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St. torment. Isidora, on the island of Chios Isidore, an option in military service (i.e., non-commissioned officer), during the persecution of Dekievo, was presented to the governor as a Christian, and when ordered to make a sacrifice to the gods, he answered: “Who are your gods? aren't they idols? insensitive? The governor first ordered to beat him with ox sinews, then cut off his tongue and finally behead him. His body was carried away by Ammonius, a secret Christian, and buried honestly. This was in the year 250. Subsequently, a church was built over his relics. † Repose of St. Isidore the Holy Fool, Rostov Blazh. Isidore was born somewhere in Germany 216 and probably near Branibor (Brandenburg), where the poor Slavs were crowded and oppressed by the Germans with inhuman cruelty. His compassionate love for merchant seafarers indicates that he himself was born on the seashore and was familiar with the dangers of the sea 217. According to his life, his parents were rich people. The son left their home and the Roman Confession out of deep conviction that the latter was incompetent before the court of conscience and sound reasoning 218 . Following the example of the righteous Simeon and John, he accepted foolishness and came to Rostov. Here, in the guise of a holy fool, he endured ridicule and beatings without retaliation. A difficult feat for vanity, which is always ticklish! You have to struggle a lot with yourself in order to achieve complete victory over sensitive pride. This means becoming, as it were, dead to oneself. By the will of the great Macarius, his disciple first scolded him, then praised the dead, and they did not answer him a word. “So you too be dead,” said the great Abba, if you want to be saved. When they scold you, be silent and do not get angry; and when they praise, do not be proud; “Don’t even think, as a dead man doesn’t think, about insults or praise, and you will be saved.” This is how the blessed one behaved. Isidore, when they showered him with ridicule and beatings. Having built himself a hut from brushwood in a swampy place, he retired to it for the night; the hut did not protect him from either the cold or the heat; she only hid from human eyes his prayerful deeds, which he performed at night, from evening to morning. During the day, if he gave rest to his exhausted body, it would be on a pile of manure or on the cruel earth. His love for the Lord was strong. And the Lord loved him. While still on earth, He bestowed upon Isidore the gift of miracles. The merchants sailed on the sea and during a terrible storm they decided to appease the sky, like Jonah’s companions: they cast lots to recognize the most serious criminal and throw him into the sea. So the Rostov merchant was abandoned and he was already close to being swallowed up in the sea, as the blessed one is. Isidore and carries him to the ship. The companions, seeing their comrade on the ship, were struck with fear; and Isidore, invisible to them, strictly forbade the rescued one to talk about him. Only after the death of Isidore did the merchant tell in Rostov how he was saved by the blessed one. The prince of Rostov was then Prince Vladimir Andreevich, who later sold his part of the hereditary principality to Grand Duke John 219. The butler of Prince Vladimir, who was preparing a rich dinner for the prince and guests, with abuse refused Isidore when he asked to quench his thirst and hunger. During dinner, the prince ordered drinks to be served to the guests; but to amazement and horror, there was no drink in the vessels. Isidore appears with prosphora for the bishop who was here and the vessels were filled with wine to admonish hardness of heart. At the time of the death of Blessed. Isidora, passing by his hut, smelled a special fragrance and, excited by this, looked into the hut. Isidore lay, as he saw, with his hands folded on his chest, resting forever from his labors. His blessed death followed on May 14, 1484. The Rostovites then built a wooden church on the site of the hut in honor of the Ascension of the Lord, since the day of Isidore’s burial, May 18, was then the eve of this holiday. Handwritten The life of Isidore records 6 miracles that took place at his tomb. One lost his mind from drunkenness and beat people; They brought him bound to the tomb of the blessed one, and while singing a prayer service, the sick man’s reason returned. In the service of Isidore, the priest, who wanted to reveal the holy body to Isidore, was suddenly struck by illness and was healed at the tomb of the blessed one 220. The relics of the blessed one are still hidden under cover. Under Tsar John, in place of the wooden one, a stone church was built above us 221. “Enlightened by the grace of God, O wise one, you wonderfully completed the course of temporary life, in chastity and strong patience. The holiness of your life glorified you even after death, for you exude healing flowing to your tomb. Blessed Isidore! pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls" 222. Commemoration of the first discovery of the relics of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Commemoration of the first discovery of the relics of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. In the Zadonsky Monastery, where the relics of the saint rest openly, on May 14th a festive commemoration of their first secret discovery in 1846 by Archbishop Anthony of Voronezh is celebrated, as a result of a special vision. Celebration of the Yaroslavl Icon of the Mother of God In Yaroslavl, the bourgeois Alexandra Dimitrievna Dobychkina suffered for 17 years from a very severe illness, first with internal melancholy, then with aching in her hands and in all parts; excruciating pain brought out terrible screams from her. In 1823, she saw in a dream a certain church with an icon of the Mother of God in it. Walking through churches, she looked everywhere for this church. On May 1st she came to the Yaroslavl bishop's house and, seeing here under the bell tower the Church of the Origin of Honest Trees, recognized in it the church she had seen in a dream. With a joyful presentiment she entered and, as soon as she saw the icon of the Mother of God of Pechersk written on the wall, she was suddenly thrown to the floor with extraordinary contortions of the whole body. Having come to her senses and nourished by the undoubted hope of receiving healing of her long-term ailments from the icon of the Mother of God, which she had seen in a dream, she came to this church the next day, May 2nd, and, having prayed before the icon of the Mother of God, wanted to come up and venerate it; but suddenly I felt some strong and incomprehensible movement inside me and at the same time received complete healing from the disease. From that time on, from this icon, the grace of the Mother of God began to exude countless miracles to everyone who flowed to her with faith. Rev. Serapion Sindonite, who lived in the 5th century in Egypt “Therefore everyone will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). “Whoever has the world’s goods, but sees his brother in need, closes his heart from him: how does the love of God abide in him?” (1 John 3:17.) None of the words commanded by the Divine Teacher is impossible to fulfill - and no matter how difficult some of them are to implement, there are still examples confirming that even the most difficult things can be fulfilled for true followers of the Word of God. Non-covetousness, compassion, and full of love care for one’s neighbor were manifested, for example, to such an extreme degree in the monk Serapion, whose memory is celebrated today, that after that no one can excuse himself if he refuses to share with the poor even from his excess... The monk Serapion, who chose the path of wandering (he moved from place to place in Egypt, Hellas, Italy), reached the point that he had no attachment to any earthly object. Even in his youth, he distributed his property to the poor, leaving himself only clothes and the Gospel, and, wandering homelessly, did not even have a permanent home to which he could become attached. Thus, while still existing in the earthly shell, he dissolved all the bonds that could have attached him to the earth... One day, on the way to Alexandria, Serapion met a beggar who was shivering from the cold. “Here, I consider myself a faster and covered with clothes,” he thought, looking at the meager rags of a beggar, “and this servant of Christ endures the cold... If the poor man freezes, then, in truth, it will be I who will kill him... And, taking off his clothes, he gave them to the beggar, and he himself, naked, sat at the crossroads, holding in his hands his last possession - the Gospel... - Father Serapion, who exposed you? – one acquaintance passing by asked him. “This book exposed me...” answered the monk, pointing to the Gospel. Then he met a man who was being taken to prison for a debt. Not having the means to ransom him, Serapion sold the Gospel and paid the debt for that man. When he returned to the hut where he was staying temporarily, the disciple asked him: “Where are your clothes?” “I sent her to where the best is served instead of her...” answered Serapion. “It kept telling me; sell your property and give the money to the poor... So I sold it and gave the money to the one who needed it... From these manifestations of the man of God, preserved in the memory of people, one can judge that he was a true, lofty in his simplicity - executor of the word of God, and that what is possible for one cannot be impossible, especially - in a less extreme manifestation - for others. But detached from earthly life by complete disinterest in any earthly blessings, Serapion was connected with people by love for them, that love which on earth is the beginning of eternal paradise; love that saves the souls of people, under the cover of which all people form a single (spiritual, immortal) body in the Only Begotten Son of God (1 Cor. 12:27). The admonishment of the erring was the work of one who constantly encountered human errors on his pilgrimage. To achieve this goal, Serapion did not back down from selling his freedom and selflessly sacrificed this good, having no other one at his disposal. So, having come to Lacedaemon, he learned that one person, leading a generally virtuous life, adheres to a dangerous heresy. The monk sold himself to him as a slave and, during his two-year stay in his house, managed to convert him and his entire family to Orthodoxy with his holy life. Another time, Serapion, in a similar way, having entered the house of a Hellenic pagan comedian as a slave, converted him to Christ with his entire family. He died at a very old age - in the Egyptian desert. It is believed that he was called a sindonite because he wore nothing but sindon - linen clothing. RKP. life of St. Isidora in the Menaion of Macarius on May 15, in the Synod. b. 90. Its abbreviation in the part of the Menaion of St. Dimitri. Prologue May 14: “The silent ones will tell, even though they were in the Latin language, but the German lands are from a glorious and rich family, just as they say in Mestersky.” The conjecture about the origin of Isidore from the German magisterial family was not accepted by St. Demetrius, but it is unlikely, while many Slavic clans are known who moved from the Slavic coast to Russia from the oppression of the Germans. Laquiera Heraldica 2, 479–492. Prologue: “having hated the godless Latin faith, love the Orthodox Christian faith.” The same in the RKP. hagiography - In the service written under Ts. John, it is said: “You have neglected your father’s unbelief and abhorred idol offerings.” - This is a very unfortunate invention! In the 15th century both the Slavs and Germans of Germany were Christians. V. K. John in 1474 bought half (one already belonged to him) of Rostov and the Rostov principality from princes Vladimir Andreevich and Ivan Ivanovich (Karamz. VI. 113, pr. 293). The latter was the sovereign prince of Puzhbolsky (Rodosl. book). Already in the charter of 1522, May 14 was established “in memory of St. Isidore Christ for the sake of the holy fool, the miracle worker of Rostov.” Description music Room. p. 713. The service to Isidore (in music. Rum. 595, in the Tsar's No. 563) was written under c. John in 1548. Isidore the Fool-for-Christ - in gram. 1563, ist. act. I, 320. Troparion in the Menaion, M. 1646.