On November 15 (November 28), 1794, at the age of 72, the elder died quietly without naming his successor, for he knew that there would be many successors.
Numerous disciples and associates of the elder brought living faith to many monasteries in Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and Greece. More than a hundred Russian monasteries have been revived to active monastic life. The ancient northern monasteries of Valaam and Konevets rose and flourished, Optina and the Glinsk hermitage became famous throughout the country, and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra was revived.
Restoring lost traditions at the end of the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church - 200 years later - in 1988 canonized Elder Paisius. The Monk Paisios re-entered the life of modern monasticism, repeating after the Savior the eternal words: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
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Icons of the Mother of God Eleovritissa (Ole-flowing) and etc. Gennady of Vatopedi (XV century)
Our venerable father Gennady held the position of dochiar (eknom) in the glorious monastery of Vatopedi and during his service he was honored to see the following miracle: in a certain year during his service there was a shortage of oil, so that only one vessel with it remained in stock. The monk, wanting to preserve these remains for church lamps, no longer began to give oil to the brethren. But the abbot of the monastery, firmly trusting in the help of the Mother of God, to whose name the monastery is dedicated, ordered him to release the oil. Dokhiar obeyed the will of his abbot.
Once, when Saint Gennady entered the dochiarium, hoping to find the vessel containing oil empty, he saw it full, so that the oil even overflowed over the edge of the vessel and flowed out of the door of the dochiarium.
Then everyone glorified God and the Most Holy Theotokos, who cared so motherly for Her servants, and thanked Her from the heart before Her holy icon, which was standing there at that time in the dochiarium. The Oil-Flowing Icon remains there at the present time; a fragrance emanates from the icon. This image is also called “Kelarnitsa” (Ϫοχειάριςςα). The icon is small in size (28x22 cm) and dates back to the 14th century. The iconography belongs to the Hodegetria type, where the Infant Christ is represented on the left hand of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Icons of the Mother of God “Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows”
This icon comes from the St. Andrew's monastery at Athos; became famous for numerous miracles.
According to legend, the icon belonged to St. Athanasius III Patellarius, Patriarch of Constantinople, owner of the Serai cell. After the death of the saint in 1654, it passed to the elder, who lived in retirement in the Vatopedi monastery. On the day of the opening of St. Andrew's monastery (October 22, 1849), Met. Gregory presented the icon to the first abbot of the monastery, Vissarion (Tolmachev). In Aug. In 1853, the icon was sent by sea to Odessa, and from there by mail to St. Petersburg by priest. Theodoret (Krestovnikov), who collected funds for the monastery in Russia. In November he received the icon with significant damage and, probably, in July 1859, returning to Athos, he returned it to the monastery. Before his death in 1862, Abbot. Vissarion handed over the icon to the brethren with the prophetic words: “May it be joy and consolation to you in sorrows and sorrows.”
In August 1863, during the 2nd stay of the icon in Russia for the period of training by Hierom. Paisiy paid funds for the construction of the St. Andrew's monastery, in the Kazan province the icon showed miraculous power in healing people. The first miracle from the icon was recorded on November 19, 1863 in the convent in honor of the Nativity of Christ in the city of Slobodskoye, - 18-year-old student of the Vyatka Theological School Vladimir Nevolin found the power of speech.
This image was decorated with a rich silver-gilded chasuble with a diamond crown on the head of the Mother of God. He was placed in the convent of the Nativity of Christ, in the Church of the Nativity of Christ.
Citizens of the city hurried in crowds day and night to worship the miraculous image. The grace of God then deigned to glorify the icon of the Mother of God with numerous miracles.
The icon “Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows” is arranged in the form of a folding fold. In addition to the Most Pure Mother of God, it depicts the holy great martyrs George the Victorious and Demetrius of Thessalonica on horseback, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Theologian, St. Anthony, Euthymius, Onuphry, Savva the Sanctified, St. Spyridon of Trimythous and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The image is decorated with several vestments, one of which is gold.
In the service of the icon, the troparion, kontakion and akathist to the icon of the Mother of God “Assuage my sorrows” are used.
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St. Callistus II Xanthopoulos, Patriarch of Constantinople († after 1397)
Saint Callistus II, known under the name Callista Xanthopoulos, labored in the monastery of Xanthopoulos on Holy Mount Athos (apparently in the monastery of Pantocrator). In 1397 he was elevated to the Patriarchal throne and served as a priest under Manuel Paleologus (1391 - 1425). Having left the administration of the Church of Constantinople, he retired into silence. Together with his associate Ignatius Xanthopoulos, he compiled One Hundred Chapters on mental prayer, placed in the second part of the Slavic edition of the Philokalia. According to their contemporary, Saint Simeon of Thessaloniki, Saints Callistus and Ignatius Xanthopoulos were awarded Divine illumination, like the Apostles on Mount Tabor. Their faces “seemed to shine like the sun.”
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Gregorian Icon of the Mother of God
A revered image from the monastery of St. Gregory the Monk (Grigoriat) on Mount Athos. The icon was brought as a gift to the monastery by the daughter-in-law of the Moldavian ruler Stephen the Great, Maria Asenina, a relative of the Palaiologos, which is evidenced by the inscription in Greek on the silver plate at the bottom of the icon: † Ϫέησις τῆς εὐσεβεστάτης Prayer to the most pious Lady Mary Asenina Paleologina, Mrs. Moldovlahiyskaya). This act of donation was reflected in one of the names of the icon used in the monastery - “Palaeologina”, which replaced the original “Hodegetria-Pantanassa (All-Tsarina)”, including in order to distinguish this image from other icons of the Mother of God with the same name (Θεοφύλακτος (Μαρινάκης), ἀρχιμ.
Another name for the icon - “Not Burnt in Fire” - was given to it in memory of 2 fires in the monastery, from which it emerged unharmed. The fire on November 30, 1761 was especially destructive, destroying the monastery almost to the ground. It was on this day that a solemn service was held for the Gregorian icon in memory of the miraculous salvation of the Gregorian icon. On Mount Athos, such a miracle of saving an icon from fire is not the only known case. Two icons of the Mother of God, glorified in the same way, are located in the Hilandar Monastery: the one that did not burn in the fire in 1722 and the “Akathist” icon, which survived the fire in 1837.
Thanks to the notes of a Russian traveler on St. places of V. G. Grigorovich-Barsky, who visited the monastery twice, in 1725 and in 1744, the icon became known in Russia, where it was given the name of its place of origin - “Gregorian”. Currently time G. and. is also located in the katholikon, near the left choir, at the north-east. column. The icon is not transferred to another place in the church in memory of the fact that it was here that it remained unharmed in the fire.