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3 hours. Repose of Saint SIMEIN, Bishop of Tver In the RKP. On the calendar, Simeon Bishop of Tver was placed among the saints of the Russian Church. Chronicles of different times, speaking about him, call him “venerable bishop,” which shows in him an ascetic, holy life. 228 Blessed Simeon was the first bishop of Tver 229, and the seventh bishop of Polotsk. 230 According to some monuments, he was from the family of the princes of Polotsk. 231 The latter is confirmed by the fact that a lot of lands and lands were distributed to Polotsk monasteries and churches. 232 The sorrows of time forced him to leave Polotsk. In 1263 the prince was killed. Mindovg, married to the princess of Tver. At the same time, his nephew, the Prince of Polotsk, Tovtiville, was also deprived of his life. Tovtivil's son hid in Novgorod; other princes and boyars fled wherever they could. 233 The Bishop of Polotsk, who had previously been in charge of the churches of the Tver principality, avoided troubles in Tver, especially since at the same time the Tver prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich became the Grand Duke of Russia and chose his beloved Tver as his capital city. - Blagov. the prince received the blessing. pastor with all his love: he endowed the Tver department with his rich estates and lands. 234 According to the chronicle, blessed. the shepherd in l271 lovingly paid his last debt of love and respect to his deceased benefactor. IN. Prince Yaroslav Yaroslavich died on the way from the Horde and was brought to Tver for burial: “Tver Bishop Simeon performed the usual funeral singing over him and he was laid in the cathedral church of St. Kozma and Damian." 235 Blessed Simeon ruled his flock like a sincere shepherd, like one of the best shepherds of the church. According to the chronicles, he was “educational and well acquainted with books: not afraid of troubles and misfortunes, he entered into disputes with the prince and nobles, and did good to the poor and orphans.” 236 Forgiving and kind to the offended and unfortunate, attentive to the monastic and priestly rites, he was formidable to those who insulted truth and virtue - they were afraid of him. 237 Ancient monuments recount his conversation with the Polotsk prince Constantine. “Konstantin, Prince of Polotsk, called Bezrukiy, wanting to prick his tiun, said out loud to the bishop: where will our tiuns be in the next world? Vladyka Simeon answered: in the same place as the prince. The prince did not feel better about this, and he said: Tiun judges wrongly, takes money, sells and tortures people, does everything bad; and what am I doing? The Lord told him: if the prince is kind and God-fearing, has pity on people, loves the truth, and therefore chooses a good and God-fearing, intelligent and truth-loving person as a tiun or ruler: then the prince will be in paradise and his tiun with him. If a prince, without the fear of God, does not spare Christians, does not think about orphans and widows, and appoints an evil, unreasonable boss, just to get him kupa (money), lets him go like a hungry dog ​​to carrion, to destroy people: then the prince will be in hell and his tyuns with him. I say to you princes and governors: comfort the sad, deliver the weak from the hand of the strong. The rich offend them, and they come to you as protectors of the good. But you, princes and governors, are like a rain cloud that lets out water over the sea, but not over the thirsty land. You give and help to those who have a lot of silver and gold, and not to those who do not have a penny; You give the poor into slavery, and you give generously to the rich.” 238 Russian antiquity honored this free, fearless denunciation of the mighty of the earth, this pure consciousness of the demands of truth by including it in the general guidelines of justice. 239 In 1276, a fire destroyed residential buildings in the city of Tver; All the churches were destroyed, with the exception of one. The caring saint had to put in a lot of labor to build the holy house and churches. In 1282 there was again a fire in Tver. 240 Dilapidated wooden cathedral church of St. Cozma and Damian was dismantled and in its place in 1285 the saint founded a stone cathedral church in honor of the Savior. The following year, the saint had the consolation of seeing the experience of the sincere love of his flock for the shepherd. Predatory Lithuanians suddenly attacked the church districts of the Tver ruler and robbed them. The Tverites voluntarily, of their own accord, rushed after the predators, caught up with them and took away all the loot. Such a prince as the holy Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich was, used everything to ensure that the new cathedral was built without slowing down or stopping. But a lasting, magnificent church could not be built soon. The saint, feeling that in his old age he would not live to see the consecration of the new cathedral, and bored without serving at the cathedral, which was so gratifying for a sad old age, consecrated (1287) a movable altar in the cathedral that was under construction, so that he could pray here with the flock as long as he could. And sure enough, he died peacefully on February 3, 1289, and the church was consecrated by his successor, Bishop Andrei, in 1290. 241 On the same day, the repose of the blessed prince of Uglich RIMAN The noble Prince Roman of Uglich was the son of Prince Vladimir of Uglich and the grandson of Grand Duke Constantine 1st; - from a young age they taught him Christian virtues, and especially taught him the sorrows of life. He was 23 years old when Batu and his terrible hordes entered Russia. At a general council with the boyars, Prince Vladimir decided to leave Uglich under the jurisdiction of the senior boyar, and when Batu demands its surrender, he should immediately surrender it so that Christian blood would not be shed uselessly. Prince Vladimir himself with his two sons Andrei and Roman retired to Novgorod. Batu was in Uglich in February 1237 and left it untouched. Prince Vladimir and his family wandered in the Novgorod region for three whole years, and when the Tatars had already completely left Russia, they returned to Uglich. In 1244, Vladimir, together with other princes, was in the Horde, and Batu allowed the princes to own their ancestral lands; book Vladimir returned to Uglich. “But at that terrible time it was impossible to live in peace in any corner of Russia. In 1248, Tatar officials came to Uglich: Prince. Vladimir went to Vladimir and died here in 1249. 242 Khan's officials found that the Uglich principality was obedient to Khan and regularly paid tribute. Therefore, the eldest son of Prince Vladimir Andrei began to rule the principality of Uglich. But the childless Andrei was ill, and in 1261 Roman Vladimirovich took over the administration of the principality. 243 Blessed Romanus was a protective father of those under his control. His region included the following cities: Uglich, Kashin, Bezhetsky Verkh, Ustyuzhna, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod, and he also built the new city of Romanov on the high bank of the Volga, opposite the Borisoglebskaya settlement. People from other principalities also came under the shelter of the good prince. He established almshouses and hospice houses, and the former were maintained at his expense, and the latter from the monasteries. He built up to 15 churches in different places of his principality. Every day he listened to God's service and often talked with experienced monks; he loved to read soul-saving books. In 1278 he mourned the death of his mother, then two years later his childless wife also died. Orphaned in the world, Blessed Roman devoted the last years of his life mainly to deeds of piety, prayer, fasting and charity. He died on February 3, 1285 and was buried in the cathedral church of the city of Uglich. 244 In 1486, during the founding of a new cathedral church, the incorruptible relics of the blessed Prince Roman were found. By order of Patr. Job they were again attested (in 1505) by the Kazan Metropolitan Hermogenes. – In 1609, the Poles set fire to the cathedral church and St. relics of the prince: but their remains continue to exude healing: they are now kept in a chapel dedicated to the name of the blessed prince. Romana. 245 4 hours. Repose of the Venerable. KIRILL Novoyezersk “You, my friends, if you do what I command you,” (John 15:14) said the Son of God. “What a high privilege it is for a man to be the friend of the Son of God!” What does it take to get this advantage? We must fulfill the commandments of the Son of God. After this, the only surprising thing is that people value the commandments of the Son of God so little. How happy, how high in mind are those who from youth to the grave, how blessed. Kirill Novoezersky 246 do the will of the Son of God! Blessed earthly homeland Kirill, born for heaven on the 4th day of February, was a mountain. Galich. His parents were rich and pious people, White nobles. 247 Kirill, as a youth, felt an irresistible desire for monastic life and secretly left his parental home to find on the river. Obnore Rev. Cornelius, about whom he heard a lot from his parents. From Galich to Cornelius’s cell it was 80 versts. The boy walked 13 miles and did not know where to go next. But on the road he saw an old man, adorned with gray hair. To the elder’s question: where is he going? Cyril answered: “To Cornelius; From him, as you can hear, they learn how to save themselves, but I would like to be saved.” “Blessed is God, who gave you understanding,” answered the elder; if you want, follow me to Cornelius.” The next day, the whereabouts of Cornelius were in sight: pointing to him, the elder said: “Go, child, to blessed Cornelius; I will ask him for you and bless him. The youth did not see the elder again. The Monk Cornelius lovingly received the youth and at the same time tonsured him into monasticism 248; he was then about 20 years old. 249 The young monk with ardent love began to perform feats of monasticism, obedience, fasting, and prayer. After the general prayer, he worked with all diligence, either in the bakery or in another service. In his free time from work, he studied the lives of the saints, read St. books, especially the psalms of David. His pure, spiritual life delighted everyone who lived with Cornelius. The parents of the blessed one, having searched fruitlessly for their son for a long time, began to consider him dead, when 7 years later the Komel monk told them that in their desert a young monk, who had come from unknown place, was leading a high life. The father went to the desert with rich donations and did not recognize his son in the strict faster Kirill. The son continued to pray to the Lord for the salvation of his parents. Finally, the father, recognizing his son, announced to the Monk Cornelius that he himself desired monasticism, and he was tonsured with the name Barsanuphius. After 8 days, news was received that the blessed one’s mother had died, the nun Elena. By order of Cyril, the remaining estate was distributed to the poor and the servants were given freedom. The father lived in the monastery for about three years, in fasting and prayer, and his son rested his old age until his grave. A year after the death of his parent, Kirill, striving for the highest perfection, decided to lead a hermit’s life in the wilderness of the northern forests. With the blessing of St. Cornelius went north to walk through the deserts; His food now consisted of various herbs and pine bark; More often he happened to see animals than people. So he spent about 7 years 250, purifying his soul in solitude with prayer and spiritual contemplation. From time to time he visited, as a reverent admirer, the holy places of Novgorod and Pskov; but, passing through residential areas, he did not enter a single house and did not take alms from anyone, except perhaps a piece of bread. His spirit was exalted in such exploits, but his physical health weakened, and he prayed to the Lord to show him a place of permanent residence. The prayer was answered. According to the heavenly indicated blessedness. Kirill from Tikhvin went to Beloozero; from Kobylina Mountain I saw a new lake and Red Island on it; An angel informed him in a dream that this was his place. On Kobylina Mountain there is still a chapel, and in it is the same Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God with which the Monk Kirill came here; Every year there is a religious procession from the monastery here in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God, which founded the monastery. 251 Rev. Kirill built himself a hut on Red Island, under a tall spruce tree: - this was in 1517. Among the peasants of the village. He begged Shidnem, Diya, Gregory and David for the Red Island to found the monastery; Having built another cell, a prefabricated one for the expected brethren, he built two small churches of the Resurrection of Christ and Hodegetria. Probably, when he asked the archpastor’s blessing to consecrate his churches, he was ordained to the rank of priesthood. The church hymn sings: “Knowing that understanding the inspired scripture is a means to salvation, you reverently studied all the scriptures, Rev. Cyril: then you accepted the priesthood.” 252 His first student on the island was Dionysius: then others began to come to him. – Quite a few temptations were encountered for the new monastery of prayer books. But Rev. Kirill was already hard. The fishermen who came to the island saw Kirill as their enemy for their island - they made various insults to him, trying to drive him off the island. The blessed one endured their insults patiently. – This is not how he accepted people who lived by dishonest, inhuman craft (at that time there were quite a lot of such people). The gang of robbers who robbed the shores of New Lake were already annoyed that people who might know about their affairs settled on the island. The predators sailed in canoes to Red Island. Sons of lawlessness, the monk said menacingly when meeting them! Have you forgotten that there is a terrible judgment of God’s truth, and you came to an empty island to plunder, and you think to find gain from a hermit? What are you doing?... Horrified, the predators begged to forgive them. “Don’t commit evil in advance, so as not to be in hell,” said the monk, and he released them. “This miraculous taming of the villains consoled and inspired the prayer books gathered to the monk. Another time, pressed by poverty, thieves removed the bells from the poor church of the monastery and hurried to cross to the other side, but got lost. “Why did you come here?” asked Kirill, who met them. They fell at the feet of St. husband and asked for forgiveness. “It has never happened before,” said the monk, that anyone could be happy with someone else’s goods. If you hunger for someone else's, you will lose yours. A thief is never rich, but only hunchbacked. And he steals with intelligence, trouble cannot be avoided. Here - a penny of labor - lives forever. An earned loaf is better than a stolen loaf. Remember this folk wisdom." Then he ordered them to be fed and sent them away in peace. The blessed one served for his disciples as an ascetic life: he himself dug the earth and cut down the forest. In severe frosts he walked in thin clothes, and sometimes even barefoot. Whenever it was necessary for others, he himself performed the liturgy, never getting tired. The lustful wife decided to seduce the blessed one into sin; she appeared in his cell when he was preparing to celebrate the liturgy by reading prayers. To the question of the blessed one: why did you come? The evil one answered that, not knowing where to get fire, she came for fire. The monk denounced her in front of all the brethren: “I decided, he said, to see my dead body buried alive.” Struck by fear, her whole body trembled. The monk calmed her down with gentle instructions, but forbade his wives to appear on his island. Blazh. Alexander of Svir sent his disciple Nicephorus to see the ascetic of God Cyril. His disciples had a lot to learn from him. The grace of God grew so much in the spirit of the blessed ascetic that it was revealed to outsiders in tangible experiences. His disciple Dionysius saw the monk on Great Thursday, when all the brethren were supposed to receive communion, serving together with the deacon; but upon leaving the church the deacon was no longer visible. “Where is the deacon who served?” Dionysius asked his abba. “Don’t talk about what you saw until I die.” – Many monks gathered at Cyril’s monastery, but the funds of the monastery were poor, and Cyril’s disciples at times suffered from lack of maintenance. “The monk poured diligently on behalf of the students, and the help given was unexpected. 253 The servant of God also provided them with constant provision. Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Penkov was seriously ill. In a dream, someone tells him: “go to the hermitage of Kirill the Bely, beyond Tikhvin, and you will recover.” The prince asked later: what kind of desert is this? And having learned that she was on Novy Ozero, he set off according to the instructions. When he saw blessed Cyril, he recognized him as the one who had appeared to him. At the request of the sick prince, Kirill served the liturgy and prayer service: due to the severe frost, others could not stand in the church, and Kirill served in his torn clothes and barefoot. The sick prince completely recovered and, grateful to the mercy of God, gave a charter - to issue 40 measures of rye, butter and salt for the Kirillova monastery every year. The church hymn sings to Blessed Cyril: “Having driven away the darkness of passions with prayers, you presented your heart pure to God. That is why the grace of the Holy Spirit entered into you, so that you saw the future as close to you. And he loosed the bonds of barrenness to those who asked you in faith.” 254 Before his death, the monk saw and declared the disasters that were being prepared for Russia. “There will be, he said, in our land there will be rebellion between people and great troubles, the strong wrath of God will break through, many will fall by the sword and many will be scattered among strangers. Weep, brothers, before the Lord and His Most Pure Mother for the firmness of the Russian kingdom.” Then he added: “But our kingdom will be pacified and established by God.” Having received Holy Communion Mysteries, protecting himself with the sign of the cross, he said: “Glory to God for everything,” and gave up his spirit to the Lord on February 4. 1532 Following the death of St. Cyril, signs of his closeness to the Lord were revealed. The sick monk Kiriak, whose obedience was to fish for the brethren, due to illness, was not at the burial of the monk and greatly grieved about it. The monk appeared and said: “Why are you so sick, brother Kiriak? Get up and go fish." Having made the sign of the cross over the patient, he ceased to be visible. The sick man, who had hitherto been lying without the use of his arms and legs, began to move, and when brought to the tomb of the monk, he completely recovered. He told the astonished brethren the vision he had had, he went fishing and caught more fish than ever before. Among the various healings that followed, the healing of the monk Macarius was especially striking. He entered the Novozero monastery from the Korel side. Willful and grumpy, he did not want to endure the poverty of the monastery and went to the monastery of Belozersk. Here he was visited by a severe illness, so that he neither ate nor slept. Having come to the consciousness of his sins, he turned with prayer to the Monk Cyril. Feeling then some relief, he, at his request, was taken to the monastery of the monk. Here he suddenly began to scream and fell lifeless. The frightened brethren laid him on the very coffin of the monk. He woke up, stood up and said this about himself: “demons tormented me without mercy, but the handsome old man drove them away with his rod. Get up, he told me, and sin no more.” King John St. Kirill, appearing in a dream, said not to go to the reception room until 3 o’clock in the afternoon. And at that hour the chamber fell, as a result of which several people lost their lives. The saved king, in addition to establishing the villages of Shidnem and Kobylino for the monastery, gave the monastery all the land for 3 miles in all directions of the monastery. This was in 1542 255 In 1620, the wife of priest Michael of the village of Kema suffered greatly from childbirth. The monk appeared to her in priestly vestments, with a cross in his hand, I said: go to my monastery, I will be healthy. She felt relieved and wanted to go to the monastery, but was held back by her family out of fear for her. The monk appeared again in his previous form, but still held a candle and a censer. “Don't be afraid, Antonina! he said; let the priest serve a prayer service with candles and incense, and you will be healthy. Tell your husband Priest Michael to teach people goodness. You see, the wrath of God: sometimes foreigners attack, sometimes famine or pestilence visits. This is because they despise God's holidays, do not fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, do not honor Sunday, and wallow in the mud of sins. If they don’t repent, things will get worse.” 256 The wondrous power of the prayers of the saints of God! In the village of Shidnem, the descendants of Diy, Gregory and David, who ceded the island to the monk for a monastery of prayer, still live without dying out. 257 The relics of St. Kirill were found incorrupt at the founding of a new church, which was built according to the vow of the boyar Morozov, who was saved from troubles. According to the definition of the council, they were certified by the Vologda Archbishop Markell; and in 1652 Aug. 22 days were transferred in a shrine to a new church, where they now rest, exuding miracles. 258 “After your dormition, blessed one, your cancer is our teacher; with the miracles flowing from it, stimulating us to labors and exploits, it tells us: love the Lord in order to find eternal grace: do not place anything above Him. so that when He comes, He may find peace with the elect. ABOUT! May we be worthy of this through your prayers.” 259 In the same (4) day, memory of the teacher. AVRAMI and KOPRI Pechensky According to the RCP. description of the Vologda saints, “Reverend Fathers Abraham and Kopriy, like the Savior on Pechenga, who was in l. 7000 (1492)." The Spasskaya Hermitage on the Pechenga River, closed in 1764, was located 20 versts from Vologda, in the Gryazovets district. In 1492 The blessed zealots of desert life settled for the first time in this then remote forest place. They had to endure many different needs and sorrows, but they labored firmly for the Lord until the grave. Their relics rest hidden in the Spassky Church, now a parish church. 260 9 o'clock. Memory of the teacher. NIKIFiRi and Gennadii Vazheozersky Recently, in the Zadnenikforova desert, a stone church was built in the name of St. Nikephoros and Gennady, founders of the desert. Pr. Gennady and Nikifor were students of the teacher. Alexander of Svirsky, but one earlier, the other later: both of them were the founders of desert life on Vazheozero: but one lived here as a hermit, the other founded a communal hermitage. According to the ancient service, Rev. Gennady, he was the heir to rich property: but having distributed everything to the poor, he went to the teacher. Alexander, who then lived alone on Svir; The great hermit did not want to violate his solitude by accepting anyone into his cell: but Gennady’s fervent entreaties forced him to part with his beloved solitude. – Gennady remained a student and associate of Alexander. A few years later, prof. Alexander blessed Gennady to seek solitude elsewhere. Gennady set up a cell for himself on Bazhozero and here he labored as a hermit; Subsequently, he allowed two or three disciples to set up huts near his cell for silent prayer. Before his death, Abba said to his disciples: in this place there will be a church and a monastery. The hermit probably died in January 1516. 8 d. Rev. Nikifor came to the Rev. Alexander, already a monk and in chains, came when the monastery was founded on Svir: the great ascetic received Nicephorus and then looked with consolation at his exploits in the hostel. And if the teacher Nikifor began to live with Rev. Alexander in 1510, he lived under the leadership of St. Alexander in his monastery for about 7 years. In 1518, he asked the great Abba for his blessing to worship the Pechersk saints of God. “Go ahead and see the servant of God Kirill of Novoezersk,” answered the Abba. The obedient disciple fulfilled the will of the Abba. When he arrived on the shore of Novoozero, tired from work, he fell asleep. Kirill, having finished the evening rule, hurried to cross the lake in a boat and woke up the wanderer. The amazed traveler asked for forgiveness. Kirill, bowing to him, said: “You bless me, - you were sent by the teacher. abbot and spiritual brother Alexander to visit me, a sinner.” Nikifor realized who was talking to him. After that Nikifor spent eight days with the teacher. Kirill, enjoying his spiritual conversations. With the delight of joy, he returned to his Abba and recounted what he had seen and heard from the Venerable. Kirill. “Now you can go to Kyiv, as you wish,” said Alexander. Having completed his pious wandering to Kyiv, the teacher. Nikifor, with the blessing of the Abba, settled on Vazhozero, where St. Gennady labored. – It’s near the village. Sermaks, where the parents of the Rev. lived and died. Alexandra. Abba Alexander, of course, was pleased that there would be a monastery of prayer books so close to Sermaksa and they would pray for the peace of his parents. His sincere disciple did what pleased the great Abba. Little by little, he gathered lovers of desert life, built a church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and started a hostel. Here he labored until his death, which followed on February 9, 1550. 261 Over the relics of the teacher. Gennady and Nikephoros soon had a chapel built, with a tomb in it. The memory of the ascetics was reverently honored. 262 The monastery was closed in 1764, but since 1800 its church has been assigned to the Svirsky Monastery, located 12 versts. 263 10 a.m. Venerable PROKHOR of Pechersk “During the reign of Svyatopolk Izyaslavich (1093–1113),” writes Blessed Polycarp 264, “there was a lot of violence to people from the prince; the houses of rich people, without any guilt, he uprooted and took away the property of many. Therefore, God allowed the pagans to gain strength over him - many times the Polovtsians fought under him; besides, there was an internecine war. That’s why in Russian There was then both famine and great poverty in the land.” 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: except for the church prosphora, he never ate vegetables in his cell, and drank nothing but water. He was never a sad person, and always worked cheerfully for the Lord; did not come into fear from military alarms; lived like a bird, content with one quinoa. For such a patient life, the Lord gave him his gifts. After the war alarms, famine came 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 it during 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. When they brought the bread, 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, but 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 Igorovich for the blinding of Vasilko, whom Svyatopolk blinded after listening to David, and also with Volodar and with Vasilko himself: this was in 1099. 265 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 worldly people took plenty of it to their homes. The saint did not take anything for his salt, but distributed 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 that 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.” 266 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 seditious people 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, and when they learned about the forcible taking of it, they 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, he ordered it to be poured out at night. But the spilled ash again became salt, and the citizens gladly 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, entering the Pechersk monastery, reconciled with Abbot John; Before that, he was at enmity against him for his accusations of an insatiable passion for enrichment and oppression of people, and therefore imprisoned him in Turov: but, fearing an uprising against himself by the Christ-loving prince Vladimir Monomakh, he soon returned him to the Pechersk monastery. Based on these miracles, Svyatopolk began to have great zeal for the saint. Theotokos and to the teacher. 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 godly 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 that the Russian princes gathered against the Polovtsians, who were devastating the area around Lubny. 267 The blessed one sent to say 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 river. Sulu 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 St. Theodosius, and in the cave - the coffin of the teacher. Anthony and Prokhor and other saints, and then he already set off on the road. 268 After that, everything went well for the prince in his reign through the prayers of the teacher. Prokhor, whereas before that time there had been so much trouble and disorder; he himself confessed the miracles and signs of St. Prokhor, having witnessed them. 269 “Let Job, my servant, pray for you, and I will accept his petition, so as not to do anything bad to you” (Job 43:8), this is what God himself said to the friends of righteous Job. ABOUT! We must value the friends of God! We must beg them to pray for us sinners. Strange people! Then they say that they are not capable of anything; then they present themselves as 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 that has not changed for centuries. On the same (10) day, the memory of the Novgorod saints: JAKIMA, LUKI, GERMAN, ARKADI, GRIGIR, MARTYRI, ANTINI, VASILI and СВМЭѠНѢ In accordance with the will of heaven, declared by Saint John in 1439 270, the Church of Veliky Novgorod honors February. 10 the memory of their saints: Joachim, Luke, Herman, Arkady, Gabriel, Martyrius, Anthony, Basil and Simeon. 271 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. 272 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 natives. 273 But paganism was in great strength in Novgorod and stubbornly peeled off its power over the 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. 274 To curb the rebellious pagans, Dobrynya and Putyata came to Novgorod with troops. In the 1st Akim Chronicle we read: “When in Novgorod they learned 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 dispersed the post 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. Bishop 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 of his relatives. 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 Ugony and other best people; Dobrynya appeared with his entire 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 screamed and climbed down and asked for them as if they were real gods. Dobrynya answered with mockery: You have no reason 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.” 275 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, hit 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 are Perunishche,” he said, “you drank and ate your fill, and now swim away.” 276 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: the menaion for May, written by his hand in Novgorod, is known. 277 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 take note of the 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. 278 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, eternal wisdom, 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 rich Novgorodian Sotko built the stone church of Boris and Gleb, at the end of Bishop Street, not far from the second St. Sophia Cathedral. 279 At the cathedral church, Blessed Joachim also built a monastery, which was called Sophia and Tithe. 280 On the site of the overthrown Perun, he consecrated the church of the 995 Nativity of the Virgin Mary. In addition, he built a church in the name of his angel - the Godfather Joachim and Anna. 281 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 282, and St. Joachim is depicted in the altar of the St. Sophia Cathedral, on the wall, the first among the Novgorod saints. 283 Blessed Luke was the first of the Russians, as far as is known, to be awarded the rank of bishop in 1035, and his Russian origin is indicated by his nickname - Zhidyata. 284 During his time and under his supervision, the stone St. Sophia Cathedral was built, which still exists, which he consecrated in 1049. The need for this church became urgent especially because in March 1045 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 it to be written with a clenched one, and said: “In this hand I hold the great Novgorod: when my hand opens, the city will end.” 285 The remains of the musia on the high place of the altars are still intact. 286 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. 287 The blessed saint left pastoral teaching for the church, precious in its simplicity and strength of spirit. “First of all, brothers, so the saint wrote, we must keep this commandment - to believe in one God, glorified in the Trinity, in the Father, the Son and the Holy One. Spirit, as the apostles taught and the saints established. fathers. “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, to matins, to mass and to vespers: and in your cell, going to bed, 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 more for the brethren: do not 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; 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 man 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; servants, 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. 288 This is what the saint of God taught! The sanctity of the life of Blessed Bishop Luke has proven beyond doubt, 500 years after his death. On the occasion of the addition to the chapel of Joachim and Anna, his relics in the saint's omophorion were found incorrupt and placed in the Martyrius porch of the St. Sophia Cathedral. 289 About Blessed Herman, Bishop of Novgorod, it is known from the chronicles that he was consecrated in 1078 and reposed in Kyiv in 1096. 290 Blessed. Simon delivers it among the pupils of the cave monastery. 291 And according to the RKP. 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. Gorman, abbot and founder of the monastery Germanech, known in 1072 292, and completely similar acts of another Pechersk ascetic and bishop, St. Stephen, who left his name to the Stefanich monastery. 293 The Germanech monastery was devastated by the Polovtsians in 1096 (July 23). 294 In the same year St. Herman was making 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. 295 According to the chronicles, in 1153, “Hegumen Arkady cut down the Church of the Assumption of St. Mother of God 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. 296 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. Lecturer The founder of the monastery was, moreover, an ascetic from whom one could learn a lot, to the joy of the soul. And the good feelings, good dispositions of the visitors to the Arkady monastery were joy for the angels, rejoicing over the repentant sinner. Blazh. The abbot enjoyed the reputation of a virtuous and prudent person: the domestic of the Anthony monastery, Kirik, turned to him with questions about various subjects and even wrote down some of his answers among the church rules. 297 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 Yurievich, the entire clergy of St. Sophia, all the city priests went and took him from the monastery and brought him into the courtyard of St. Sophia entrusted him with the bishopric until the Metropolitan comes to Russia.” 298 So everyone unanimously recognized in Arkady one who could be a worthy archpastor of the vast Novgorod flock. In 1157 he was dedicated to Metropolitan. Konstantin in Kyiv and returned to Novgorod on September 13. During his rule of the Novgorod flock, posads and princes were changed more than once: but neither murder nor robberies were ever seen there, as seen in other times. It depended on the good conduct. book Rostislav, so much from the suggestions of the pious saint. 299 Of the monuments of his archpastoral rule, the surplice has survived to this day, remarkable in many respects. Here in the sticheron for the Nativity of Christ it reads: “I will be born to the Lord Jesus by a holy virgin.” In the stichera for the feast of the Epiphany it is written: “again Jesus is cleansed in the Jordan.” – The postscript to the stichirarion mentions Tiun Tupochel, who was under Bishop Arkady, as his administrative assistant. 300 – The God-loving saint reposed peacefully on September 19, 1162, “and he was laid with great honor in the porch of St. Sofia. 301 – And along the Makaria metro station and along the RKP. blessed saints Arcadia is among the saints. 302 The monastery, founded by them, existed until 1764; its red-hot Assumption Church, built in 1186 303 and another stone refectory, built in honor of the Archangel Michael in 1395 304 are still intact. 305 Brother of St. John the 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 give up the chair for the solitary preparation of himself for eternity: he appointed Blessed Gabriel as his successor, and he, recognizing the name of Gregory with monasticism, was ordained 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. 306 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 hymn of the canon, when suddenly such terrible thunder struck that the people fell: the wooden church caught fire, but God saved (from troubles) through 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 the shrine, which depicts the saint in full height. 307 Upon death, blessed Gregory in the people's Novgorod government there was a disagreement about his successor: “some wanted Mitrofan, others Martyrius, others a 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 troubles. Ladoga and Rusa burned first; then from the Week of Saints to the Feast of the Dormition 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 monastery near the lake. Myachina, and next year it will be consecrated on September 13th. The chronicle says this about this feat of the saint: “The bishop worked, scorched during the day by the heat, and at night he grieved with concern, how to finish and see the church in full beauty; what he desired, he received—the kingdom of heaven and endless joy.” 308 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 because the Novgorodians later recognized St. Kirill as his protector from the Tatars, and this monastery still exists. 309 In 1197 the saint had the consolation of laying the church of St. at the carpenter's end. m. Euphemia with a nunnery, and the pious Polyuda, a resident of the Settlement, took over the construction. 310 The blessed shepherd continued to take care of the complete organization of the monastery he founded in Staraya Russa. In January 1197, he consecrated a church there 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 his soul, having built for himself eternal memory, and for Christians an honest monastery.” 311 In the same year there was an amazing incident; One devout Novgorodian visited the church of God every day and, reverently accepting the antidor or prosphora, ate it 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 Molotkov. 312 In 1199, due to strong displeasures in. Vsevolod to 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, August 24. 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. 313 In 1211, 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 Mirofan, whom they themselves elected in 1201 to replace the deceased Martyrius. 314 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. 315 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. St. Sophia The Virgin Mary with the Eternal Child and two angels, about the expensive dish given to St. Princess Olga to the Patriarch. 316 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 chamber into a chrome venerable. 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. 317 In the same year, Prince Mstislav, who took a special part in the election of Anthony, left Novgorod, and after that Mitrofan arrived from Vladimir. The Novgorodians, for the first time, appointed 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 318, appointed Mitrofan to Novgorod, and, keeping Anthony with him for a while, assigned him to the idle See of Przemysl. 319 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 pulpit and “the Novgorodians were happy about their ruler.” 320 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. 321 But Anthony became very ill and completely numb. Prince arrived (in 1229) in Novgorod. Michael proposed to the meeting: “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 the Volyn bishop Joasaph, 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 should be bishop.” Spyridon's lot was taken from the throne of Sophia and he was entrusted with managing the work 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 vestibule of Hagia Sophia.” 322 In the St. Sophia Cathedral there is 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 1. 323 After St. Moses in 1320 voluntarily abandoned the see for a silent life, the Novgorodians elected the Kozmodemyansk priest Gregory Kaleka to the archbishop's see. 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. 324 Elected archbishop, he took monasticism and the name of Vasily, and in 1331 he was consecrated in Vladimir of Volyn. 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 had hitherto been 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 within the borders of Lithuania and Livonian, 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 M. Theognost did not consecrate Arseny as Bishop of Pskov. Gediminas' pride was greatly offended by this. When the initiated Vasily with 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. 325 Even before his trip to the Metropolitan, Vasily began a generally useful work - he laid a stone wall around Novgorod. Now he continued this work with zeal, 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.” 326 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 posadniks who went to him for peace returned with nothing: Vasily took it upon himself to intercede with the Grand Duke for Novgorod. Having set 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 Kalita, returning from the horde, reconciled with Novgorod, out of need for his help for himself. 327 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 bl. 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 - do not 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 is a prayer from 1336. 328 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 at the expense of the department's income. 329 A new flood again (1338) severely damaged the bridge and the archpastor, to relieve the poor of Novgorod, again restored it with his people, “and did much good to Christians,” says the grateful chronicler. 330 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 Kerevsky end and spread from Chudintseva Street to the Kremlin, destroyed the ruler’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 any 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 could be 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 residents: the archpastor invited everyone to public prayer and repentance, imposed a three-day fast on the citizens, and went with a procession of the cross from monastery to monastery and from one church to another, prayers were made throughout the city to quench the wrath of God. 331 Another flame arose - the flame of civil strife: for the murder of a rich and self-willed Novgorodian; One side noisily rebelled against the other, and the 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. 332 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 Kozmodemyansk church; for the Annunciation fortification church, which was 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: “Lord, grant him to live many years in this world and place him at Your right hand in the next, - he worked a lot for Your Church.” 333 In 1346, Archbishop. Vasily came to Moscow to invite him. prince and metropolitan to Novgorod. The active shepherd was then distinguished from other metropolitans: he was given cross vestments. 334 After this, the archbishop was sent. Basil was given a white hood by the Patriarch of Constantinople 335, who himself around this time was decorated with this sign of spiritual purity. 336 Vasily’s successors wore a white hood as a sign of the department. 337 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 I. Philotheus; ap. 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. 338 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. 339 Blessed Basil was distinguished primarily by practical wisdom. In 1349, Magnus, the Swedish king, a zealous servant of the pope, sent to tell 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 the best, I will 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,” answered the king; but if you don’t accept my faith, I’m going to war.” So, servant of the Pope, we preach the faith with the sword! Magnus besieged Orekhov (present-day Shlisselburg), and sent the Izhorians to be baptized by force according to the rites of papism, and those who did not agree to rebaptism were to be put to death. The Novgorodians sent a small squad to protect their subjects and co-religionists - the Korels. 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 relationship between Novgorod and Tver, which Novgorod entered into during the war with Magnus, caused Vasily to have a written communication with the bishop of Tver about faith. Vasily wrote a “message about faith” to Bishop Theodore of Tver. This message shows that Blessed Basil was not given the gift of understanding and 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 it has been seen by Vidocqs. 340 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 previously resettled millions in the east and in 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, despite the danger, went to console and strengthen his sorrowful children. He served in the Cathedral of St. Trinity, then in three other churches he went around the whole city in a procession of the cross. 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 river. Uzy, which flows into the Shelon, 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 Resurrection Church. 341 In 1515, the monk of the Khutyn monastery Samson 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, “scooping 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, with seven councils of the Novgorod clergy, went around the entire city, making prayers to appease the wrath of God. 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. 342 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 great research, 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 trading side rose to the Sofia side, many were thrown into the 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 the Yaroslavl court to the mayors to say: the bishop blesses everyone to go home. And the rebellious crowds dispersed. “Thank God,” said those who came to their senses; He sent us a teaching saint who can enlighten some with spiritual instruction and others with the threat of prohibition. So he tamed this battle with the power of the cross of the Lord and his exhortation. May his prayers protect us from such troubles.” 343 To this day, near the Volkhov bridge there is a tall wooden cross, called the wonderful one. This is the same one with whom Saint Simeon calmed the popular revolt. 344 He was erected for the first time in 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 Podlotsky, but in the same year he secretly returned it. 345 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 a saint is given to Christ himself, from whom we all expect a hundredfold reward in eternity. So, children, give honor to your saint and our spiritual fathers, who instruct you in salvation; 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, and to the Holy House of God. Sophia, as it was under the previous archbishops, but stand up for lands, waters, courts, the press and other church duties. If anyone interferes in anything church-related, 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. 346 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, such people should be removed from the monastery, and the contribution should 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 a person will be under the weight of the church court, as will 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 St. Mother of God, but the laity do not intervene. 347 In 1420, the Pskov flock of Blessed Simeon saw a sign in Chirsk on the icon of the Mother of God: 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: Lady! protecting us. 348 Shortly 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. 349 On the same 10th day, the repose of the Venerable Leggin 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's desert to her tonsure as a blessing for exploits in a new place. Blessed Loggin also lived for some time in the Solvichegodsk Boris and Glebov Monastery. From here he and his friend Simon moved up the Vychegda and 10 versts 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 Koryazhma 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 St. Nicholas Koryazhemsky monastery on the river. Vychegde, the new miracle worker, reposed in L. 7048 (1540) February 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 1695. “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 with which the monk served the Lord is still intact. 350 Saint VSELD GABRIL Prince of Pskov “Fight the good fight of faith, attain eternal life, for which you were called” (1 Tim. 6:12): this is what the apostle teaches. This means that there may be high-profile deeds on earth and not be worthy of the desires of the immortal soul. Yes, labors and exploits are in vain if they are not animated by holy faith, if they do not matter for blissful eternity. Are honors, glory, nobility valuable in themselves when they pass like a dream? The life of Prince Vsevolod-Gabriel, both in public and private circles, was a life that lasted for eternity. 351 That is why his fame is strong. The son of the holy Grand Duke Mstislav and the grandson of the valiant Grand Duke Vladimir Monomakh has been in public life since 1117. This year, the elderly Monomakh summoned Mstislav from Novgorod to Kiev Belgrade in order to have an assistant in him, and ordered his grandson, young Vsevolod, to remain in Novgorod. The worthy son of the great Mstislav did good for the Novgorodians, but they paid him for it with sorrows. The young, kind prince marked the beginning of his reign with the construction of a magnificent church in St. George’s monastery. “Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich, says the chronicle, founded (in 1119) together with Abbot Kiriak a stone church in Great Novgorod, 3 miles from the city, in the name of the Holy Great Martyr George; “They built a great monastery, gathered the brethren: Prince Vsevolod finished the church and consecrated it.” 352 “So Vsevolod gave St. George a silver dish, worth 30 hryvnias of silver: he ordered it to be struck for lunch when the abbot dines”: this is what the humble prince says in addition to his father’s letter, with which he gave the village of Buytse to the monastery. 353 Vsevolod also gave the Yuryev Monastery the Likhovichi churchyard with land and people and horses and forest and boards and traps. 354 The world wants to live only for its own pleasure. “Honor Jehovah with all your wealth and with all the firstfruits of your income,” says inspired wisdom (Prov. 3:9). And Prince Vsevolod acted not according to the rules of a forgetful world, but according to the inspirations of love for the Lord. In 1122 he married the daughter of St. Prince of Chernigov Nikolai Svyatoshi and in the spring of 1123 made a difficult campaign to Finland with the Novgorod squads; despite the unfavorable weather, bad roads and lack of food, he defeated the enemies who were ravaging the Novgorod border areas. 355 The pious prince (1127) built a holy church on the Novgorod trading square, on the petryatina yard. John the Baptist, a magnificent church, equipped with expensive icons, a very valuable gospel and all the books, and with a side church where the early liturgy should be celebrated on Sundays. This was a matter of prayer for the son of John. - But the son soon died. 356 Some of our prayers are not fulfilled in the form in which we would like to see them fulfilled; are not fulfilled because the All-Seeing and Good One sees us better and more diligently prepares for us the best for us. The prince, reverent of the will of God, mourned the death of his son like a father, but with a prayer for the deceased, he issued a charter for the new church, remarkable in its content. He provided it with both the maintenance of the church and the maintenance of the clergy, and ordered that the memory of the Forerunner be celebrated magnificently. The church elders collected duties on all trade items. On the church holiday, the bishop performed the liturgy; the next day - Archimandrite Yuryev; on the third - Abbot Anthony. Rich gifts are assigned to everyone. So the pious prince was convinced that Novgorod trade would flourish under the influence of prayers and zeal for the Lord. In the same letter he wrote: “at Torzhok I give a waxed pood (duties for all wax), half of the St. I will save, and half of St. to the great John in the Petryatin courtyard.” These words of the prince make it clear that the clergy in more than one Novgorod enjoyed his salary. 357 Even more remarkable is his letter for the St. Sophia Cathedral, written at the same time as Predtecheva. 358 Here is the prince, following the example of St. Vladimir, firstly, provides the Novgorod saint with overseeing trade weights and measures so that half of the duty goes to the Sofia department, and the other to the Church of John the Baptist; of the fine from the guilty officials, one third would go to the benefit of the city; further lists the items of the bishop's court, from which fees should be turned in favor of the saint and the cathedral clergy; finally, it shows the persons subject to the jurisdiction of the saint. The prince repeats more than once: “neither my children, nor my grandchildren, nor governors, nor tiuns (judges) should interfere in church courts”; and at the end he says: “I order my tiuns not to insult the church court and from the court to give nine parts to the prince, and the tenth to the saint. Sofia." The rules of the charter regarding the rights of brothers and sisters to inheritance are very remarkable. According to Russian truth, the daughters of a boyar are given a share equally with their sons, and the daughters of a smerd (a simple free man) receive an equal share only when they are not married off: otherwise the brothers give only a dowry. Blessed. the prince writes: “if after someone there are sons and daughters left, then both sons and daughters should receive an equal share of all the property.” The resolution, apparently, is completely consistent with the spirit of Christian love! The prince disinherits only the unchaste daughter; but even at the same time he says: “if a brother, out of desire for self-interest, tells a lie against his sister, then he is guilty of death for that.” In the same year, when the pious prince, out of love for the Lord, poured out so many blessings on the Church of Christ, the Lord visited the Novgorod side with a grave disaster. In the spring there was snow for a long time, and in the fall there were severe frosts and severe famine began. The people ate linden leaves, birch bark, ground straw and moss; people starved and died; parents gave their children to foreign merchants for food. At this sad time, Vsevolod showed all his fatherly love for the people: he was a feeder of the poor and hungry, he exhausted his treasury on them, but it was not enough for the multitude of those asking, the pious prince convinced those who suffered to prepare for eternity. 359 In 1130, by the will of his father, the Grand Duke of Russia, Vsevolod and his two brothers went to humble the Estonians; rebellious enemies were put to the sword, their property was burned, and their wives and children were taken captive. Not so happy was the campaign of Vsevolod alone in Estonia in 1131. The Estonians were subject to tribute; but many Novgorodians were beaten in Klin, in the corner of the current Dorpat district; For this reason, he fought with glory in the same year with Lithuania and forced it to pay tribute. 360 In 1132, Vsevolod’s uncle, Prince Yaropolk, having ascended the Kiev throne, gave Vsevolod southern Pereyaslavl, which was considered the eldest after Kyiv. The Novgorodians released Vsevolod with displeasure; and meanwhile the younger sons of Monomakh and uncle Vsevolod rebelled for Pereyaslavl against the Grand Duke; he wants, they said, to make his nephew heir to the Kyiv throne. In the morning Vsevolod entered Pereyaslavl and was kicked out by Uncle Yuri before lunch. - Avoiding civil strife, the God-fearing prince returned to Novgorod: but the proud freemen had already forgotten the beneficent reign and loud victories of Vsevolod, and did not want to accept him. “However, this time the Novgorodians soon came to their senses and invited the prince who had done so much good for them; only limited his power with the new rights of his posadniks. In 1133, the prince, caring for the peace of the Novgorodians, went to Estonia and took Dorpat. The following year, his brother Izyaslav, expelled, by the grace of Yuri, from Turog, came to Novgorod for help against Yuri, who boldly insulted the Mstislavichs. The Novgorodians made a noise, volunteering to defend Izyaslav against the power-hungry Yuri, and demanded a campaign; Vsevolod agreed with the will of the veche, set out with an army, but, not wanting to deal with his uncle, released Izaslav to Chernigov and returned to Novgorod. The Novgorodians, no matter what, wanted to fight with Yuri. In vain did M. Mikhail persuade them and point out the danger of the winter campaign. Posadnik David was sent along with Vsevolod and a strong squad to Suzdal. It was December 31st. Blizzards and severe frost haunted the Novgorod army and left them very weak. On January 26 (1135) a bloody battle took place on Zhdanova Mountain. There were no more Suzdalians beaten than Novgorodians; but victory was not on the side of the latter, and they were forced to make peace. In the same year, Blessed. The prince, together with the pious archpastor Niphon, founded the magnificent stone church of St. Clement, but he did not have the chance to finish it. In May 1136, a rebellion broke out in Novgorod. The proud self-willed people, angry because they were unable to boast of victory over the Suzdalians, declared Vsevolod deprived of power. Not only that: they imprisoned him in the princely house with his wife, children and mother-in-law; He was kept as a criminal for seven weeks, guarded by 30 soldiers. When the book Svyatoslav Olgovich, a friend of Yuri, came at the call to reign in Novgorod, they freed Vsevolod, but kept his son hostage. The good-natured Grand Duke Yaropolk gave the exiled Vsevolod Vyshgorod. The Pskovites, valuing Vsevolod’s good deeds and high qualities, asked him to come to them with lively zeal, and Vsevolod agreed to the call of love. On the road he had the consolation of seeing from experience that Christian love still lived among the princes of his time. Prince Vasily of Polotsk, while he could take revenge on Vsevolod for the insults inflicted by his father, received and saw off Vsevolod with all brotherly love. Vsevolod was received with delight in Pskov. The pious prince immediately laid the foundation for the stone church of St. Trinity, completed next year. The Novgorodians started a war because Vsevolod was received in Pskov; but the end of the earthly journey of St. The prince was approaching faster than the troops of the ungrateful Novgorodians. The blessed prince loved the Lord and His servants all his life; loved to read useful books and copied them; He loved the poor, whom he generously provided with everything. Anticipating his imminent death, he doubled his feats of holy love: he himself bandaged the wounds of the sick and humbled himself by fasting. Purified by so many sorrows in recent years, blessed Vsevolod died peacefully on February 11, 1138. 361 The relics of the blessings. The prince was buried in the church he built. Dimitri; found incorrupt, 52 years after his death; in 1192 St. The prince appeared in a vision to a God-fearing man and said: “Announce to the authorities that the relics be transferred to the church of St. Trinity; I want to lie down there. The Lord Jesus Christ gave me the city of Pskov so that I could keep it.” The holy relics were reverently transferred to the Trinity Cathedral. 362 In l284, with cancer of St. Prince, a miracle happened over the former Pskov mayor Elisha. The old mayor lay relaxed with his whole body, so that he could not move any of his limbs. By faith in the gracious power of St. Prince, he ordered to carry himself to his relics. When the priest, having performed the prayer service, sprinkled the sick man with holy water, the paralytic stood up and returned to the house without the help of others. In 1363, St. appeared to a sexton sleeping in the vestibule of the church. Prince Gabriel said: “Tomorrow announce to the Cathedral of St. Trinity and the posadniks, so that they take the icons out of the church: next night God will show a miracle over my relics.” The order was carried out, and at night the huge vault of the church fell, but did almost no harm to the honorable relics of the saint, only part of the prince’s jaws was broken off. The relics were then placed in the side-chapel Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God. Subsequently, many miracles were performed at the relics of St. prince In 1703, a chapel was built in the cathedral in his name. On his tomb hangs his sword with the inscription: honorem meum nemini dabo, - I will not yield my honor to anyone. 363 On the same 11th day, the repose of St. Dimitri of Prilutsk Born from wealthy parents of merchant rank in northern Pereyaslavl, Dimitri 364 in his youth was taught to read books; but from his youth he no longer felt any inclination towards his father’s activities; tonsured into monasticism in the Nagorny Boris and Gleb Monastery 365, with a pure life, equal to the angels, he won the love of the brethren. Zealous for the increase of God's glory, he founded the Nikolaevsky Monastery on the shore of Lake Pereyaslavl, with the rules of strict community life. The abbot of the new monastery soon gathered many disciples who reverently listened to his instructions. God's friends love one another. Rev. Demetrius first met the great hermit Sergius, of course, then, as a venerable. Sergius came to Pereyaslavl to ask for an abbot for his monastery, and no matter how much he refused, he himself was ordained as an abbot. Bishop Athanasius. This was in 1354. 366 From that time on, Rev. Demetrius often went to Rev. Sergius for spiritual conversations and returned with inspiration for new exploits. Blazh. Demetrius had a very handsome face, and his beauty blossomed from fasting: in order to avoid temptations, in a monastery visited by worldly people, he covered his face with a doll and ran away from his wives. One of the eminent wives of Pereyaslavl, who heard about his extraordinary beauty, definitely wanted to see his face, and she succeeded in doing so while the monk was preparing for the priesthood; but the unchaste one was suddenly struck by relaxation. The brethren, seeing her pitiful situation, took pity on her and asked the abbot to forgive her. Touched by her repentance and tears, he said: “Why did you want to see a sinner who had already died to the world?” and with the sign of the cross he restored her to health. Rumors about the high life of the Monk Demetrius reached Grand Duke Demetrius, and he invited the monk to his place to be the successor of his children. The monk fulfilled the wish of the good prince and received from him generous gifts for the monastery. But running away from human glory, he decided to retire to a remote place. Taking with him his beloved disciple Pachomius, the monk went north, then sparsely populated, to the Vologda forests. Here on the river Great, near the Avnezh village, he built the Church of the Resurrection of Christ; but the surrounding residents, out of attachment to earthly things, not wanting to lose plots of land, did not allow him to build a monastery here. The monk was pleased that he built a church of God where they had an extreme need for it. “The people of this region, says the ancient life, had little spiritual food of divine scripture and edification. Having come to this country, the monk saw and heard that there were still few churches of God in it.” Therefore, I vividly felt that it was necessary to multiply churches in it. Not wanting to be a burden to anyone, the monk retired from Avnezh to Vologda: there were churches here and they knew about monasteries, but in the entire north there was no monastic community. - Three miles from Vologda, the monk fell in love with a secluded place near the bow, formed by the knee of the river. Vologda, and here he decided to found a community monastery. The owners of the place (Ilya and Isidore) turned out to be such kind people that they not only gave him their land with love, but even trampled their winter fields, if only the church could be built immediately. The citizens of Vologda also showed ardent zeal. Everyone hurried to donate whatever they could to the monk for the construction of the church. And soon (in 1371) a church was built in honor of the Savior. When they learned about the monk’s installation in Priluki, many of the students moved from Pereyaslavl to their beloved mentor, in Priluki. This is how a community monastery was formed, the first in the Vologda region! 367 Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy, having learned about this, sent donations from himself for the new monastery of the Monk Demetrius. One day the Prilutsk brethren said to their abbot: “We have few books.” The monk answered: “If we praise God without laziness, then ordinary books will be enough. “And they sing like the trumpet of God day and night; all that is needed is purity of heart, spiritual love and humility.” He himself loved to talk with the Lord in prayer; so that others would not see his tearful prayer, he built a place from boards on the left side of the altar, and here he prayed alone. His monastery stood on the road to great Perm: there were many beds, but he never left his prayer rules for visitors. “Do not seek not only wealth, but also prosperity,” wrote V. Basil, to the monk, do not seek earthly glory, earthly power, or excessive bodily health; do not seek any earthly ties or anything transitory, but continually seek with all your might, as commanded, the kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33), i.e. salvation of the soul; the salvation of the soul is the most important thing for a person. Therefore, day and night, try to arrange your salvation.” 368 This is what St. Demetrius did. - Not looking for anything from people, he, according to the rule of the apostle, considered himself a debtor to others only out of love; That’s why the poor people found food in his monastery. Sometimes he gave them benefits secretly from the brothers, so as not to disturb the peace of the latter. Himself, content with only prosphora with warm water (this was his fast even on those days when the charter allowed the consumption of fish and wine), he walked around the monastery grounds and made sure that everything necessary for the brethren’s meal was delivered on time. He had the same clothes in winter and summer: a sheepskin sheepskin coat, under which he was wet from the heat in the summer, and suffered from frost in the winter. But for the sake of the brethren, he went to work with them. For the brethren, he accepted alms from the worldly, but selectively. He said to one of those who thought of being a benefactor: “Take back what you brought to us, and feed the servants and orphans (peasants) living with you, so that they do not suffer from hunger and nakedness; when there is anything left of it, bring it to our poverty.” The one who brought it could hardly beg the monk to allow the brethren to take something from what was brought to bless his labors. Thus he healed a rich miser and at the same time warned the brethren against participating in matters of hypocritical and insincere love. Through feats of selflessness, the monk achieved high spiritual perfection and was endowed with the gift of insight. His brother, who had no luck in the Pereyaslavl trade, came to his monastery twice for a blessing on the way to trade, “to the filthy people, whose names are Yugra and Pechera, where Chud and Samoyed live.” “The monk gave him a blessing twice, which gave his brother unexpected happiness; Returning the first time, he paid his debts, and the next time he became a rich man. Not content with that, he came a third time. The monk said: “It’s enough, brother, you can live with what you have acquired, don’t go any more, you wouldn’t die from brutal people.” The brother did not listen and never returned, either with or without booty. Once he and the brethren were engaged in monastic work in the courtyard, and sighing, he said to them: “We, brother, are building earthly, perishable affairs; and the faithful led. Prince Dimitri no longer cares about the vain life.” And from that day on he began to remember Vel. book Demetrius among the departed. A few days later, news came that the Grand Duke had died, and he died on the very day and hour when St. Demetrius (1339 May 19). Having reached a very old age and feeling the approach of his death, the monk appointed his disciple Pachomius as his successor. The brothers asked where to bury him? “Throw,” he answered, “throw my sinful body into the swamp.” He retired to prayer and died on February 11, 1392. No one was present at the death of the solitary prayer book; but when they came to his cell, his cell was filled with a wonderful fragrance, and he lay as if asleep. - Reverent disciples buried St. his body is in the church that he himself built. 16 years after the death of the saint, a terrible and strange illness visited the residents of Vologda. Quite a few suffered from severe writhing; They were given a stick in their hands so that while they were writhing and holding onto it, they would not harm themselves; many such sufferers were brought to the tomb of the saint; here, wallowing in the throes of writhing, they repented of their sins, called upon the saint’s prayer for help and, at the saint’s grave, received healing: their sticks remained in the monastery as monuments of God’s mercy. This was in 1409. Then the mentioned disease was known in other places, from Ryazan and Moscow to Vologda. 369 Not long after that (1417) the Vyatchans attacked Vologda and entered the Prilutsky Monastery, which was not yet fenced with a wall; the most impudent ones burst into the church, and one, tearing off the shrouds from the icons, touched the cover lying on the saint’s tomb. But as soon as he touched the last one, he was thrown to the floor and died in agony. This frightened the Vyatka leaders so much that they hastened to release the captives of the monastery, and not many of the robbers returned to their side. The people of Vyatcha remembered this miracle for a long time, and once together with one monk of the monastery, Zacchaeus, they sent rich alms to the monastery. 370 Prince Dimitry Shemyaka, waging an unscrupulous war with Grand Duke Vasily, approached Vologda in winter. The besieged city trembled at the cruel enemy. The next night the nun saw the following vision: the city was surrounded by light; and the holy old man walked towards him along the road from the Prilutsk monastery; Two Belarusians came out to meet him from the poor house; the walls of the city shook. The Belorians and the elder, whom they called Demetrius, walked around the city and disappeared. The next day, the citizens of Vologda repelled a strong attack from Shemyaka with a cloud of arrows and stones and defeated many enemies. Shemyaka, after standing for several days, was forced to retire to Galich, but there he was defeated. 371 Two churches burned down, one after another, in the Prilutsk monastery, but the saint’s shrine remained intact. When they began to build the third church: there was little wood, and even less food for 200 workers, and work proceeded slowly. One monk sees in a vision a handsome old man carrying trees on his shoulders to the place of the church and hears a voice: “Look, the Monk Demetrius himself is bringing us wood for the church.” The church was quickly built from that day. The same monk in a new vision, among the holy men he saw, was looking for St. Demetrius, and a voice announced to him: “Are you looking for Demetrius? he is in Kazan." At that time, Grand Duke John sent an army to Kazan. – This was the first campaign against Kazan. One of the two militias was sent from Vyatka, and the icon of St. Dimitri. At the hour of victory over the Tatars, the prince saw the saint appear, and upon the army’s return from the campaign, he returned the richly decorated icon of the saint to the monastery. This was in 1545. Bishop Stefan carried the icon with the procession to the monastery of the saint. And from that time on, they began to make a religious procession to the monastery every year on June 3. 372 In 1609, the Vologda voivode wrote: “here in Vologda the Monk Demetrius showed his mercy and promised to stand with us against the enemies of the sovereign. He appeared to the spiritual elder at the tomb and ordered his image to be transferred from the tomb to Vologda; The archbishop and the governor with all the residents of Vologda and non-residents, having met that image with great honor, placed it from the dismount and with prayer singing in Vologda on the square, in the Church of the All-Merciful Savior, January 4th. Nowadays this image stands for reassurance and worship by all Christians. They say that this image of St. Demetrius wrote to Rev. Dionysius Glushitsky: in Vologda they want to build a church in the name of St. Demetrius on the square. With firm trust in the all-merciful Savior and the Most Pure Mother of God, in St. Demetrius and all the saints, we decided to boldly stand against the enemies of the sovereign and all Orthodox Christianity. 373 12 o'clock. Saint Alexander, Metropolitan and Wonderworker of Russia Parents of St. Alexia, baptized Eleutherius, were boyars of the Chernigov principality. 374 Theodore Byakont, his father, moved to Moscow because the Chernigov region, devastated by Batu, did not cease to suffer attacks from predatory disobedients. Under the protection of the meek and pious Prince Daniil Alexandrovich, he found a peaceful life and was blessed with long-lasting offspring for his piety. His grandson Daniil Feofanovich was distinguished by both his great services to the fatherland and his sincere piety. Its branches - Pleshcheev, Ignatiev - Zherebtsov - are still green in our time. 375 The eldest, his son Eleutherius, born in 1300 376, was received from the font by the son of Prince Daniel, the youth John. At one time, Eleutherius was sent to learn to read and write. At the age of 12, his high appointment was already revealed to him. Once he spread the nets over the birds, and after guarding them for a long time, he dozed off from fatigue. Suddenly he hears a voice: “Alexy! What's the point of this kind of work? you must be a fisher of men.” The youth, awakened by this, was amazed at Alexy’s extraordinary voice and estate. This vision sank deeply into his soul: he became silent, leaving games and began to think a lot about life and its purpose. His parents were amazed at the change in his life and asked the servants about the reasons for the change, but they could only say that Eleutherius often went to places of solitude. They asked the boy himself why he avoids people and only deals with books? Why does he exhaust himself with fasting? “Do not be sad about me, good parents,” the boy answered: “I do not do evil, but I want to succeed in good: may the will of the Lord be fulfilled over me.” At the age of 15, Eleutherius had already decided to devote himself to the monastic life. In the 20th year (in 1320) he entered the Moscow Epiphany Monastery and at the same time was tonsured with the name Alexy, the same one that he heard in a dream vision, 7 years before. Although the Epiphany Monastery was on a noisy shopping street; but Alexy found peace here, indulging in exploits. He spent time either in church or in cell prayers: he read books and diligently studied the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; By vigil at night he dried up his flesh and cleansed his heart. “By vigil,” says Rev. Climacus, carnal inflammations are extinguished, vile dreams are exterminated, eyes are filled with tears, the heart is softened, purity of thoughts is protected, food is cooked in the stomach as in an oven, obscene images are driven away. A cheerful monk is a catcher of his thoughts - during the silence of the night he easily notices and catches them.” 377 This is how blessed Alexy taught himself salvation. His mentor and leader was Elder Gerontius, experienced in spiritual life. Stefan, brother of Rev. Sergius, having entered the Epiphany monastery, was his spiritual brother from 1337: they sang together in the choir and spiritually loved each other. M. Theognost loved Stepan, Gerontius and Alexy and from time to time called them to him for spiritual conversations. The saint appointed the first abbot of the monastery. Son and successor of Kalita, led. Prince Simeon, who was 17 years younger than Alexy, also distinguished Stefan and Alexy with his attention. Stefan was the confessor. the prince and many nobles. When Alexy's parents died, he buried them near him, in the Epiphany monastery, to pray for their peace. 378 More than 20 years passed since Alexy began his monastic exploits, and M. Theognostus ordered Alexy to live in his holy courtyard and manage the judicial affairs of the church. With such an attitude towards the Greek saint, Blessed Alexy discovered both the need and the means to learn the Greek language, spoken and written. While engaged in judicial affairs, he became briefly acquainted with people and their weaknesses, as well as acquired extensive and accurate information about church laws. For twelve years he served as a judge, with the title of metropolitan vicar. At the end of 1352 (December 6), Blessed Theognost consecrated Blessed Alexy as Bishop of Vladimir. Metropolitan and V. The prince decided, at a general meeting, for Blessed Alexy to be the successor of Theognostus at the metropolitan see. About this election, a letter was written to Constantinople at the same time, with a request “not to appoint anyone else as Metropolitan of Russia, like the Monk Alexy, who was the governor for many years and lived a very virtuous life.” 379 March 11, 1353 Blessed Theognostus died. The Bishop of Vladimir, together with two others, performed a funeral service over the saint - his benefactor. But the 40-day commemoration of the deceased metropolitan had barely ended when “Vladimir Bishop Alexy” testified to the spiritual will of the dying man. the prince who told his brothers: “Don’t listen to bad people; and if anyone starts to quarrel with you, listen to our father, Vladyka Alexy.” After in. Prince Simeon, in a short time several other princes died of pestilence, and blessed. Alexy had to bury many. 380 The destinies of God destined Theognostus, who was chosen as a successor, to struggle with various troubles at the beginning of his new title. During the life of Theognost, the Bulgarian (Ohrid) Patriarch ordained Theodoret as Metropolitan of Russia. The action of the Bulgarian patriarch, who did not have any rights to Russia, was obviously unfair: but there is no doubt that the patriarch decided on it at the request of the southern princes of Russia. The Council of Constantinople, recognizing the action of the Bulgarian patriarch as unreasonable, rejected the metropolitan, who had been illegally installed. In accordance with another definition of the council, Alexy Bishop of Vladimir was consecrated as Metropolitan of Russia. This happened in 1355 under the village of Kallista. 381 But the Council of Constantinople, rejecting the metropolitan consecrated by the Bulgarian patriarch, yielded to the insistent demand of the southwestern princes, and Roman was appointed metropolitan for the west of Russia. This caused alarm in Russia, especially because Roman, not content with Galicia and Volyn, demanded income from the Tver bishop. But even in Kyiv they did not accept Roman, and the bishop of Tver, despite the wishes of his prince, did not want to have relations with Roman. 382 Blessed Alexy knew that, although under Metropolitan Theognost the southern princes asked for a special metropolitan, it was not for long, and not in the form that Roman wanted. To put an end to the unrest and anxiety, the humble saint, as soon as he returned from Constantinople, set off again (1356) to Constantinople. Roman also appeared there. P. Callistus confirmed to Roman that he would be the Metropolitan of Lithuania and Volyn, and granted Alexy to be considered the Archbishop of Kyiv and Great Russia, with the title of “all-honorable metropolitan and exarch.” 383 On his way back to Russia, the blessed saint met a new disaster. “A terrible storm arose at sea: the waves rolled like mountains and the ship was ready to disappear into the abyss every minute. All those who were with the Metropolitan despaired of salvation. The saint prayed, prayed earnestly, he made a vow to build a church in the name of the saint who would be celebrated on the day the swimmers landed on the shore. “The Lord heard the saint’s prayer. There was silence and the ship landed on August 16th. So, the saint remained a vow debtor to the all-merciful Savior. In Moscow the expected saint was received with raptures of joy. And he turned with zeal to matters of rank. Several dioceses were left without archpastors due to the pestilence. He consecrated bishops in Rostov, Smolensk and Ryazan. 384 At the same time, he deposed the bishop of Sarai, Athanasius, for ruling in a foreign diocese and dedicated John to Sarai. 385 On this matter, he also offered personal admonitions on his way to Constantinople. Now he recognized the need to send a letter to the Don. “Believe,” he wrote, in the holy, consubstantial Trinity, into which you were baptized; keep love and peace among yourself, observe truth, purity, mercy, confess your sins. The Lord God Jesus Christ said to his disciples and apostles: go into the whole world, preach the gospel. And he also said: he who listens to you listens to me. I received the same grace of the Most Holy Spirit, and I, a sinner, from the great patriarch and the council, was assigned to St. Sofia to Kyiv to the metropolitanate of all Russia; For all Christians in Russia, I am a shepherd and a teacher, and I have a heavy duty to teach everyone about spiritual salvation. – You, as time shows, do not listen to the words of my teaching, you fulfill the will of the flesh and dark deeds. Or do you not understand that the rulers of all Russia are under my authority and I appoint them, by the grace of the Holy Spirit? Thus power was given to your ruler. A true Christian is recognized by works: faith without works is dead, says the apostle: so are works without faith. Therefore, children, do the works of light... Take care of yourselves; remember the death and judgment of the great terrible Judge, the peace of the righteous and the eternal torment of the sinners. If you remember, then: you will never sin and you will not disobey us, whom the Holy Spirit. appointed all Christians as shepherds and teachers. – Go to church and bring what you can; love the priests and monks, asking for their prayers... About the region along the great Raven, near Khopr to the Don - a definition was laid down by the cathedral... Nowadays, Bishop Athanasius of Sarai is punished for his guilt by the metropolitan’s writings. From now on, the government in that district is Ryazan. And now I have sent Vladyka Vasily of Ryazan to you with my letter; remember him and give him the church tax according to custom.” 386 In 1357, the miraculous feats of the saint took place in the Horde. The rumor about his great virtues reached the Tatar uluses. There, the wife of Khan Janibek Taidul had been lying sick and blind for three years. She already knew about Alexy because during his second trip to Constantinople she gave him a safe conduct. 387 Now an embassy from Janibek came to Moscow, with a letter to the Grand Duke. “We heard,” the khan wrote, that you have a servant of God who, if you ask God for anything, God listens to him. Release him to us - and if my queen heals him through his prayers, you will have peace with me; If you don’t let him go, I will go and devastate your land.” The humble saint became embarrassed as he led. the prince gave him the khan's letter and asked him to carry out the will of Janibek. Love for the Fatherland and St. the church was not allowed to refuse to carry out the will of the formidable khan; but how can a humble person take on such a great task? “The petition and the deed exceed the measure of their strength,” the saint said to the prince; But I believe in the One who gave the blind his sight; He will not despise the prayers of faith.” The saint began to prepare for the journey. In the cathedral church, with the entire clergy, he performed a prayer service before the icon of the Mother of God and then before the shrine of St. Peter. During the prayer itself, suddenly, before the eyes of everyone, the candle at the tomb of the wonderworker Peter lit itself. Consoled, Alexy divided the wonderful candle into parts, distributed it as a blessing to those ahead, and, making a small candle from the remainder, took it along with the blessed water to perform a new prayer service in the Horde. He left Moscow on August 18. With firm faith he went to the Horde: and Taidula’s faith was strengthened by a vision. When blessed Adexius was on the way: Taidula saw in a dream a man dressed in holy clothes, who came to her and with him others dressed in vestments. She ordered the clothes to be arranged in the form she saw. The expected one was received with honor in the Horde. – The saint served a prayer service over the sick woman with a wonderful candle, sprinkled it with St. water, and Taidula began to see. The grateful khan gave the saint a ring as a sign of honor, which can still be seen in the patriarchal sacristy. 388 The saint, having performed a miracle of faith among the people of darkness, was forced to hastily leave the Horde: unrest began there. Janibek died. Berdibek, on the advice of the nobleman Tavlubey, slaughtered 12 of his brothers and sat on the khan’s throne. The ambassador of the new khan came to Moscow and demanded gifts from the Russian princes and invited them themselves to the Horde. – The saint was begged to go again to the Horde to soften the cruelty of Berdibek. The danger was obvious. But the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, the saint said to himself, and set off along the Volga to the Golden Horde. The saint had to experience a lot of oppression and sorrow in the Horde. But with God’s help he was able to gain Berdibek’s favor. 389 There he even entered into a dispute with Murza Munzi about the meaning of Mohammed, and freely denounced Mohammedanism. 390 The perfect miracle over Taidula itself showed the Christian saint as a favorite of God, and the grateful Taidula could not forget her healer. Saint Alexy received from Berdibek a label to protect the Russian clergy. This is what Berdibek wrote in the label: “by the power of the Most High God, the word of Berdibek, following the example of his grandfathers and great-grandfathers, was given to the Tatar, ulus and military princes, etc. Chinggis the king and the former kings, our ancestors, bestowed church people, prayer books, who pray to God and the entire priestly rank. Remembering this, we write, whatever the tribute or duty, let our prayer books not see or hear about it, so that in peace they pray to God and make prayers. In this form, labels were given by the first and subsequent kings. And we, without changing the first labels, granted the same to Metropolitan Alexy. When he sits on his table and begins to pray for us and for our tribe: then whatever tribute or duty may be, let him not know or hear about it. Let them not dare to demand from our prayer-books neither carts, nor food, nor drink, nor gifts, nor honors; If they have church lands, water, houses, vegetable gardens, orchards, mills, let them not take or take away anything from them; if anyone took it, let him give it back without trial. There will be no standing or anxiety in church houses; if anyone stops in them or begins to act outrageously, it will be bad for him and he will die an evil death. You are Metropolitan Alexy and your entire priestly rank, announce this. If you do something to church people and church lands that is not true, it will fall on you. If someone commits a bad deed - robbery, theft, lies - and does not look after it, then you yourself know what God will do to you for it. Pray to God for us. Having said this, we gave a label with a scarlet tamga for your preservation, in the year of the chicken, on the 10th day of the tenth month, in 758 (1357). 391 The intercessor for the Russian land returning from the Horde was greeted with triumph. The princes of Suzdal met him in Nizhny. In Moscow he led. book John with young Demetrius, the entire consecrated clergy and the people went out to meet the archpastor outside the city. “Lord! How will we pay you for your labors? “You give us a peaceful life,” this is what the young heir to the Moscow throne told the saint. 392 In January 1358, Alexy went to Kyiv and returned to Moscow in June 1360. In devastated Kyiv it was necessary to live for a long time in order to restore something. The discord of the Tver princes burdened the Tver shepherd Theodore so much that he, not seeing any benefit from the advice of his love, decided to abandon the department; The saint tried to persuade him to be patient, but in 1360 he dedicated Vasily to his place. 393 When he died in. Prince John (1359): the guardianship of the minor Prince Demetrius fell on the saint's shoulders. The power of the Grand Duke was begged for himself in the Horde by the Suzdal prince. Dimitry Konstantinovich. The saint was supposed to bless the Suzdal prince for his great reign in the Vladimir Cathedral. Dmitry Konstantinovich begged him to live with him in Vladimir, but Alexy, both out of love for young Dmitry and out of attention to the will of God, spoken by the lips of St. Peter, did not want to part with Moscow. Meanwhile, there was unrest in the horde; every year several khans appeared and exterminated one another; in 1362 two rival khans appeared. Young Dimitri begged Murid for the title of Grand Duke of Russia and forced Dimitri Konstantinovich to leave Vladimir. 394 The saint joyfully blessed his pet for his great reign with the miraculous Vladimir icon of the Mother of God. He was the soul of Prince Dimitri's advice and affairs. “We kissed the cross of our father Alexy, Metropolitan of All Rus',” they say in their agreement. To. Dimitri and his brother Vladimir Andreevich Prince Serpukhovsky. And this agreement delivered great results. to the prince a faithful and brave assistant for all subsequent adversities of life. 395 Through the labors of the saint, the power of the Grand Duke of Moscow grew and strengthened. Dimitry Konstantinovich, having renounced his rights to. Prince, wanted to receive a part of the hereditary principality of Suzdal, which his younger brother Boris, Prince of Nizhny Novgorod, did not want to give up to him. The Metropolitan sent St. Sergius to Nizhny Novgorod to convince Boris to come to Moscow for council. The prince replied that he knew only the will of the khan. And Sergius, in accordance with the will of the saint, closed all the churches in Nizhny, and in. the prince moved his troops; the Suzdal princes were forced to peacefully divide among themselves. 396 Meanwhile, the saint was busy building monastic monasteries. In 1361, he founded a women's monastery in the name of his angel Alexy, where the first abbess was the pious elder Juliana. 397 In the same year he founded it on the banks of the river. Yauza votive monastery in the name of the miraculous image of the Savior. “I want to ask for one good deed from your spiritual love for me,” he said to the venerable. the hermit Sergius. “Nothing is forbidden in my monastery to your holiness,” answered the humble desert dweller. “I want,” said the saint, for you to give me one of your disciples. Long ago I decided to build a monastery in the name of the miraculous icon of the Savior,” and told what happened to him at sea. The Monk Sergius lovingly gave his beloved disciple Andronik as abbot of the new monastery. 398 In 1362, the bishop founded the monastery, 3 versts from Serpukhov; here was the first abbot of his disciple Varlaam, hitherto revered for his pious life. 399 After the saint managed (1365) to reconcile the quarreling Nizhny Novgorod princes, brothers Boris and Dimitri, he fulfilled his previous intention to restore the two ancient monasteries of the Annunciation in Nizhny Novgorod and Konstantin Elensky in Vladimir. In both of them he introduced a hostel and acquired land for maintenance; In the first one a stone church was also built. 400 In 1365, a monastery was founded in the Kremlin itself in honor of the miracle of the Archangel Michael, on a site donated by Queen Taidula. It was a grateful monument to the miracle that happened over the queen on the day of the celebration of the miracle in Kolosai (September 6). The saint, with all his generosity, built and decorated the church of the Archangel Michael: he ensured the maintenance of the monastery, where he planned to have a full hostel. 401 “In the Miracle Monastery, wrote the Monk Joseph of Volokolamsk, blessed Metropolitan Alexy planted honest elders, asking some from St. Sergius, and taking others from other monasteries that were under his hand: these monks lived a monastic life, a spiritual life, so that many came to them, old and young, and received benefits.” 402 The most reliable mentor here was the saint himself. He loved this monastery and labored here, from time to time, in fasting and prayer. Here, as the patriarch wrote. Paisiy, “our father, Metropolitan Alexy, great among saints, labored in a manner pleasing to God during his life.” 403 The spiritual testament of the saint about the miraculous monastery shows how much his living love for it, as well as other, even more wondrous, dispositions of his holy soul. “Behold, I am a humble, sinful, servant of God, Alexy,” he wrote in his letter. Who writes this? The great high priest of the church and he calls himself only the humble Alexy, without calling himself metropolitan. The great saint of God calls himself a sinful servant of God. What should others think about themselves?... “I am writing,” says the humble one, a spiritual letter with my whole mind. I give to the holy great Archangel Michael and his honest miracle the villages of Zhilinskoye, Cherkizovskoye... Ramennoe, which I bought from Ilya from Ozakov... And I give all those villages (12 in total) with silver, and with ladles, and with thirds, and with belly. And my servants in the villages wear silver.” This is the condition on which the servants of the monastery will live. If any of them does not want to live on the monastery land, pay the money taken from the saint and go anywhere; freedom is not taken away from anyone. “And whoever gives growth, so will he.” What saintly goodness! Civil justice may require that the debtor pay interest on top of the debt. The saint leaves it to the good will of the debtor to pay interest to the monastery. “I command you, my son, to the Monastery of Michael the miracle. Prince Dimitri Ivanovich,” the saint finally says. 404 The pestilence of Simeon's time also appeared during the century. K. Dmitry: in Smolensk it raged three times and only 5 people remained from it there. She was in Moscow once (1366). Because of this, in the year before her, Moscow was terribly devastated by fire. The saint gave advice to the Grand Duke to build a stone Kremlin, safe from fires and reliable for protection against enemy neighbors. 405 Then, as the saint cared with paternal love for the needs of the children of the Russian Church, he patronized, as much as he could, the Orthodox of the East. During his time, Metropolitan German and Archimandrite Niphon, later the Patriarch of Jerusalem, came from Jerusalem to Moscow, and Archbishop Mark came from Mount Sinai. According to their information, the disasters of the Eastern Christians were then severe. The Egyptian sultan, irritated by the attack of the Cypriot knights, devastated Jerusalem, Antioch and Mount Sinai, plundered churches, banned worship, and captured thousands. – At the request of the Emperor of Constantinople, he released the prisoners, but for an expensive ransom. Saint Alexy and V. Prince Dimitri sent rich alms to the east. 406 Since 1367, Saint Alexy had to endure a lot of sorrows and labors on the affairs of the Tver princes. Prince Vasily Mikhailovich of Kashin quarreled with the prince’s nephew. Mikhail Alexandrovich for the inheritance of deceased princes and relatives. My uncle wanted to be the head of the Tver principality; the nephew, as the son of his elder brother, decided to take the name for himself. the prince and wanted to own the estates of the dead, as if by will. Mikhail's uncle and brother asked the Metropolitan for a trial. The High Hierarch recognized Michael as wrong. Mikhail fled to Olgerd, who was married to his sister, and with the Lithuanian army pressed the Tver princes. Through the bishop, the enemies were reconciled, but insincerely. The offended princes again came to Moscow. The Grand Duke and Metropolitan invited Mikhail to Moscow for a peaceful trial. After the trial, Dimitri's boyars captured the prince. Mikhail and his boyars were imprisoned; then, obliging him to abandon the town and not raise any more quarrels, he was released. – The saint recognized in Michael his connection with Lithuania as criminal, due to its dangers for civil freedom from Olgerdov’s lust for power, for freedom of conscience from paganism and papism. He valued Orthodoxy so much that not long before he deliberately went to Tver, just to baptize Olgerdova’s daughter, brought by her grandmother. Prince Mikhail thought only about personal interests. He now complained strongly about the saint because he did not stop him from humiliating him and hurried to Olgerd. The Lithuanian prince, an enemy of Moscow, brought devastation within Russia. Mikhail was not happy with that either: he went to Mamai, but almost fell into the hands of Dimitri and disappeared into Vylna. Olgerd entered Russia another time, but made peace. Mikhail got himself the title of V. in the Horde. Prince of Russia. Dimitri was forced, with fear for his life, to go to Mamai. Saint Alexy accompanied him to the banks of the river. Okie; there he prayed earnestly for V. K. Demetrius, blessed him and the boyars and conjured the latter to take care of the precious life of the sovereign. The saint hastened to return to Moscow to bless the marriage of Prince Vladimir with the daughter of Olgerd, hardly less dangerous than Mamai. - Protected by the prayers of the saint, Demetrius was showered with the caresses of the khan: in the Horde they not only confirmed him in the rank of leader. The prince agreed to take a more moderate tribute than before. Mikhail, not moderate in his desires, complained everywhere and to no avail. 407 He sent a complaint against the metropolitan to the patriarch. Olgerd also wrote to Constantinople: “Until now and under our fathers, there has never been such a metropolitan as this metropolitan. Blesses Muscovites for shedding blood; whoever kissed the cross for me and ran away to him, the Metropolitan removes the kiss of the cross from him.” This complaint against the saint is the best praise for the saint. The enemy of the Moscow state vigilantly watched who and how much was preventing him from fulfilling his plans for Moscow. And so he, in uncontrollable annoyance, points to Alexy, as more than others, he contributed to the strengthening of the power of Moscow. “The princes of Novosilsky, Kozelsky, Vyazemsky, Kashinsky and others, entire cities,” said Olgerd, according to Alexy’s conviction, they lagged behind Olgerd and joined the Moscow leader. to the prince. Patriarch Philotheus understood the purity of the intentions of the Moscow saint and understood Olgerd. With one letter he assured. Prince Dimitri in his love for him and indignation at the princes who were hostile to him. He wrote to the Prince of Smolensk that the Metropolitan had rightly excommunicated him because he fought together with Olgerd against the Orthodox Church. prince In the third letter he made it known that he would not lift the curse from the princes imposed by the Metropolitan of all Russia until they repented, because they “gave a terrible oath to fight against the enemies of our faith” and broke their oath. He wrote to the Prince of Tver: “The prince should not sue the Metropolitan and cause temptation; this is not useful for his soul and does not serve his honor.” Finally, Mikhail, after five years of enmity, was forced to humble himself before the Grand Duke Dimitri. The agreement was concluded through the mediation of Saint Alexis. In it we read: “with the blessing of our father, the Metropolitan of All Rus', the prince of Tver takes an oath for himself and for his heirs. the Prince of Moscow with his elder brother, never seek the Vladimir fatherland and not accept it from the khan, as well as the great Novgorod, and the Grand Duke, for his part, promises not to intercede with his inheritance and not to take away his Tver fatherland.” 408 The saint's last years were overshadowed by grief over the new metropolitan of the southwest. The rulers of Poland and Lithuania were very angry with St. Alexei for his concern for the Moscow Grand Duchy. At first they complained to the patriarch that the metropolitan did not visit the southwestern dioceses. The Patriarch wrote to the Metropolitan: “justice demands that you look around all of Russia and show fatherly love to all the princes.” If there were no strong obstacles, Saint Alexy would undoubtedly have visited the southwest on his own, regardless of his old age. But on the part of the southwest this complaint is not sincere. The Polish king Casimir wrote to Patr. Philotheus that if the Galich Bishop Anthony is not consecrated by them as a metropolitan, the king will force the Russians to accept the Roman faith and submit to the Roman archbishop. “The Grand Duke of Fire Worshipers” - Olgerd demanded the same. – Patr. Philotheus was forced to yield, and informing St. Alexia, wrote: “What should we have done in such a situation? We call you to be a judge; what do you say yourself? It’s a different matter if the sovereign of the land were Orthodox, of our faith: then we might have waited... Judge for yourself, would it be good if this happened, as the king wrote?... We gave Anthony Galich to be a metropolis, and the bishoprics of Vladimir, Przemysl and Kholm.” After the death of Anthony, the princes of Lithuania asked the patriarch for a new metropolitan, and Philotheus in 1376 ordained Cyprian so that, according to Alexius’s devil, he would remain the metropolitan of all Russia. The Grand Duke of Moscow expressed his displeasure that Cyprian was sent without his consent. 409 In such circumstances, Saint Alexius wanted to choose a successor for himself, just as Saint Theognostus chose him. He wanted to appoint St. Sergius to the archpastoral see. But the desert lover resolutely refused the high appointment. The Grand Duke asked that the saint bless his favorite and confessor Mityai Mikhail to take his place. Mityai was very prominent; beautiful appearance, with an excellent gift of speech, with a loud and pleasant voice: he had an extraordinary memory, knew parables, stories, books and talked intelligently about matters. But generously endowed with the gifts of God, he did not remember well that all this was not his - he was proud, arrogant and arrogant. The saint saw all this in Mitya, while not everyone else saw it, and he said to the Grand Duke, “Mitya is not yet an old monk; he needs to be tempted and clothed with good deeds.” When the Grand Duke persistently asked for Mitya even after that, the saint answered: “If God and the Holy Patriarch and the Council give, let it be; I can’t bless him.” It is known that Mityai drowned before reaching Constantinople, where, at the desire of the Grand Duke, he hurried for initiation. Saint Alexy reached a ripe old age, 78 years old, having spent 24 years at the metropolitan see.” 410 In continuation of his ministry, more than 20 archpastors of the Russian Church were dedicated to them. 411 Apart from his epistle to the Don, a precious monument of his pastoral teaching includes: a) his gospel; b) His district message to the flock; and c) a message to Christians in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Gospel of St. Alexy, written in his own hand, is kept in the Chudov Monastery; in the past they read it during a prayer service for the sick; now it is brought out on the days of memory of the saint at the small entrance during the liturgy. It was written when the saint was in Constantinople, and, therefore, when he could have in his hands the best copies of the Greek Gospel. The text of the saint is in many ways not similar to the Slavic lists of the time preceding him. It contains not only the correction of errors made by Slavic scribes, but a new translation from the original. The difference between this translation is its literal proximity to the Greek text. So the saint of God did not think, as others think in our time, that it is impermissible and contrary to Orthodoxy to correct errors in the sacred books, and to replace incomprehensible or inaccurate words of translation with understandable and accurate ones. 412 In the district teaching, the saint, having spoken about his duty to teach the flock and about the dispositions with which the flock should receive instructions, offers: to the flock - general rules about any Christian and the fear of God, specific - to superiors and judges about justice, to subordinates - about obedience. He says to everyone: “Come to the priest, your spiritual father, with repentance and tears; renounce all evil deeds and do not return to them. True repentance consists in hating your past sins. Having abandoned all your affairs without laziness, gather for church prayer. Don’t say: let’s drink for ourselves at home. Just as a church without a fire, from only smoke, cannot heat up: so is that prayer without church prayer. The Church is called the earthly heaven. In it the Lamb, the Son and Word of God, is slain for the cleansing of the sins of the whole world; it preaches the gospel of the kingdom of God and the scriptures of St. apostles; in it is the throne of the glory of God, invisibly overshadowed by cherubim; in it, the divine body and blood are received by priestly hands and taught to the faithful for the salvation and purification of soul and body. So, when entering the church, tremble in soul and body: you are not entering into a simple church. Don’t dare, children, to anger God with your conversations in church. Have the sign of Christ in your souls. The sign for the sheep of God's flock is the communion of the body and blood of Christ. You, children, like sheep of the verbal flock, do not miss a single fast without renewing this sign on yourself, partake of the body and blood of Christ.” 413 In his message to the Nizhny Novgorod flock, he teaches the flock the fear of God. He says to the shepherds: “Do not be afraid of the face of the strong, forbid them to offend the lesser. – Let there be peace, love and truth among Christians, not only in words and tongue, but in a pure heart and a straight soul. Look, children, what a rebellion you have now.” Strongly rebels against drunkenness. “Also, children, I am writing to you so that you cut off the root of evil in yourselves, which raises all kinds of iniquities - drunkenness. “It destroys the soul, darkens the eyes, weakens the body, shortens life, extinguishes the fear of God in a person, removes him from God and brings him to mental and physical poverty.”... At the end he writes: “I am writing this not only for abbots and priests, but also for princes and boyars, for husbands and wives, and for all Orthodox Christians. Children, have respect, humility and obedience to your spiritual fathers yours, since they teach you what is useful and saving for the soul 414.” The saint of God ended his earthly course on February 12. 1378. He bequeathed his body to be placed in the Chudov Monastery. He also indicated the place of burial “behind the altar of the church”, not wanting, out of humility, to be buried in the church. “But the Grand Duke did not want to fulfill this: such a respected saint was laid with honor and zeal in the church, near the altar. 415 His healing powers were discovered 50 years after his death. Under Metropolitan Photius, during the liturgy, the arch of the Church of the Archangel Michael collapsed due to disrepair, but in such a way that no harm was done to anyone in the church. A new church had to be built. When they began to dig ditches for the foundation of the church, the relics of the saint were found incorruptible and even the clothes on them turned out to be completely intact. It was May 20, 1431. From that time on, they began to honor the memory of the saint. 416 Since the discovery of the relics, healings and miracles of various kinds have flowed abundantly from the saint of God. The well-known description of the saint’s miracles contains notes from three different times. 417 The first description - a description of 8 miracles, belongs to the same Pachomius, who also described the life of the saint. Having described the last miracle - the healing of a seven-year-old boy bitten by a mad dog, the narrator says: “having heard about so many signs of the new wonderworker, we tried to convey to scripture the healing powers flowing from his tomb in the most honorable Church of the Annunciation of the Archangel’s monastery.” Since the saint here is called a new miracle worker, the miracles described here belong, without a doubt, to the time close to the discovery of the relics of the saint. 418 The second of those miracles was the resurrection of a dead baby from the saint’s cancer. Fourth miracle: “Mikhail, the cleric of the city of Vladimir, was wounded by a poisonous arrow. At his request, they brought him to the monastery of the archangel: - he himself did not own any of the members; placing the patient near the shrine, they sang a prayer service; the liturgy began. And so the cleric sees, as he said: St. Alexy stands between two priests, as during the great entrance, and holds a chalice in his hand. The patient exclaimed loudly: Saint Alexis! have mercy on me. And the more they forbade him, the more he cried out, until the saint turned to him and said the words: “Arise, take up your bed and go to your house. Having said this, he lay down in his shrine. At that very moment the cleric was healed. In front of everyone, he stood up as if he had not suffered anything. He even took a book, and during the prayer singing, like a canonarch, he began to move from choir to choir, singing songs. 419 Pachomius, in his service to the saint (1460), speaks of an edifying miracle. “You did not despise the tears of the offended one who fell at your shrine,” he sings to the saint. In a dream vision, you caused the offender to become paralyzed, twisted his arms and legs, and said: if you don’t quickly give away your treasures to your neighbor, you won’t get up from your bed; when he soon fell to your shrine with repentance and tears, he received healing.” 420 Metropolitan Theodosius described, as an eyewitness, the healing of the monk Naum. Since childhood, Nahum had withered legs and walked on a piece of wood; with the hope of the saint’s help, he entered the Miracle Monastery; Here, while serving in the kitchen, he prayed for a long time, prayed relentlessly. One night the pain in his leg tormented him greatly; acute pain drove him to frenzy, and he prayed: “Father Saint Alexy, you see my suffering, either heal me, or let my soul be taken from my poor body!” Suddenly fear attacked him and at the same time his crumpled leg straightened and became healthy. This was January 24, 1462. 421 Of the nine miracles described by the Miracle Archimandrite Jonah, the most amazing is the last miracle: “weak with his hands and feet and weakened by his whole body, he was brought by compassionate people to the monastery of the archangel, according to his faith, to the great saint. When he was poor, he gave a coin to the priest for a prayer service. During the prayer service, falling down before the relics of the saint, he was overcome with some kind of fear, and at the same time healed. The Metropolitan and Grand Duke Vasily, having heard about this, performed a conciliar prayer service.” According to the chronicle, the miracles that preceded this miracle took place in 1519 at M. Varlaam, and the miracle with Vasily happened in 1525. 422 2 p.m. Venerable Isaak the recluse The Monk Isaac serves as an example of the fact that it is impossible to walk along the path of spiritual life without being subject to temptation, but there cannot be such a temptation that human strength, strengthened by the invisible power of God, could not endure (1 Cor. 10:13). Isaac was a rich merchant from Toropets. We offer a story about him by Rev. Nestor. “Desiring to be a monk, he distributed all his property to the poor and to monasteries and came to Anthony’s cave with a request to tonsure him as a monk. Anthony accepted him, dressed him in the clothes of a monk and called him Isaac, and his former name was Chern. And so Isaac began to lead a strict life: he put on a hair shirt, ordered to buy a goat, took off his skin and covered the hair shirt with raw goat skin, which dried on him, shut himself up in a tight cave, four cubits deep, and here he prayed to God with tears; His food was prosphora, and every other day he drank water in moderation. Anthony brought him both, serving him through a window through which his hand could barely fit. So he spent 7 years, not going out into the light, not lying on his side, but sitting, indulging in sleep for a while. Usually in the evening he began to bow and sing psalms, and continued this way until midnight; when he got tired, he sat down. Once he was sitting, resting, and the candle had already gone out. Suddenly the cave was illuminated by a light as bright as the sun; two bright young men enter, their faces shining like the sun; Isaac, they said, we are angels and here Christ comes to you, bow to him. He did not understand the demonic action and, without protecting himself with the sign of the cross, or the consciousness of his unworthiness, he approached and bowed to the ground, like Christ, to the demonic action. The demons exclaimed: you are our Isaac. They brought him into the cell, sat him down and sat down next to him; Not only the cell, but also the cave street was filled with them. One of the demons, the imaginary Christ, said: take the pipes, tambourines and harps and play, let Isaac dance with us. And they began to play pipes, tambourines and harps. They exhausted him to the point that they left him barely alive; They scolded him and left. The next morning, when it became light and the time had come to eat bread, Anthony, as usual, came to the window and said a prayer, but there was no answer. Anthony thought: apparently he had already died and sent to the monastery for Theodosius and the brethren. They dug up a cave and carried him out like a dead man. But then they noticed that he was still alive. Hegumen Theodosius said: this is the work of demons; They laid him on the bed, Anthony followed him.” When, out of Izyaslav’s anger for Vseslav, Anthony retired to Svyatoslav in Chernigov (this was in 1068), “Theodosius brought Isaac to his cell and began to follow him. Isaac was so relaxed that he could not stand up or sit down, and lay on one side; This caused worms to appear under his thighs more than once. Theodosius washed him with his own hands. So two years passed. And a wonderful thing! For two years he lay down, did not take bread or water, and remained dumb and deaf. Theodosius prayed earnestly for him, day and night. In the third year he began to speak and hear, and began to walk, but like a baby. He didn’t want to go to church, but they brought him by force; then they taught him to go to meals; Here they placed bread in front of him, but he did not touch it unless one of the brethren put it in his hand. Theodosius said: let him learn to eat himself and he did not take bread for a week; then, looking around, he began to take it.” So little by little he recovered from the terrible shock. Having returned to his former health, Isaac began to lead a strict life again. He no longer went into the cave; He put on a hair shirt, and over it put on a thick retinue and began to play the fool. This already happened under Abbot Stegan. He began helping the cooks in the kitchen to cook food for the brethren. At matins the first one arrived and stood motionless. In cold weather he walked in well-trodden shoes; his feet froze to the stone, but he did not move until the morning singing ended. After Matins he went to the kitchen, prepared firewood, water, and fire. One of the cooks, also called Isaac, once, laughing, said to him: Isaac! there sits a black raven, go catch him. He bowed to the ground, went, caught the raven and brought it in front of everyone; the cooks were amazed and told the abbot and the brethren about this. From that time on, the brothers began to respect him. But he, avoiding human glory, began in foolishness to insult first the abbot, then the brethren, then the abbot, so that others beat him. He entered again into the cave in which he lived; Having gathered the children to him, he clothed them in black clothes; for this he got it both from abbot Nikon and from the parents of those children. He endured everything: beatings, nakedness, and cold. At one time he lit a stove in his cave; the stove was thin, the fire flared up and began to fly out through the cracks of the stove. Having nothing to cover the stove, he stood on the fire with his bare feet and only came down when the stove burned out. They told a lot of other things about him, says the Rev. chronicler, and I myself saw other things. He finally gained such power over the demons that he regarded their dreams and fears as nothing, and greeted them like flies. “You deceived me before in the cave,” he said, but because I did not know your tricks then; Now the Lord Jesus Christ, my God, is with me, and the prayer of my father Theodosius, I hope to defeat you.” The demons did a lot of dirty tricks on him. “You are ours,” they said, “you worshiped our elder and us.” Your elder is the enemy of Christ, and you are evil demons, he answered, shielding himself with the sign of the cross, and they disappeared. Sometimes they came to him at night and, trying to instill fear in him, appeared in a crowded crowd, with spades, and made noise: let's dig up this cave and bury him here; others shouted: run Isaac, they want to bury you. And he answered: if you were kind, you would come during the day; but you are darkness, you walk in darkness, darkness is your lot. And he made the sign of the cross over them, and they disappeared. Another time they frightened him with a bear, a wild animal, an ox, or snakes, frogs and all sorts of reptiles crawled towards him. But they couldn't do anything with him. You defeated us, Isaac! they finally said. “You have defeated me in the image of Christ Jesus and as an angel,” he answered, not being worthy of such an image; now you appear in your true form, in the form of beasts, cattle, snakes and reptiles; you are truly disgusting and evil.” The demons disappeared and after that they no longer bothered him. He himself said that his last battle lasted for three years. He spent his last years even more strictly, in abstinence, fasting, and vigil. When he fell ill in the cave, he was transferred to the monastery and on the eighth day he died, under Abbot John. This is what Rev. says. Nestor. 423 According to the narrative of Polycarp, St. Isaac was among the fathers who healed the seduced Nikita with prayer, which happened under John’s predecessor (1102), Abbot Nikon (1088). And so Ave. Isaac died not before 1090, and after his healing he spent about 20 years in labors. His relics rest openly in the caves of St. Anthony, and part of them was transferred from Kyiv to Toropets by the abbot of the Kudin monastery in 1711. 424 “Isaac, who through many sufferings overthrew the deception of the devil, prays to You, Christ, to deliver him from his temptations; save us, most merciful. 425 18 o'clock Repose of St. KIZMA on Yakhroma The Monk Kozma 426 was brought up by a boyar in the village; The boyar, loving him for his meekness, taught him to read and write. The benefactor boyar fell into a serious illness and moved from city to city, seeking benefits for his illness; Kozla was with him constantly, comforting him by reading books and looking after his father like a good son. During their travels, they stopped on the river. The icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God appears on a tree to Yakhroma and the reverent Kozma; he heard a voice from her commanding him to become a monk and build a monastery. His sick master then received healing from this icon. This made the gentleman love Kozma even more. But even because the master did not need services, Kozma secretly retired to Kyiv and entered the Pechersk monastery; dressed here in monastic robes, he spends some time in feats of strict fasting and prayer. Then, following the will of the Mother of God, he goes with the icon that appeared to him on the river. Yakhrom, and here, 40 versts from Vladimir and 15 from Yuryev-polny, with the help of good people, is building a church in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Little by little, zealots of the solitary life gathered to him, and he zealously taught them piety, with the title of abbot. Constantly faithful to the rules of monasticism, he did not abandon the feats of fasting and prayer, but together with love he accepted the strange and healed sinful souls with the medicine of repentance; the fame of his wondrous exploits reached V. prince Having reached a ripe old age and having communed with St. Tain, he peacefully surrendered his spirit to God on February 18, 1492. His strict life and appearance remained in the memory of the Yuryevites: his face was pale and dry, his hair was gray, his hair was long and towards the end narrow, somewhat curled; a bright gaze shone from under the high brow. – Various healings marked the holiness of his life. His relics rest hidden in the Assumption Monastery Church. 427 Mitrofan, later a saint of Voronezh, being the abbot of the Kozmin monastery, said this in the inscription on the gospel: “this gospel was exchanged for our reverend father Kozma of Yakhrinsky the wonderworker under the abbot Mitrofan.” 428 The icon that appeared to the monk, which was marked by miracles, is in the same church where the relics of the monk are, and it is celebrated on October 11th. 429 20 o'clock Repose of the Venerable Cornelius of Pskov The Monk Cornelius, while still a young man, left the world and began asceticism in the Pechersk monastery in the Pskov region; Here he was tonsured a monk and led a strict life of work and prayer. Under him (from 1519) they expanded the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God into the mountain and built it with a chapel in honor of St. Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk, and from 1524 the new church icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God began to exude healings and other miracles. 430 In 1529, blessed Cornelius was invested with the rank of abbot of the new Pechersk monastery. During his 40-year reign, he elevated the monastery in all respects. His life was an example of a strict monastic life, and he tried to inspire jealousy for the asceticism of the monks subordinate to him. 431 At that time, it happened that others, making rich contributions to the monastery, allowed themselves to live in the monastery in a non-monastic way, and considered their contribution as the right to live according to the desires of a corrupted heart. Blessed Cornelius lived with trust in the Lord and did not think of making the well-being of the monastery dependent on contributions; he valued the high importance of the monastery as a school of piety, and therefore he subjected any monk, when he did not want to live like a monk, to corrective measures, and if he did not come to his senses, he was removed from the monastery, no matter who he was. One of these expelled investors came with a complaint to Metropolitan Macarius. The Metropolitan ordered him to be sent to the monastery under strict penance. Novgorod Archbishop Theodosius wrote to the blessed abbot: “Our holy lord and father Macarius, Metropolitan of All Russia, wrote to us about your Pechersk depositor, Elder Savvaty, that he was in monastic services with the Tyrian people and fell into great sins, and that he came to repent and cry before you about that fall, but you did not accept him for repentance... Give him to the good one. the elder under supervision, so that he lives with the rule and goes to the beginning of each service, and stands in front of the church every day until the end of the rule, but do not allow him into church. And you instruct and teach him according to the rules. You yourself know the scriptures well. It says: if a bishop or abbot or presbyter does not accept to repentance someone who has turned from sin, then he must be deposed.” 432 Blessed Cornelius loved the salvation of the brethren and cared about him; under him, the number of monks of the monastery increased to 100 people, whereas before him there were few of them. He well understood the duty of gratitude to the benefactors of the monastery. A monument to this is the synodikum of the monastery he established to commemorate the deceased brethren and deceased benefactors. 433 Tireless in his labors, with vigilant zeal for the good of the monastery, he built a stone church in honor of the Mother of God Hodegetria in Pskov, on the Pechersk courtyard; in his monastery, he moved the wooden church of 40 martyrs behind the monastery, for the monastery workers; and on its site he built (1548) a stone Church of the Annunciation. 434 For the edification of others, he described the miracles of the Pechersk icon of the Mother of God. “The witness of these miracles,” he says, is not me alone, but the whole of Pskov and Novgorod. The Mother of God gives healing not only to the Orthodox, but to those of other faiths who come from the German land (from Livonia) with faith in the miraculous image.” 435 Blessed Cornelius loved enlightenment for himself and for others; educated from contemporaries, such as the prince. Kurbsky, lived from time to time in his monastery for conversations with him; His disciple, Elder Vassian Muromtsev, was one of the most enlightened men of his time. 436 Blessed Cornelius planted piety not only in his monastery, but throughout the entire surrounding area: he built churches of God in Agirev and Topin. 437 Since 1558, a new field of activity has opened up for the blessed. Cornelia. The Tsar decided to return to Orthodoxy what belonged to him in Livonia and to adequately punish the Germans who burned Orthodox churches and abused the shrine. 438 In April, the governors approached Narva. On the passionate heel, “the noble and proud Germans, who had invented for themselves a new name of evangelicals, were drunk in the morning” and, despite the truce, began to shoot at the Russians. They have been given a lesson. They didn’t come to their senses. “Having found the icon of the Mother of God with the Eternal Child in her arms in a house where Russian merchants stood, they began to curse at the icon: then, taking it from the wall, they threw it into the fire where beer was brewing... The flame suddenly rushed upward faster than an arrow, and the top of the building burst into flames.” A terrible fire started in Narva. The Russians, taking advantage of the fire, took possession of the city. “This is the reward for the blasphemers of the divine, those who equate the image of Christ depicted in the flesh and the image of His Mother with the fools of the pagan gods! This is the reward for the iconoclasts. This is what a contemporary of the events, Prince Kurbsky, writes. It was impossible not to shudder at such punishment from God. The students of the new teachers needed to think about themselves, especially since the icon of the Mother of God and another of St. Nicholas, which the Lutherans also threw into the fire, were found intact in the fire. Blessed Cornelius and the Archimandrite of Yuryev, by order of the Metropolitan and the Tsar, consecrated Narva and Ivan-Gorod with a solemn religious procession with miraculous icons and then delivered these icons to Moscow. 439 Following Narva, the castles of Neuhaus, Kiremne and then Dorpat were taken. 440 For the poor Estonians, who had suffered both now and before from the war, Blessed Cornelius generously distributed benefits of all kinds. He took it upon himself to build an Orthodox church in Neuhaus, while the government was building churches in Narva and other places. Charity is blessed. Cornelius, his gentle instructions, his unselfishness and pure life ensured that in the parish of Neuhaus all Estonians, and in the parishes of Rauge, Nelve and Geriel, many turned to St. Orthodoxy, as unselfish and sincere piety. 441 Yes, it is not difficult to understand the teaching of the apostle: “we must be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves” (James 1:22). What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works (James 1:14)? Where they want to nourish and develop the mind alone, where they reject with contempt the methods of forming the will, living, all-soul piety is impossible, there they only deceive themselves. Where they say: everyone think about faith in their own way, expect everything ungodly, but by no means Christian piety. The events themselves spoke strongly in favor of Orthodoxy. In 1560 Blessed. Cornelius was an instrument of the wondrous work of God, to the joy of Orthodoxy and to the execution of his enemies. On the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God, he sent prosphora and St. water to the commanders stationed near Fellin, and as soon as the messenger he sent arrived there, a fire broke out in Fellin from the cannonballs, destroying both the shells and all the enemy’s grain. – The Germans were forced to surrender; Grateful governors sent the Fellin bell to the monastery of Our Lady. 442 In 1565, Blessed Cornelius surrounded the monastery with a stone fence, and above the gates of the monastery he built a church in honor of St. Nicholas, entrusting this wondrous defender of the pure faith with protecting the monastery of Orthodoxy. When the monastery was besieged on the border by the Livonian Germans, the sworn enemies of Orthodoxy, such a fortification was necessary not for one monastery, but for the whole of Russia. This was irrefutably proven by the events of 1581, when the monastery happily withstood the siege of Batory's troops and the formidable forces of the enemy, without benefit to it, were spent under the walls of the monastery. 443 In 1570, Rev. Cornelius with all the Pskov clergy solemnly met the formidable king in Pskov. 444 The Tsar appointed an Orthodox bishop for the conquered Livonia, with the title of “Bishop of Yuryev and Velyansky” (Fellinsky) and Blessed Cornelius was consecrated as the first bishop. According to the chronicles, the new Vladyka Yurievsky Oct. 14. In 1570 he arrived from Moscow to Novgorod: and in 1572 he appeared to the Tsar in Novgorod with icons. 445 In the synodikon of the Pechersk monastery the memory of the repose of “the sacred bishop Cornelius of Yuryevsk and Velyansk” is recorded. – Book. Kurbsky writes: “He (John) killed Cornelius the abbot of the Pechersk monastery, a holy man, famous for his monastic life. From his youth he lived in monastic labors and built a monastery through long labors and prayers before God.” 446 The Pechersk manuscript says about St. Cornelius: “from this corruptible life he was sent by the earthly king to the heavenly King.” - How was it? for what or for what reason? Not known. Only the sick-hearted king himself recorded Cornelius among those killed, thereby showing his involvement in the painful death of Cornelius. 447 The ascetic of piety died at the 69th year of his life, February 20. His holy body was laid in the wall of a natural cave of the Pechersk monastery, and in 1690 it was transferred to the Assumption Church. 448 In 1581, it was revealed to one pious elder how the Monk Cornelius accompanied the heavenly Queen together with the Monk Anthony to the defense of Pskov, how he begged Her to forgive the sins of the people and save the guilty Pskov. “Standing on the right hand, says the modern story, abbot Cornelius, Savva and blessed Nicholas fell before Her with tears and prayed: they are criminals; pray to your Son and our God for the people who have sinned.” Then the noble princes begged Her to spare the city. And Pskov was saved from Batory, despite all the efforts of Batory. 449 23 o'clock. Memory of Rev. MISEѢ Belozersk and Rev. POLYCARP in Bryansk According to the description of the Belozersk saints, “Rev. Moses the perspicacious monk, in the Beloozer settlement in the Trinity Monastery,” died after Rev. Cyril of Belozersk (1427) and formerly Rev. Kirill of Novoezersk (1532). since the Ustshekhon Trinity Monastery was moved to the Belozersky settlement ca. 1480 450, then the exploits of the Rev. Moses the seer must be dated to the end of the 15th century. Rev. Moses is revered locally. 451 All that is known about the Venerable Polycarp of Bryansk is that he was the founder of the Bryansk Spassky monastery, and that after a long ascetic life he died as abbot of his monastery on February 23. In the inventory of monasteries of 1662 we read: “behind the Spassky (Bryansk) monastery and Polycarp the Wonderworker there are 13 households.” Therefore, it is known that Ave. Polycarp died before 1662 and that year he was already known for his miracles. His relics have been buried under cover in the Bryansk Church of the Savior since 1764, after the abolition of the parish monastery. 452 24 hours lecturer ESIZE Pechersk Blessed Simon, Bishop of Vladimir, in admonition to his friend Polycarp, among other things, wrote: “There was a Monk Erasmus in the Pechersk monastery. He acquired an inheritance of glory in the kingdom of heaven, and because he used everything he had to decorate the Pechersk church, he forged many icons, which you still have above the altar. The following temptation happened to him: when he became poor, they began to neglect him. The spirit of malice then began to inspire him: there is no benefit to you from the fact that you spent your property on the church; It would be better if you used it on the poor. Without considering such thoughts, he became despondent and began to live carelessly. The generous and merciful God saved him for his virtue. He brought upon him a serious illness. In this illness, Erasmus lay tongueless, with his eyes closed, for seven days, barely breathing. On the eighth day the brothers came to him and, seeing his heavy breathing, said: Woe, woe to the soul of this brother, who lived in laziness! She sees something and hesitates, without leaving her body. And then Erasmus suddenly stood up as if healthy and said: fathers and brothers! It’s as if I am a sinner, and an unrepentant sinner, as you said; but now our reverend fathers Anthony and Theodosius appeared to me and said: we prayed for you, and the Lord gave you time to repent. Then I saw the Most Pure Mother of God with the Son of Christ God in her arms, and she said to me: Erasmus! because you have adorned My church with icons, and I will adorn you in the kingdom of My Son: arise, repent, put on the image of an angel, and on the third day I will take you to Me, as one who has loved the splendor of My house. Having said this, Erasmus began to confess his sins to everyone without shame. Then he went to church and was tonsured into the schema; and on the third day he died.” “I heard all this from holy witnesses and eyewitnesses,” says Blessed Simon, and then, turning to Polycarp, he writes: “Knowing this, do not think, brother, that you spent what you had in vain. Everything is counted by God down to the coppersmith. Expect mercy from God for your work. You built two doors in the great Pechersk church of St. Mother of God, God will open the doors of His mercy to you too. For the priests cry out in that church: “Sanctify, O Lord, those who love the splendor of your house!” Remember Patrick, who ordered a cross to be forged from pure gold; The young man, who was jealous of him and added a little of his gold, became the heir of everything. And you, if you spend what you have for the glory of God and His Most Pure Mother, you will not be left without a reward. Say with David: I will apply Your praise to all (Ps. 70:14), so that the Lord may also say to you: those who glorify Me, I will glorify. You yourself told me: it is better for me to spend what I have on church needs, so that it is not taken away from me by war, or thieves, or fire. I praised your good intention. I promised, so fulfill it. Promise, it is said, and repay. It’s better not to promise than to not promise to deliver. And if you happen to be robbed, or lose everything from the war: do not complain, do not be embarrassed, but glorify God for it and say with Job: “The Lord gave, the Lord gave.” 453 This is the story of Blessed Simon about Erasmus! because blessed Simon, according to him, saw as an eyewitness the dying Erasmus: the death of the Monk Erasmus probably followed around 1160. He rests in the cave of Anthony with the name of the saint and wonderworker. 454 Meletius Sirig prayed: “Wise Erasmus, who spent his wealth on the splendor of the church of God! Through your prayers may I become a spiritual Erasmus.” 455 27 o'clock Venerable TIT Presbyter of Pechersk “And now I’ll tell you about a miracle that I myself saw,” writes Blessed Simon to Polycarp. “There were two brothers in spirit, the presbyter Titus and the Monk Evagrius the deacon. Titus had sincere love for Evagrius, so that everyone marveled at this. But the hater of goodness sowed enmity between them to the point that they began to hate each other, could not look at one another and tried not to meet with each other. When one walked around the church with a censer, the other ran from the incense; if the latter did not leave, then he passed by him, along the Kadya. So a lot of time passed, and they dared to bring, St. gifts and receive communion without reconciling and asking for forgiveness. The brothers tried to reconcile them, but they did not want to hear about it. Now Presbyter Titus became very ill, so he lost hope of recovering. Then he began to cry bitterly about his sin and sent to Evagrius with a request to forgive him, for the Lord’s sake, for insulting him with anger. But he not only did not forgive, but also scolded him with cruel words. The brethren, seeing Titus already dying, forcibly brought Evagrius to say goodbye to their brother. The sick man, seeing him, immediately got up, fell at his feet and said with tears: forgive me and bless me. Evagrius turned away from his brother and uttered the following words: “I don’t want to say goodbye to him either in this or in the next century.” Having said this, he broke free from the hands of the brethren and immediately fell. The brothers wanted to lift him up and found him already lifeless; they could not even bend their arms or close his mouth and eyes. The sick presbyter Titus at the same time arose and became healthy. What happened to you? asked Titus. I saw, he said, angels retreating from me and mourning about my soul; and the dark spirits were delighted that in my anger I did not forgive my brother. And immediately I began to ask my brother for forgiveness. When they brought him to me: I saw an angel with a flaming spear; when he did not want to forgive me, a sinner, an angel hit him and he fell dead, and this angel gave me his hand and healed me.” “Hearing this,” Blessed Simon then says, “we repeated in horror the words: forsake him and be glorified to you, for anyone who is angry with his brother is guilty of judgment (Matthew 5:22). Woe to the man overcome by such passion! Observe it too, my brother! Don't give room to the angry demon. Whoever submits to whom will work for him. Поклонись враждующему против тебя, чтобы ты не был предан немилостивому ангелу. – May the Lord protect you from all wrath! He said, “Let not the sun go down on your anger.” 456 Kalnofoysky, showing the relics of those resting in the Anthony Cave, writes: “St. Titus, presbyter, wonderworker, with his brother in Christ Anastasius.” 457 So, the Monk Titus fully took advantage of the lesson taught to him by heavenly goodness. He adopted for eternity love, which, according to the apostle, is a union of perfection (Col. 3:14). During the rest of his life, he never missed an opportunity to perfect love within himself through experiments, and he became a miracle worker. Meletius Sirigus in his canon says that Titus, through humility, overthrew the wrathful demon. Otherwise, this means that humility elevated Titus’ soul to complete, selfless love, since without humility such love is unattainable. According to the RCP. Saints, Rev. father priest Titus reposed on February 28. This was, in all likelihood, not before 1190 458 28 hours Repose of the blessed one. NICHOLAS the holy fool of Pskov “The victory by which the world is overcome is our faith,” says the apostle (1 John 5:4). Blessed Nicholas of Pskov can repeat this about himself. In the Trinity Cathedral of Pskov, on the tomb of the blessed one, the ancient troparion says that blessed Nicholas was from the Pskov side, but through exploits of foolishness he became a citizen of heavenly Jerusalem. In the ancient kontakion it is written: “The miracle worker appeared to Nicholas, the royal power and turned the meaning of ferocity into mercy.” 459 In the chronicle we read the following: in February 1570, in the first week of Lent, the formidable Tsar John arrived in Pskov and stayed in the Lyubov monastery, near the city. 460 He was preparing the same terrible fate for Pskov that Novgorod suffered. “He will come with great rage, like a lion roaring, although he will tear apart innocent people and shed much blood.” But the Lord God put it into the hearts of his blessed saint Nikolai Salos and the Christ-loving prince Yuri Tokmakov to soften the heart of the king. By their order, tables with bread and salt were placed along the streets of the city, in front of each house, and when the king walked through the city, citizens with their wives and children were on their knees: this touched the cruel John. From the cathedral he went into the cell of Blessed Nicholas the Fool; he, in his own way, persuaded him to stop shedding human blood and not to rob the churches of God. 461 “Don’t touch us, passing by (minuhne),” said the blessed one, “go away from us, you will have nothing to run on.” 462 The king did not respect these words; he ordered the bell to be removed from St. Trinity and at the same hour his best horse (argamak) fell, according to the prophecy of the saint. When they told the king about this, he was horrified and hastened to leave the city.” 463 According to other news, blessed Nicholas offered John a piece of raw meat, and when he said, “I am a Christian, I don’t eat meat during Lent,” the blessed one answered: you are doing worse, feeding on human flesh and blood, forgetting not only fasting, but also God. 464 From the outskirts of the city, where the king stopped after leaving the city, he allowed the guardsmen to rob the houses of rich people in the city, but did not order them to touch the monks and priests. Nevertheless, he himself took away money, the best books, vessels and books from the monasteries. 465 On the tomb of Blessed Nicholas it is written: “The holy, righteous Nicholas, the Pskov wonderworker, reposed in the summer of 7084 (1576) February 28th.” 466 Due to the special respect of the inhabitants of Pskov for Blessed Nicholas, he was buried under the cathedral church - an honor that was then awarded only to princes and archpastors. According to a vision that happened in 1581 during Batory’s attack on Pskov, teacher. Cornelius and blessed Nicholas begged the Most Pure One to pray to her Son for the people who had sinned, and the Mother of God fulfilled their prayer. Grateful Pskov then painted an icon of the Mother of God with the upcoming saints. Anthony and Korniliy, with princes Vladimir of Kyiv, Gabriel and Timothy of Pskov and with blessed Nicholas. This icon was placed in the Intercession Church and became famous for its miracles; it is celebrated on October 1st. 467 468 From that time on, the day of the repose of Blessed Nicholas began to be celebrated in Pskov. 469 “Don’t touch us, passing one!” What meek and at the same time strong words of the blessed one! Shouldn’t the various reformers of modern times, who are ready to turn everything upside down, including trampling the lives of holy fools into the mud, take them to themselves?” Let them at least think that their abuse of the saints, first of all, does no honor to their minds, which are unable to understand the ideal of a selfless life, triumphing over one’s self-love, over physical nature, over the greatness of the passing world. Not everyone can follow the same road to heaven, but worshiping the golden calf will probably not bring anyone to heaven. Not everyone should follow the same road to heaven, but everyone must strictly judge himself, and in no case should the judgment of another’s conscience be taken away from the Lord. To Him alone be glory and worship. Amen. In 1285, “a stone church was founded in Tver by the Venerable Bishop Simeon.” Collection l. 1, 207. In 1320, “laying the body of the saint in. K. Michael in the Church of St. Church of the Savior in the country, built by the Venerable Bishop Simeon.” Collection l. 5, 215. Wax. l. under 1289 “Simeon, the first bishop of Tver, reposed.” Collection l. 7, 179. Nick. l. “serving in it (in the cathedral of the Savior Church) the Lord’s bishops and many Tver deities. and priest service: 1. Simeon Rev. led book Mikhail Yaroslavich, 2. Andrey, with him, 3. Barsanuphius, led. book Michael and with his sons Dimitri, Alexander, Konstantin and Vasily, 4. Theodore, led. book Konstantin Makhail., 5. Theodore, led. book Vasily Mikhail., 6. Vasily; 7. Evfimy Vislen, under Prince. Mikhail Alexander., 8. Arseniy l. 4, 284. Based on this news, errors in East should be corrected. Hier. 1, 274 275. Plato East. grew up c. 1, ch. 7. East. Hier. 1, 274. In the list of bishops according to Nikon. l. (vol. 1, appendix p. 5) “Simeon from Polotsk, Andrey from Lithuania.” Collection l., 179. This is what the acts of the Jesuits say about the opinions that were taken away from Orthodoxy. See the life of Dovmont on May 20. Collection l. 1, 60, 61. Collection. gram. 1, 297, 298. Nikon. l. 3, 54, 55. Collection. l. 1, 28, 29. Trinity letop. at Karamz. 4, pr. 178. The saint’s denunciation was included in the “Righteous Standard” - a legal collection. Orthodox interview 185I 1, 91, 92. Rosenkampf on the helmsman 217, 218. Collection l. 36. Surmanova ist. information about the prince of Tver. 1778 Collection l. 1, 107. 4, 44. Nikon. l. 3, 87, 88. Karam. 4, pr. 178, 182. Karamz. 4. note 37, 113. Nikon. l. 3, 18. Kiselya ist. Uglich pp. 45–50. Lives Feb. 3 pp. “it is only known that, remaining in his youth after the death of his parents, he reigned”, p. 2 book. Roman was 23 years old in 1237, and 35 years old in 1249. Nikon. l. 3, 40, 41. Collection. l. 7, 174, 178. Russian. times I, 148. Karamz. 4 project 182. Kissel about Uglich pp. 63–73. RKP. Saints. "St. Blagov. Prince Roman of Uglich, a miracle worker, reposed in 6790 (1282) February. 3 d." RKP. complete life of St. Paisius of Uglich. “The cathedral churches founded on this gave him (Prince Andrei Visilievich) God to acquire the relics of St. Blagov book Novel of the Uglich miracle worker. Relics of St. book Romana, intact and imperishable, lay in the cathedral church for 120 years, even before the Polish presence in Russia and the city of Uglich. Then sins for the sake of our relics of St. book Romana was burned by evil Polish people and the cathedral church in the fortress of the city was completely destroyed by the same evil people. Remained St. relics of the head, rib bones, both arms and legs. And they still work miracles.” Nikon. l. 8, 32 Letop. about the riots p. 42 Information. about mon. churches. 562. M., 1852. Tsar’s charter of 1683 (in Kisel, p. 417). “Two pounds of wax to Prince Roman the Uglich miracle worker.” In the collection Nizhegorod. Annunciation mon. “the story, stichera and canons (to St. Prince Roman) were created with the blessing of St. Patr. Job - through the diligence of monk Sergius of the monastery of St. Trinity Danilov Monastery. Pereslavl Zalessky." The dictionary page 235 is incorrect. RKP. the life of St. Cyril with miracles written in 1620 by Tsarskoe No. 162, 682, in Imp. bib. No. 731, 733. Extracted in the prologue on February 4. - Since the life was written quite late after the death of St. Kirill: it is not surprising that there are several inaccurate readings in it. Life inscription: “Feb. 4 life of Rev. our father Cyril, abbot of the White Novoyezersk wonderworker.” In the history act, 2, 401. Bely Nikita Vasilyevich siege governor. According to the chronicle, Bely Vasily is a clerk. Karamz. 7. pr. 152, 187. This is shown in the RCP. hagiography The chronicle added at the end of his life says that Cyril came to Cornelius in 1481. But then Cornelius had not yet lived in the Komel forest. In the life it is said: “the youth came to the gates of the monastery and saw the monks of the monastery (Komel); I want, I say, to see the abbot.” According to the life of Cornelius, this could not have happened earlier than 1501, when Cornelius was invested with the rank of priesthood and became the head of the monastery, living since 1497 as a hermit in the Komel forest. In the RKP. The life says 15 years: but this is an inaccuracy, exposed by the life of Cornelius and the year of Cyril’s death. Lives February, page 51: “he spent up to twenty years in the feat of difficult pilgrimage.” Too much. If Cyril lived with Cornelius for at least 10 years from 1501, then after that until 1517 no more than 7 years remained for wandering. – Among the plants that St. Cornelius ate in the desert is “watch” - a grass of the northern climate, menyanthes. East. Hier. 4, 507–510. Shevyreva’s trip to the Kirillov Monastery, 2, 181–186. Church service on February 4th. Church service on February 4th. Accepting your prayers, God gave to those who lived with you, in times of poverty, what they needed for life (Pes. 8) - Menaion for February. M., 1646 Sedalen on 2 kathisma, in menaion. M., 1646 A special, modern story about that example. in reading total ist. 1864 book. 3. RKP. description of the monk. Shevyreva's trip to Kirillov Monastery. 2, 84, 86. A special story about the discovery of the relics of St. in reading total ist. 1864 book. 3. In the ancient inventory of the Vologda apx-priestly house there is a letter c. Alexey Mikh. from 21 Oct. 1651 about the installation of a shrine for the relics of the wonderworker Cyril in his Novoyezersky monastery. - Report from the archbishop. Markella 1649 on the examination of the relics of St. Cyril, ex. in Volog. diocesan led 1865 No. 22. It says here: “and since the wonderworker Kirill Bely reposed and was buried, he is one hundred and seventeen years old. Stichera of the lithium in the Menaion. M., 1646. Here on February 4. and RKP. service to the reverend on February 4. at Tsarsky, No. 126. “November 7, the word is the acquisition of honest and multi-healing relics of the teacher. and our God-bearing father Cyril, abbot Bely, Novoyezersk wonderworker,” in Tostoy, 2, no. 114. East. Hier. 5, 543. Consolidated. about the monastery page 70. RKP. life of the teacher Nikephoros of the Zadnenikforova Hermitage, extracted from the lives of St. Alexander and Cyril East. Hier. 4, 128. 6, 999. 1000. The chapel with the tomb was also shown in the 17th century scribe books. and, moreover, in the monastery itself, and not nearby. deserts, as stated in the Dictionary of the Saints, p. 208. Mixed. about the monastery page 423. Collection years. 1, 109–116. Artsybashev, 1, 50–53. “Golvazhen” is an old weight unit for salt, also known in Russian truth: “take seven golvazhen for a virnik.” However, its relationship to current weight has not yet been determined. Kossov gets around words that are incomprehensible to him like this: “oni barzo drogo przedawali - they sold them very expensive.” Paterikon, 119. In addition to Polycarp, Monomakh in his will, p. 41. Collected. years. 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 Mother of God; they 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 venerate the tomb of the reverend. 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 Rev. Proxop dated 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 Pereyaslavl. 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 a RKP in the Tikhvin Church on the Sofia side. service 17th century Nestor about Vladimir: “The priests of Korsun also sing” (Collected fol. 1, 50), Joachim is called Korsunin in all chronicles. Nikon L. 1, 105 says that when Joachim was installed as bishop of Novgorod, then “destroy the rest of the treasures,” next. This was preceded by the initial destruction of objects of superstition; painting of the rulers and 3 Novgorod. years. refer to the arrival of Joachim in Novgorod in 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 Suprelsk. years. 10. Tatishcheva ist. Chapter 1 4. Domestic. notes for 1846 Collection l. 3, 207. 4,175. 3, 121. Suprelskaya years. 10, 11. Nikon. l. 1, 103. “From Novgorod 3 miles to Pidba”; at Karamz. 9 Ave. 258. Pogodina research. V, 534, 335. Izvestia 2 dept. acad. 6, 40–43. On the last page Menaion: “Putyata wrote - the dacha is crooked, but correct it, and don’t curse,” i.e. Putyata wrote, and if it’s wrong, correct it, but don’t curse. Dacha, vm. yes, Novgorod proverb. Indication of the canons of this menaion in the note. acad. book 2 pins 2. pp. 126–127. Karamz. 2. pr. 54. Collection. l. 3. 121, 179. Pogodina research. V, 347, 348. Collection l. 3, 2. 127, 208. Suprelskaya years. 11. In the RKP. chronicles of the St. Nicholas Cathedral, “lay the stone church of St. passion-bearer Boris and Gleb Sotko in the stone city of Dantnitsa, where Sofia used to be under Archbishop Joachim, and that church (Boris and Gleb) was devastated by the Germans to the ground, and stood near the church of the martyrs. Andrey stratilates"; Sotko is an amazingly rich man and a builder of churches - a favorite subject of Novgorod folk poetry. Rybnikov folk epics. St. Petersburg 1861 Bessonova Kaliki, St. Petersburg. 1861 The Suprel Chronicle, page 11, calls the Sofia monastery a tithe monastery, of course because tithes were collected in favor of the department, as indicated in Svyatoslav’s charter. Macarius described cer. ancient Novgor. 1. 39, 40. 424, 425. Collection. l. 3, 208. In 1598 Sept. 12 “the relics were transferred from the stone tent of the cathedral and buried in the golden porch, next to Bishop Luke, the first bishop Joachim of Korsun, exactly the same bones, and in the earth there were 668 years.” Collection l. 3.275. Description Novgorod. personal pp. 24, 107. RKP. holy calendar "St. Joachim the 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 honored with the priesthood.” Arriving in Navgorod, Yaroslav elected Luka. Collection letop. 3, 179, 200. Description. Blush. music 510. Collection l. 3, 210, 211, 121, 178, 208; 5, 138. Description novg. Soph. personal p. 4. M., 1847. Description. ancient V. 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. Macarius in history 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 found the coffin with six stone panels, it was made; on the upper stone tablet there is an image of a holy cross... and he commanded (the archbishop) to open it and in the sight of the relics of the saint, testifying to the omophorion, as if to be the bishop lying in that tomb. Taking these relics, the archbishop brought the great churches into the vestibule, which is the essence of the vestibule from the midday land. Seekingly, in remembrance, I found that Bishop Luke was buried, who was the second bishop of the great Novugrad from our baptism.” This was in 1558 RKP. Saints "St. Bishop Luke reposed in the summer of 6562,” another list adds: “Oct. at 15 days.” See example 51. St. Luke the bishop is written on a pillar in the altar of the cathedral. Description Novgor. personal pp. 94, 107. St. Petersburg, 1858. Memory of St. Luke is locally revered on February 10 along with other saints. Dictionary of Saints pp. 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. Ave. 3, 81. In 1096, the Germanov Monastery, or Spassky on Berestovy, was made of wood, which is why it burned down. It is therefore 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 for the help of hierarchs Luke and Herman. Akathists, K. 1674. See pr. 52. Collection years. III, 11, 215; IV, 8. To 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 body, I spoke with Arkady about the body, behold, with the abbot, and having done this, I asked the bishop and others, and did not give in for anything.” About another subject: “Prashakh and this: the girl is already climbing on the 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. Sofia b-ki on l. 99 postscript: “the books of these months have ended. September at 13 days on the canon of erection, from the month. June, under Bishop Arkady and under Tiun Tupochel." - After that, the stichera and the canon of St. were written in the same handwriting. Boris and Gleb and canon ap. 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 issue 2. pp. 121–126. Collection l. III, 13, 180, 215; IV, 11. Saints: “St. Arkady Bishop reposed in L. 6671 m. Sept. at 6 pm." In the Menea of ​​Macarius, the memory of St. Arcadia bishop. Novgorod. – around 18 September In the paternal calendar of 1718 it was added: “it was laid down in the Martyrian porch: it is told about it in the written menaions, in the cathedral on that day,” i.e. 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 on Oct. 4 in common with other saints.” Collection l. III, 126. Izv. acad. VI, 378. Makaria Novgorod. 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. Rkp. Saints. “Saint Gregory, Archbishop, brother of John, reposed on the 6700th day of the month.” Description of new St. Sophia Cathedral pp. 94, 100–102. St. Petersburg, 1858. Here in the inscription on the tomb the day of repose is May 24. See example 61. 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 I, 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 331–333. Collection l. 3, 24, 25, 258; 5, 171. St. Martyrius the Archbishop is depicted on a pillar in the altar of the cathedral. Description Novgor. sofa personal p. 94. St. Petersburg, 1858. See pr. 52. Collection l. 3, 25, 31; 7, 118. Collection l. 3, 31, 128, 180, 219; 7, 118. The last one 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, i.e. the same thing that Dobrynya brought. – Description novg. sofa personal 115. Fragments of description from Sakharov in research. about russian icons 2, 10. He was metropolitan after Nicephorus II († 1197) and died on August 26, 1220. Collection. l. 1, 184, 188; 3, 25; 4, 19. Collection l. 2, 36, 38, 160, 219; 4, 26, 27; 7, 128. Collection l. 3, 39, 42, 180, 219; 4, 28. Collection l. 3, 39, 42, 180, 219. Collection l. 3, 42, 48, 180, 181, 219; 4, 29. Nikon. 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 years) Archbishop Anthony reposed.” According to RKP. reposed on the holy calendar on January 17 Description. Soph. personal page 115. Photo from the cross - in 1 section. ancient grew up state No. 25, 48, 49. Description. novg. sofa personal 169–170. Message about heaven. “I am a witness to this, brother, when Christ went to Jerusalem for free passion, he closed the city gates with his own hands and to this day they are not opened, and when Christ fasted over the Jordan, I saw his fasting woman with my own eyes, and Christ planted a hundred dates, they are immovable, and to this day they have not perished or rotted.” Collection l. 6, 88. Collection l. 3, 77, 131, 225; 4, 53. The copper doors are now 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 collection 141, 142. St. Petersburg, 1858 Vladimir. collection p. 101, 1857 Description of the doors in the VI department. ancient grew up gssud. pp. 72–84. Collection l. 3, 77, 131; 4, 53. Collection l. III, 79–81, 131, 225. Description. novg. personal 45, 53, 58, 64–66. Collection l. III, 83. Macarius of antiquity 2, 20, 105, 115. Description. novg. personal 48, 32. Collection l. III, 223; 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 and. Isidore Bukhira. On 2 Novgorod. l. under 6952 (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 in Novgorod. But Vasily had been an archbishop since 1331. Regarding the patriarch, the news of Lazarus delivering the hood, of course, should be preferred to any other news. At 3 Nov. 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, even 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. Contacun. III, p. 36. The conciliar charter of 1564 (Ist. act. 1, 333.) granted the Moscow metropolitan to wear a white hood with cassocks and cherubs, as the Novgorod archbishop wore. Sl. pr. 86. Dimitri Gerasimov's message to Gennady about the white hood was published by superstitious people in Suprasl in 1756. It is also often found in manuscripts. Review. Russian spirit. liter. § III. Description novg. cathedral pp. 194–196 Ancient. grew up state dept. 1, No. 57. Macaria ancient. novg. 2, 343–358. 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 of perfumes. 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 Novgorod. shrines 1634 in reading. total ist. 1862 book. 4. Collection l. 3. 106, 107, 135, 136. Collection l. 3, 107, 108; 4, 317, 118; 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, 215), the news of the chronicles also means that they prayed before the wonderful cross. Materials of statistics p. 43. St. Petersburg, 1831. Collection. l. 3, 2. In l. 6577 (1069). “You found the cross of Vladimir in St. Sophia on plates, and Prince Vseslav took it with his army in St. Sophia.” Look at this cross. archaeol. total 2, 86–89. Collection l. 4, 418, 419; 5, 23. Nikon. l. 5, 72. 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 11, 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 Simeon and Martyrius, at Sophia, the Martyrius porch.” Macarius of ancient times 1, 73. In the Tikhvin church on the Sofia side of the RCP. service to the saints of Novgorod 17th century. East. Hier. 4, 778, 782. Mater. country statistics. 70. St. Petersburg, 183I About the life and miracles of St. Vsevolod’s story was written by Vasily, famous for his talkativeness (Rumyants. musical countries. 602, 605): but he has more words than actions and there are mistakes. In the steppe books. I, 252–265, Vasily’s narrative is shortened. Collection l. 3, 314; 5, 4, 2; 5, 123. Diploma in III part. labor. total ist. book 1 pp. 1–24. The certificates were published in history. Hier. 6, 774, 775. Collection l. 3, 5; 4, 3, Nick. l. 2, 62, in Izvest. acad. VIII, 354–355. Collection l. 5, 123, 214, 4, 5. The certificate was published in the Orthodox Church. interlocutor 1861 p. III, 210, 221–226, according to the list of 1493. This is the oldest list. The second list in the supplement is similar to it. to the source act. 1, No. 3, and in the hon. 1, 77–79. The first list of certificates in addition. to the source act. 1, No. 3, later edition. The charter to the cathedral according to the list of 1493, compared with others, was published in the Orthodox Church. interview, 1861. III, 212–221. Other lists of it are in the story about the beginning of Pechersk. mon. M., 1831, 41–44, by Rev. Macarius 2, 359–362, in collection. memory ancient rights 406–410, St. Petersburg, 1839. Since this charter speaks of the Forerunner Church, it is clear that it was not given before 1127. Collection l. 3, 5, 123, 124; 4, 3. Step. book 1, 254, 260. Collection l. 3, 6; 4, 3, 4. In step. in the book, or what is also in Vasily, about the campaign of 1130 it is added: “blessed Vsevolod and their city Rigu ratov.” But Rigi with St. Vsevolod was not there yet. Vasily took the campaign of another prince. Vsevolod Mstislavich. 1220 (Nikon. l. 2, 346. Collected l. 7, 124) to St. book Vsevolod. Collection l. 3, 5–8; 4, 4–6, 175, 177; 5, 6, 156–158. Nikon. l. 2, 64–74. Prologue November 27. Pogodina research. IV, 111, 93. Degree. book 1, 262–264. Collection l. 3, 20. Prologue November 27. relics were found November. 27. music Rumyantsev p. 602. Degree. book 1. 264, 265. Prologue November 27. Music Rumyantsev pp. 603, 605. View of the Pskov Cathedral in 1638, taken from the ancient icon of St. Gabriel, - in Knyazev’s description. Pskov personal pp. 10–13. M., 1858. There is also the sword of St. Prince pp. 20, 78, 79, ancient icons of him pp. 51, 52, 10, 13. RKP. a book containing the service for February 11, the life of the saint until his death, the service for November 27. The Legend of the Transfer of Relics to the Trinity Cathedral and the 21 Miracles pp. 65, 66. New Cancer 1834 pp. 26–29. Relics of St. The princes, who died openly, were closed under Peter I, and since that time have remained under wraps. RKP. life of St. Demetrius, description. abbot. Macarius, partly from the words of his student Pachomius, in the collection. Sergius Lavra, No. 8. Rumyants. No. 96, 153. In the Synodal RCP. XV century, No. 556 in the XVI century, No. 90, 555. In the Menea of ​​Macarius; extraction in prologue Feb 11 They wrote: “he took monastic vows in his native Pereyaslavl in the Goritsky Monastery.” This could not have happened: the Goritsky Monastery was built by St. Princess Evdokia in 1392 (see July 7 days); except Nikitsky, at the beginning of the 14th century. Nagorny Borisoglebsky existed in Pereyaslavl, also known from the life of St. Nikita. See May 24 days. See about Sergiy Ave. Sep. 23 in East Jer., and in Vladim. lips Ved., 1849 No. 2 show that the Pereyaslav St. Nicholas Monastery was founded in 1392. This is an obvious mistake: in 1392 the death of the teacher followed. Demetrius in the Prilutsk monastery. – This mistake is even stranger where they wrote together that the Prilutsky Monastery was founded in 1371 (Christian Reading, 1861 Sep. 176, 187). Life: “there was no common life in that land, from the great Volga river even to the last seas... Behold, the first common monastery on Vodogda was the great Ave. Demetrius, and like that the saint began to relentlessly live with the brethren in a compartment and many monks came to him.” Works of Vasily Vel., 5, 260. M., 1846. About the war of the Vyatchans in the Dvina country Collection. l. 5, 260; 6, 141; 3, 106, 107. Biographer of the Venerable Abbot. Macarius adds: “the same terrible miracle once happened in the city of Surozh. The Prince of Russian Novgorod, coming with an army, took the city and took captive not only people, but also dumped vessels and even the coffin of St. Stefan, covered with expensive coverings (pavolok), the prince himself began to pull off (the coverings) and was invisibly struck in the face; immediately his face turned back. - He came to repentance; Having believed in Christ, he was baptized and released the captives. Then, he again became healthy through the prayers of St. Stefan, having received healing, he went home.” Father Macarius obviously has in mind the currently unknown life of St. Stephen of Sourozh, translated from Greek. In the oven Rev. service Demetrius (min. Feb. 11 days) mentions all the circumstances of the teacher’s life. Dimitia and all the miracles we mentioned; the service was compiled at c. John the Terrible. RKP. service on February 11 at Tsarskoye No. 563. The last miracles of St. Dimitry at Rumyantsev No. 153. East. Hier. 6, 221, 222. Service Rev. Demetrius on the 3rd of June at Tolstoy 2, No. 368. According to miracles, a campaign near Kazan; a) was the first under Ivan Vas.; b) was in the wake of the construction of the church in the monastery. And the church in the monastery was consecrated in 1542, having been founded in 1537 (historical Jer. 6, 217); track. due to both differences, this is the campaign of 1545 - About the campaign of 1545 Artsybashev 2, 162, 163: “Rev. Demetrius the Wonderworker" in gram. 1563 East. act. 1, 320. Letter of grant to the monastery in 1516 in A.E. 1, No. 208. In the description of the life of St. Alexy we will follow his life, described by Pachomius, according to the short notes of Blessed Pitirim; part of the composition of Epiphanius Slavenitsky Pachomius' creation in the Menaion of Met. Macarius, in music. Rumyantsev No. 153; in the Synodal RCP. XV century Slavenitsky's description in the prologue on February 12. Explanations and additions will be provided. According to the chronicle (Karamz. 5, pr. 254) in February 1393. 13 Daniil Feofanovich died as a monk, David, tonsured by Metropolitan Cyprian himself; he was one of the nobles, senior boyars, the best and first of them, a sincere well-wisher. a prince who served him faithfully both in the Horde and in Rus', like no one else; brave and courageous, he exposed his life to dangers in foreign countries, in places unknown. “He was laid in Chudovoye, near the tomb of Metropolitan Alexy, his uncle.” According to the pedigree (temporary general history X, 98, 100, 178, 239), the sons of Theodore Byakont are Alexy, Feofan, Matvey, Konstantin (childless) and Alexander Pleshchey (ancestor of the Pleshcheyevs); the sons of Feofan Feodorovich Daniel, the ancestor of the Ignatievs and Zherebtsovs, and Stepan, from whom the Metropolitan Fomins descended. According to the chronicle, Alexander Pleschey became Kostroma governor in 1375. See Laquier pp. 481, 568, 570. According to Pachomius, St. Alexy was older in. K. Simeon 17, and Simeon was born on September 7. 1317 Step. book 1, 444–450. Nikon. years. 3, 30; 4, 55–58, 209, 210. In Nikon. years. 4, 58, 65 it is said that the blessed one. Alexy was ordained bishop 4 years before the death of Theognost: “he was in the courtyard of Metropolitan. Theognosta 12 l. 3 months, having been a monk for 40 years.” But he was ordained a bishop only 3 months before the death of Theognostus (Collected years 7, 217; 8, 27. Nikon. years 3, 201); lived in the Epiphany monastery for more than 20 years, and 12 years. was a governor (step. book 1, 449, 450); track. In total, about 33 years passed as a monk before he was ordained a bishop. Thus St. Alexy was ordained bishop and metropolitan for 53 years, not 60, as stated in the same Nikon. years. 4, 65. The chronicle introduces its own count of years from the fact that it puts the entire life of the saint at 85 years. – But after the demonstrated disagreement with reality, the latter also turns out to be incorrect. Collection years. 7, 214; 4, 62. Nikon. years. 3, 201–203. Collection gram. 1, No. 23, 24. Certificates in J.M. Prosv. 1847 June 140, 141. According to Russian monuments, the ambassadors of Theognostus and Simeon returned with the decision of P. Philotheus in 1353 (Collected l. 7, 217. Nikon. l. 3, 203). But when they say that Alexy was dedicated by P. Philotheus (Step. book. 1, 451, 452. Nikon. l. 4, 59): then this is a mistake. The council about its dedication was in 1354; and then Callistus was the patriarch. Philotheus was briefly patriarch in 1353, and during a change on the imperial throne, he ceded the department to P. Killist. The Serb Pachomius, apparently, did not know either the changes of Constantinople in 1353, or the events under Met. Theognostus: otherwise he would not have attributed the installation of Romanus to the greed of Constantinople alone (Step. book 1. 452, 453), especially since Saint Callistus had a spiritual, ascetic life. – Chronicle: “the same (1354) l. Bishop Alexy was quickly appointed metropolitan in Tsaregorod for the entire Russian land and that autumn he left Tsaregorod.” Collection l. VIII, 9; V, 228; III, 86; IV, 62. Letop. Danilovich pp. 173, 174. Step. book I. 452. Nikon. l. 3. Charter of 1361 in the railway. m. 1847, p. 141. Chronicle for 6864: “the same autumn, Metropolitan Alexy went to Constantinople. “Toe the winter will come Metropolitan Alexy from Tsaregorod.” Collection l. VIII, 10. Collection l. I, 230; VIII, 10. Nikon. l. 3, 206. Step. book 1, 452–454. Nikon. l. 3, 26. – Collection. l. VIII, 10. – East. ak. 1 No. 3. Grigoriev about labels pp. 89, 90, 95, 128, 129. “According to Janibek Taidulino’s label, a word to the temniks and princes of thousands, etc. When this Metropolitan Alexy goes to Tsarerad: let no one touch him anywhere and do no violence to him, where he happens to stop, let them not touch him and do not take his horses, because he He prays to God for Janibek, for his children and for us. Whoever commits violence will be punished with a heavy toll. - They gave the charter in 1355, 17 days. aram." Trinity years. at Karamz. 4 Ave. 384. Degree. book I, 454, 455. Nikon. years. 3, 208, 209; 4, 61, 62. Cont. Nestor 98. Years of Danilovich, p. 175. Lvov. l. 2, 122. Sava index synod. sacristy p. 109. M., 1859. In the short life of St. Alexy, which was probably compiled by the cleric Vasily, the khan who called Alexy, is called Amurat. But Murid was khan 1361–1363 and Taidula was the wife of Janibek (pr. 166). Collection l. 5, 228; 4, 63; 8, 10. Cont. Nestor 98. Nick. l. 3, 208, 310. Degree. book I, 455. Rumyantsev Museum p. 273. Grigoriev about labels pp. 126, 128, 88, 89. Lvov. l. 2, 124–130. Letop. at Karamz. 4. Ave. 384, 380, 379. Step. book I, 457, 458. Collection l. 230, 231; 5, 228–230; 8, 10. Nikon. l. 4, 12, 16; 3, 217. Step. book I, 458. Probably, during a visit to Kyiv, St. Alexy encountered new troubles from Roman. In 1361, the Council of Constantinople sent its trustees to Russia to examine Roman’s actions on the spot and, having selected reviews from bishops, princes and other reliable persons, reported to the council. F. m. enlightenment 1847 June 141, 142. But the death of Roman stopped things. Berdibek was killed by Kulpa in 1359, who was killed by Navruz in the same year; in the spring of 1360 Khyzr (Khidyr) killed Navruz and the next year he was killed by his son Temir-Khodja, who ruled for only 5 weeks; at the same time, Ordu-Melik was khan, soon killed by Gildibekomg (1361–1362), who was overthrown by Khair-Pulad. Troubles in the Horde occurred from the ambitious Mamai. Murid (1361–1363) rebelled against him, but Mamai raised Abdullah (1362–1369) against him, who had to fight the khans Janibek 2, Pulad-Timur, Azis; in 1370 Mamai elevated Mugammed-Bulyak to the throne. Record. archaeol. total XII, 28–48, 190, 214. Collection l. 4, 230, 231; 5, 228–230. Nikon. l. 4, 3–16. Lviv. l. 2, 127–129. According to the chronicle, in 1393 she died - “Abbess Alekseevskaya, Ulyana from the city of Yaroslavl, daughter of a certain rich and famous parent, she herself was extremely God-fearing, having lived in the Church for more than 30 years (since 1361). Abbess, who was 90 maidens and the leader of the general life of women, who was a comforter to many girls.” G. Snegirev (old 4, 80–81), at the same time, as he points to the words of the chronicle calling Juliana the daughter of a wealthy parent from Yaroslavl, recognizes this first abbess as the sister of St. Alexia. But the sister of St. Alexia was Julia, not Juliania; she and her other older sister Eupraxia were nuns in the Alekseevsky Monastery; Alexy was born in Moscow, not in Yaroslavl. According to the Nizhny Novgorod Pechersk synodikon, the family of St. Alexia: “Theodore, Maria, Mother Superior Julia, nun Eupraxia, Theophanes, Matvey, Konstantin, Alexander” and so on. If Julia, sister of St. Alexia, and was the abbess of Alekseevskaya: perhaps after Juliana, from 1393. Sl. Lviv l. 2, 162. Nikon. l. 4, 59–60, 221, 232. Prologue. Feb. 12. Step. book I, 460. RKP. Saints; mixed. about the monastery 263, 264. Rumyantseva music. No. 364. Nizhegorsk years. in ancient times librarian Part 18. Years. at Karamz. 5. note 122, step. book I, 461. Arch. Macarius of memory. 143–152, 182. Nikon. l. 4, 62, 63. Step. book I, 461, 462. Collection. years. VIII, 13. Snegireva Russian antiquity 3, 79–86. Pitirim: “He built a church on a stone, in the name of the saint. archan. Michael, his honest miracle, decorate with a signature, icons, books and sacred vessels and simply say, all sorts of church patterns. That monastery promised to be a community of life, which it still is to this day. There were many villages, and houses, and people, and lakes, and fields, and pastures, and he provided food and everything that was sufficient for the needs of the monastery... He created such a monastery for himself twelve years before his repose.” Spiritual diploma of the teacher. Joseph ch. 10. Charter of P. Paisius 1657 in history. Hier. 2, 542. According to Nikon. l. IV, 62: in the list of consecrated saints. Alexy noted “these are the bishops who installed him in the Chudov Monastery.” This can only apply to the second half of those consecrated by the saint - and the first bishops were consecrated even before there was a Chudov monastery. See note. 151. Certificate from Snegirev Memorial. Moscow ancient pp. 142, 143. Step. book I, 463. Trinity. l. at Karamz. 5, pr. 5 and 6. Nikon. l. 4, 16. Step. book I, 462, 463. Collection. years. VIII, 14. Collection l. 4, 66, 69. Nikon. l. 4, 12–34. Karamz. 5, pr. 10, “The Great Prince realized that the boyars advised him unkindly about the prince. Mahaile, and released him." That's what the chronicles say. It is clear that the metropolitan was not to blame for Michael’s imprisonment, and the latter in vain said in indignation: “I had more faith in the metropolitan than anyone else, but he humiliated and cursed me.” G. Belyaev (read general history 1861 book 3) justifies the metropolitan by the fact that in his old age he “is no longer involved in state affairs much.” - No, not long before that he was in Kyiv and Tver, in 1370 he went to Nizhny to baptize the son of Boris Konstantinovich. Not only in spirit, but also in body, he was strong. The trouble is that no matter how much experience and patriotism and prudence they saw in him; The boyars at times gave orders in their own way, and not on the advice of the metropolitan. Agreement in other libraries. 1, 78. Certificates in railway. m. 1847 pp. 142, 143, 150–152, 154. Constant protocols in railway m. 1847 pp. 145, 147, 152–154, 157. Synodal act of 1389 (in the archive of historical legal information 1861, p. 9). According to the chronicles we see that St. Alexy was in Kyiv in 1358. It was established for Vilna to celebrate the Lithuanian martyrs. Was it not this last action that especially weakened the proud Olgerd against the metropolitan? Collection l. III, 91, 96. Nikon. IV, 48, 63, 68, 73. Cont. Nestor 137–142. Step. book I, 464–466. See pr. 121, 122. And Pitirim writes that St. Alexy “is 17 years older than the Great Prince Simeon”, next. He was born in 1300 and died (February 12, 1377) at 78, not 85 years old - Pitirim also determines the time of birth of St. Alexy: “born into the great reign of Tver Mikhailovo Yaroslavich, under Metropolitan Maxim, before the murder of Akinfov.” Boyarin Akinf Gavrilovich was killed in 1304 (Karamz. IV, pr. 208, 324), Metropolitan. Maxim died on December 6. 1305, St. Mikhail was injured on November 22. 1318, being great. prince from 1304. It is clear that this definition does not at all confirm the 85-year old age of St. Alexia. - Based on this news, it would be appropriate to assume that St. Alesky was born at the very accession of the prince. Michael for the great reign, no more than a month before the death of Akinf, at the beginning of 1304, which, however, does not agree with the years of Alexiev’s seniority before the prince. Simeon. Trinity years. (at Karamz. 5, pr. 55): “byahu the bishops who appointed him Ignatius of Rostov, Vasily of Ryazan, Theophylact of Smolensk, Ivan of Sarai (above pr. 128, 127) Parthenius of Smolensk, Nathanael of Bryansk, Afanasy of Ryazan, Alexy of Suzdal, Alexy of Novgorod, Vasily Tver (above pr. 136), Daniil of Suzdal, Gerasim of Kolomna, Grigory of Chernigov, Daniil of Smolensk.” So in the steppe. book 1, 464. According to Nikon. years. 4, 62, after Daniel of Suzdal and before Gerasim of Kolomna, Matthew of Sarai, Arseny of Rostov, Efimy of Tver and Dionysius of Suzdal were also dedicated, the last two were dedicated in 1374 Nikon l. 4, 40, 23. Lviv. l. 3, 148. So it is in Pitirim’s short life, only here Ivan of Serai and Parthenius of Smolensk are omitted. Nikon's chronicle generally retained all the differences in Pitirim's legend about St. Alexie, supplementing them with his own guesses. See spirit review. literary § 70. Shevyreva history. Russian verbal. III, 127–132, 157–159, 392–395. His Greek signature is in the description. Blush. music page 48. Published in add. to creativity father 1849 Published by Mr. Nevostruev in the shower room. read 1861 I, 449–460. Pachomius's life of the saint. About the transfer of St. relics from one church to another at Snegirev in the old days 3, 82, 83, and in the prologue on May 20. In Nikon. years. 4, 65, 66 discovery of the relics of St. Alexy is dated directly to 1431. Therefore, the testimony about the 60-year residence of the relics in the ground (step. Book I, 470) must be considered inaccurate. In the Menea of ​​Macarius, the description of miracles is placed under the 20th hour of May, after the legend about the discovery of the relics. Nikon. years. 4, 66. Here, after the position of the relics in the chapel of the Annunciation, built in 1431, is said, it is added: “where healing flows out to all who come in faith.” B b. total ist. No. 55–56. Pachomius’s life of the saint with 8 miracles – from Rumyantsev’s description. music page 204. in the library. total ist. No. 35, 56. Menaion for February, Moscow, 1646. This miracle is not included in the known description of the miracles of the saint. RKP. Service to the saint on February 12, at Tsarskoye No. 563. Collection years. VI, 325–330, 184. Nikon. l. 6, 217, 220, 221. Russian. times 2, 259–260. Lviv. l. 3, 361, 363–365. In the steppe book 2, 192. The description of 1519 says: “then he led from the honest relics. Saint and Wonderworker Alexy - there were many and various miracles and healings. Byakhu and these miracles are written in this book in the 11th degree, in the life of this saint.” But in the printed edition (step. book 1, 476, 478) there are neither the miracles of 1519 nor those that preceded them. A silver shrine to the saint with a gilded image of him was arranged by order of the leading prince. in 1535 Karamz. VII, pr. 311. Collection years. 1, 82–80, 74, 259–261. It is impossible not to notice that the print. The Patericon, in its own way, presents Nestor’s story, in places, sometimes obscures Nestor’s thought, then adds something that did not happen, or that Nestor does not talk about. Description laurels page 105. RKP. Saints: “Rev. Isaac the recluse." In the Menaion of Macarius on April 27, “the word about the monk Isaac, whose deceptions are the devil.” In print. prologue too. It’s the same in the RKP. Rumyantsev's prologue No. 325. In the menea of ​​St. Demetrius in memory of the Rev. Isaac 14 Feb. Meletius Sirig in the canon. Akathists, K. 1674 Life of Rev. Kozma was described by the monk Gregory, but the description was later spread by the abbot. Varlaam. From this a florid story was compiled, rich in words and meager in thoughts. Rumyantsev's story No. 371. In the collection Peter. spirit. acad. No. 277. Saints: “Ven. Father Kozma, hegumen of the Assumption Monastery of Yakhrensky, also in Shakhmatitsekh, the miracle worker of Yuryev, reposed in L. 7000 months Feb. at 6 pm." East. Hier. 4, 567. Service Rev. Kozma at 6 p.m. Feb. and his life in the collection of Nizhegor. Blagoveshch. monastery Buslaeva: words. and art 2, 952. Vladimir collection p. 110, art. M., 1858. According to the inventory of 1662, “there are 94 courtyards behind the Kuzmina Monastery.” Information about the monastery. p. 31, M., 1852 in op. "Glory to the Most Rev. Mother of God,” this icon is erroneously spoken of in two places as two different ones (part 3, section 3, pp. 104, 106, 107, M., 1853). The first says that St. the icon appeared in 1482. But that was earlier - RKP. the story of the Yakhroma icon in b. total ist. No. 213 Rumyantsev No. 371. Collection years. 4, 293, 295. The Tale of Pskov. pecher. mon. 4, 5. M., 1831. Dorpat 1821 RCP. Menaion John. 10. Sergius Lavra Bib. No. 5. The Tale of the Pecher. mon. 5, 6. Additional to the source act. 1 No. 35, letter dated February 24. 1543 Description Pskovo-Pecher. mon. pp. 9, 10, 51, 52. The Church of the 40 Martyrs, similar to a house of prayer, with a single-slope roof, is still intact and serves as the parish church of the provincial town of Pechersk. Later, and precisely in 1565, at the entrance to the monastery, Ave. Korniliy was built. St. Nicholas. Gr. Tolstoy shrine of Pskov, pp. 103, 115, and approx. 5. The legend of the Pechersk monastery in 1531 in the RKP. Min June Serg. Laurels No. 5. See Kurbsky's letter and Polubensky's letter in the Muscovite, 1853, part 5, pp. 147, 148. There is also the work of Cornelius: description of the monastery, p. 139. Letter to Vassian in Ustryalov, ed. op. Kurbsky, pp. 290, 292. An essay by St. Cornelius with the following inscription: “The legend of where the nickname came from for the Pechersk monastery in Pskov.” This work was supplemented by Gregory the Monk in 1585, abbots Meletius in 1587 and Joachim in 1601. Land survey record for villages and monastery villages, given by the scribes of Yuryev-Livozsky, November. 29 1556, in the Runyantsev Museum p. 87. Here in the bypass charter of 1491 one can see the significance of Oderets as a quitrent. Another document with a census of monastic lands according to the scribe book was given Sept. 8 1563, ibid p. 89. German: “At the Moscow Vel. The prince then had churches in Riga, Revel and Dorpat, where Russian merchants prayed on Sundays. – Lutheranism did not leave these churches alone; on the contrary, in fanaticism they are furiously attacked and destroyed to the ground.” Brendenb. f. Griefenthal chronik in Monum livon. V, 114, 509–515. Fabricius, pacistic priest of Felline c. 1610 speaks of the fanatics of Lutheranism: “they also burned Moscow churches in Dorpat, Revel, Riga and many other places; they were robbed and exterminated." Livon. hist in rev. livon. script. t. 2, p. 467, Riga., 1847. Kurbsky ist. John pp. 54–57. Collection l. 4, 310. Nick. years. 7, 307. Step. book 2, 278, 279. The Tale of the Pecher. mon. 5, 6. Collection l. 4, 310. Step. book 2, 280, 281. The Tale of the Pecher. mon. 6. Prince Buchau: “Moscow garrisons were left (in the fortresses), churches were built, as the king usually does in all conquered places, and grateful prayers were offered for the victories.” Script. rer. livon. 2, 704. Chronicle (collection l. 4, 316): “On June 7, 1565, Lithuanian people came and fought in the new town (Neuhausen) district of the prefect. Mother of God, the village of Virsta and Rozhin Manor (Rauge) with the village of Kyuchi (Kosse), - Rastin villages (Rappin).” The Poles, who undertook to defend the Germans, attacked first of all the places where the Russians settled with their faith. The Tale of the Pecher. mon. l. 5. Collection l. IV, 318, 343, 344. Collection l. III, 164, 174. From 1570, Savva was the abbot of Pechersk, and from 1572, Sylvester. (Tolstoy's shrine of Pskov p. 109. Collection l. III, 164). Jesuit Possevin: Vladicam i. e. episcopum Donpati imposnit. Comm. p. 17. Riga, 1852. East. John p. 124. St. Petersburg, 1842. In Ustryalov’s edition, Kurbsky, p. 165. The story of the Pechersk monastery. p. 4. The year of his painful death is unknown. But 20 o'clock Feb. shown on the day of the death of Cornelius as in the RKP. Saints, so in the records of the Pechersk monastery. The Tale of the Pecher. mon. pp. 8, 22. Elder Serapion's story about the arrival of Stefan Batory on Thursday. total ist. 1847 East. Hier. 6, 587. l. 3, 472 about the beginning of the monastery, see May 28 h. East. Hier. 5, 288. Rkp. Saints: “Rev. Father Polycarp, abbot of the Spassky monastery in Bryansk, reposed in l. 7507 m. Feb. at 23 d. Notes Russian. archaeol. 2, 415. In the source. Hier. The Spassky Monastery, at the expense of Prince Boryatinsky, was built in 1694. There is, of course, a mistake about the year of the saint’s death (1699). Description K. Lavra p. 110. RKP. Saints: “teacher. Fathers Pergius and Erasmus, church beauty.” From Kalnofoisky: “St. Erasmus monk, wonderworker." In the printed patericon, Simon's simple and beautiful story about Erasmus is not only shortened by half, but also changed with strange additions. Rev. Macarius (historical Russian ts. III, 33) in vain excluded St. Erasmus, as well as several others, from the number of ascetics of 1147–1240. Teraturgima r. 15 Kiow 1636. Pech. Patericon 187. Description. K. livres 108. Akathists, K., 1674. The Tale of Pskov. pecher. mon. l. 44. M., 1831. Lyubyatov Pogost - 5 versts from Pskov, on its eastern side, here in a church, a former monastery, above the royal doors hangs a small image left by the formidable king. Gr. Tolstoy ancient Pskova, pp. 76, 77. RKP. abbreviation times at Solovyov 6, pr. 96. Collection l. 4, 344. Abbr. times 1691 Collection l. IV, 344, 345. Ilyinsky description. Pskova, part 4, pp. 63, 64. St. Petersburg, 1795 The story of the Pechersk monastery. l. 44. RKP. Saints: “St. Blessed Nicholas, Fool for Christ's sake, Pskov miracle worker, was in l. 7070 m. Dec. at 6 days.” This is the year of his struggle with the formidable king. In another way to the list of calendars: “he reposed in 7084.” The Tale of the Pecher. mon. l. 22. Camp of the Mother of God III, 1, 28. List from the icon of gr. Tolstoy. Shrines of Pskov, M., 1861. A. Knyazeva described. Pskov Cathedral pp. 20, 21, 29, 37.