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Holy Martyr Konon Ogorodnik Originally from Nazareth of Galilee, he lived and worked in Pamphylia, in the city of Mandona, doing gardening. He was simple in character and unlearned, but he feared God and kept His commandments. During the persecution of Decius (251), the governor Publius ordered him to be seized and forced him to sacrifice to idols; and when Conon remained firm in his confession, they drove nails into his feet and forced him to flee. The martyr became exhausted, fell to his knees and, having prayed, gave up his spirit to God. St. torment. Conon of Isauria, his wife Anna, and Onisius Conon's parents, Nestor and Nada, who lived in the village of Vidania, 80 miles from Isauria, were contemporaries of the Apostles. Conon, betrothed by his parents to the bride they had chosen for him, Anna, although he fulfilled their will and entered into marriage with her, but with all his soul devoted to a single concern for the future life in eternity, lived with his wife, like brother and sister, like angels, serving and working for God. After the death of his father, St. Nestor, who was tortured by the pagans for confessing the faith of Christ, having also buried his wife and mother, he devoted the rest of his life until a very old age - to the thought of God and strict asceticism in works, fasting and prayer. Graced by God with the gift of great miracles, through them he converted the inhabitants of Isauria to Christ. When the persecution of Christians began and the governor Migdon arrived in Isauria and the suffering of the martyrs began, among whom Onisius was the first to suffer, Konon was also given over to torture for resisting offering sacrifices to the pagan gods. The Isaurians, hearing about this, armed themselves and wanted to kill the commander, but he escaped. They found Konon tied up and his body covered with wounds and bloodied. They fell to the martyr with reverence, kissed his wounds and collected blood, wanting to be sanctified by it... Konon grieved that they did not allow him to suffer to the end. The believers took him to his homeland, the village of Vidaniya, and took care of his healing. He lived after that for another two years and died, mourned by those who had enlightened him (in the 2nd century). According to ancient Russian folk belief, he is revered as the guardian of children against smallpox; In remembrance of the fact that he was given the power to heal illnesses, a special prayer was composed for him against this illness. Rev. Mark, a faster of Egypt in his cells In his youth, Mark's favorite pastime was reading St. Scripture and, having a remarkable memory, he knew it by heart. Thirsty for spiritual enlightenment, he was a listener and student of John Chrysostom; At the age of forty he entered monasticism and for 60 years labored in the Nitrian desert in such severe abstinence that he received the name of an ascetic. Having lived for more than a hundred years, he died around the middle of the 5th century. He was glorified by God for the gift of miracles. He was an experienced and wise mentor in faith and piety and left behind him works that are still known to this day. Here is one of them about those “who think to be justified by works.” “The Lord, wanting to show that we are debtors to every commandment, and that adoption was granted to people by His own blood, says: “When you have fulfilled everything commanded to you, say: we are slaves, worthless; because they did what they had to do” (Luke 17:10). Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is not retribution for deeds, but the grace of the Master prepared for faithful slaves. The slave does not demand freedom as payment, but pleases as a debtor, and expects it from mercy.” “Those who, calling themselves ascetics, are proud before the lazy, think to be justified by the works of the flesh. Knowledge without deeds corresponding to it is not yet solid, even if it were true, because deeds serve as confirmation of everything. Often, through negligence about activity, knowledge is darkened; for what they stop doing completely, little by little leaves their memory. Some, not fulfilling the commandments, consider themselves true believers, and others, fulfilling them, expect the kingdom as due retribution; both are far from the truth... We, who have been worthy to be washed by rebirth, do good deeds not to receive a reward, but to preserve the purity given to us. Every good deed done by natural forces, although it removes us from evil, cannot give us sanctification without grace. A truly repentant person does not perform works of repentance as a replacement for previous sins, but with them he propitiates God. If there is anything good in our nature, then we must do it every day. What shall we render to God for the evil done before? Any increase in virtue that we have done today serves as a reproof of previous negligence, and not as retribution. Grace is mysteriously bestowed upon those baptized into Christ; acts as the commandments are fulfilled. Grace does not cease to help us secretly, but it remains in our power to do good or not to do it. Firstly, it awakens the conscience, which is why the evildoers, having repented, pleased God. Secondly, it is sometimes revealed in the teachings of others, and sometimes it enters thought through reading and naturally teaches the mind the truth." ... "What an ordinary house is in relation to air, so is the mind in relation to Divine grace: as it is freed from things, air enters, and as it is loaded, it leaves. Things in the house are vessels and edibles, and things in the mind are vanity, voluptuousness. The breadth of the heart is hope in God, and the tightness is caring for the body. The grace of the Spirit is one and unchangeable, but it acts in everyone as it wants. Just as rain, having irrigated the earth, gives plants their characteristic quality - sweetness to the sweet, bitterness to the bitter, so grace, penetrating deeply into the hearts of the faithful, bestows actions befitting virtues" ... Transfer of the relics of the blessed prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl Transfer of the relics of the blessed prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl, and his children David and Constantine. St. Theodore reposed in 1299 as a schema-monk in Yaroslavl, in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery, now abolished, where his sons David, who died in 1321, and Konstantin were later buried. Their relics were found in 1463, and were transferred and placed in a stone shrine on March 5, 1464. † Rev. Adrian Poshekhonsky The Monk Adrian studied monastic life from Rev. Cornelius of Komel 92. After the death of the great mentor († 1537), he, like some other disciples of Cornelius, wanted to plant a new hotbed of monasticism somewhere in a remote place. Once a magnificent old man appeared in the church of the Cornelius monastery. “Who are you?” Adrian asked him, who was greatly impressed by him. “I am Bezstuzh,” answered the elder. Adrian invited him to his cell; in a spiritual conversation, the elder among other things said to Adrian: “You want to build the house of the Mother of God and gather monks to you; I know a desert in which no human foot has yet walked.” Adrian was glad to go to this desert. “Our blessed father Cornelius commanded to let his disciples go if they wished for the desert,” Adrian said to Abbot Lawrence and asked to bless him to leave the monastery for desert solitude. Lavrenty blessed. In September 1540, Adrian, being a hierodeacon, with the novice Leonid and others left the Cornelian monastery; the monk Bezstuzh led them to the dense Poshekhonsky forest and disappeared unnoticed. This was on the eve of the Exaltation of the Lord. On the bank of the river Vothi they placed on an oak tree the icon of the Mother of God with which they had come, and sang a canon to the Cross of the Lord. When they then went to explore the surrounding places, the fishermen from. Belago, fishing in Votkha, went ashore and saw the icon of the Mother of God on an oak tree. One of them wanted to remove the icon and take it home, but fell without speaking or moving. Having come to his senses, he announced that the elder who had appeared had strictly forbidden him to take the icon. The fishermen left the caught fish and white bread near the oak tree. The returning hermits were amazed to see the food they needed so much near the oak tree and, having glorified the Mother of God, remained to live in the place blessed by Her. In 1543, Adrian went to Metropolitan Macarius to ask for a blessing to found a monastery and church in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the river. Wothe; The Metropolitan gave a blessing on St. business and ordained Adrian as abbot. Quite a number of brethren gathered at the new desert monastery; its charter was the charter of the Korpili monastery; women were not allowed to enter it; the hermits were content with little and spent most of their time reading the Psalter. The reverend abbot was engaged in the writing of St. icons, for the edification of oneself and others 93. Elder Leonid died peacefully in 1549. In 1550, during Lent, a gang of bad people. Bely was attacked by the Adrian Hermitage, armed like a bandit. Those who lived in the monastery hurried to hide wherever they could; The abbot hid in the woodshed, but he was soon found here. The villains burned him with a burning torch, stabbed him with a knife, pressed him with a rope thrown around his neck, asking for money. The sufferer, pointing to a jug with forty rubles, said: “Here is all our property; I wanted to build a new church for the Mother of God with them: take the money and let us monks go to the Cornelian monastery - we will not come to you anymore.” The villains said with impudent mockery: “Here we will put a helmet on you and let you into heaven.” And they strangled the holy elder. It was March 5th. Having abandoned Adrian's novices behind them, they robbed everything in the church. Finding three monks behind the throne, they killed one during the meal, and tortured two until their bones cracked. Rev.'s body Adrian was taken from the monastery and hidden. The robbers were soon convicted of their crimes by the court and received a worthy punishment 94. In 1626, the monk Jonah, before his death, revealed to his confessor that, according to the dying confession of his father, priest Isidore, when in 1550 the Beloselsky villains threw the body of abbot Adrian, whom they killed, at the turn of Bely, on the bank of the river. Ushloma, he Isidore and his neighbors took the body to the empty church of the prophet. Elijah and buried him under the floor of the church. Subsequently, the church collapsed; A rowan tree was planted on the grave for memory. Miracles began to happen at the grave. Although the miracles were not recorded, those who gathered every year in the village of St. Elijah for the fair, based on rumors of miracles, performed prayer services to M. Paraskeva and St. Elijah at the grave of Adrian, laid offerings on the grave, and the sick received healing. The abbot of the Trinity Poshekhon Hermitage reported this dying information to the abbot of the Adrian Hermitage, taking a promise from him and the brethren to stop drunken life in the desert. Having received the reports, Patriarch Filaret ordered that the relics be transferred to Hadrian's Hermitage and conveyed 95. During the transfer of the relics, several miracles occurred; among other things, a blind youth regained his sight. Now the relics of St. Adrian rests openly in the church of his monastery, built in 1659; one chapel of this church is dedicated to St. Adrian is 96. † Suffering of St. Ioann Bulgarian Blessed John was from Bulgaria 97. The Turks are trying hard, or rather they tried in the past, to convert Christians to Mohammedanism, by the way, and according to such a clever belief. In heaven, they say, there will be no fire to light a pipe, but it will have to be taken out of Gehenna; - it's a long walk. If anyone manages to convert a Christian to Islamism, the one converted to Mohammedanism will be in heaven, but as a traitor to his faith he will turn into a pillar of fire and - it will be easy for the Turks to light their pipes 98 . How this belief expresses the bestial laziness of Mohammedanism, and at the same time an involuntary recognition of the dignity of the Christian faith! With such a high belief, the Turks somehow managed to bring John to the point that he renounced the faith of Christ. - The unfortunate man, after a little time, came to his senses and, bitterly mourning his sin, came to Athos, to the Lavra of St. Afanasia. Here he began to struggle in repentance, subordinating himself to one elder. For three years he lived like a strict novice; but his conscience did not give him peace, he was constantly sad. Finally, unable to bear the reproaches of his conscience, he left St. mountain, arrived in Constantinople and, dressed in Turkish clothes, came to the mosque of Sofia. Here, in front of everyone, he began to perform the sign of St. on himself. cross and prayed the Christian prayer. Excited Turks run up to him and ask: what are you doing? The servant of Christ calmly replies that he is a Christian and prays in a Christian way - to Christ the Son of God and the only Savior of sinful people. The fanatics shout: be silent, be silent, - then they tried to persuade him to be a Mohammedan. The saint firmly answered that he would not change his confession; he said and will continue to say that without Christ Jesus there is no salvation. They took him to the courtyard of the mosque and cut off his head. St. John suffered martyrdom at the age of 19, in 1784. RKP. life of the Rev. Adriana. “The Tale of the St. Icon Painters” in the original gr. Stroganov. Buslaeva words. and art. 2, 379. Sl. Shchekatova dictionary 1, 59. In 3 volumes. act. No. 141 two memories from April 1. and 12 October. 1626 Here is the testimony of the schema-monk Jonah, recorded by his confessor Lucian. Here is also a letter from P. Philaret with an order to transfer the relics to Hadrian's Hermitage. Information about the monastery 552. RKP. Saints: "St. Adrian and Leonid; the builder of the Assumption Monastery, Adrian, was quickly killed by robbers, was laid up at Trinity in the Ryabinka desert. He became a disciple of Cornelius of Komel; and his relics were transferred on the 17th day of December." The suffering of St. John - in the Athos Patericon, 2, 215. 216. Letters of the Holy Mountainer 1, 215.