Glory to St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov, in Moscow

In Moscow, in the name of St. Demetrius, there are no separate churches, but there are chapels at several churches. In the Novospassky Monastery it was built in 1758 on the left side of the Intercession Refectory Church. - In the chapel in the name of St. Savva the Sanctified there is a full-length image of St. Demetrius on the canvas in the saint’s robe. In the church in honor of St. Trinity Church, on Khokhlovka, was authorized for construction in 1757. On the throne there is an antimension, consecrated on August 6, 1784 - Church icon of St. Demetrius is contemporary with the base of the chapel, painted with egg paints. Psalter, printed. in 1750. A handwritten book (life, sermons and other works) was given on October 1, 1758 in memory of N.I. Glebov in the chapels of St. Demetrius, which belonged to the sexton of the village of Staraya Sitny, Serpukhov district, I. I. Starositensky. In the church in the name of St. John the Baptist, in Kazennaya on Pokrovka, the beginning of the chapel in honor of St. Demetrius was laid in 1766. It was built with funds and on the promise of a parishioner, “the owner of a silk factory,” Andrei Babushkin. – The icon of St. Demetrius of Rostov is contemporary with the base of the chapel. The Menaion of St. Dimitri 1767 On the throne, in the aforementioned chapel, is kept a cross donated by its builder. In the church in the name of St. Nicholas, in Drachy, in the chapel in the name of St. Demetrius, his icon with the discovery of his relics and a miracle (20x10 vers.) of the end of the 18th century. In the chapel in the name of St. Demetrius at the Church of the Hospice House gr. Sheremetev, consecrated on February 3, 1811, the icon of the Saint appears to be a portrait image of the early 19th century. In the church in the name of St. Nicholas, in Zvonary, there is a chapel in honor of St. Demetrius, 1762. In the church there is an icon of the saint, apparently a portrait image. In the church in the name of St. Nicholas, in Gnezdniki, in the chapel of St. Demetrius, the church icon of the saint is painted with egg paints, early 19th century, chasuble of 1808. In addition, there are three more icons of the saint, two of which depict him in the saint’s vestments, two portrait icons, painted in life-size. In the church in the name of St. John the Warrior, on Yakimanka, the left chapel in honor of St. Demetrius. There are two images of St. Demetrius: one in front of the iconostasis, decorated with a diamond in the saint’s miter, the other in the iconostasis itself. In the church in the name of St. Simeon the Stylite, on Povarskaya, an image of the saint on canvas, especially revered, size 1 arsh. 9 tops X 1 arsh. 3 tops Reese weighs 21 lbs. 20 gold, Bazilevich's contribution. There are two panagias on the robe, one of a smaller size, the contribution of Princess Khovanskaya, the other arrived after the death of Simeon, Bishop of Minsk. This image of the saint is one of the best we have. It is undoubtedly a portrait of the saint, painted during his lifetime. That this image is considered the best of all existing ones is confirmed, for example, by the fact that a special photograph was taken from it for the publication of the saint’s works by the Moscow Synodal Printing House. The origin of this image is somewhat unclear. There are several variations regarding it. According to the famous archaeologist A. Titov (Moscow Ved., 1888, No. 250), a certain F.D. Rudakov, the church builder of the village of Ivanovsky-Rudakov, located in the Rostov district, told him the following. At the beginning of the 18th century, in Moscow, in the parish of St. Simeon the Stylite, there was a parishioner of a rich merchant who greatly respected the saint and was friendly with him. The saint visited this merchant, and on one of these visits the owner asked the saint’s permission to paint a portrait of him. Saint Demetrius did not agree for a long time, and only after intense requests did he allow this to be done, but so that after the death of the merchant the portrait would certainly be transferred to the parish church, explaining his desire by the fact that after the death of the merchant, who was childless, only women would remain and that it was not appropriate for a portrait of a monk to be in women’s rooms. The merchant invited a painter, who painted a very successful portrait of the saint, which after the merchant’s death was placed in the above-mentioned church.” In his famous essay “History of the Moscow Diocesan Administration” (Part 2, Book 11, note 395 to § 123 “On the inspection of icons in churches”), Mr. Rozanov says that the said image of St. Demetrius was given to the Church of St. Simeon Stolpnik, on Povarskaya, from the house of General Ivan Onufrievich Brylkin (See “Journal of Moscow. Spirits. Consistory of 1768, January 8”). Finally, there is an assumption that the said image of the saint was donated from the Golokhvastov family of nobles. All these contradictory data agree, however, on the most essential thing, that this image is really a portrait painted of the saint during his lifetime. This is also indicated by the fact that it is painted on canvas, whereas icons are usually painted on boards. This image is far from similar to the image located in the Spaso-Yakovlevsky monastery in Rostov, in front of the saint’s shrine. There, he is depicted as thin, long-faced and quite tall. On the icon of the Simeon Stylite Church, the saint is depicted as plump, somewhat stooped, with his left eye squinted. The accuracy of this image is confirmed by another similar portrait, which is still in the Rostov Museum of Church Antiquities, where it was donated by the Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery around 1884. Under the portrait there is an inscription: “Person of the Right Reverend Demetrius.” The image of the saint, located in the Simeon Church, is pasted onto a board, overlaid with a valuable silver-gilded chasuble and enclosed in a special icon case, with brackets on the sides for wearing. This image has long been revered as miraculous, and there is a direct indication of this. Hanging on the saint’s staff is a gilded hand with the inscription on it: “Twice healed by Saint Demetrius, a great sinner.” The priest of the said church testified to the same thing, reporting in 1760, among other information, to Metropolitan Timothy that “this image is sometimes required for philistine houses.” Undoubtedly, the above-mentioned brackets served precisely for carrying the image around philistine houses. As for the image of the Mother of God with the Baby Jesus, placed in the upper left corner of the icon, it was undoubtedly attributed much later, as is clearly indicated by the very manner of writing. In the church in honor of St. Nicholas, in Khamovniki, there is a chapel in honor of St. Demetrius, built in 1757; destroyed, on the northern wall, in the chapel of the Help of Sinners, an icon of the saint with an inscription was preserved, in which he is called “the newly-minted miracle worker.” There are also chapels in honor of St. Demetrius in the Zlatoust Monastery (consecrated on May 29, 1761 - Russian Venerable III, Art. IV, 35) and the Nativity Monastery, in the church in honor of St. Simeon the Stylite, one hundred behind the Yauza, in the church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is in Levshin, built in 1758, - in the church in the name of St. Nicholas, in Novy Vagankovo ​​and in the church in honor of the icon of the “Burning Bush” (on the right side in the meal in 1759). At the church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on Strelka, on Solyanka, this chapel was renamed several years ago in the name of St. Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica. Parts of the relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov are in special arks: in the Conception Monastery, in the Annunciation Cathedral, in the Passion Monastery and in churches: St. Pimen, in Vorotnikovsky Lane, St. John the Warrior, which is on Yakimanka and the Kazan Mother of God, which is at the Kaluga Gate; in the altar crosses, parts of the relics of this saint are preserved: in the Ascension Monastery and in the churches: Grebnevskaya Mother of God, on Lubyanka, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, on Molchanovka, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, called Zayaitsky, St. Prince Vladimir, which is at the Ivanovo Monastery and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, called Red Bell, in Yushkov Lane. A separate reprint from No. 1 of the journal “Readings in General”. Love. Spirit. 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