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It is called Pilusiotom from the fact that he was the abbot near the city of Pilusium (or Pelusium, in northern Egypt, on the Asian borderland). He was born in Alexandria from noble and wealthy parents, which is why he had the means to receive an excellent education in secular sciences; but still in his young years he left the noisy city life and around 398 took monasticism in the Monastery of the Mountain near Pilusium. Here deep solitude, strict deeds and teaching in the word of God enlightened his mind and elevated his soul; and the desire to listen to Chrysostom prompted him to go to Constantinople and led him to be an eyewitness to the unjust trial of this saint (in 403, in June). What Isidore saw and heard from Chrysostom, as well as his writings, remained for Isidore in his subsequent life a subject of careful study and surprise, so that the clarity of Chrysostom’s mind, the simplicity and jealousy of I. Chrysostom became the property of Isidore and was imprinted on all his actions. Upon returning to the Pilusiot monastery, he continued his ascetic life, not being ashamed to denounce hypocrites and offenders: he denounced his bishop for setting a price on places, and civil rulers for partiality. Therefore, he suffered a lot for his zeal, but was consoled by the word of the Apostle: it has been given to you for the sake of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him (Phil. 1:29). As a zealot of piety, he took part in the defense of the truth against the heresy of Nestorius. He died around 440, leaving us more than two thousand works in the form of Letters, most of which contain an explanation of various passages of St. Scriptures. † Rev. Kirill Novoezersky You are My friends if you do what I command you” (John 15:14), said the Son of God. – What a high privilege for a person to be a friend of the Son of God! What does it take to get this advantage? We must fulfill the commandments of the Son of God. After this, the only surprising thing is that people value the commandments of the Son of God so little. How happy, how high in mind are those who, from youth to the grave, like blessed Kirill of Novoezersk 19, do the will of the Son of God! The earthly homeland of Blessed Cyril, born to heaven on the 4th day of February, was the city of Galich. His parents were rich and pious people, White nobles 20. – Kirill, as a youth, felt an irresistible desire for monastic life and secretly left his parents’ home to find Venerable Monk on the Obnora River. Cornelius, about whom he heard a lot from his parents. From Galich to Cornelius’s cell it was 80 versts. The boy walked 15 miles and did not know where to go next. But on the road he saw an old man, adorned with gray hair. To the elder’s question, where is he going? Cyril answered: “To Cornelius; From him, as you can hear, they learn how to save themselves, but I would like to be saved.” “Blessed is God, who gave you understanding,” answered the elder; if you want, follow me to Cornelius.” The next day the residence of Cornelius was in sight; Pointing at him, the elder said: “Go, child, to blessed Cornelius; I will ask him for you,” and blessed him. The youth did not see the elder again. The Monk Cornelius received the youth with love and at the same time tonsured him into monasticism 21; he was then about 20 years old 22. The young monk, with ardent love, began to perform feats of monasticism, obedience, fasting, and prayer. After the common prayer, he worked with all his might, either in the bakery or in another service. In his free time from work, he studied the lives of the saints, read St. books, especially the psalms of David. His pure, spiritual life delighted everyone who lived with Cornelius. The parents of the blessed one, having fruitlessly searched for their son for a long time, began to consider him dead, when 7 years later the Komelsky monk told them that in their desert a young monk, who had come from nowhere, was leading a high life. The father went to the desert with rich donations and did not recognize his son in the strict faster Kirill. The son continued to pray to the Lord for the salvation of his parents. Finally, the father, recognizing his son, announced to the Monk Cornelius that he himself desired monasticism, and he was tonsured with the name Barsanuphius. After 8 days, news was received that the blessed one’s mother, the nun Elena, had died. By order of Cyril, the remaining estate was distributed to the poor, and the servants were given freedom. The father lived in the monastery for about three years, in fasting and prayer, and his son rested his old age until his grave. A year after the death of his parent, Kirill, striving for the highest perfection, decided to lead a hermit’s life in the wilderness of the northern forests. With the blessing of St. Cornelius went north to walk through the deserts; His food now consisted of various herbs and pine bark; More often he happened to see animals than people. So he spent about 7 years 23, purifying his soul in solitude with prayer and spiritual contemplation. From time to time he visited, as a reverent admirer, the holy places of Novgorod and Pskov; but, passing through residential areas, he did not enter a single house and did not take alms from anyone, except perhaps a piece of bread. His spirit was exalted in such exploits, but his physical health weakened, and he prayed to the Lord to show him a place of permanent residence. The prayer was answered. By heavenly direction, Blessed. Kirill from Tikhvin went to Beloozero; from Kobylina Mountain I saw New Lake and Red Island on it; An angel informed him in a dream that this was his place. On Kobylina Mountain there still stands a chapel, and in it is the same Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God with which the Monk Kirill came here; Every year there is a religious procession from the monastery here in grateful remembrance of the mercy of God, which founded the monastery 24. Rev. Kirill built himself a hut on Red Island, under a tall spruce tree; - this was in 1517. Among the peasants of the village. He begged Shidnem, Diya, Gregory and David for the Red Island to found a monastery; Having built another cell, a prefabricated one for the expected brethren, he built two small churches of the Resurrection of Christ and Hodegetria. Probably then, as he asked the archpastor’s blessing to consecrate his churches, he was ordained to the rank of priesthood. The church hymn sings: “Knowing that understanding the Inspired Scripture is a means to salvation, you have reverently studied all the Scriptures, Rev. Cyril; then he accepted the priesthood” 25. His first student on the island was Dionysius; then others began to come to him. – Quite a few temptations were encountered for the new monastery of prayer books. But the Monk Kirill was already firm. The fishermen who came to the island saw Kirill as their enemy for their island - they made various insults to him, trying to drive him off the island. The blessed one endured their insults patiently. – This is not how he accepted people who lived by dishonest, inhuman craft (at that time there were quite a lot of such people). The gang of robbers who robbed the shores of New Lake were already annoyed that people had settled on the island, who may know about her affairs. The predators sailed in canoes to the Red Island. “Sons of iniquity! the monk said menacingly when meeting them. Have you forgotten that there is a terrible judgment of God’s truth, and you came to an empty island to rob, and you think to find gain from a hermit? What are you doing?”...Horrified, the predators begged to forgive them. “Forward, do not commit evil, so as not to be in hell,” said the monk, and released them. “This miraculous taming of the villains consoled and inspired the prayer books gathered to the monk. Another time, pressed by poverty, thieves removed the bells from the poor church of the monastery and hurried to cross to the other side, but got lost. “Why did you come here?” asked Kirill, who met them. They fell at the feet of St. husband and asked for forgiveness. “It has never happened before,” said the monk, that anyone could be happy with someone else’s goods. If you hunger for someone else's, you will lose yours. A thief is never rich, but only hunchbacked. And steal wisely, troubles cannot be avoided. Here - a penny of labor - lives forever. An earned loaf is better than a stolen loaf. Remember this folk wisdom." Then he ordered them to be fed and released in peace. The blessed one served as a model of ascetic life for his disciples: he himself dug the earth and cut down the forest. In severe frosts, he wore thin clothes and sometimes even barefoot. Whenever it was necessary for others, he himself performed the liturgy, never getting tired. The lustful wife decided to seduce the blessed one into sin; she appeared in his cell when he was preparing to celebrate the liturgy by reading prayers. To the blessed one’s question: “Why did you come?” The evil one answered that, not knowing where to get fire, she came for fire. The monk denounced her before all the brethren: “I thought, he said, to see my dead body buried alive.” Struck by fear, her whole body trembled. The monk calmed her down with gentle instructions, but forbade his wives to appear on his island. Blessed Alexander of Svirsky sent his disciple Nicephorus to see the ascetic of God Cyril. His disciples had a lot to learn from him. The grace of God grew so much in the spirit of the blessed ascetic that it was revealed to outsiders in tangible experiences. His disciple Dionysius saw the monk on Great Thursday, when all the brethren were supposed to receive communion, serving together with the deacon; but upon leaving the church the deacon was no longer visible. “Where is the deacon who served?” Dionysius asked his Abba. “Don’t talk about what you saw until I die.” – Many monks gathered at Cyril’s monastery, but the funds of the monastery were poor, and Cyril’s disciples at times suffered from lack of maintenance. – The monk prayed earnestly for the disciples, and help was given unexpectedly 26. The servant of God also provided them with constant provision. Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Penkov was seriously ill. In a dream, someone tells him: “go to the desert of Kirill Belago, beyond Tikhvin, and you will recover.” The prince asked later: what kind of desert is this? And having learned that she was on New Lake, he went according to the instructions. When he saw blessed Cyril, he recognized him as the one who had appeared to him. At the request of the sick prince, Kirill served the liturgy and prayer service: due to the severe frost, others could not stand in the church, and Kirill served in his torn clothes and barefoot. The sick prince completely recovered and, grateful to the mercy of God, gave a letter - to issue 40 measures of rye, butter and salt for the Kirillova monastery every year. The church hymn sings to Blessed Cyril: “Having driven away the darkness of passions with prayers, you presented your heart pure to God. That is why the grace of the Holy Spirit entered into you, so that you saw the future as close to you. And to those who asked you in faith, He loosed the bonds of infertility." 27 Before his death, the monk saw and declared the disasters that were being prepared for Russia. “There will be, he said, in our land there will be rebellion between people and great troubles, the strong wrath of God will be shed, many will fall by the sword and many will be scattered among strangers. Weep, brethren, before the Lord and His Most Pure Matter for the firmness of the Russian kingdom.” Then he added: “But our kingdom will be pacified and established by God.” Having received Holy Communion Tain, having protected himself with the sign of the cross, he said: “Glory to God for everything,” and gave up his spirit to the Lord on February 4, 1532. Following the death of St. Cyril, signs of his closeness to the Lord were revealed. The sick monk Kiriak, whose obedience was to fish for the brethren, was not present at the burial of the monk due to illness and greatly grieved over this. The monk appeared and said: “Why are you so sick, brother Kiriak? Get up and go fish." Having made the sign of the cross over the patient, he ceased to be visible. The sick man, who had hitherto been lying without the use of his arms and legs, began to move, and when brought to the tomb of the monk, he completely recovered. Having told the astonished brethren his vision, he went fishing and caught more fish than ever before. Among the various healings that followed, the healing of the monk Macarius was especially striking. He entered the Novozersk monastery from the Korelsk side. Willful and grumpy, he did not want to endure the poverty of the monastery and went to the monastery of Belozersk. Here he was visited by a severe illness, so that he neither ate nor slept. Having come to the consciousness of his sins, he turned with prayer to the Monk Cyril. Feeling then some relief, he, at his request, was taken to the monastery of the monk. Here he suddenly began to scream and fell lifeless. The frightened brethren laid him on the very coffin of the monk. He woke up, stood up and said this about himself: “demons tormented me without mercy, but the handsome old man drove them away with his rod. Get up, he told me, and sin no more.” King John St. Kirill, appearing in a dream, said not to go to the reception room until 3 o’clock in the afternoon. And at that hour the chamber fell, as a result of which several people lost their lives. The dangerous king, in addition to approving the villages of Shidnem and Kobylino for the monastery, gave the monastery all the land for 3 miles in all directions of the monastery. This was in 1542 28. In 1620, the wife of priest Michael, from the village of Kema, suffered greatly from childbirth. The monk appeared to her in priestly vestments, with a cross in his hand, and said: “Go to my monastery and you will be healthy.” She felt relieved and wanted to go to the monastery, but was held back by her family, fearing for her. The monk appeared again in his previous form, but still held a candle and a censer. “Don't be afraid, Antonina! he said: Let the priest serve a prayer service with a candle and incense, and you will be healthy. Tell your husband Priest Michael to teach people goodness. You see the wrath of God: sometimes foreigners attack, sometimes famine or pestilence visits. This is because they despise God's holidays, do not fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, do not honor Sunday, and wallow in the mud of sins. If they don’t repent, things will get worse” 29. The wondrous power of the prayers of the saints of God! In the village of Shidnem, the descendants of Diy, Gregory and David, who ceded the island to the monk for a monastery of prayer, still live without dying out. The relics of St. Cyril were found incorrupt at the founding of a new church, which was rebuilt according to the vow of the boyar Iorozov, who was saved from troubles. According to the definition of the council, they were certified by Vologda Archbishop Markell; and in 1652, on the 22nd day of August, they were transferred in a shrine to a new church,” where they now rest, exuding miracles 31 . “After your dormition, blessed one, your cancer is our teacher: with the miracles flowing from it, rousing us to labors and exploits, it tells us: love the Lord in order to find eternal grace; do not place anything above Him, so that when He comes, you may find peace with the elect. ABOUT! may we be worthy of this through your prayers” 32. † Memory of the teacher. Avramia and Kopriya of Pechenga According to the RCP. description of the Vologda saints, “the venerable fathers Abramius and Kopriy, like the Savior on Pechenga, lived in the year 7000 (1492).” The Spasskaya Hermitage on the Pechenga River, closed in 1764, was located 20 versts from Vologda, in the Gryazovets district. In 1492, the blessed zealots of desert life settled for the first time in this then remote forest place. They had to endure many different needs and sorrows, but they labored firmly for the Lord until the grave. Their relics rest hidden in the Church of the Savior, now a parish 33. Lecturer Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot of Studite The 5th century and the beginning of the 9th century were rich in confessors and martyrs who protected the purity of Christian teaching and fearlessly raised their voices to refute the errors that arose one after another. Among other things, the heresy of iconoclasm was rampant and caused great confusion in the East. Executions and torture for icon veneration almost did not stop, but the Orthodox did not retreat from any torture and loudly declared their veneration of the Lord and His Saints in their images. One of those who suffered cruel torture and exile for venerating icons was St. Nicholas, abbot of the Studite monastery. He was born in 793 in Crete, in the mountains. Kydonia. Having reached the age of 10, he was sent by his parents to the Studite monastery, in Constantinople, where his uncle Theophan was a monk. Introduced to his uncle, the abbot of the monastery, Theodore, the boy was placed by the abbot in the school located at the monastery. When he came of age, he was tonsured a monk and accepted the rank of priesthood. Nikolai served with dignity and was ripe for the great struggle that lay ahead of him in life. The peace of the Church of Christ was then disturbed by the iconoclastic heresy. King Leo the Armenian then fiercely persecuted the defenders of icon veneration (813–820), and St. Nicholas with St. They were imprisoned by Theodore the Studite in Mesopa, near Lake Apolloniad, and from here they were transferred to the eastern countries - to the fortification of Vonita. But even from captivity they found the opportunity to communicate with the Orthodox and spread piety. Having learned about this, the king ordered them to be subjected to severe torture and starvation. They were wounded to the bones and left naked in the cold all night. In the midst of suffering, they only thanked and glorified God; three years after that, for their new writings in defense of St. icons, they were again subjected to torture, transferred, wounded, to the borders of Smyrna, also to prison, where they remained for about 20 months. Under Michael II - Balbus, also an iconoclast, but who did not persecute the people for icon veneration, all prisoners in prison were released, but since it was not allowed to keep icons in Constantinople, Saints Theodore and Nicholas settled in Akrit, a cape in Bithynia, where Saints. Theodore and died in 826, on November 11th. When, during the accession of Theophilus, the persecution of holy icons began again, the Monk Nicholas, leaving his refuge, wandered from place to place until the death of the persecutor, and already during the reign of his pious wife Theodora, who calmed the Church by restoring the veneration of icons at the 7th Ecumenical Council, he returned to the Studite monastery. Here he was appointed abbot, but three years later he refused the abbess, wanting to surrender to complete silence. Over time, during the troubles that arose at court and in the city, against which Patriarch Ignatius himself acted unsuccessfully, the Monk Nicholas, who was then, at the urgent request of the brethren, a second time abbot, left the monastery and again wandered around various refuges, until he was captured by order of the king and imprisoned for two years in the dungeon of the Studian monastery under the abbot Savva. Only with the accession of Emperor Basil I of Macedon (867–893) was the Monk Nicholas released from prison and, at the request of the tsar, again appointed abbot of the Studite monastery, although he was dissuaded by his old age from this abbotship. Now, although not for long, the much-suffered man finally calmed down, enjoying the great respect with which everyone began to treat him, especially after God glorified him with the gift of healings and foreknowledge of the future, as if indicating that St. Nicholas was one of those believers about whom Christ said: “He who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will also do, and greater works than these will he do” (John 15:12). The Monk Nicholas died peacefully at the age of 75, on February 4, 868. RKP. life of the teacher Cyril with miracles, written in 1620, Tsarsky No. 162, 682, in Imperial. bib. No. 731, 733. Extracted in the prologue on February 4th. - Since the life was written quite late after the death of the teacher. Kirill: it is not surprising that there are several inaccurate readings in it. Life inscription: “February 4th life of the teacher. our father Kirill-abbot Belago, Novoyezersk miracle worker.” In the history act. 2, 401. Beloy Nikita Vasilyevich siege governor. According to the chronicle, Bely Vasily is a clerk. Karamz. 7, pr. 152. 187. This is shown in the RCP. hagiography The chronicle added at the end of the life says that Cyril came to Cornelius in 1481. But then Cornelius did not yet live in the Komel forest. The life says: “the youth came to the gates of the monastery and saw the monks of the monastery (Komelsky); I want, I say, to see the abbot.” According to the life of Cornelius, this could not have happened earlier than 1501, when Cornelius was invested with the rank of priesthood and became the head of the monastery, living since 1497 as a hermit in the Komel forest. In the RKP. The life shows 15 years: but this is an inaccuracy, exposed by the life of Cornelius and the year of Cyril’s death. Lives February, page 51: “he spent up to twenty years in the feat of difficult pilgrimage.” Too much. If Cyril lived with Cornelius for at least 10 years from 1501, then after that until 1517 no more than 7 years remained for wandering. – Among the plants that St. Cornelius ate in the desert is “watch” - a grass of the northern climate, menyanthes. East. Hier. 4, 507–510. Shevyreva's trip to the Kirillov Monastery 2, 184–186. Church service on February 4th. Church service on February 4th. Accepting your prayers, God gave to those who lived with you, in times of poverty, what they needed for life (Pes. 8). - Menaion for February. M. 1646 Sedalen on 2 kathisma, in menaion. M. 1646 A special, modern story about that example. in Reading General East. 1864 book. 3. RKP. description of the saint's miracles. Shevyreva's trip to Kirillov Monastery. 2, 84, 86. A special story about the discovery of the relics of St. in Reading General East. 1864 book. 3. In the old inventory of the Vologda bishop's house there is a letter from D. Alexei Mikh. from 21 Oct. 1651 about the installation of a shrine for the relics of the wonderworker Cyril in his Novoezersky monastery. - Report from the archbishop. Markella 1649 on the examination of the relics of St. Cyril, ex. in Volog. Eparch. Led. 1865 No. 22. It says here: “and since the wonderworker Cyril the Bely reposed and was buried, he is one hundred and seventeen years old.” Stichera of the lithium in the Menaion. M. 1646 Here on February 4th. and two canons, RKP. service to the reverend on February 4. at Tsarsky, No. 126. “November 7, the word for the acquisition of the honest and multi-healing relics of St. and our God-bearing father Cyril, abbot Belago, Novoyezersk miracle worker,” in Tolstoy 2, no. 114. East. Hier. 5. 543. Mixed. about the monastery page 70.