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Florus and Laurus, brothers in body and spirit, stonecutters, were taught the holy faith by their teachers, Proclus and Maximus. After the martyrdom of the latter, the brothers continued their studies and agreed to build an idol church. While the work was being carried out, a young man, the son of the priest Memertin, came up to the place where a piece of debris suddenly bounced off and knocked out his eye. Florus and Laurus consoled the priest, promising to cure their son, and taking the latter to their home for the night, they revealed to him the teaching about the one God and said: “if you begin to believe with all your heart in the God we preach, then your eye will be healthy.” The young man promised to believe. Then the brothers prayed to the Lord for him, made the sign of the cross over his sore eye and healed it. The young man believed along with his father. Having finished the building, they consecrated it to the glory of the name of Christ and installed St. cross; and after the all-night vigil, for which many Christians gathered, they went to the church, where the idols for the new church were stacked, and crushed them into small pieces. For this, all participants were burned, and Florus and Laurus were thrown into a deep well and covered with earth (in the third century). This happened in Illyria. † Repose of Rev. John of Rylsky Our venerable father John 149, great among the ascetics, was from the city of Sredets, from a village called Skrin 150. His parents were pious people, and not very rich, from the Bulgarian tribe. When they died, and he loved the Lord from his youth, he distributed the property that remained to him to the poor and sick 151; and he himself, having accepted monasticism, left his homeland, wearing only leather clothes on his body 152. Having ascended a high and bare mountain, he began to struggle here, eating only wild plants.” “His hut was woven here from brushwood. Not long after, robbers attacked him at night and, beating him, drove him away." 153 “He found a deep cave and settled in it. A young nephew, Luka, came here to him, who, having hidden from his father, barely found his uncle in the wild rocks. It was so difficult to find the hermit here that he himself, seeing the youth from afar, considered his appearance a dream. John received his young nephew with love and was especially happy when he heard that he was thirsting for spiritual salvation. They began to struggle together. “The brother, having learned that his son was hiding with his uncle, began to seethe with anger and malice against John. Finding him in a cave, he scolded him in every possible way and even raised a stone at him. – The monk was silent. The father grabbed his son and dragged him along. John fell to the ground and with tears prayed to the Lord to arrange what was necessary for the eternal salvation of the young man. - Having prayed, he sat down in his cave, worried about the dangers of worldly life. What happened to the boy? On the way, a snake bit him and he died. The father, who lost his son so unexpectedly, felt guilty. He returned to his brother and told him about the misfortune. The hermit ordered him to bury the deceased”; Subsequently, the monk visited the grave of the righteous youth, and here was his favorite resting place 154. His exploits were strong both against the dreams of spirits and against the infirmities of the flesh. John spent twelve years in his wild cave 155. From the cave he moved “to the Rylskaya desert and, settling in a hollow tree, he labored firmly, fasted, prayed and cried constantly; he ate only grass: he did not see a human face here, but was with the animals 156; God, seeing his great patience, commanded that the grass grow for him - (beans) 157 and the blessed one ate that for a long time. The shepherds saw him and through them they learned about him everywhere.” It was like this: the sheep suddenly ran out of some fear and flew along the rapids until they reached the place where the hermit lived. The shepherds, running after them, saw the hermit with amazement. “You came here hungry, tear your little elephants and eat,” said the hermit 158. They ate and were satisfied; only one hid a lot of beans for himself in stock, without the hermit’s blessing, and when he gave them to his comrades on the road, there was not a single grain in the stolen pods. They returned to the good old man with repentance. The elder forgave them and said with a smile: “You see, children, these fruits were appointed by God to feed the desert.” It is understandable how much the shepherds talked about the wondrous hermit after that. But their news gave rise to different rumors, including, as happens among worldly people, unfavorable ones. Those who knew him in the world called him a frenzied, almost empty person. Why did he begin to live if not them 159. But others and “many came to him and, bringing their sick, received health through the prayers of the saint.” A man possessed by an unclean spirit for several years saw them going into the wilderness of St. John and followed them. He had not yet reached a mile from the Rila desert when he fell to the ground and began shouting: “I can’t go further, the fire is burning me.” The companions, having tied up the unfortunate man, dragged him to the monk and asked him to heal him. “My children,” he said, “this is beyond my strength, I am a weak person, like you; God alone can heal him.” They persistently asked him and the hermit prayed for him, the sick man suddenly became healthy and everyone glorified God 160. Avoiding human fame, the ascetic disappeared from his beloved oak tree and, finding a very high and barely accessible rock, settled here. Here he spent more than 7 years, in the open air, enduring all the changes in the air, performing prayers either standing on his feet or kneeling 161. Rumors about the great hermit reached the Bulgarian Tsar Peter. The pious king strongly wanted to see him: but the humble hermit declined the meeting and only in a letter told the good king what he needed 162. “Many, jealous of the virtuous life of the saint, wished to live near him and built a monastery, having the monk as their leader and shepherd. He tended his flock wisely." The church was built in a cave where the monk previously lived. Having reached a ripe old age, the monk gave up his spirit to God on August 18, 946, in the 70th year of his life 163 . After quite some time, the monk appeared to his disciples and ordered his relics to be transferred to the city of Sredets (Sofia). Having opened the coffin, they found an incorrupt and fragrant body and glorified God, carrying it with honor to St. body, they placed it in the church of St. Evangelist Luke 164. When a beautiful church was built in his name, they placed it here and many gave benefits to sufferers of all kinds 165. “After a long time, the Hungarian king came to war and took many places, including Sredets. Taking the relics of the monk, with great honor he transferred them to his country, where they were placed in the church, since he had heard about his miracles. The Ostrigomsky biskup, when he heard that he was great before God, said: “I don’t know this saint, he is not mentioned in the ancient scriptures.” And suddenly his tongue went numb. The unfortunate man hurried to the saint’s shrine, asked for forgiveness, and the saint of God, having heard his prayer, resolved it immediately. The monk performed many other miracles in the land of Hungary. The king, having heard about it, decorated the shrine with gold and returned it to Sredets in 1093. Under the Bulgarian Tsar John Yasen and St. Vasily, the relics of St. John were transferred to Ternov and placed in a church dedicated to his name. This was in 6746 (1238) 166. Now the relics of St. John rest in his Rila monastery, which constitutes a nursery of piety and enlightenment for the entire Bulgarian people 167. Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria This holy icon was brought from Asia to the country of Trebizond at the end of the 4th century by the Venerables Barnabas and Sophronius, where it was placed in the cave church of the monastery they founded in Mount Chernaya (Meda, now Sumela). The monastery still exists, and worshipers from Asia Minor, Taurida and the Caucasian countries flock to the icon on pilgrimage. The memory of the venerable founders of the monastery is celebrated on this same day. Died in 412. Oh St. John: a) news written while his relics lay in Sredets: aa) service to him in the Menaion for August, in the RKP. XII century Parisian book No. 23. Here it is said about John: “appearing in our days, venerable one.” bb) life of St. John in the RCP. 6th Society of Serbian Literature (lists of service and life were delivered to Prof. Lavrovsky): 6) news compiled on the transfer of the relics to Ternov: aa) the legend of the synaxar of 1340, printed. in Izv. acad. VIII, 150–152. bb) Description of the life, compiled by P. Euthymius around 1380. We transmit the text of the synaxarion, with additions by Euthymius and other sources. The Synaxarion also says: “to the kingdom of the Christ-loving Peter the Bulgarian Tsar.” This is an inaccuracy. The last desert exploits of the saint date back to the first half of Peter’s reign. Since he died at the age of 70 in 945, his birth was in 876 under King Boris. Service: “Thou hast rejected worldly love and given thou to the poor a treasure that cannot be stolen, desiring to acquire it.” Service: “having realized the nakedness of man, he has clothed himself with a robe of skin.” Thy garment is filth, father, the robe has been worn, but thou hast clothed yourself in nakedness and put to death the passionate leapings of the venerable one, and thou hast rejected the horse-riding of Aden, and thou hast rejected the robe.” Service: “the robbers of the ambassador (the devil) drive out the little ones from the little ones, but you, most blessed, are persecuted for Christ, rejoicing.” This is also evidenced by a medieval legend, where it is said that the youth was buried, according to the instructions of the monk, in the place of Osenevo, and St. John “if that soul went to that place for the sake of the righteous, create for itself that resting place.” According to the medieval legend, “create a saint in that cave. John, not gone, three years and 6 months.” - Since the news of Euthymius, written later, is justified in all other cases, then in this too it deserves preferential trust, especially since according to the Sredech legend John then lived for 7 years on a rock, while according to other news he lived in a hollow before the rock. Service: “You dwelt in a hollow tree, you remained without cover and without food for many days, you became very rich.” Service: “renewed by the rave of fasting, father, God will accept your heart, in the desert of Neorana a glorious little one vegetates for you (according to another list: “slaenyutok”).” In Vostokov’s dictionary, slaenutok, translated from Greek, corresponds to terevinth; Miklosic considered slaneutok to be a fruitful tree. But according to the service of St. John, slanutok is a plant that appears on unplowed land. Euthymius replaces it with the word: beans. Service, dog. 6. “As Elijah fed the widow and her children with sorrow, so you also fed those who shepherd with little aloe.” Vostokov's al'na is a fallow deer, a wild goat. The service includes wild goat food. Service: “having obeyed the divine commandments, you have remained the martyr of your entire life, as if you were indecent and dishonorable, you were considered a reproach in your fatherhood.” Ancient service: “For many years, father, the devil has taken hold of a person and tortured him: but you quickly healed him, bringing him to you.” So is the Sredech legend. It says here: “the height of that stone is 40 fathoms... Until this day, you know, put his foot on the stones and blood him.” Before the Sredech legend, the place where the c. Peter, who wanted to see the hermit, “hence called himself Tsar Varch.” In the mid-August of the 12th century. “18th day of the Dormition of our Venerable Father John Rylskag.” – The same day of death in the Sredech legend. According to the Sredets legend, the monk appeared to Tsar Peter himself, and under this king the relics were transferred from the desert rock to Sredets. Service, glory, voice I. “In the fasts of the zealots who have shone, desert education, the midst of the lamp of the words of all the faithful with songs, we will praise, calling: Rejoice, great glory, who appeared in our days, venerable one.” Dog. 7. The divine hand of your relics, like other paradises, is fragrant to those flowing to you... Dog 8. More than the multitude of stars, more than the sand of the sea, your wonders are many. Father: for you give healing to the blind and to the sick, and you grant all petitions to those of the field.” “Where the miraculous body of the saint lies to this day,” says the synaxar. These words show that the legend of the synaxarion was written around 1240. Euthymius follows after that with the history of the monastery. Monuments of the monastery - in Glasnik VII, 180–189. Memory ir. John is shown on October 19 - leaf fall at Grigorovich p. 70 at a fan of St. Mountains p. 336. But this is the day of transferring the relics to Ternov. The place where the relics were transferred, in the Bulgarian and Athonite synaxar (from the admirer of the Holy Mountain, p. 335), is called Trapezitsa, while according to the news of Euthymius they were transferred to Ternov. G. Knyazhich writes: “in Ternov, between two rocks and the Yantra River, there is a hill called Trapezets or Trapezitsa, on this place there was a palace of the Bulgarian kings.” (Western archaeological community. IV, 109). Since the church in the name of St. They decided to build John at the same time as they decided to transfer his relics to Ternov, and by the time of the transfer his construction could not be completed: it is natural that at first St. the relics were placed in the church of the Trapezitsa, which had so troubled the worshiper, p. 332. Grigorovich is on his way. pp. 147–101. 101. where the area of ​​the monastery is described. FROM 1627 the abbot of the Rila monastery came to Moscow for alms; in the charter I gave the following: "In the region of Sardicia on Mount Knishava there is a royal establishment of the monastery of Rylo with the church of St. John the Desert Dweller, where his relics rest, safe and sound until now. It is also said here that the monastery of St. John was given charters by the kings John and Theodore. Relations with the East 2, 57-60.