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Adoration of the Honest Verig St. Apostle Peter During the persecution of the young Jerusalem Church, erected by Herod Agrippa, king of Judea, around 42 AD, the zealous preacher of the Gospel, the Apostle Peter, was chained and imprisoned. At night, on the eve of the day on which the Apostle was to be brought to trial before the people, an Angel miraculously freed Peter from his shackles and prison (Acts 12). The rumor about Peter's miraculous release immediately spread in Jerusalem; His pious disciples acquired for themselves, as a jewel and a shrine, the chains or chains of St. the prisoner and kept them with respect, passing them on, at his death, successively to one another. Believers received healing from them, as from the scarves and towels that were on the body of Ap. Paul (Acts 19:12). Empress Eudokia, wife of Theodosius II (408–450), according to her vow, was in Jerusalem to worship St. places, received from the Patriarch of Jerusalem Juvenal between spiritual treasures and miraculous chains of Ap. Petra. Arriving in Constantinople, she sent one of them as a gift to her daughter Eudoxia, the wife of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III (423–460), in 439, and placed the other in the same year in Constantinople, in the church of St. Apostles. Evdokia built a church in Rome in honor of Veriga Ap. Petra. Meanwhile, other chains of St. Apex were found in Rome. Peter, which were entrusted to him there by order of Nero, who condemned him to death. In the 5th century, Ap wrote with reverence about part of the faith. Peter's St. Gregory Dvoeslov to Dinamius Patricius. “I sent you as a blessing from the Supreme Apostle a small cross with particles of the Apostle’s chains,” says the saint, “so that these chains, which briefly held him in chains, would free you forever from your sins.” In honor of these chains found in Jerusalem and Rome, their worship was established on January 16th. It began in the East and West almost at the same time, and since the 4th century it has become already known. Blessed Jerome mentions him in his letter to Eustochius. In ancient Russian chronicles, the 16th day of January is called the day the chains fell, for Scripture testifies that they fell from Peter. On the day of worship of the chains of St. Peter, the Orthodox Church glorifies the Apostle, who “did not leave Rome and came to us (to Constantinople) with honest chains that he wore; We kiss his chains with faith.” At the liturgy, with the reading of the Apostle, the Church mentions the chains that were placed on the Apostle. Peter in Jerusalem (Acts 12:1–11); The Gospel preaches the restoration of St. Peter with the rank of Apostle and his martyrdom. The place of birth of the Rev. Romila 192 was Bdin (Widdin); his mother was Bulgarian. The sufficient wealth of his parents provided him with ways to receive a good education. In the Ternovsky Ustye Monastery, located outside the city on the holy mountain, he believed the beginning of monastic life; there were many monks here then; Here he pronounced his monastic vows. When the Rev. began to live in the Hidden (Parori) desert. Gregory Sinait, Romil entered under his leadership. But the attacks of robbers (“their inhabitants and the Khusars of this place are rich”) forced him to retire again to Zagorye, and he lived with his friend Hilarion in a secluded place called Mokroe, a day’s journey from Ternov. When Tsar Alexander pacified the robbers, and there was peace in Hidden, Romil again lived in the Hidden Desert. Gregory Tsamblak, a writer of his life, came here to him from Constantinople. After some time, the Skopelsky chief informed that the Mohammedans wanted to attack their places, so let them retire to another place. Romil retired to his former cell, which was in Mokroye; and from there he moved to Athos to the Lavra and lived in solitude in the Melansky monastery; Tsamblak lived with him in this solitude. When the despot (Romansky) Uglesh was killed (in war) (in 1370): “then on Athos all the monks were filled with confusion and horror and many fled” from Athos. So Romil “withdrew to another place called Avlon (this is near Drach), and from here he leaves with his disciples to the Serbian land, to a place called Ravanica, where the abode of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ is. Having lived here for a short time, he moves from earth to heaven.” Tsamblak says so. The Brief Life notes the last times in particular. “Coming out from St. mountains, it says here, reaches Illyricum; Here he finds strife of passions and miserable divisions, but in a short time he manages to introduce harmony with his instructions. From here it goes to the Dalmatian place Ravanica.” In what year did the Rev. Romil, is not shown in either the short or lengthy tales about him. But based on everything that is known, it is likely that he died no earlier than 1375. His relics rest in the Ravanitsa monastery, where they give sight to the blind, walking to the lame and heal all sorts of ailments 193. † Memory of the sacred martyr. Damascene of Gabrovsky St. torment. Damascene Gabrovsky Damascene was born in the town of Gabrovo, Ternov diocese 194. Out of love for monasticism, he retired to Athos and became a monk at the Hilandar Monastery. Here he was ordained as a hierodeacon and then as a hieromonk; Here they elected him as abbot. Due to the needs of the monastery, he went to the Bulgarian settlement of Svistovo 195. Having completed the necessary tasks for the monastery, he still had to collect the old debt from the Turks. When they were told about the debt, the debtors agreed among themselves not only not to pay the debt, but also attacked the defenseless Christian and took away from him all the property that was in the courtyard. That wasn't enough for the villains. They persuaded the Turkish woman to behave badly and secretly took her to the courtyard. Then, attacking the courtyard with noise and shouting, they destroyed the courtyard, finding a Turkish woman here, tied up Damascene, as if guilty of kidnapping a Mohammedan woman, and brought her to court. Kadiy, having listened to Damascus, saw that there was only the violence of anger. But the crowd of fanatics, excited by the slander, frantically shouted that the monk had desecrated their law. The fanatics offered Damascene a choice of one of two things - either the gallows or conversion to Mohammedanism. The monk answered: “I was born a Christian, and I will die that way. To renounce Christ is the same as to renounce eternal life: without Him there is no salvation for sinners, like all of us, me and you. He is the reconciler of God's truth with sinful humanity: He is the giver of God's grace, necessary for the fulfillment of God's will. I feel sorry for you if you don't understand that. But it would be madness if I agreed to buy eternal destruction for temporary life.” With his hands tied back, they brought him to the place of execution. He asked permission to pray. And, having received it, he protected himself with the sign of the cross, with his face turned to the East, prayed, and then said: “Now I am ready to die.” He was hanged. The wrath of God soon befell the villains: following the death of the martyr, crossing the Danube, they drowned. The holy martyr suffered in 1771 on January 16th. Blessed Maxim of Totemsky St. rights Maxim Totemsky Blessed Maxim, the Totem priest, played the fool for 45 years, reposed on January 16, 1650. His relics are hidden in the city church near the varnitsa. His (local) veneration began in 1715 196. In the manuscript of the Belgrade Library there are two lives of St. Romila, one is short, the other is lengthy; the latter, written by Gregory Tsamblak, is also found in the Hilferding synaxar. Izv. acad. VIII, 399. Extracts from the Belgrade manuscript in Part IX of the Glasnik, pp. 245, 252–254. 4 hours, pp. 161. 162. A short life in Glasnik IX, 252. The service to the monk was scheduled for January 16. Glasnik XI, 37. His suffering is in the Athos Patericon 2, 193–195. St. Petersburg 1860. Svistovo - on the banks of the Danube. Now there are 4 churches here. Gabrovo - south of Ternov, on the same Yantra River on which Ternov is located. The inhabitants there and here are predominantly Bulgarians. Grigorovich travels. 171–176. Note about the Vologda saints. Sl. in October 10 o'clock the inscription on the shrine of Blessed Andrew.