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St. Martyrs Savin and Pope Savin was one of the original citizens of Ermopolis, in Egypt. During the persecution of Diocletianov, hiding from detectives, he retired from Ermopolis to a certain deserted village. Someone beggar, fed by him, Having heard that they were looking for Savin, he came to the idolaters and, for two gold coins, persuaded them to lead them to Savinov’s refuge. So the blessed one was captured and, after torture, first in Ermopolis, then in Antinopolis, he was drowned in the Nile River with other six Christians. – The holy Pope suffered around 305 in Seleucia of Isauria. St. Apostle Aristobulus, Bishop of Britain, one of the 70 Apostles of Christ Lived in the 1st century. Apostle Aristobulus, originally from Cyprus, brother of St. Apostle Barnabas, was installed as bishop of St. Apostle Paul. He preached in Britain, present-day England, which is why he is called Britanian or British. He worked a lot preaching to the pagans, suffered a lot from them, and died peacefully in Britain. – St. mentions him. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans: “Greet the faithful from the house of Aristobulus” (Rom. 16:10). His memory is still on October 31st with the other five of the 70 Apostles: Stachy, Amplius, Urban, Narcissus Apellius, and on January 4th, in the Cathedral of the 70 Apostles. Rev. Christodoulus of Patmos A native of Nicaea, he was first a monk on Mount Latre in Bithynia, then hegumen of a monastery on the island of Kos. In 1089, he begged Emperor Alexei Komnenos to give his monastery the island of Patmos, then deserted (from the Saracen raids), in exchange for estates on the island of Kos and on the shore of Kariy, and built a monastery here on the mountain near the cave in which, according to legend, St. The Apostle John the Theologian wrote the Apocalypse. In 1110 he fled with his disciples to the island of Euboea due to raids by sea robbers, and died there the following year. The disciples brought back the relics of the monk, which still rest in his monastery. † Repose of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod Blessed Serapion was born in the village of Pekhorka (Pekhra) not far from Moscow 171. Having been taught to read and write at the age of 7, he wanted to leave the world early; but his parents forced him to marry, and he accepted the priesthood; but a year after the marriage his wife died. Having accepted the monastic image, he remained a priest at the Church of the Intercession for the peace of his parents; After the death of his parents, having released his workers and distributed property to the poor, he entered the Dubensky Assumption Monastery on the island. After the death of the abbot, the brethren begged Serapion to accept the position of builder of the Dubenskaya monastery, which was then under the jurisdiction of the Sergius Lavra. The monk was so famous here for his spiritual exploits and did so much for the Ostrovskaya hermitage that the hermitage was later called the Serapion Hermitage 172. - Weighed down by the caring position, he abandoned it and moved to the Sergius Lavra. But even here I was not at peace for long. By the will of the Metropolitan and the Grand Duke, he was appointed (1493) to the position of abbot of the Lavra. – Grand Duke John respected the ascetic abbot. Three noblewomen were accused of witchcraft before the Grand Duke; Strict John ordered them to be burned. Blessed Serapion, confident in the innocence of the unfortunate, after fervent prayer to the Holy Trinity, appeared to the Grand Duke and convinced him to cancel the harsh sentence; the Grand Duke listened to the pious abbot, and the lives of three innocents were saved. Caring for the improvement of the great monastery and especially for a life worthy of monasticism, blessed. Serapion was also at the council about church estates; here he tried to reconcile the benefits of the Church and the state and expressed a voice identical to the voice of Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk 173. Grand Duke John, transferring control to his son Vasily, pointed him to Serapion as worthy to occupy the bishopric in Novgorod, and on January 15, 1506, the Council of Archpastors consecrated Serapion as Archbishop of Novgorod. – This elevation to a high degree of power was for Serapion a call to the most intense sorrows. In February he arrived in Novgorod; and in the fall the pestilence opened. The same disaster recurred in the next two years, also in the fall. Last autumn, 15,398 people died from ulcers in Novgorod. Meanwhile, in August of the same 1508 there was such a terrible fire in Novgorod that it is difficult to indicate another similar one in the chronicle: a terrible storm intensified the ferocity of the fire to the extreme. During the fire, the saint went out with a religious procession to the Volkhov Bridge to the wonderful cross.” Praying to quench the wrath of God, he not only shed tears, but sobbed and was unable to read prayers because of his sobs; He continued to pray until the fire began to subside. When it was all over, it turned out that up to 3,315 people 174 had burned to death. At a time that was so difficult for Novgorod and its zealous archpastor, the bitter story of the Volokolamsk monastery began. - Pressed by the Volokolamsk prince, blessed abbot Joseph turned to the Grand Duke for protection and was accepted with the monastery under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan and Grand Duke. Serapion subjected Joseph to a ban because he, without the knowledge and will of his archbishop, evaded his diocese. Grand Duke Vasily took the archbishop's prohibitory letter as a personal insult. The archpastor, denouncing Joseph’s lack of patience, if not earthly vanity, wrote to Joseph: “Why did you give your monastery to the jurisdiction of a great state? You have retreated from heavenly things and come to earthly things.” Vasily, in anxieties of pride, explained it to himself this way: “You called Prince Theodore heavenly, and me earthly. That I am earthly, I know; but tell me, why did you call Prince Theodore heavenly?” 175 In the third week after Easter, at the end of April 1509, not only without trial, but without even hearing an explanation from Serapion, Vasily declared Serapion deprived of his throne, demanded him to Moscow and imprisoned him in the Andronikov Monastery 176. In his imprisonment, the sufferer suffered many insults from the Andronievsky abbot Simeon, a monk of the abbot of Volokolamsk. At the council (in July 1509) they accused Serapion of excommunicating Joseph, who wanted, but could not, to receive the blessing of the archbishop, and recognized him as deprived of his see 177. - But if Joseph was not guilty of moving to another diocese without the blessing of his archpastor, since he actually wanted it, but could not get it, then Serapion was not guilty before the church law, pronouncing his judgment on Joseph according to the information that he had then. Therefore, the council's court was only a concession to the violence of the authorities. In a strong and lengthy letter to Metropolitan Simon, written in difficult captivity, Serapion complained to the high priest that he was carried away by the biased suggestions of the Rostov Archbishop Vassian and other unreasonable friends of Joseph. Calling the Metropolitan his most holy archbishop, his father and master, and himself a humble son and imprisoned, he at the same time said that he himself, by the grace of God, was an archbishop, who should not be insulted unjustly. He showed Joseph’s guilt in that, contrary to church rules, he withdrew from his diocese without his blessing and caused confusion in the entire Church. He reminded the Metropolitan that he had asked permission to appear in Moscow and explain himself to the sovereign at the council, but was not allowed to do so; instead, contrary to the rules of the Church, he was deprived of his pulpit without trial and imprisoned. “Remember, Most Holy One,” the sufferer continued, with what vows did you place me, and what did you command me? Didn’t I promise you, my lord and father, and all the bishops, in the holy church of the Most Pure Mother of God, at the whole-bearing tomb of Peter the Wonderworker, to keep the commandments, fearing no one, and to stand in truth, according to the instruction of the psalmist: “speak before kings and not be ashamed” (Ps. 119:46). Then I gave my word to God and to you to act according to the traditions of the Apostles and Holy Fathers. And you taught me consecration and the power to bind and decide, which I used over my monk when he violated the statutes of the former archbishops of Novgorod.” In conclusion he wrote: “For me it is gain that Christ live and die (Phil. 1:21). Who will separate us from the love of God? (Rom. 8:35.) I look forward to the reward of the righteous from Christ my Lord.” Metropolitan Simon, before his death († 1511), with the consent of the Grand Duke, invited Serapion to himself, and asked his forgiveness and, having forgiven him, allowed him to live in his beloved Lavra of Sergius 178. At the same time, the Venerable Joseph of Volokolamsk reconciled with the high-ranking archpastor; and according to his conviction, the Grand Duke agreed to the dismissal of Serapion to the Lavra 179. Those who judged and condemned Serapion too harshly based on human appearances experienced the judgment of God, as contemporaries saw it 180. At that very hour when Joseph was passing into eternal life, blessed Serapion stood up and said aloud to those with him: “Our brother Joseph has passed away; may God forgive him"; then, looking at the icon of the Mother of God, he added: “This happens with the righteous.” The blessed sufferer and strict ascetic, having accepted the schema, reposed peacefully on March 16, 1516 181. His holy relics were found incorrupt the following year, on the 7th day of April, and remain hidden in the so-called Serapion tent of the Lavra 182. In 1608, during the siege of the Lavra by the Poles, St. Sergius, as the best elders saw, woke up the monks and called them to the church for prayer; “Holy Archbishop Serapion entered here in the clothes of a saint and stood in the altar, in front of the image of the Most Holy Theotokos. The Wonderworker Sergius, turning to him, said: “Father Serapion! do not hesitate to offer prayer to the merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos.” The holy archbishop, with his hands raised to heaven, cried out: “Oh! all-singing Mother! deliver everyone from every misfortune” 183. Together with other famous Novgorod saints, Saint Serapion is called upon for help in church charters of 1628 and 1654 184. RKP. life of St. Serapion, described by a student of his abbot. Jacob, in the collection of the Sergius Lavra No. 105 and 7. In Rumyantsev No. 371. Prologue March 16: “comes to the monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos of Her Honorable Assumption, to the island on Dubenka.” The Dubenskaya communal hermitage was located on an island washed by Dubenka, Dubna and Bystritsa, on the borders of the Tver and Vladimir provinces, in the northeast of the Sergius Lavra. - In the village The swamp, located 6 versts. from Dubensky Island, an icon of the Savior is preserved, with the inscription: “this holy icon came from the former Assumption, Savvin and Serapion Monastery, which is in Shavpikin, from the builder, Elder Leonty, in 1765.” Read General East. 1860, book. 1. RKP. life of the Rev. Joseph, op. unknown: “in these interrogations of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius, abbot Serapion and Joseph, the best will be arranged wisely and kindly, depending on the benefit of both.” Collection l. III, 147. 244–246. IV, 136. Letter of permission to Joseph dated July 8, 1509 in East. Act. 1, 529. About the cathedral collection. l. VI, 249. 250. Lvov. l. 3, 306–309. The last one contains an error about the time of the council. Dositheus’ Life of Joseph: “And again a little later, Archbishop Serapion and Abbot Joseph interceded themselves with common forgiveness and received.” Unknown in the life of Joseph: “Joseph was informed to Serapion and, having learned the truth, humility multiplied himself as a venerable and multiplied the first affirmer of love.” - From a message to the leader. book Vasily can see that the prince asked what he thought to do to reconcile with Serapion, and the monk, understanding from the letter Vasily’s displeasure with this world, left the matter to the will of the prince (Volokolam. RKP. No. 122). According to Joseph’s letter to Chelyadin, there is no doubt that Joseph’s reconciliation with Serapion followed already under Metropolitan Varlaam. The chronicle of 1516 says: “The Grand Duke reconciled himself with Serapion” (Collected fol. 3. 184). But reconciliation, or more precisely, asking for forgiveness, is not the same as allowing Serapion to enter the monastery. About the latter in the continuation of Nestor and in Russian. Time 2, 238 it is said that in May 1511 “the Grand Duke released the former Archbishop Serapion to the Sergius Monastery.” Collection l. 4, 136. 258. 3, 148. 184. “Whoever stood up to him (Serapion), Vasily Andreevich Chelyadin, Vladyka Vassian of Rostov (died Aug. 28, 1515), Vladyka Simeon of Suzdal, former rector of Andronievsk († Sept. 15. " Collection l. 3, 148. 184. 247. Nikon. l. 6, 205. Rkp. life, Lvov. l. 3, 309. 340. Prologue of March 16. In the Rumyantsev Museum No. 371: “On the 7th day of April, the discovery of the relics of our holy father Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod.” Here is the service with the canon and then the life of Serapion. In the calendar of the charter of the 16th century. (Tolstoy 1 No. 100) March 16 “death of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod.” Palitsyn about the siege of the Lavra, p. 98. East. Act. 4, 13. 14. 225. See also January 25, pr. 120.