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Holy Martyr Charalampia and others with him Charalampius was a priest in the city of Magnesia, and for one hundred and thirteen years of age he was given over to torment for the spread of St. faith and censure of the emperor Septimius Severus, who began the persecution in 202. First they planed his body, and two servants, Porphyry and Vaptos, and three women believed in Christ and were executed; after that he was sent to Antioch to the emperor himself, who ordered his head to be cut off. Holy Martyrs Hennath and Valentina Eusebius, a church historian († 340), an eyewitness to the events of the persecution of Christians in Palestine he describes, tells the following about these martyrs (see his book “On the Palestinian Martyrs,” chapter 8). When the continuous storm of persecution against us entered the sixth year (308 AD), a great number of confessors of piety from the quarries of Fen (Fen - fifteen miles from Samaria) were sent to Caesarea Palestine, where the prefect of Palestine lived, for firmness in the faith they were subjected to mutilation of their eyes and legs and again sent to the mines. And of those who were taken in the city of Gaza during a meeting for the purpose of reading the Divine Scriptures, some suffered tortures identical to those mentioned above, while others, even more than that, were subjected to the most terrible torture of planing their sides. Among the latter, one, a wife in body, and a husband in mind, unable to bear the threats of fornication, began to reproach the tyrant Maximinus, the emperor who was then in Caesarea, that he entrusted the power of judging to people so cruel, and for this she was first flogged, then hanged on a tree and experienced the torment of planing her sides. But meanwhile, the bailiffs, by order of the judge, with intense jealousy carried out their tortures on Hennatha, as the confessor was called, another, like the first who chose virginity as her goal, seemed very weak in body and invisible to the eye, for that reason she was gifted with the strength of the soul and contained within herself a mind greater than the body, unable to endure such ruthlessness, such cruel and inhumane acts, from the crowd of people cried to the judge: “How long will you torture my sister so cruelly?” Greatly irritated by this, the judge immediately ordered the screaming woman to be seized. Drawn to the middle, she marked herself with the Divine name of the Savior. They began to persuade her to sacrifice first with words; but because she did not obey, they dragged her by force to the altar. But the sister, continuing her work and maintaining the same readiness, fearlessly and boldly pushed the altar with her foot and overturned it along with the sacrificial fire that was on it. Then the judge, irritated with anger like a wild beast, began to torment her sides with such claws as he had never tormented anyone, as if in a frenzy he wanted to be satisfied with her flesh. When his fury was satisfied, he tied them both together, that is, both this one and the other, whom she called her sister, and appointed them to die by fire. The first of them was born, they say, in the Gaza region, and the last, known to everyone, named Valentina, came from Caesarea. † Venerable Prokhor of Pechersk “During the reign of Svyatopolk Izyaslavich (1098–1113),” writes Blessed Polycarp 70, “there was a lot of violence against people from the prince; He uprooted the houses of rich people, without any guilt, and took away the property of many. Therefore, God allowed the pagans to gain strength over him - the Polovtsians fought with him many times; Moreover, there was an internecine war. That’s why there was famine and great poverty in the Russian land at that time.” At that time, a layman who came from Smolensk received an angelic image at the hands of Abbot John (1089–1103) and was named Prokhor. He labored so hard and loved abstinence so much that he deprived himself of ordinary bread, and when he collected quinoa, he ground it, prepared bread for himself, and ate it. He prepared quinoa for himself for the whole year and thus did not demand bread for himself until his death, which is why he was nicknamed the quinoa; Apart from the church prosphora, he never ate vegetables in his cell, and drank nothing but water. He was never sad, and always worked cheerfully for the Lord; did not come into fear from military alarms; He lived like a bird, content with just the swan. For such a patient life, the Lord gave him His gifts. After the war alarms, famine began in the Russian land. A lot of quinoa was born. Blessed Prokhor doubled his labors, collecting quinoa and grinding it into flour. Some, following his example, also collected quinoa to eat in times of famine; but they could not eat because of the bitterness. Those in need turned to Prokhor and he distributed his bread to everyone, and his bread turned out to be pleasant to the taste - so much so that they did not want wheat bread as much as the bread baked by Prokhor. And here’s another wonderful feature: Prokhor’s bread turned out to be clean and pleasant when taken with Prokhor’s blessing; if they took it secretly, it turned out to be bitter and black. One brother secretly, without blessing, took bread from the blessed one, began to eat it, and it turned out to be so bitter that he could not swallow. This was repeated more than once. He was ashamed to confess his sin to the blessed one and ask for bread with a blessing; but finally, unable to endure hunger and seeing starvation death before his eyes, he came to Abbot John and revealed what had happened to him, asking for forgiveness. The abbot, not believing him, ordered another brother to secretly take bread from the blessed one. They brought bread, and it turned out to be the same as what that brother said. The abbot sent to the blessed one for bread and said: “When leaving, take another bread secretly.” They brought two loaves, and the one secretly taken turned out to be black and bitter, and the one taken from Prokhor’s hands was pleasant and very clean. After this, rumors about Prokhor spread everywhere, and Prokhor fed many who were suffering from hunger. Svyatopolk Izyaslavich began a war with David Igorevich for the blinding of Vasilko, whom Svyatopolk blinded after listening to David, and also with Volodar and with Vasilko himself; this was in 1099 71. Then they did not allow guests (out-of-town sellers) from Galich, nor their own people from Przemysl, and there was no salt in the entire Russian land; such were the disorders. The people suffered greatly. Blessed Prokhor, seeing such a disaster, collected ashes from all the cells and began to distribute them to everyone who needed salt. According to the prayers of the blessed one, this ash turned out to be pure salt; There was enough of it not only for everyone in the monastery, but also the lay people took plenty of it to their homes. The saint did not take anything for his salt, but gave it to everyone freely. The trading area became empty, and the monastery was full of people coming for salt. Then self-interest and envy began to fight. At this time they thought of making riches for salt and were left without everything: “they used to sell salt at a high price - two gold coins for a kuna, now they gave ten, and no one took it” 72 . The salt sellers came to Prince Svyatopolk and said: “Prokhor, the Monk of the Pechersk Monastery, is undermining us: he turned everyone to himself for salt, we pay tribute and cannot sell the salt, and as a result we have become poor.” The prince wanted to appease the sellers and gain wealth for himself. He and his advisors decided to keep salt at a high price, to take salt from Prokhor, to sell it through his own, and said to the seditious people: “I will rob the monk for you.” Svyatopolk sent to take all the salt from Prokhor; when they brought it, he himself, together with the seditionists who slandered Prokhor, went out to inspect it, and they saw that it was ash. The prince ordered to taste it, and there was ash in his mouth. Then, amazed at the change, the prince ordered to save it for three days to see what would happen after. Many people continued to come to Prokhor for salt as before and, having learned about the forcible taking of it, returned with curses to the one who did it. The blessed one said: “When the prince has enough, then go and take it for yourself.” The prince kept the ash for up to three days and, finding nothing in it but ash, ordered it to be poured out at night. But the spilled ash again became salt, and the citizens happily took it for themselves. The prince, having learned about this, became alarmed at his violence, which could not be hidden, and began to learn about the matter. Then they told him all the deeds of Prokhor, both about the salt changing from the ashes, and about the swan bread with which Prokhor fed so many people during the famine. Prince Svyatopolk, having learned about everything, was ashamed of his act and, having come to the Pechersky Monastery, reconciled with Abbot John: before that, he was at enmity with him for his accusations of an insatiable passion for enrichment and oppression of people, and therefore imprisoned him in Turov; but, fearing a rebellion against himself on the part of the Christ-loving prince Vladimir Monomakh, he soon returned him to the Pechersk Monastery. Because of these miracles, Svyatopolk began to have great zeal for the Most Holy Theotokos and for the Monks Anthony and Theodosius; He especially began to respect blessed Prokhor, recognizing him as a servant of God. He gave him his word not to do violence to anyone anymore, and also made the following agreement with him: “If, by the will of God, I die before you, then put me in a coffin with your own hands, so that your kindness can be seen on me; If you repose before me, then, taking you on my shoulders, I will carry you to the cave myself, so that the Lord will forgive me for my sin against you.” After that, Prokhor lived a clean and God-pleasing life for several more years. Then he became ill. Prince Svyatopolk was at that time at war with the Polovtsians. According to the chronicle, it was in 1107, the Russian princes then gathered against the Polovtsians, who were devastating the places near Luben 73. The blessed one sent to Svyatopolk: “The hour of my departure is near; if you want to fulfill your promise, come and put me in a coffin; I'm waiting for your arrival; if you slow down and I die without you, then it’s not my fault and the war will not be as happy as when you come to me.” Svyatopolk, hearing this, hastened to come to the sick Prokhor. The monk, having taught him about alms, about future judgment, about eternal life and endless torment, gave him forgiveness and blessing; He said goodbye to everyone who was with the prince, and then gave up his spirit to the Lord. The prince carried him into the cave with his own hands. Then he returned to the army, and as soon as they crossed the Sula River and attacked the Polovtsians, the Polovtsians, struck by horror, rushed to flee, leaving their entire train as spoils for the victors; the Christian army was left to defeat the upset enemy. After that, Svyatopolk, whether he went to war or to hunt animals, always came to the monastery for a blessing, venerated the miraculous icon of the Mother of God and the tomb of the Monk Theodosius, and in the cave - the tomb of the Monks Anthony and Prokhor and other saints, and then set off on the road 74. After that, everything went well for the prince in his reign through the prayers of the Monk Prokhor, whereas before that time there had been so much trouble and disorder; he himself confessed the miracles and signs of the teacher. Prokhora, having witnessed them 75. “Let My servant Job pray for you, and I will accept his intercession, so as not to do evil to you” (Job 43:8), this is what God Himself said to the friends of righteous Job. ABOUT! We must value God’s friends! We must beg them to pray for us sinners. Strange people! Then they say that they are not capable of anything; then they make you out to be so strong, so rich, that they don’t care about God’s friends: they don’t need either prayer or the help of saints; They say about themselves that they live by grace, but they do not recognize grace in the true friends of God. – But what can we expect from human opinions if not contradictions with ourselves? A lie betrays itself. Let us cherish the truth, unchangeable for centuries. † Memory of the Novgorod saints: Joachim, Luke, Herman, Arkady, Gregory, Martyria, Anthony, Vasily and Simeon In accordance with the will of heaven, declared by Saint John in 1439 76, the Church of Veliky Novgorod honors the memory of its saints on February 10: Joachim, Luke, Herman, Arkady, Gregory, Martyry, Anthony, Vasily and Simeon 77. Blessed Joachim was one of the priests whom Grand Duke Vladimir brought with him from Korsun when he decided to enlighten Russia with St. baptism 78. At St. Metropolitan Michael, while still a priest, he preached the holy faith in Novgorod; he then built the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord here and baptized some of the pagans 79 . But paganism was in great strength in Novgorod and stubbornly defended its power over poor people; it did not listen to the preacher of St. faith and rebelled against the orders of Grand Duke Vladimir, summoning the freemen of Novgorod to help him. In 993, Joachim was consecrated bishop of Novgorod 80. To curb the rebellious pagans, Dobrynya and Putyata came to Novgorod with troops. In the Chronicle of Joachim we read: “When they learned in Novgorod that Dobrynya was going to baptize, they gathered a veche and everyone swore not to let him into the city and not to give the idols to be cast out. And sure enough, when Dobrynya arrived, the Novgorodians swept away the bridge and came out against him with weapons. Dobrynya began to persuade them with gentle words, but they did not want to listen, and set up two stone-throwing machines. The chief of the priests, Bogomil Nightingale, especially incited them to disobedience. Eishskop Joachim and the priests were on the trading side: they walked through the squares and streets, teaching people, and in two days they managed to baptize several hundred. On the other side, the thousand Ugonai rode here and there and shouted: “It is better for us to die than to hand over our gods to reproach.” The people became furious, destroyed Dobrynya’s house, plundered his property, killed his wife and some others from his family. Others went and scattered the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and began to rob the houses of Christians.” Putyata with 500 Rostovites opposed the rebels, captured and drove away other best people; Dobrynya appeared with all his retinue and “ordered to set fire to some houses.” The Novgorodians, having stopped the battle, rushed to put out the fire, and the most noble ones came with humility to Dobrynya. The governor agreed to peace, but ordered to destroy the idols - burn the wooden ones, and break the stone ones and throw them into the river. “Men and women with screams and tears asked for them, as for real gods. Dobrynya answered with mockery: There is no need for you to feel sorry for those who cannot defend themselves; What benefit can you expect from them? And he sent an announcement everywhere that they should go and be baptized. Then many pagans, wanting to get rid of baptism, announced that they were baptized: Joachim ordered all those who were baptized to put crosses on their necks, and whoever does not have a cross on him should not believe that he was baptized and baptize him. The destroyed Church of the Transfiguration was rebuilt” 81. In other chronicles we also read: Joachim destroyed the altars and cut off Perun, he ordered him to be dragged to Volkhov; they entangled him with ropes, dragged him through the dung, hitting him with sticks, and threw him into the Volkhov: Joachim commanded that no one should stop him anywhere. A resident of the town of Pidbla went out to the river early, thinking of taking pots to the city, and then Perun sailed to the shore; he pushed him away with his pole. “You, Perunishche,” he said, drank and ate your fill, and now swim away” 82. This news shows that through the instructions of Blessed Joachim, many of the Novgorodians were brought to the heartfelt conviction of the inadequacy of idols. And the associate of blessed Joachim, Putyata, strict towards troublemakers, acted conscientiously with measures of persuasion: there is a known menaion for the month of May, written by his hand in Novgorod 83 . Blessed Joachim was a zealot for Christian enlightenment; Prince Yaroslav opened a school in Novgorod. “And Yaroslav gathered 300 children from the elders and from the elders and commanded them to teach books.” The blessed bishop appointed his disciple Ephraim as a mentor, who diligently taught the children the truths of St. faith, and through them he conveyed the instructions of St. faith and their parents 84. This was not long before the death of Joachim. Before that, the blessed archpastor taught the people Christian piety in other ways - through churches and their worship. He built the church of St. Sophia, the eternal wisdom, the Son of God. This wooden church had 13 chapters - symbols of Christ the Son of God, surrounded by 12 Apostles. The church stood on the banks of the Volkhov, on the spot where later, in 1127, the wealthy Novgorodian Sotko built the stone church of Boris and Gleb, at the end of Episcopal Street, not far from the second St. Sophia Cathedral 85. At the cathedral church, Blessed Joachim also built a monastery, which was called Sophia and Tithes 86. On the site of the overthrown Perun, he consecrated the church, 995, of the Nativity of the Virgin. In addition, he built a church in the name of his angel - the Godfather Joachim and Anna 87. Here he was buried in 1030. At the end of the 17th century, his relics were transferred to the stone St. Sophia Cathedral, where they were placed in a golden porch 88, and St. Joachim is depicted in the altar of the St. Sophia Cathedral, on the wall, the first among the Novgorod saints 89. Blessed Luke, the first of the Russians, as far as is known, was awarded the rank of bishop in 1035, and his Russian origin is indicated by his nickname - Zhidyata 90. During his time and under his supervision, the stone St. Sophia Cathedral was built, still existing, which was consecrated by him in 1049. The need for this church became urgent especially because in March 1055 the St. Sophia Cathedral, built by Blessed Joachim, burned down. According to early news, blessed Luke ordered icon painters for this church from Constantinople; The image of the Savior in the dome of the church, by his order, was painted with a blessing hand, but a mysterious voice ordered to write with a clenched hand, and said: “In this hand I hold the great Novgorod; when my hand is opened, and the city will end” 91. The remains of the musia on the high place of the altars are still intact 92. Five years after the end of the council, the righteous shepherd suffered a bitter fate. In 1055, he was slandered by his servant Dudik, was recalled from Novgorod to Kyiv and was kept here for three years. What this slander referred to is unknown; but the saint’s innocence was revealed and the slanderer’s nose and hands were cut off. Blessed Luke again took charge of the flock; then he went to Kyiv and on his way back in 1058 he died on October 15, 93. The blessed saint left pastoral teaching for the Church, precious in its simplicity and strength of spirit. “First of all, brothers, as the saint wrote, we must keep this commandment - to believe in one God, in the Glorious Trinity, in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as the Apostles and Holy Fathers taught. “I believe in one God” and so on. Believe in the resurrection, eternal life, eternal torment of sinners. Don’t be lazy about going to church for matins, mass and vespers; and in your cell, going to sleep, bow to God, and then lie down. In church, stand with the fear of God, don’t talk, don’t think about anything else, but pray to God with all your soul, may God forgive your sins. Have love for every person, and especially for the brethren; Don’t have one thing in your heart and another on your lips. Don’t dig a hole for your brother, lest God cast you into something worse. Love the truth and for the truth, for God’s law, be ready to die so that God will count you among the saints. Bear insults from each other, do not repay evil for evil; Praise each other and God will praise you. Do not quarrel with others, lest they call you the son of the devil; make peace so that you will be a son of God. Don’t judge your brother mentally either; remember your sins, so that God does not condemn you too. Have mercy on the strange, the wretched, those imprisoned, and be merciful to your orphans (slaves); He is very merciful who protects his family from grief. You should not create demonic games (Moscow lust), just as you should not say shameful words and get angry every day; do not humiliate others, do not laugh at anyone; endure in adversity, having trust in God. Don’t be violent and proud, but consider others better than yourself - remember that maybe tomorrow you will be stench, pus, worms. Be humble, meek, not talkative, so that you can be both listeners and doers of the law of God; The proud one has the devil in his heart, and God’s word will not cling to him. Honor the old man and your parents. Do not swear in the name of God and do not conjure or curse another. Judge truthfully, do not take bribes. Don't lend money on interest. Fear God, honor the prince; slaves, obey first God, then your masters; honor the priest of God, honor the servants of the church. Do not kill, do not steal, do not lie, do not be a false witness, do not quarrel, do not envy, do not slander; Do not commit fornication either with a slave or with anyone else; do not drink at the wrong time and drink in moderation, and not to the point of drunkenness; do not be angry or insolent; Rejoice with those who rejoice, be sad with those who are sad; do not eat unclean things; honor holy days. God is peace with everyone. Amen" 94. This is what the saint of God taught! The sanctity of the life of Blessed Bishop Luke was undeniable, 500 years after his death. On the occasion of the addition to the chapel of Joachim and Anna, his relics, in the holy omophorion, were found incorrupt and placed in the Martyrius porch of the St. Sophia Cathedral 95. About Blessed Herman, Bishop of Novgorod, it is known from the chronicles that he was consecrated in 1078 and reposed in Kyiv in 1096 96. Blazh. Simeon supplies it among the pupils of the Cave monastery 97. And according to the RCP. Saints we see him among the Pechersk ascetics. To the Kyiv exploits of Blessed. We must attribute the founding of the monastery on Berestov to Herman, known in chronicles under the name of “Germanecha” and Spassky. The justification for this is the modernity of St. German, the abbot and founder of the monastery Germanech, known in 1072 98, and completely similar acts of another Pechersk ascetic and bishop, St. Stephen, who left his name to the Stefaneci monastery 99. The monastery "Hermanech" in 1096 (July 23rd) was devastated by the Polovtsians 100. In the same year, St. Herman made his last trip to Kyiv. Given such closeness of the two events, it is likely that the misfortune of the Spassky monastery called its founder to Kyiv, from where he never returned to Novgorod 101. According to the chronicles, in 1153, “Hegumen Arkady cut down the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin and formed a monastery, which became a refuge for Christians, the joy of Angels and the destruction of the devil.” The Arkady monastery with the wooden Church of the Theotokos was founded 3 versts from Novgorod 102. With such proximity to the city, worldly people, tired of vanities, could often go to the Arcadia monastery and here revive their tired souls with prayers; the life of the monks, caring about heaven and eternity, without a word showed everyone that a person should not live for earth, but for heaven, all the more terrible is living in sins. The venerable founder of the monastery was also an ascetic from whom one could learn much, to the joy of the soul. And the good feelings, good dispositions of the visitors to the Arcadia monastery were joy for the Angels, rejoicing over the repentant sinner. The blessed abbot enjoyed the reputation of a virtuous and prudent person: the domestic of the Anthony monastery, Igirik, turned to him with questions about various subjects and even wrote down some of his answers in the number of church rules 103. Novgorodians highly valued the virtues of the blessed one. Arcadia. In 1156, when St. died in Kyiv. Nifont, “the whole city gathered and everyone wanted the man Arkady, chosen by God, to be the bishop of Novgorod; the people, Prince Mstislav Yuryevich, the entire clergy of St. Sophia, all the city priests went and took him from the monastery and, leading him into the courtyard of St. Sophia, they entrusted him with the bishopric until the metropolitan came to Russia” 104. Thus, everyone unanimously recognized in Arcadia someone who could be a worthy archpastor of the vast Novgorod flock. In 1157 he was dedicated by Metropolitan Constantine in Kyiv and returned to Novgorod on September 13th. During his management of the Novgorod flock, mayors and princes were changed more than once; but neither murder nor robberies are ever seen there, as is seen at other times. This depended as much on the good Grand Duke Rostislav as on the suggestions of the pious saint 105. Of the monuments of his archpastoral rule, the surplice has survived to this day, remarkable in many respects. Here in the stichera for the Nativity of Christ it reads: “I am born to the Lord Jesus of a Holy Maiden.” In the stichera for the feast of Epiphany it is written: “My Jesus is again cleansed in Jerdan.” – The postscript to the stichirarion mentions the tiun Tupochel, who was under Bishop Arcadia, as his assistant in administration 106. – The God-loving saint reposed peacefully on September 19, 1162, “and he was laid with great honor in the porch of St. Sofia" 107. - And according to Metr. Macarius, and according to the RKP. blessed saints Arkady is among the saints 108. The monastery founded by him existed until 1764; her stone Assumption Church, built in 1186 109, and another stone refectory, built in honor of the Archangel Michael in 1395 110, are intact to this day 111. Brother of St. John, Archbishop of Novgorod, Gabriel, together with his brother, labored in 1179 during the construction of the Annunciation Monastery on Lake Myachine, using their own property for this purpose. When St. John decided to renounce the chair for the solitary preparation of himself for eternity, then he appointed Blessed Gabriel as his successor, and he, having accepted the monastic name of Gregory, was consecrated Archbishop of Novgorod in 1187. The chronicle noted the consecration of the stone church in the Arkadyev Monastery by him. The stone cross with the inscription, placed at the foundation of this church, is still intact 112. The chronicle also notes the following event from the time of the blessed one. archbishop: “in the first year of his archbishopric there was a procession of the cross from St. Sophia to St. Archangel Michael, on Mikhailovskaya Street; They were singing the 9th song of the canon, when suddenly such terrible thunder struck that the people fell; the wooden church caught fire, but God saved (from troubles) with the prayers of St. Archangel and St. Gregory; there was no disaster in the church, only two people were found dead in the wooden church.” – Blessed Gregory ruled the Novgorod flock for six years, reminding them of his great brother with his virtues. He died on May 24, 1193 and was buried near his brother in the St. Sophia Cathedral; His relics were found in 1558 and rest under a shrine on which the saint is depicted in full height 113. Upon death, blessed Gregory in the people's rule of Novgorod, there was a disagreement about his successor: “some wanted Mitrofan, others Martyria, others Greek. Placed on the throne of St. Sophia drew three lots and they sent a blind man from the evening to take the lot; and by God’s grace the lot of Martyrius was taken out.” – Martyriy was from Staraya Rusa, and here on the island he founded the Transfiguration Monastery in 1192, which still exists today. – The chosen one was consecrated archbishop in Kyiv on December 10, 1193. The first year of his reign passed in anxiety. Ladoga and Rusa burned first; then from the Week of Saints to the Feast of the Assumption there were frequent and severe fires in Novgorod; the people were so frightened in Novgorod that they no longer lived in houses, but in the fields. In May 1195, the blessed shepherd founded the Church of Our Lady at the city gates. In the autumn of the same year, he founded the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in a new convent near Lake Myachina, and the following year it was consecrated on September 13th. The chronicle says this about this feat of the saint: “the bishop worked, scorched by the heat during the day, and at night he grieved with concern, how to finish and see the church in full beauty; what he wanted, he received - the Kingdom of Heaven and endless joy" 114. Meanwhile, in the same year, two zealous brothers, the Karavakovichs, with the blessing of the saint, founded another monastery in Nelezin, on Lubyana Street, in honor of St. Cyril and Athanasius, the monastery is wonderful also because the Novgorodians later recognized St. Kirill as his protector from the Tatars, and this monastery still exists 115. In 1197, the saint had the consolation of founding a church of St. at the Plotnitsky end. m. Euphemia with a nunnery, and the construction was taken over by the pious Polyuda, a resident of the Settlement 116. The blessed shepherd continued to take care of the complete organization of the monastery he founded in Staraya Rus. In January 1197, he consecrated a church in honor of St. Patr. Nikifor; and in May 1198 he began to build a stone church of the Transfiguration of the Lord there and consecrated it on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God; “The blessed one, says the chronicle, rejoiced in soul, having built an eternal memory for himself, and an honest monastery for Christians” 117. In the same year there was an amazing incident: one devout Novgorodian visited the church of God every day and, reverently receiving the antidor and prosphora, ate with reverence. One day he was carrying the Mother of God prosphora to the house and, due to weakness, fell asleep on the road. The dogs, sensing the bread, approached and wanted to steal the prosphora, but they jumped away, repelled by some force. It was in people's minds. When Blessed Martyrius was informed about this, he ordered the foundation of a church in honor of the Mother of God at the scene of the incident. The wife of Prince Yaroslav Vladimirovich, Elena, took upon herself to build a church and a convent, and the following year the monastery church of the Nativity of the Virgin was consecrated on the Trade Side, on Molotkovo 118. In 1199, due to the strong displeasure of Grand Duke Vsevolod in Novgorod, the blessed shepherd had to go with the mayor and the best people to Vladimir. Exhausted by years and labors, the “servant of God Archbishop Martyrius” died on the road on the shore of Lake Seliger on August 24th. His holy body was brought to Novgorod and laid in the narthex of St. Sophia, which was later called the Martyrian porch and the golden porch 119. In 1201, the wealthy Novgorodian Dobrynya Andreikovich, due to the pious disposition of his soul, traveled to Constantinople and, returning from the East, took monastic vows in the Khutyn monastery with the name Anthony. At this very time, the Novgorodians unexpectedly did not like their archbishop Mitrofan, whom they themselves elected in 1201 to replace the deceased Martyrius 120. It seems that he was blamed for the fact that Novgorod was devastated by a fire in 1211 that destroyed up to 1,300 households. Be that as it may, they did not demand any explanation or justification from him, and without any communication with the metropolitan they sent him to Toropets to live, and in his place they chose Anthony and sent him to the metropolitan for initiation 121. But the choice, in relation to the chosen one, was happy: Anthony was distinguished by both piety and education. The latter is indicated by his description of his trip to Constantinople. In this description, he told the Novgorodians information about the icons and icon painters he had seen - about the ancient icon painter Lazar, who painted in the altar of St. Saint Sophia The Virgin Mary with the Eternal Child and two Angels, about an expensive dish given to St. Princess Olga to the Patriarch 122. Anthony was a sincere monk, and the Metropolitan ordained him as an archbishop. Upon returning to Novgorod, the first thing Archbishop Anthony did was to turn Mitrofan's chambers into the church of St. Anthony, my angel. In 1218, Blessed Anthony built a stone church of St. Martyr Barbara in the nunnery, which was known back in 1138, but has now been restored by a caring archpastor 123. In the same year, Prince Mstislav, who took a special part in the election of Anthony, left Novgorod, and then Mitrofan arrived from Vladimir. The Novgorodians, for the first time, assigned the Annunciation Monastery for Mitrofan to stay; when Anthony went on ministerial business to Torzhok, they brought Mitrofan into the archbishop's house, and sent Anthony to say: “Let him go wherever he wants,” they have Archbishop Mitrofan. Anthony, recognizing himself as a legitimate shepherd, arrived in Novgorod. Then only the Novgorodians realized that without the metropolitan they should not have ordered the participation of their archpastors. They asked both archpastors to go to the metropolitan for trial and sent their confidants with them. Metropolitan Matthew, who dedicated both Mitrofan and Anthony 124, appointed Mitrofan to Novgorod, and, keeping Anthony with him for a while, appointed him to the idle See of Przemysl 125. Mitrofan, three years later, died. It was to be expected that the Novgorodians would now summon Anthony, who had suffered trouble through their fault. On the contrary, on the very day of Mitrofan’s death, they brought the Khutyn monk Arseny into the archbishop’s house. In 1225, Anthony arrived from Przemysl to Novgorod, sat down at his see, and “the Novgorodians were glad to see their ruler” 126. Three years later, Anthony, having become very ill, voluntarily (1228) retired to the Khutyn monastery; Arseny again began to manage the affairs of the diocese. From mid-August until December 6 (1228) there were torrential rains that devastated the fields. The people, without looking at themselves, became agitated and began to shout: “The warmth has stood for so long because Arseny bought himself a place from Prince Yaroslav and ousted Anthony.” He took Arseny out of the archbishop's house and almost killed him. Arseny fled to Khutyn, and Anthony, against his will, was brought to the archbishop's house and given two secular officials to help him with legal matters. The rebels were not content with that: they robbed the lord's steward and several other officials, including the thousand's, on suspicion that they were bringing evil to Prince Yaroslav 127 . But Anthony became very ill and completely numb. Prince Mikhail, who arrived (in 1229) in Novgorod, proposed a veche: “You don’t have a ruler, and without him you can’t be in the city; God laid His hand on Anthony; can you tolerate such a thing even among priests or abbots? They began to choose a successor to Anthony, but again disagreement arose: some wanted Bishop Joasaph of Volyn, others wanted Hierodeacon Spyridon, and others wanted one of the Greeks. “Let’s cast three lots,” said Prince Mikhail, let the will of God decide who will be the archpastor.” Spyridon's lot was taken from the throne of Sophia, and he was entrusted with managing the affairs of the archbishop. Blessed Anthony lay sick and dumb in Khutyn solitude for more than two years and, purified by suffering, reposed on October 8, 1231. “His soul, says the chronicle, ascended to heaven, and his relics were placed with honor in the porch of St. Sophia” 128. The St. Sophia Cathedral contains a six-pointed cross, in which a part of the life-giving tree is placed, in the form of a four-pointed cross, with the inscription: “Lord, help Your servant Anton, Archbishop of Novgorod, who gave the cross to St. Sophia.” This cross is used during the solemn consecration of water, on the day of Epiphany and August 1st 129. After St. Moses in 1329 voluntarily renounced the cathedra for a silent life, the Novgorodians elected the Kosmodemyansk priest Gregory Kaleka to the archbishop's cathedra. His message about paradise testifies that, following the example of many others, he traveled around the East and was curious in order to collect unusual opinions and stories about objects related to faith 130. elected archbishop, he took monasticism and the name Vasily, and in 1331 he was consecrated in Vladimir-Volynsky. At the same time, troubles were in store for him: the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas wanted Pskov, which had come under his protection and was hitherto a member of the Novgorod diocese, to have a special bishop. The fulfillment of this desire could have beneficial consequences for Orthodoxy: the Bishop of Pskov, with his close supervision, could protect Orthodoxy on the borders of Lithuania and Livonia from the machinations of papism and from the insults of wild paganism. – But the short-sighted and proud Novgorod was greatly offended by Pskov’s desire to break the ties of dependence on Novgorod. And Metropolitan Theognost did not consecrate Arseny as Bishop of Pskov. Gediminas' pride was greatly offended by this. When the initiated Vasily and his retinue went from Vladimir to Novgorod, Gedimin wanted to make him feel insulted if he did not force him to agree with his desire: he sent the Kyiv prince Vladimir Olgerdovich after him. Notified at the time by the Metropolitan of the pursuit, Vasily and his retinue managed, by special routes, to reach Chernigov; a bloody battle almost took place here; but Vasily paid off with money and finally arrived in Novgorod, where he was greeted with joy 131. Even before his trip to the Metropolitan, Vasily began a generally useful work - he laid a stone wall around Novgorod. Now he happily continued this work, and within two years the huge construction was completed. At the same time (1333) he restored the St. Sophia Cathedral, covered it with lead and put a new cross on the head. The chronicle, speaking about this, adds: “for this, God and St. Sophia in this and in the next century, remission of sins, to him and his children, Novgorodians" 132. Since the Grand Duke Kalita, expressing anger at Novgorod for refusing to pay the Trans-Kama tax, caused devastation in the Novgorod region, and the mayors who went to him for peace returned with nothing: Vasily took it upon himself to intercede with the Grand Duke for Novgorod. Setting off with the ambassadors, he offered the Grand Duke a gift of 500 rubles, if only he would retain some of Novgorod’s rights. The petition was not successful, but the duty of a patriotic shepherd was fulfilled. Vasily did not stop there, however: the next year he went to Vladimir to the metropolitan, and after that Kaliga, returning from the horde, reconciled with Novgorod, out of need for his help for himself 133. In 1335 and 1336, the guardian archpastor was engaged in the construction of the church and, by the way, built at the St. Sophia Cathedral, in place of the tower, the church of the Savior’s entry into Jerusalem; the walls of the church were painted by the Greek icon painter Isaiah and his comrades; for St. Sophia Cathedral Blessed. Vasily arranged gilded copper doors. On these doors, the prayer of the blessed archpastor is especially remarkable - the voice of a pious soul: “Most Pure Lady, Virgin Mother of God! I place my trust in You, You are my Intercessor before Your Son and God. He who flows into Your honest church faithfully receives gifts. Therefore, I, Your humble and sinful servant, Archbishop Vasily, place my hope in You, Most Pure Lady; I run to You and fall down, I bow my sinful head and stretch out my unworthy hands, I touch Your most pure feet - cast me away from Your face, so that I, poor one, do not lose hope. And put to shame those who rebel against Thy Church and overthrow Thy Son with the cross; give joy to the faithful people, so that they may preserve the property of Thy house.” This prayer is from 1336 134. The following year, the rising waters of the Volkhov destroyed the bridge connecting the sides of Novgorod. This misfortune was followed by another: a strong quarrel began between the parties in Novgorod, almost leading to bloodshed. The archpastor pacified the heated enmity by renewing the bridge 135 at the expense of the department's income. A new flood again (1338) severely damaged the bridge and the archpastor, to relieve the poor Novgorodians, again restored it with his people, “and did much good to Christians,” says the grateful chronicler 136. The terrible fire of 1340 called the archpastor to the most intense activity. The fire that started on Razvazh, at the end of the city, destroyed the Perevsky end and spread from Chudintseva Street to the Kremlin, destroyed the bishop’s house, devastated the St. Sophia Church, from which they did not have time to remove all the icons. “The flame was so strong that the Volkhov water did not stop it: devouring the Volkhov Bridge, it crossed to the Trade Side and here turned houses, shops, and churches into ashes. It seemed to the frightened people that the end of the world had come. They did not have time to remove either utensils from the churches or property from the houses. To greater misfortune, bad people hastened to take advantage of the misfortune of others: they robbed and carried away everything that was saved from the fire. In total, 48 wooden churches and 3 stone ones burned down. The caring shepherd now had to both alleviate helpless poverty and restore his home and churches. He again covered the St. Sophia Cathedral with lead, built a new iconostasis, corrected the icons and walls of the cathedral; built a house for himself, cast a large bell and restored the bridge on the Volkhov. When, in 1342, a new fire terrified the inhabitants, the archpastor invited everyone to public prayer and repentance, imposed a three-day fast on the citizens and himself walked with a procession from monastery to monastery and from one church to another, making prayers throughout the city to quench the wrath of God 137 . Another flame also arose - the flame of civil strife: for the murder of the rich and willful Novgorodian, one side noisily rebelled against the other, and robbery began. “The archpastor, not afraid of the people’s storm, appeared at the noisy meeting, and with his convictions managed to stop the civil strife: “and the cross was exalted, but the devil was put to shame,” says the chronicle 138. In subsequent years, the good-natured archpastor worked hard for the churches of God. In the St. Sophia Cathedral he created silver robes for the icons of the Savior and the wisdom of God. He himself was engaged in icon painting; he painted icons for the Kosmodemyansky Church; for the Annunciation Gorodischensky Church, then rebuilt, he painted a church icon; In the Boris and Gleb Church, the icon of St. painted by him is still intact. princes Boris and Gleb. - A grateful contemporary says: “Give him, Lord, to live many years in this world and in that place place him at Your right hand - he worked a lot for Your Church” 139. In 1346, Archbishop. Vasily came to Moscow to invite the leader. prince and metropolitan to Novgorod. The active shepherd was then distinguished from others by the metropolitan: he was given baptismal vestments 140. After that, the archbishop was sent. Basil received a white hood from the Patriarch of Constantinople 141, who himself around this time was decorated with this sign of spiritual purity 142. Vasily's successors wore a white hood, as a distinction of the department 143. A century and a half after Vasily, they wrote the “story of the white hood.” It said that the white hood was given to the imp. Constantine to Pope Sylvester and was kept in Rome for a long time, until one of the popes, frightened by miraculous phenomena, sent him to Constantinople to the patriarch. Philotheus; The Apostles Peter and Paul said in a vision to Philotheus that Constantinople would soon be taken by the infidels and they were ordered to send the white hood to Novgorod 144. The Council of 1667 called this story fabulous, and rightly so. In it, except for the thought of sending the hood to Novgorod from Constantinople, everything is fiction, and a child’s fiction: there are no miracles for the hood! White hood of the blessed one. Basil, made of white twisted silk, is kept in the Sacristy of St. Sophia and makes one feel that he was on the heads of the great saints, although he was not in Rome 145. Blessed Basil was distinguished primarily by his practical wisdom. In 1349, Magnus, the Swedish king, a zealous servant of the pope, sent to say to the Novgorodians: “Send your smart people to the council, and I will send mine, let them judge which faith is better? If yours turns out to be better, I’ll switch to it; and if ours, you must accept ours; If you don’t want unity, I will go to war against you.” The archpastor, the mayor and the thousand, according to the general advice, answered: “if you want to know which faith is better, ours or yours, send for that to the patriarch - we accepted the faith from the Greeks. If there is a state matter between us, we send ambassadors for negotiations.” The sent thousand, appearing to Magnus, asked: what offense did Novgorod inflict on the king? “There is no offense,” the king answered, “but if you do not accept my faith, I will go to war.” So the Pope's servant preaches the faith with the sword! Magnus besieged Orekhov (present-day Shlisselburg), and sent Izhortsev to forcefully baptize according to the rites of papism, and put to death those who did not agree to rebaptism. The Novgorodians sent a small squad to protect their subjects and co-religionists - the Korelovs. The squad defeated the Swedes' detachments. But Magnus had a lot of troops with him. The Grand Duke, at the request of the Novgorodians, sent only a small detachment, and even he, having heard that Orekhov had been taken, withdrew from the battlefield. The Novgorodians had to settle accounts with Magnus alone; calling on God and St. for help. Russian princes, they drove the Swedes out of Orekhov and pursued them to Vyborg. The relations between Novgorod and Tver, which Novgorod entered into during the war with Magnus, called Vasily to a written relationship. Bishop of Tver about faith. Vasily wrote a “message about paradise” to Bishop Theodore of Tver. This message shows that Blessed Basil was not given the gift of understanding of faith in the same abundance in which he was given worldly wisdom and zeal for the common good of his homeland. The message proves that paradise is still on earth and that Vidocqs have seen it 146. How great was the love of Blessed Basil for his flock, he showed in his last days. In 1352, the “Black Death” broke out in Pskov, which had previously displaced millions in the East and Europe to another world. In Pskov, from spring to winter, it barely left a third of the inhabitants alive. The Pskovites sent a general council to ask the archpastor to come to Pskov and pray for the flock. Vasily, regardless of the danger, went to console and strengthen his sorrowful children. He served in the Cathedral of St. Trinity, then in three other churches, a procession of the cross went around the whole city. The people cried out; Lord, have mercy! The blessed shepherd left Pskov comforted, and the mortal epidemic soon ended there. But the virtuous shepherd himself became very ill on the road, and in the monastery of the Archangel Michael, at the mouth of the Uza River, which flows into Shelon, he died on July 3, 1352. His hard-working body was brought to Novgorod; Saint Moses buried him in the Derevyanitsky Monastery, where his relics rest in secret, in the Church of the Resurrection 147. In 1415, the monk Samson of the Khutyn Monastery was chosen by lot to replace Archbishop John, who had refused the see. The following year, Metropolitan Photius consecrated him archbishop and named him Simeon. That same year, the new archbishop built a stone church in honor of St. Peter, which is still intact today. In 1416, the “Black Death” moved from Tver to the Novgorod region. There were so many dying that there was no time to bury them. The terrible disaster also caused the forgetful to repent. Saint Simeon, having tonsured two posadniks into monasticism, walked around the entire city with seven councils of the Novgorod clergy, praying for the quenching of God’s wrath. The Novgorodians, some on horseback, others on their own, brought logs from the forest, and in one day built the church of St. Anastasia, and the saint consecrated it and celebrated the liturgy in it (October 29, 1416). Repentant love was not disappointed in its hopes: the pestilence weakened 148. In 1418, by the grace of one scoundrel, a terrible civil strife arose in Novgorod. Some Stepanko, out of personal malice, caught the boyar Bozhin and began shouting: “good people! help me deal with the villain." The people, without any investigation, threw the boyar into the Volkhov. “Rescued by the fisherman, the boyar demanded the scoundrel to trial. The mob got excited and started calling all over the city. - The robberies began. Attributing the high cost of bread to the rich, they destroyed the yards of the rich. The entire Trade side rose to Sofia, many were thrown into Volkhov. The saint gathered the clergy to the St. Sophia Church, went out with them and St. icons on the bridge and, shedding tears of prayer, blessed both sides of St. cross. The noise and excitement subsided, and tenderness appeared. The archpastor sent the archimandrite and confessor to Yaroslav's court to the mayors to say: the bishop blesses everyone to go home. And the rebellious crowds dispersed. “Glory to God,” said those who came to their senses: “He has sent us a teaching saint who can enlighten some. spiritual instruction, others with a threat of prohibition. So he tamed this battle with the power of the cross of the Lord and his admonition. May his prayers protect us from such troubles." 149 To this day, near the Volkhov Bridge there is a tall wooden cross, called the wonderful one. This is the same one with which Saint Simeon calmed the popular revolt 150. It was the first time he was erected to St. Prince Vladimir on the site where they began to build the stone St. Sophia Church. In 1065, this shrine was stolen from the St. Sophia Church by Prince Vseslav of Polotsk, but in the same year he secretly returned it 151. Saint Simeon was a shepherd with a wonderful gift of speech and a clear understanding of the truths of the faith. In October 1418 he was in Pskov. The Pskovites received him poorly; they did not allow him to serve with the rite of Orthodoxy in the Pskov Cathedral. The blessed shepherd did not want to argue with stubborn people. Having reviewed the court cases, when parting, he offered them an excellent teaching on paper: “Noble and respectable men! wrote the saint. You know that whatever honor is given to the saint, it is given to Christ Himself, from whom we all expect a hundredfold reward in eternity. So, children, give honor to your saint and to your spiritual fathers, who instruct you in fear; repay with humility and love, without bothering them with inquisitiveness, without arguing with your mentor, your father. Look after yourself and your salvation, reproach and judge yourself, cry over your sins. Don't kidnap someone else's. Do not rejoice in the troubles of your brothers. Do not philosophize on your own, do not become arrogant, but humbly obey your spiritual fathers. Live as Orthodox Christians who are under the law of God should live. – Do not offend the Church of God: The Church of God does not tolerate offense from anyone. Do not interfere, children, in any church affairs, which originally belong to the bishopric, the Holy House of God. Sophia, as was the case under previous archbishops, do not interfere with lands, waters, courts, the press and other church duties. If anyone interferes in anything church, you yourself, “children, put him in his place and remove sin from your soul according to the instructions of church rules, without expecting judgment on yourself, according to the rule of St. fathers" 152. Here is another pastoral instruction from the blessed shepherd, an instruction to the Snetogorsk monastery: “I order the abbot and all the elders,” he wrote, to firmly preserve the monastic life, for the monks to be in obedience to the abbot and elders, for everyone to have a spiritual father; whoever does not obey will be removed from the monastery, and the contribution will not be returned to them. If a monk dies, then all the property left after him is the property of the monastery and the brethren, and worldly people should not touch it. If a monk who leaves the monastery begins to set fire to lay people or judges against the abbot and the elders, such will be under the weight of the church court, as well as those lay people who intervene in monastic affairs. If a quarrel occurs between the brethren, then the abbot will sort out their case with the elders and elders of the Holy Mother of God, and the laity will not intervene” 153. In 1420, the Pskov flock of Blessed Simeon saw a sign on the icon of the Mother of God in Chirsk: on the Chirsk icon, tears flowed from her eyes; this phenomenon was repeated when the icon was brought with a religious procession to Pskov and placed in the cathedral church. In fear for the future and in repentance for the past, the people exclaimed: “Mistress! protect us." 154 Not long before the death of the blessed archpastor, Novgorod was twice in great anxiety. In April, the Volkhov flood damaged the bridge, and the city streets were so filled with water that there was no access to many churches and many people drowned. In May, at midnight, terrible thunder clouds were found, lightning turned night into day, and rain fell with heavy hail into day. The saint with his clergy and reverent people sang a prayer service in the St. Sophia Cathedral for the appeasement of the wrath of God, and prayers were performed in other churches by priests, and during the day there was silence. This was on May 19, 1421, and on June 15 the saint rested peacefully and was laid on the Martyrian porch 155. † Repose of St. Loggin of Koryazhemsky The Monk Loggin labored for a long time in the Obnorskaya Pavlovsk hermitage. This is also shown by the cross lying on his tomb, on which the inscription says: “year 7033 (1525) cross of Christ of the Pauline Hermitage.” The cross, apparently, was given by Paul to her tonsure as a blessing for his exploits in a new place. Blessed Loggin also lived for some time in the Solvychegodsk Boris and Glebov Monastery. From here he and his friend, Simon, moved up the Vychegda and 10 miles from Solvychegodsk, at the mouth of the Koryazhemka River, in a remote place, cleared the forest, built a cell and a chapel. The brethren soon gathered and built a church in honor of St. Nicholas and thus in 1535 the Koryazhemskaya monastery was founded. The Monk Loggin lived as an ascetic and he himself worked more than others for St. communities: the well dug by his hands near the church is still intact; His hair shirt is also intact. Arriving as an old man to a new place of exploits, he did not live here for long, no more than 6 years. He bequeathed that he should be buried at the entrance to the church, so that, as he said, he would be trampled upon by those entering the church. In the RKP. In the calendar we read: “Reverend Loggin, head of the Nikolsky Koryazhemsky Monastery on the Vychegda River, a new miracle worker, reposed in the summer of February 7048 (1540) on the 10th day.” 16 years after his death, according to a special vision, his holy body was laid in the church itself. Now his relics rest hidden in a stone church built in 1665. “His image is embroidered in silver and gold on the ancient cover. His memory is celebrated through a special service, composed long ago along with a life and a description of miracles. – The phelonion in which the monk served the Lord is still intact 156. Collection years. 1, 109–116. Artsybashev, 1, 50–53. “Golvazhena” is an old weight unit for salt, also known in Russian Pravda: “take seven golvazhen for a virnik.” However, its relationship to current weight has not yet been determined. Kossov avoids words that are incomprehensible to him like this: “oni barzo drogo przedawali - they sold them at a very high price.” Paterikon. 119. Collection years. 1, 120. 2, 287. In addition to Polycarp, Monomakh in his will, p. 41. Collected. lay down 1, 120. According to the chronicle, Bonyak was near Pereyaslavl in the month of May; in the summer the Polovtsians approached Lubny and were defeated here on August 12. “Svyatopolk came to the Pechersk Monastery at Matins, for the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos; the brethren congratulated him with great joy that our enemies were defeated by the prayers of the Holy Mother of God and St. our father Theodosius. Svyatopolk had this custom, when he went to war, or to another place, he came to worship the tomb of the teacher. Theodosius and took a prayer from the abbot, and then went on his way.” So says Nestor... In relation to Svyatopolk, accuracy is on the side of Polycarp. It shows when and how a good change took place in Svyatopolk. If after this we accept that the teacher. Prokhor died Feb. 10 days, when his memory is celebrated, it must be assumed that Svyatopolk was returned to Kyiv by Prokhor even before Bonyak appeared near Pererslavl. Kossov about Prokhor: “lived around 1113 of the Lord” (Paterikon 117). No, I didn’t make it. Polycarp in the RKP. message. Pechersk Patericon page 146. See Sep. 7 and March. 11 days There is also an RCP in the Tikhvin Church on the Sofia Side. service 17th century Nestor about Vladimir: “We will also sing to the priests of Korsun” (Collected fol. 1. 50); According to all chronicles, Joachim is called the Korsunian. Nikon. l. 1.105 says that when Joachim was installed as bishop of Novgorod, then “and the rest of the churches were destroyed,” next. This was preceded by the initial destruction of objects of superstition; painting of the rulers and 3 Novgorod. years. the arrival of Joachim in Novgorod is attributed to 989 (Collected fol. 3. 179, 207); This is in accordance with the fact that Joachim the Korsunian was captured. Vlad. to instill faith. Joachim's chronicle speaks of Christians and the Church of the Transfiguration who were in Novgorod before Dobrynya. East. Russian c. 1. 178. Supraslsk. years. 10. Tatishcheva ist. Chapter 1 4. Domestic. Notes for 1856 Collection l. 3. 207. 4. 175. 3 121. Suprasl years. 10. 11. Nikon. l. 1. 103: “From Novgorod 3 miles to Pidba”; at Karamz. 9 Ave. 258. Pogodina research. V. 534, 535. Izvestia 2 dept. acad. 6. 40–43. On the last page Menaia: “Putyata wrote – the dacha is crooked, correct it, but don’t curse it. Dacha, vm. yes, Novgorod proverb. Indication of the canons of this menaion in the note. acad. book 2 issue 2 pp. 126. 127. Karamz. 2 project 54. Collection. l. 3. 121. 179. Pogodina research. U, 347. 348. Collection l. 3. 2.127, 128. Supraslskaya years. 11. In the RKP. chronicler of the St. Nicholas Cathedral: “lay the stone church of St. passion-bearer Boris and Gleb Sotko in the stone city of Detinets, where Sofia used to be under Archbishop Joachim, and that church (Boris and Gleb) was destroyed from the Germans to the foundation, and stood near the church of the torment. Andrey stratilates"; Sotko, an amazing rich man and builder of churches, is a favorite subject of Novgorod folk poetry. Rybnikov folk epics. St. Petersburg 1861. Bezsonova Kaliki, St. Petersburg. 1861 The Suprasl Chronicle, page 11, calls the Sophia Monastery a tithe monastery, of course, because tithes were collected in favor of the department, which is also indicated in Svyatoslav’s charter. Macarius described cer. ancient Novgor. 1, 39. 40. 424. 425Collected. l. 3.208. In 1598 Sept. 12 “the relics were transferred from the stone tent to the cathedral and buried in the golden porch, next to Bishop Luke, the first bishop Joachim of Korsun, exactly the bones are one, and they lasted 668 years.” Collection l. 3.275. Description Novg. personal p. 24. 107. Rkl. Saints: “St. Joachim, first bishop of Novgorod. originally from Korsun." See Dictionary of Saints page 120. After Joachim, the teacher Ephraim was “blessed to teach in his place. He taught for 5 years, but was not worthy of the priesthood.” Arriving in Novgorod, Yaroslav chose Luke. Collection of chronicles. 3. 179. 200. Description Blush. music 510. Collection l. 3. 210. 211. 121. 178. 288. 5. 138. Description Novg. Sofia's own p. 4. M. 1847. Description. ancient in Novgorod 1. 43. M. 1860 Collection years. 3. 122. 179. 212. 5, 138. 139. Teachings ed. at 1 o'clock the hon. pp. 7–10. M. 1845. According to another list with some unimportant differences, printed. at Rev. Makaria in East. Rus. C. 1.262. 263. The last list is not the best, although it is more ancient. Rumyantsev No. 154, life of St. Nikita: “having built the coffin with six stone panels; on the upper stone tablet there is an image of a holy cross... and the archbishop ordered it to be opened and in the sight of the relics of the saint, testifying to the omophorion, as if he were the bishop lying in that tomb. The archbishop took the relics and brought them into the vestibule of the great church, which is the vestige of the noonday land. Seekingly, in remembrance, I found that Bishop Luke had been buried, who was the second bishop of the great Novgorod from your baptism.” This was in 1558 RKP. Saints: “St. Bishop Luke reposed in the summer of 6562,” another list adds: “Oct. on the 15th day." See example 51. St. Luke the bishop is written on a pillar in the altar of the cathedral. Description Novgor. personal p. 94. 107. St. Petersburg. 1858. Memory of St. Luke is locally revered on February 10 along with other saints. Dictionary of Saints p. 170. 77–80. Dictionary 1836 p. 170. Collection l. 3, 122. 179. 213. 5, 147. Epistle to Polycarp, see May 10. Collection l. 1. 78. 79. 99. 2. 6. Karamz. 2 approx. 240. 3. pr. 3.81. In 1806, the Germanov Monastery, or Spassky on Berestovy, was made of wood, which is why it burned down. It is now obvious that the Berestovsky Spassky stone church was built after 1096, and Kalnofoisky is mistaken in showing that this stone church was built by St. Vladimir. Oh St. Stefan, see Apr. 27. Meletius Sirig in the canon of the saints of Kyiv calls on the hierarchs Luke and Herman for help. Akathists, K. 1674 Collection years. III, 11. 215. IV, 8. B 3 Novgorod. years. it is said: “This Arkady, in the abbess, laid the stone church of the Assumption.” But this is a mistake. He built a wooden church. Collection years. III, 11. 97. IV, 8. Monuments of the 12th century p. 181. “For the sake of the woman, I spoke with Orkady, behold, with the abbot, and what was happening and the bishop passed through and ineh, and not a lining for anything.” About another subject: “Prashakh and this: you’re already climbing on a girl... And Arkady said: that is, like the sin of Sodom.” Collection years. III, 12. 180. IV, 9. Collection years. III, 12. 13. 180. II, 83, about St. book Rostislav, see March 14th. Stichirar Novgorod. Sofiysk b-kn on l. 99 postscript: books are running out this month. September on the 13th day on the canon of the Exaltation, from the month. June, under Bishop Arkady and under Tiyun Tupochel.” - After that, the stichera and the canon of St. were written in the same handwriting. book Boris and Gleb and Canon Apostle. Peter and Paul. The contents of the stichirary are in Izv. acad. VI, 58–61. The initial 8 notebooks are missing. But another sticheraion of the same 12th century, now belonging to the Academy of Sciences, has been preserved in its entirety. Zap. 2 dept. acad. book 2 pp. 121–126. Collection l. III, 13. 180. 215. IV, 11. Saints: “St. Arkady Bishop reposed in L. 6671 months Sep. on day 18." In the Menea of ​​Macarius, the memory of St. Arkady, Bishop of Novgorod. – around 18 September In the Autun calendar of 1718 it was added: “it was laid down in the Margiriev porch: it is told about it in the written menaions, in the cathedral on that day,” i.e. they read in the cathedral on September 18. His life according to the four menaions of Macarius. Dictionary: “his memory is celebrated in the cathedral on February. 10 and Oct. 4 in common with other saints.” Collection l. III, 126. Izv. acad. VI, 378. Makaria Novgor. ancient I, 652.536. Collection l. Novg. and IV l. under 6696 and 6697. Izv. archaeol. total II, 97. Collection l. 3, 17–21. 216.217.5, 168.169. Ρκπ. Saints. “Saint Gregory, Archbishop, brother of John, reposed on the 6700th day of the month.” Description Novg. St. Sophia Cathedral pp. 94. 100–102. St. Petersburg 1858. Here in the inscription on the tomb the day of repose is May 24. Collection l. III, 21–23. 127. 216. 217. IV, 18. V, 169.170. Macarius described ancient 1, 541–543. Collection l. III, 23. 24. 52.. 217. IV, 18. 94. Macarius of antiquity, 507, 508. Only in vain Fr. Macarius, from what the Novgorodians considered St. Kirill, his defender from the Tatars, concludes that the monastery was rebuilt again after 1239. Otherwise, exactly the same conclusion would have to be drawn about the Church of St. Sofia. Collection l. III, 24. 127. 217. Collection l. 3, 218. 25. Macarius described. ancient I, 331–333. Collection l. 3, 24. 25. 218. 5.171. St. Martyrius the Archbishop is depicted on a pillar in the altar of the cathedral. Description Novgor. Soph. personal p. 94. St. Petersburg. 1858. Collection l. 3, 25. 31. 7, 118. Collection l. 3, 31. 128. 180. 219. 7.118. The latter says: “Dobrynya Andreikovich came from Tsarygorod and brought with him the Holy Sepulcher and took monastic vows in Khutyn at St. Spas." The measure of the Holy Sepulcher is still kept in the St. Sophia Cathedral, that is, the very thing that was brought by Dobrynya. - Description. Novg. Soph. personal 115. Excerpts from Sakharov’s description in IBSLED. about Russ. icons 2.10. He was metropolitan after Nikephoros 2 († 1197) and died on August 26, 1220. Collection. l. 1, 184. 188. 3, 25. 4, 19. Collection l. 2, 36. 38. 180. 219. 4, 26. 27. 7, 128. Collection l. 3, 39. 42. 180. 219. 4, 28. Collection l. 4, 39. 42. 180. 219. Collection l. 3, 42. 48.180. 181. 219. 4, 29. Nikonov. l. 2, 368. Almost everywhere it is repeated: “I was sick, speechless, speechless, for 6 and 7 months and 9 days.” But this account is incorrect and does not agree with the testimony of the chronicles themselves. – It says here: “in the same (6740 liters) Archbishop Anthony reposed.” According to the RCP. The saints were restored on January 17th. Description Soph. personal page 115. Photo from the cross - in 1 section. ancient Ross. state No. 25. 48. 49. Description. Novg. Soph. personal 169–170. Message about heaven. “I am a witness to this, brother, when Christ, going to Jerusalem for his free passion, shut the city gates with His hands and to this day they cannot be opened; And when Christ fasted over Erdan, I saw His fasting woman with my eyes, and Christ planted a hundred dates, they are motionless, and to this day they have not perished, they have not rotted.” Collection l. 6, 88. Collection l. 3, 77. 131. 225. 4, 53. Copper doors are now located in the Assumption Cathedral in the city of Alexandrov, the former Alexandrovskaya Sloboda; they were taken here by the will of the formidable king. Description New cathedral 141. 142. St. Petersburg. 1858 Vladimir. collection, p. 101. 1857 Description of the doors in the VI department. ancient Ross. state pp. 72–84. Sob. l. 3, 77. 131. 4, 53. Collection l. III. 79–81. 131. 225. Description. Novg. personal 45. 3. 58. 64–66. Collection l. III. 83. Macarius of antiquity 2, 20. 105. 115. Description. Novg. personal 48.32. Collection l. III. 225. IV. 57. According to the later list of the will of St. Lazarus (see March 8), the white hood was delivered to Vasily from the patriarch in 1347 onwards. sent by P. Isidore Bukhira. In 2 Novgorod. l. under 9952 (p. 140) it is said: “the white hood was given by the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Bishop Vasily, and the Pope gave it to the patriarch, and from those places the white hood was given to Novgorod.” But Vasily had been an archbishop since 1331. Regarding the patriarch, the news of Lazarus delivered by the klobuk, of course, should be preferred to any other news. At 3 Novgor. l. under 6843 (p. 225) it is said: “At this Archbishop. Vasily was quickly brought a white hood from Tsar Constantine and Pope Sylvester to Vel. Novgorod, and to this day the Novgorod metropolitans wear their likeness on their heads.” – The year the hood was delivered is also not shown here, and the rest is taken from the story about the white hood. In 1341 K. Patriarch. John decorated his white head cover with gold with images of the Savior, the Mother of God and the Forerunner. Contacuz. III. With. 36. The conciliar charter of 1564 (Hist. Act. 1. 333) granted the Moscow Metropolitan to wear a white hood with cassocks and cherubs, as the Novgorod Archbishop wore. Dmitry Gerasimov's message to Gennady about the white hood was printed by superstitions in Suprasl in 1756. It is also often found in manuscripts. Review. Russian spirit. liter. § III. Description Novgor. Cathedral pp. 194–196. Ancient Ross. state dept. 1. No. 57. Macaria ancient. Novg. 2. 343–359. The decorations of the hood, without a doubt, do not belong to the time of the blessed. Vasily, and as the inventory of 1690 indicates, the archbishop was established. Leonidas (1576). Collection l. 5. 226. 6. 87. 89. 7. 210. 214. Review spirit. literature. § 67. Shevyreva ist. III. 237–239. Collection l. III. 58. IV, 62–64. 191. RKP. Saints: “St. Archbishop Basil reposed on July 3, 1352.” Description Novgor. Saints of 1634 in Reading. General East. 1862 book. 4. Collection l. 3. 106. 107. 135. 136. Collection l. 3. 107. 103. 4. 117. 113. 5. 261. The chronicles say that the prayer service was performed on the Volkhov Bridge. But since on the Volkhov Bridge they prayed before the wonderful cross (Collected l. 3. 167. 245), the news of the chronicles also means that they prayed before the wonderful cross. Statistics materials p. 43. St. Petersburg. 1831 Collection. l. 3. 2. In l. 6577 (1069): “you found the cross of Vladimir in St. Sophia on plates, which Prince Vseslav took from the army in St. Sophia” See Izv. about this cross. archaeol. total 2. 86–89. Collection l. 4. 418. 419. 5. 23. Nivoch. l. 5.722. Prologue July 16, 1646 East. book Psk. 3. 115. 168. Collection l. 3. 109. 138–140. 183. 237. In Soph. years. (6, 142) on the day of the death of St. Simeon is shown on July 15th. But this is a scribe's mistake. According to all chronicles, Simeon ruled the flock for 6 years without 2 months and 4 days, and he was elected on August 14, 1415. According to the RKP. Saints, “Saint Simeon the Archbishop reposed on the 15th day of June 1421.” According to the chronicle (Collected l. 3, p. 241) in 1462, “blood appeared on two coffins of the Novgorod archbishops Simeov and Martyrius, at Sophia, Martyriyev’s panerti.” Macarius of antiquity Novg. I, 73. In the Tikhvin Church on the Sofia side of the RKP. service to the saints of Novgorod 17th century. East. Hier. 4, 778. 782. Mater. statistics str. 70. St. Petersburg. 1831