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St. Theodotus the Confessor, Bishop of Cyrene A native of Galatia, Theodotus was a bishop in the city of Kyrenia, on the island of Cyprus, and during the reign of Licinius he suffered torture and scourging from the local ruler for confessing Christ and spreading the faith. When Emperor Constantine defeated Licinius (323) and stopped violence from the pagans, Theodotus also received freedom and died around 325. St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver Saint Arseny 12, born in Tver from noble and pious parents, received a decent upbringing and even in his youth, distinguished by meekness, did not like absent-mindedness. – After the death of his parents, remaining the heir to a rich estate, he turned his house into a house of reception for the strange and poor. “The relatives considered this young man’s life strange. They either reproached him for wastefulness, or persuaded him to marry. What is this sanctity for? they told him. It is a shame and a sin to ruin one's father's property. The young man thought to himself: it’s definitely a sin to waste his father’s goods on bad deeds; But whether piety is useful to us, we will see beyond the grave, if we do not see it here. He gave freedom to the servants, endowed them generously, and he himself decided to part with the world and prayed to the Lord to show him the way. At night, while sleeping, he heard a voice calling him to Kyiv, to the monastery of the Most Pure One. He got up, secretly left the city and went to the Pechersk monastery. With tears, announcing to the abbot his spiritual dispositions, Arseny was accepted into the monastery and was invested with monasticism. Like any new novice, he went through difficult obediences, but he did it with love: he diligently chopped wood, carried water, and prepared food. He spent the night in prayer and was content with simple food. With his pure life and work in the choir, he attracted the special attention of the brethren. – Then M. Cyprian (1383–1388) lived in Kyiv. The saint recognized and fell in love with Arseny; he ordained him as a hierodeacon and kept him with him 13. When Cyprian returned from Constantinople in 1390 with the name and rights of Metropolitan of all Russia, then, going to Moscow, he took Arseny with him and entrusted him with managing the written affairs of the metropolis, as a knowledgeable person and a clear conscience. In June 1390, the high priest was invited to Tver to consider the affairs of Tver Bishop Euthymius. At the council, Euthymius was found wrong in many respects; Even before the end of the trial, the Metropolitan banned Euthymy from serving in the priesthood, but Prince Mikhail was not content with this and demanded that Euthymy be removed. The Metropolitan was forced to fulfill the prince's demand. In the place of the removed Euthymius, Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich wanted to see Archdeacon Arseny and the Metropolitan, knowing Arseny, was glad of this desire. But the humble Arseny did not want this. “I am a sinful man,” he said, “I have not had and do not have any other desire than the desire to mourn my sins; therefore I did not accept the priesthood; It’s a sin for me to even think about the episcopal” 14. Blessed Arseny was most afraid of the unrest and strife of the princes and boyars, from which the position of the Tver archpastor really became unbearably difficult; the fate of Euthymius, which became sad most of all from the clash of not entirely defined rights of the prince and the bishop in church and civil affairs, also offended the blessed one. Arsenia. By the will of the Metropolitan, he remained in Tver to become more familiar with the affairs of his future flock. But returning to Moscow, he again asked the Metropolitan to relieve him of the difficult fate assigned to him. The saint said that for resisting the council, Archdeacon Arseny exposed himself to banning, and Arseny, who submitted, was consecrated bishop of Tver on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God. While Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich was alive, he gave blessings. Arseny with spiritual peace. With his mind, his strong will, his spiritual dispositions, he maintained peace between his subordinate princes, forced even Moscow to respect him, and his subjects enjoyed the happiness of truth and peace with him; He especially devoted his last years to the construction and decoration of the churches of God. “But he was already old and approaching another life. For the blessed Arseny served as a consolation during the last time of his life. Here is modern news about that, quite edifying! “Two years have already passed since Michael sent ambassadors to Constantinople with alms to the cathedral church of St. Sophia and to the Patriarch, according to their custom. The Emperor and Patriarch received and dismissed the Tver ambassadors with great honor; the patriarch sent his ambassador to Michael with the Icon of the Last Judgment, with the relics of saints, and with an honest peace. When the Grand Duke learned that the ambassadors were approaching Tver, he ordered them to enter the city in the evening. The thought came to him - having met the icon of the holy place and having accepted the blessing of the patriarch, not to return home again. The next day in the morning, when his sons, other princes, boyars and various people were waiting for him with business according to the custom of government, Mikhail no longer ordered anyone to come into his room, but called one bishop Arseny and announced to him his intention to take haircut. The pious bishop approved and strengthened the prince’s good desire - to devote his last days to cleansing his conscience and prayer. The prince asked not to talk about this to anyone. Despite this, rumors had already spread throughout the city that Mikhail wanted to leave his reign and become a monk. The people were amazed, some did not believe, but everyone was going to the prince’s house; The boyars and his youths, bending towards each other, shed tears, the princess cried, the young princes cried, but in the presence of Mikhail no one dared to say a word, because everyone was afraid of him - he was a strict man and his heart was like a lion’s. Meanwhile, the ambassadors of Constantinople entered the city, bearing sacred gifts. The bishop, all the clergy and many people came out to meet them, with candles and censers; The Grand Duke himself came out, with difficulty getting out of bed, and met the ambassadors in his courtyard, near the Church of St. Mikhail. Having bowed to the icon, Mikhail ordered it to be taken to the Cathedral Church of the Savior, and he himself escorted it there. Having then treated the clergy, boyars and poor people to a generous dinner, the prince went out to the people, stood on a high step and, bowing on all sides, said: “Forgive me, brothers and squad, good children of Tver! I leave you my beloved and eldest son Ivan; let him be your prince instead of me; love him as you loved me; and let him protect you, as I did.” The people responded with bitter tears and praises to their old prince. He again humbly bowed to everyone and went to the Afanasyev Monastery. Here, for a certain fee, he begged to live with a monk named Gregory. On the fourth day he was tonsured under the name of Matthew (Blessed Arseny) and eight days after this ceremony he died” 16. After Mikhail, strong strife began between the princes of the Tver principality. These discords, which in themselves were so contrary to the Christian spirit, brought further discord into the houses of the boyars, and for the people they were a real disaster. “The holy shepherd had to work a lot in order to somehow weaken, if not completely extinguish, this destructive spirit of enmity. And his labors were not fruitless. In 1403, he managed to reconcile the Kashinsky prince Vasily with the Tver prince Ivan Mikhailovich, and then he himself married the son of Prince Ivan to the daughter of Prince Vasily. And yet again bloody discord arose. In 1406, on the day of the Holy Trinity, Blessed. the archpastor finally reconciled the warring parties. The strongly agitated passions of the princes and their boyars were pacified by the influence of the fear of God, which was instilled by Saint Arseny 17. Life is bliss. the shepherd served as an edification for everyone. – Always quiet and meek, he never left anyone with anger or hostility; he was unselfish and did not caress his pride in any way; breathed love for everyone, forgetting himself 18. “The servant of the Lord,” says the Apostle about the bishop, should not quarrel, but be friendly to everyone, teachable, and kind; I must instruct my opponents with meekness, lest God enable them to turn to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:24). This is what the blessed one did. Arseny. Fulfilling the will of the Heavenly Lord, he diligently “looked for the erring and led them into the fence of repentance” 19 . Caring for the glory of the name of God, the saint built several churches in Tver and its environs and restored the Cathedral of the Savior 20. The famous stone churches of the Archangel Michael in Mikulin 21 and in New Town (in Kozhevki) 22 were consecrated by him, and in the name of St. Nicholas in Tver 23. High Hierarch Cyprian loved the blessed saint and summoned him to Moscow three times for conciliar conferences 24 . Weighed down by the affairs of human passions, the desert-loving archpastor sought desert rest. 4 versts from the city of Tver, on the Tmaka River, he fell in love with the place, and he built a church here in honor of St. Anthony and Theodosius, his invisible mentors, set up cells, invited monks and chose an abbot for them. This was in 1394. From that time on, he often lived here, engaged in the thought of God, prayers and the works of a hermit 25. – In 1404, the saint founded and the following year consecrated a stone church in his beloved monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God - a new reminder of the Pechersk monastery close to his soul 26. A monument to the same reverence for the Pechersk ascetics, and at the same time concern for edifying others with examples of piety, is the Pechersk Patericon, copied in 1406 “by the intention (wishes) of the God-loving Bishop Arseny of Tver” 27 . In order to have a constant reminder of death before your eyes, blessed. Arseny, after the construction of the monastery was completed, began to prepare a coffin for himself. With his own hands he carved it out of stone, gouging out a bed from one stone and a tire from another stone 28 . Thus he prepared his soul for the afterlife. “September 1 (1408), says a contemporary, we still served our shepherd and teacher for many years; and on Monday we heard from his lips admonitions on the rules.” In February 1409, “our great teacher” became very ill; On February 28, severe pain developed in his head, so that he could not speak since midnight. March 1, after Matins, the prince of Tver with his brothers, children and boyars came to the bed of the sick saint; the blessing of oil was performed on him, the flock hurried to accept the blessing and forgiveness; at night 10 monks were constantly with him, thinking to hear some word from the dear shepherd, but he was silent, and two hours before the morning the blessed shepherd ended his earthly journey 29 . In 1483, Bishop Vassian of Tver, by the personal permission of Grand Duke John, examined the incorruptible relics of Blessed Arseny with reverent triumph and placed them in the Spassky chapel of the Church of the Mother of God; At the same time, an icon of the saint was painted and placed on his tomb; it is still intact 30. In 1547, the cathedral decided to locally honor the memory of St. Arsenia 31. The most amazing miracle took place at the relics of the saint in 1566. The Tver fisherman Terenty, who had great faith in the saint. Arseny, was subjected to a frenzy of mind. His parents brought him to the monastery for healing, but he died here. “Two days later they brought him into the Church of Our Lady, where Arseny’s relics lay. The parents cried a lot about the death of their son and murmured against Arseny out of grief: “we hoped, they said, in your mercy, but our son died with you.” The priests sang a prayer service over the shrine, and suddenly the dead man stood up and began to cry about his sins. Bishop Akaki reported this to the Metropolitan and the Tsar. The saint's silver shrine depicts the seven miracles of St. Arsenia: the first miracle is the resurrection of the fisherman Terenty; the second is the gift of a son to John Kartash; third - the healing of Archpriest Alexy, who suffered from leg problems; fourth - healing of the girl Ustinia Golovlenkova; fifth – saving one from being strangled; sixth - a miracle with the veil of a saint; seventh - the healing of Gregory and his wife, who were crazy. The miracle of the veil took place in 1606. The Poles, devastating the Russian land, broke into the monastery of Arseny. There was nothing in it except the cover over the saint's shrine. One Lyakh tore off this cover and put it on his horse: but when he wanted to sit down, the horse reared up and fell to the ground along with the rider; both horse and rider remained dead on the spot; the wonderful cover is still intact. According to the embroidered inscription, it was sewn in 1600 at the diligence of Kozma Glazmina by the abbess of the Moscow Alexievsky Monastery Feognia Ogneva 32. – In 1637, by the will of Tsar Michael, a new cathedral church of the Assumption was built. During the construction of this church, when St. The relics of the saint were placed in the Church of the Pechersk Fathers; the monk Savvaty, drunk, fell asleep at vespers behind the wing, near the saint's shrine. Waking up at night, he sees light in the church, and the saint is sitting on the tomb. “In horror, he wanted to run away from the church, when he heard a voice: “Unworthy monk!” How dare you enter the Church of God while drunk”? Having fallen half dead from fear, Savvaty remained sick for several days, confessed his sin to the abbot and was healed by the prayer of the good saint 33. † Memory of St. Savva and Barsanuphius of Tver The Monk Savva, abbot of Sretensky, otherwise Savvina, monastery was placed among the saints according to the Russian Orthodox Church. Saints According to the testimony of Rev. Joseph of Volokolamsk, Rev. Savva and Barsanuphius led a high spiritual life and for the holiness of their lives they were awarded the gift of miracles. – He describes their lives in some detail, calling them saints. “We saw,” he says, “Blessed Savva, who abboted the Savvin Monastery, in the Tverskaya side, for more than 50 years. He cared so much for his flock that he always stood at the church door with a staff in his hand; If any of the brethren did not come to the beginning of the church service, or left before vacation, or talked while singing, or moved from their place to another, then Savva did not remain silent about it, but forbade it, so that he did not ignore minor offenses. And those who entered into an argument and behaved outrageously, sometimes he beat with a rod, and sometimes he put them in prison; when necessary, he was strict; and when there was a need, he was also merciful. Once, sternly admonishing his disobedient brother, he put his beard on the window, and this one, by the inspiration of the demon, grabbed his beard with both hands and almost tore it all out. The brothers grabbed him, brought him to blessed Savva and asked: how would he order him to be punished? He answered them: I hit them with a rod and put them in prison for outrages and insults to the brethren, but I cannot punish for my offense, but must endure everything. When he saw his brother repenting of his sins, he soon forgave him, and the forgiven brother remained in the monastery until his death, in repentance and tenderness. There was a great pestilence, and the priests died, - only blessed Savva was left with concerns about his brethren - visiting the sick, making confessions and burying the dead. When blessed Savva visited the sick man and granted confession, and at that time his brother came and said that so-and-so was dying and required confession, then the blessed one answered: go, brother, tell the dying man not to die, but to wait for my visit, and as soon as the brother conveyed this to the dying man, it became easier for him; when blessed Savva came and honored St. communion, then the brother died. And this was not with one or two, but with many. “We heard about this from the reverent elders and especially from that great holy elder Barsanuphius, called Neumoya, who was the brother of the blessed one. Savva and who was appointed rector by the elder Savva Borozdin, who was the rector of that monastery and then went to St. mountain Blessed Barsanuphius remained as abbess for five years and then retired into the desert, and handed over the abbess to this Savva (his brother), and then he was ordered to accept the rank of priesthood. Barsanuphius testified that he was pure from his mother’s womb and worthy of such grace. Barsanuphius lived in the desert for forty years, and during all these years he had nothing else to do but pray, sing and read books. He took books from Christ-lovers and gave them away after reading them, then took them elsewhere. The blessed one had nothing, not even a copper coin, for he loved poverty and lack of possessions. For his long attention to himself, silence, prayers, reading, he was awarded such grace that he remembered everything about St. the scripture by heart and freely passed on to anyone who asked. Many came to him from everywhere, monks and worldly noble people, some for spiritual benefit, others demanding permission to some place of scripture. Even the Metropolitan of All Rus', Photius, from time to time sent to him with a request for an explanation of the incomprehensible saying of St. scripture about which he had a dispute with someone. The local fathers informed us with an oath that when the blessed one was still living in the desert, the brother of Savvina of the monastery came to him and prayed for him to go to Savva and ask him to forgive him some of his sins. Blessed Barsanuphius, going to the monastery, looked at the image of the Most Holy One. Mother of God, standing in his cell, and said this: Most Pure Lady of the Theotokos! You be the keeper of my books. After he left, the brother, seduced by the evil one, put all the books in his bosom and wanted to run away; but, approaching the door of the cell, he was struck by an invisible force and fell dead. Blessed Barsanuphius, returning, found him dead and with books in his bosom. He began to cry and sob and said: I am also guilty of my brother’s death. “The brother was taken to the monastery to be interred. When they began to perform his funeral service, Blessed Barsanuphius wept so much for his brother that the entire place where he stood was wet with tears. When they began to say goodbye to the deceased, then the dead began to move. They opened his head and untied him, and the dead man sat up. The brothers picked him up and asked: what did he see or hear? “I didn’t see or hear anything,” he answered. After this, the brother lived virtuously in the monastery until his death. When blessed Barsanuphius reached a ripe old age, St. Savva ordered to bring him to the monastery. The brethren were very glad to see him: the blessed one was a doctor for mental and physical infirmities. While the blessed ones were alive. Sava and St. Barsanuphius, everything was orderly, quiet and peaceful in the monastery, under their instructions. If someone obstinate and with a bad disposition appeared, they did not allow him to do his will. When did the blessed one repose? Savva, St. Barsanuphius and other fathers, zealots of paternal tradition, the brethren chose an abbot from another monastery, and he began to live not according to the rules of this monastery and not according to the tradition of those holy elders: their tradition was such that no one ate or drank except at a common meal, that they did not leave the monastery without a blessing, that youths did not live in cells or in the courtyard, and that women did not enter the monastery; In general, everything was according to the rules of the hostel. And the abbot who came here ruined it all and left it unattended. After a little time, St. appears to him in a dream. Savva says: unfortunate! Why don’t you care at all about the monastic order and piety, but you neglected everything and considered it as nothing? And he beat him with the rod so hard that he could not get out of bed. When he recovered and felt his malfunction, he no longer dared to insist, and soon returned to where he came from” 34. The monastery, where the Monks Savva and Barsanuphius labored, was called the Savvina Desert, after the church in the name of St. Savva consecrated, and was located 20 versts from Tver, where the village now remains. Savvino. In the church of Savvina is an ancient icon of St. Savva and Barsanuphius. Here the royal gates with small grass carvings and the inscription: “l. On August 7069 (1561), in the 29th day, these royal doors were erected under the power of the king and in. K. Ivana Vasil. - under Bishop Akaki of Tver, to the church of St. our father Savva, consecrated through the efforts of hegumen Levanid Savvin of the monastery" 35. The Moscow Assumption Cathedral contains the charter of the Tver Savvina Monastery of the 15th century; at the end of his Paschal, brought to 8 thousand, it is said: “The end of seven thousand. Holy Trinity, glory to Thee, δοξα σοι ο Θεοσ.” On l. 295 the ancient, precious note is read: “in fol. 6940 (1432) in Petrovo monastery of St. Savva was 35 years old, and the death of the Great Prince Mikhail was 34 years old 36. According to this note, there is no doubt that the Tver Savvin Monastery began in 1397 and from the same year the exploits of St. Barsanuphius and Savva began in the Savvin Hermitage. At the RKP. In the book of Isaac the Syrian, the signature says that the book was written in 1416 in the monastery of St. Savva, at the expense of the monastery’s ktitor, Prince Alexander Ivanovich († 1426), by the will of Abbot Barsanuphius. – Another book, the ladder, was written in 1419 for the holy monk Savva 37. since Rev. Savva, at the same time as he accepted the rank of priesthood, also accepted the leadership of the monastery (as St. Joseph writes), it is obvious that in 1419 the abbot of the Savvina monastery was already the reverend. Savva. Based on the time of the founding of the desert (1397) and the few years of Varsonofyev’s abbess (5 years), it must be assumed that 1416 was the last year of Varsonofyev’s abbess after the reign of Savva Borozdin. If, after that, from 1417 we count 50 years of the leadership of the Rev. Savva of Tver, then his blessed death will have to be attributed to 1467 38. † Memory of Rev. Savvatiya Tverskoy and his student Euphrosyne In the handwritten description of the saints of the city of Tver we read: “Reverend Savvaty, hegumen of the desert, sits, bears the image of John the Theologian.” Pustyn Rev. Savvatia was located 15 versts from Tver, where the village now remains. Savvatievo. In one of the two churches of the former desert there is a tomb of St. Savvaty, with his image. His chains, found in a cave near the village, show his asceticism against the flesh; and the cave, a witness to his pure, silent prayers, says that being with the people of the desert was not always easy for his soul, and from time to time he hid in the cave to talk with the Lord 39 . The Hermitage of Savvatiev was so famous for the severity and holiness of the rules of its founder that people came to study monastic life in it. Korniliy Komelsky, and Rev. Joseph Volokolamsky. The latter no longer found the reverend himself alive. Savvatia; he saw only his disciple - Blessed Euphrosynus. Both due to this circumstance, and due to the time of the glorious deeds of St. Euphrosyne, there is no doubt that St. Savvatiy labored at the direction of Saint Arseny, and his blessed death followed no later than 1434. The life of his disciple can partly show us how the teacher lived. “I saw in the Savvatian desert,” writes Joseph, a holy elder, a hermit named Euphrosyne. He was from the princes of Teprin. He lived in the desert, hopelessly, for 60 years. Many monks and worldly princes and boyars came to him and interrupted his silence. Bored with it, he fled to Veliky Novgorod, found an island on Lake Nevo (Ladoga) and lived here for several years. The Christians of those places and village residents, having heard about him, came to him with their wives and children. He ran away again to the Savvatiev Hermitage. - When he came here, the ruler of that land, Prince Boris Alexandrovich, sent his young daughter to him, then the betrothed bride of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich; Archimandrites, abbots, and boyars came with her and began to ask the blessed one. Euphrosyne to pray for the girl: she was very sick, and blessed was she in the desert. They brought her to Euphrosyne in their arms. He refused, calling himself unworthy and a sinner. They, falling to the ground, with tears begged him to pray: “if she remains alive through your prayers,” they said, “then you, father, will pacify two principalities.” When they said this, the girl fell into such an illness that everyone thought she had died. Seeing this, everyone began to cry. Blazh. Euphrosynus ordered her to be taken to the church of the Savvatian Hermitage, and, having arrived at the monastery, he entered the church, where he saw the girl barely breathing. Blazh. Euphrosynus, standing before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos holding the eternal Child in her arms, began to pray with tears and sobbing. Then he ordered to sing a prayer service to the Most Holy Theotokos and great. miracle worker - Nicholas. When the prayer service ended, the girl opened her eyes and sat down; they raised her healthy and took her to her father that same day. Seeing this, they glorified God, who glorifies His saints.” This is what the teacher writes. Joseph. From other monuments it is known that Princess Maria, the daughter of Tver Prince Boris Alexandrovich, was engaged to the seven-year-old son of Grand Duke Vasily Ivan Vasilyevich at the end of 1446 40, and her wife died in 1467 41. From now on it is clear that the death of the teacher. Euphrosyne followed no later than 1460 42 . Memory of St. 440 people injured in Italy Memory of St. 440 martyrs suffered in Italy from the Lombards for resisting participation in the service of idols, around 579 (See Ist. Christ. Ts. Rudakov). Rev. Agathon, the hermit of Egypt One day to Rev. Monks came to Agathon to listen to his spiritual conversation - “Are you Father Agathon?” - they asked him as if they were a stranger, since they had come from afar. “You see a sinful servant of God before you,” answered the monk. “There is a rumor that you are a proud and intemperate person,” the monks said. “It’s absolutely true,” answered Agathon. “We also heard that you are a liar and like to judge others.” And this is true, the righteous man confirmed. - “On top of that, they say that you are a heretic?” “In vain,” the monk objected, I am not a heretic. - “Why do you accept other vices, but renounce the last one?” asked the monks. “One cannot help but attribute those vices to oneself,” the saint explained, “because it is common for every person to sin, and all of us, due to our corrupt nature, are involuntarily carried away by vices, and heresy is apostasy, a willful renunciation of the truth of God.”... And another question: which feats are more important in the matter of salvation, external or internal? - Rev. Agathon answered: “Man is like a tree; external or bodily activity brings forth leaves, but spiritual activity produces fruit. But since St. Scripture assures that “every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire” (Matt. 3:10), then from this it is clear that more attention should be paid to the fruit. But the tree also needs leaves in order to support the vital juices with them, and so that the shade of the leaves provides protection to the tree and its fruits from the drying heat." Rev. Agathon was a contemporary of St. Macarius, died peacefully around 435. St. Martyr Euphalia the Virgin St. Euphalia was from Sicily, had a pagan mother who suffered from bleeding; but St. Muchch. Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprin (comm. May 10), appearing to her in a dream, promised healing if she believed in Christ. She was baptized, healed, and baptized her daughter. But her son Sermilian, having learned about this, almost strangled his mother; Only with the help of the maid did she break free and run away. His sister Eufalia, having confessed herself to him as a Christian, was brutally beaten and beheaded with a sword by her brother.” (See month. East. Archim. Sergius. Part II, p. 68). Life of St. Arsenia, written monk Theodosius, at Tsarskoye No. 123 with service in Rumyants. music., p. 93. 594. Both compositions in the Zheltikov Monastery (Description of the monastery, pp. 37–40. Tver 1852). The service, according to the afterword, was written in 1483 by the monk Theodosius, under abbot Gerontius. The writer of the life, having described the miracle of 1566, says: “I told the humble monk Theodosius about this great miracle, who is considered to be the same as the monastery, especially having seen with his own eyes that person who was dead,” etc. Writing off the Zheltikov Monastery, pp. 38. 39. 68. Description. Blush. music., p. 594. Nikon. years. 4, 284. In the printed life of St. Arsenia, ed. 1764, it is said that Arseny was tonsured a monk by Cyprian, before his elevation to the metropolis. Wasn’t it then how Cyprian, on behalf of the patriarch, reconciled the princes of the South-West with the metropolitan? see September 16th. RKP. life of Arseny; a modern note about Euphemia by Karamzin 5, pr. 232. In the printed life of 1764, Euthymius was in vain accused of heresies. Nikon. years. 4, 195–199. Collection years. VIII, 60. RKP. hagiography Nick. l. 4, 292–294. Russian times 1, 265. 267. Collection. l. VIII, 73. 74. Nick. l. 4, 284. 290. 299. 307, collection. l. VI, 130–133. V, 225. RKP. and printed life. And in the church service (Mineaion of March, 1646) St. Arseny is called merciful, kind and meek; the service, as stated, was written in 1483. Canon dog. 6. in the menea for March, Μ. 1646 Nikon. l. 4, 284. Prologue March 2 RKP. hagiography Inscription: “in the year 6906 (1398) the cathedral of this Archangel Michael was built by the Grand Duke of Tver Mikhail Alexandrovich, under Vladyka Orsenya.” Mikulin. letop. Collection l. VI, 129. Mikul. letop. Nikon. l. IV, 270. Collection l. 6, 128. Nikon. l. 4, 300. 301. Karamz. 5, pr. 232. Karamz. 5, pr. 254. Nikon. l. 4, 254. 307. In the prologue of March 2, it is erroneously said that Arseny, even before being appointed bishop, founded a monastery on the Tmaka River. Nikon. years. 4, 312. 316. Collection. years. VII, 74. In history. Hier. 4, 105, about the time of the founding of the monastery - an error; and in the press, Life of 1764, there is an error about the construction of churches. Afterword to the Patericon, now in the hands of the Rzhev merchant Bersenev. Kubarev on the Patericon, p. 25. Butkova’s answer to a new question, pp. 14–16. 44. St. Petersburg. 1850. This coffin has stood in the church of St. St. since 1655. Antonia and Theodosius. East. description Zheltikova Monastery pp., 15. 21. 24. Collection years. VI, 111. 112. Nikon. years. 5, 30–32. Printed The life of Arseny forces the numb Arseny to speak a long lesson. RKP. life; description Zheltikova Monastery, pp. 19. 34. 38. Act. 3. 1, 204. East. Hier. 4. 106. “The repose of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver, March 2.” In the calendar of the 16th century charter in Tolstoy J. N. 100. Description of Zheltikov. Monast., pp. 51. 52. 34–36. RKP. description of the miracles of St. Arsenia. Spiritual gram. Rev. Joseph, ch. X. Ancient state Ross. V, 57. Ethnographer. collection 1, 201. In the description. saints of the city of Tver: “Reverend Savva hegumen of the Sretensky Monastery.” The fact that this charter is the property of Savvina of the Tver Monastery leaves no doubt in the inscription at the beginning of it: “fol. 7138 this book is the charter of the Tver district of the Savvina Monastery; taken in Moscow under Abbot Tikhon, on the 24th day of September, upon the signature of Tver and Kashinsky Archbishop Euthymius. This charter of the same monastery was brought by the heads of Savva and Barsanuphius with you from Greek." Only here the last note of the 17th century is a mistake. According to Rev. Rev. Savva Borozdin went to Athos for Joseph. Description RKP. Tolstoy 2 No. 174 and 4. Census of 1662: “Savvin monastery 50 households.” Zap. arch. total 408. Journal min. internal cases 5, 505. Sl. Buslaeva words. and art 2, 357. Arhang. years. at Karamz. 5, pr. 341. Letop. at Karamz. 6, pr. 12. Collection. l. 5, 274. According to the 1662 census: “Savatiev Hermitage Monastery 45 households.” Mixed. about mon. 517.