Память преподобного Мины

Our venerable father Mina labored in one of the communal monasteries of Mount Sinai 285 in the sixth century after the Nativity of Christ. For fifty years he performed various monastic obediences. On the third day after the blessed death of this ascetic, all the brethren gathered in the church to, according to the church rules, perform the funeral service for the deceased. During this service, the church was suddenly filled with incense emanating from the place where the deceased lay. When, by order of the abbot, the coffin with the remains of the deceased Venerable Mina was opened, all those present saw that fragrant myrrh was flowing in two streams along both his legs. Then the abbot said to the brethren: - Look, it’s like sweat from the labors raised by the feet of the deceased during his lifetime; it is filled with fragrance as evidence that these works are accepted by God. You too, with a clear conscience and with full diligence, bear the obediences assigned to you in order to receive reward for your labors from the Lord God and our Savior. Sinai is the mountain from which the Lord gave the law to the Jewish people through Moses. It represents one of the peaks of the Horeb mountain range on the Red (Red) Sea peninsula. This mountain range, cut by narrow rocky gorges and having many caves since the first times of Christianity, became a favorite place for ascetics, who formed several hermitages and monasteries there. Among the ascetics of Sinai, the following are especially famous: St. John the Faster, later Patriarch of Constantinople, Venerable. John Climacus (writer of “The Ladder”), who at the end of his life was the abbot of Mount Sinai, that is, the monasteries located there, and many others. You might be interested in: