Come, O righteous warrior Theodora, from the mountain villages to those who flow to you, and heed their prayer: beg the Lord God to grant to all of us what we ask of Him for our salvation in the presence of your holy representation. You have carried out the great service entrusted to you carefully, and with your help, instruct us to remain in what we are called to eat. You, having defeated the many adversaries, will also bring down all visible and invisible enemies against us. Ask the All-Merciful God: may the atheist free the suffering Russian country from the cruel ones and free their power, and may the throne of the Orthodox kings be restored. Pray to the Lord God to grant strong and unbreakable peace and fruitfulness to the earth, holiness for the shepherd, truth and power for the law, wisdom and invincible valor for the military leader, the mayor of the court, to your Russian fleet and to all our army, devotion to faith and the Fatherland, and invincible courage, and to all Orthodox Christians health and piety.
Save our Russian country and this holy monastery from all the slander of the enemy, so that in word and deed the all-holy name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages, may be glorified. centuries. Amen.
Admiral, naval commander, diplomat, strategist, politician, do-gooder Feodor Feodorovich Ushakov (1745–1817) patron of the Russian fleet. During his entire brilliant military career, Ushakov did not receive a single defeat. This was facilitated by his truly ascetic and highly spiritual life: he lived in the world as a monk, his ships were called floating monasteries, they all had names in honor of saints and Christian holidays. Ushakov’s main parting words to the sailors before the battle were: “Brothers! Read Psalms 26, 50, 90, and neither a bullet nor a saber will take you.” In 1804, he compiled a detailed note about his service to the Russian fleet, in which he summed up his activities: “Thanks be to God, during all the above-mentioned battles with the enemy and during the entire time that fleet was under my command at sea, preserving the Most High Goodness, not a single ship from it was lost and not a single person from our servants was captured by the enemy.” The admiral spent the rest of his days with extreme abstinence and ended his life as a true Christian and faithful son of the Holy Church should.