from the monastery. As a result, not only was the construction of the church not completed, despite the royal decree, but the elder himself was imprisoned in chains and prison 181. The monk formed his disciples into strict ascetics. Such was Nicodemus, who was the successor of his mentor in the monastery; the great Nikon was also a student of Eleazar. When this Anzer hermit began to ascend from degree to degree of power and strength, he did everything he could for the sake of the reverend’s peace. Eleazar. As a metropolitan, he wrote to the archimandrite: “take care of the Anzer elders, the builder and the brethren,” and ordered that the request of Elder Eleazar be fulfilled - to release the sick Elder Kirik to his monastery 182; in 1655 Patr. Nikon begged the tsar to release more candles, incense, wine and flour to the Anzer monastery for church services; He appointed 17 brothers to be in the monastery and sent from himself silver frames for the icon and gifts to the hermitages in money and fish. The holy elder died after 40 years of labors, Jan. 13 days 1656 His memory is honored locally 183. Menologium Basilii ad 13 ianuarii. Vershinsky month book, p. 9. About ancient Sigindon, present-day Belgrade, research in Glasnik V, 113–211. About Sigi, Sigins of Herodotus, Saveliev Slavic collection, pp. 99–106. Chertkov in Vremennik XVI, 76. In 885 Sigindon-Belgrade Slavic: so according to the life of St. Clement. RKP. life of the Rev. Irinarcha, description. his student Alexander. Excerpts from the life are printed. in reading m total ist. 1847 No. 2. Undolsky in the bibliogr. investigations pp. 62–68. Moscow. 1846 In 1618, at the request of Archimandrite Joseph of the Avraamiev Monastery and the recluse Pimen, c. Michael established the monastery of her land. Next, Elder Pimen was still alive then. In RKP. Saints "Ven. Athanasius and Pimen in the Avramyev Monastery." Here is also “Rev. Father Pimen the recluse of the Epiphany,” according to another list, “the recluse and monastery of the Epiphany in Ostrov.” RKP. Saints: “Rev. Father Irinarch, a recluse of the Boris and Gleb Monastery, reposed in L. 7123 (1615), January 13th." According to his life, he died in 1616. Monastic notes about miracles. RKP. life of the Rev. Eleazar ex. in Orthodox interlocutor 1860 1. 108–120, 237–259. The writer says: “there was after him Tsar Alexy Mikhailovich, now the reigning parent” (p. 241). Further, he presents himself as a resident of the monastery, but who writes what he heard from the “storytellers” (p. 249). That’s why the life was written in 1706. Description Solovetsky Monastery, 128, 317–324, 328, 353–355. Nikon's charter, printed in Part III of the inventory of the Solovetsky Monastery 329–331. Description Solovetsky Monastery, pp. 324–326. RKP. Saints: “Rev. Eleazar, builder of the Anzersky monastery, like that on the Ocean.” Troparion and prayer to St. Eleazar - at Tsarskoe No. 744.