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† Memory of the Venerable Nektarios of Pechersk “Reverend Elder Nektarios, distinguished by obedience,” this is how the imperishable Nektarios is shown in Kalnofoisky. - According to this description, the predominant virtue of St. Nectarius had unquestioning obedience, and it was through this that he achieved bliss. His relics rest openly in Anthony's Cave 454. The people of the world do not want to hear about obedience: they value unlimited freedom. How can one not seem to see the need for obedience? In nature, each link is linked to another and everything is held together by the obedience of the lower to the higher. – The Lord of the Worlds rules the human world through the angelic world, and the material world is placed at the disposal of man. Is order possible in a family, in a community, in a city, in a state if there is no obedience? Freedom, they say, is an inviolable shrine! But what kind of freedom? True freedom consists in obedience to the holy will of God; the other freedom is humiliation for man, meaninglessness and wickedness. “Obedience is better than sacrifice. To be disobedient is the same as committing the sin of sorcery, and to be disobedient is the same as committing the wickedness of idolatry” (2 Samuel 15:22, 23). This is the teaching of God's revelation! “Nectarius is obedient and equal to him, Sergius! as those who have bowed their souls under the yoke of the obedience of Christ, by your prayer bend our rebellion under the yoke of the obedience of Jesus, so that we may diligently fulfill the commandments of Christ” 455. Holy Martyr Aviv, Bishop of Nekres in Kakheti Aviv, one of the 13 fathers of Syria (commemorated on May 7), who lived in the UI table, during his bishopric in the city of Nekresi, zealously opposed the Persians who conquered Kakheti, who persecuted the Christian faith, turned Christians away from worshiping the True God and spread their churches everywhere. The saint, undaunted, with a cross in his hands, walked through the cities and villages of his diocese, exterminated superstition, extinguished altars set on fire by fire worshipers, and with preaching and miracles distracted the people from fire services and returned those who had fallen away again into the bowels of the Church of Christ. For this he was captured by order of the noble Persians, subjected to scourging and torture, imprisoned and from there presented to the Persian satrap in the city of Rehi, who, having heard his firm confession of the God of Christ, again subjected Aviv to torture and condemned him to stoning. And so the saint, faithful to God, joyfully accepted his martyrdom. Although his remains were thrown out of the city by the tormentors to be devoured by wild animals, neither birds nor beasts touched them, and after several days the monks of the Samtavria Monastery secretly took them away and buried them with honor. From here, under the ruler Stephen (639–663), the relics of St. Aviva to the Mtskheta Samtavra Cathedral and were placed under the holy throne, where they rest in secret to this day. St. Martyr Paramon and others with him During the persecution of Decius, the governor Avilinus, setting off from Nicomedia to the warm waters of the area of Valsatia, ordered to lead three hundred and seventy Christians from different places, intending to force them to sacrifice to idols in the church of Posidon, which stood on the road. A certain venerable man, Paramon the Christian, happened to pass there; At the sight of so many sufferers, he exclaimed: “How many innocents die because they do not bow to crazy idols!” and continued on his way. Avilin, to whom Paramonov’s words were conveyed, ordered to catch up with him and kill him. The servants, having seized him, pierced his tongue and his whole body and finally pierced him with spears, and beheaded the rest (250 years) at the Timbre River in Bithynia. He suffered in 275 during the Aurelian persecution. He was engaged in the grain trade in Ancyra; envious people reported him to the ruler Felix, and Philumen did not deny that he was truly a Christian. Therefore they filled his head, hands and feet with nails, and drove him along the road; weakened by the flow of blood, he gave up his spirit to God. Description Kyiv. laurels p. 110. 200. 292. RKP. Saints: “Rev. Fathers Nectarius and Helladius." Siriga canon of the Pechersk monk.