O venerable and God-bearing Father Athanasius, an earthly angel and a heavenly man, a great servant of Christ, and a kind reader of our Lady Theotokos, a well-known intercessor to all who flow to you with faith and love! Ask us everything that is necessary for this temporary life and useful for our eternal salvation. Contribute your intercession, O saint of God, to our most pious great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, against enemies visible and invisible, so that the holy Church of Christ may abide in peace, and the Kingdom of Russia may be indestructible in all piety and good order. will remain. For all of us, miracle-working saint, be a quick helper in every sorrow and situation, especially at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appears to us, may we not betray the power of the evil world ruler at the ordeals of the air, but may we be worthy a stumbling-free ascent into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our ever present prayer book, radiant with the dawn of God’s grace, the adornment of this place!
Do not stop praying, so that the grace of God and the protection of the Mother of God will no longer recede from this place, but may we, together with you and with all the saints in the villages of paradise, glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in the Trinity of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.