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Rev. Fathers John, Sergius, Patricius and others, beaten in the monastery of St. Sava. The Saracens suffered from bandit gangs in 796 - on March 13, 13 fathers were beaten, and on the 20th - 18; Of the latter, most were brought into a cave and killed by smoke. On the same day, St. Martyr Photina. The Samaritan woman with whom the Lord Jesus talked at Jacob's well (John 4 chapter). According to legend, for the spread of St. Faith suffered during the persecution of Nero, in 66, and died, thrown into a well. † Suffering Rev. Euphrosynus of Sinozersky The Monk Euphrosynus, in the world Ephraim 203, born in the Korelsky region, near Lake Nevo (Ladoga), spent his young summers in the Valaam monastery. Then for a long time he was a clerk in the village. Dolossky Bezhetskaya Pyatina, 30 versts from Ustyuzhna Zheleznopolskaya. Having reached adulthood, he felt a strong desire to pursue monastic asceticism. He left the house without taking anything with him and became a monk in the large Tikhvin Monastery. With sincere zeal he fulfilled the obediences entrusted to him here. Bored by the crowds of people visiting the monastery, in 1600, with the blessing of the abbot, he left the Tikhvin Monastery to live in desert solitude. 15 versts from the village. Dolossky and 50 from Ustyuzhna, in the forest, between swamps and swamps, on the shore of Lake Sinichyogo, he found the desired place for solitude. Here he erected a cross and dug a cave for himself, and a year later he built a cell; but in both years he did not see a piece of bread, eating only desert plants. “He was found by accident in such a wild wilderness; but when word spread about the new hermit of Titmouse Lake, they began to come to him with a desire to listen to his instructions; others stayed and lived with him. It was necessary to build a church for the assembled disciples, and Euphrosynus, together with them, built the Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, which was consecrated by Gury, Abbot of Shalitsky, revered to this day for his strict life 204. The monk labored diligently for piety and diligently led others along the path of salvation. And he was destined to be crowned with the death of an innocent sufferer. When the Jesuits found a new impostor for Russia - a Jew, bands of Poles in 1612 entered the Ustyuzhna district for robbery and robbery 205 . – Orthodox Christians, especially valuing St. By faith, they hurried to hide in the deep forests. Then the Euphrosyne desert served as a refuge for them from the surrounding areas. March 19 (1612) the monk announced out loud to everyone that the enemies of St. would soon come. Faith and in his desert. He advised to run wherever possible; about himself he said that he should stay here by vow. - Monk Jonah wanted to run away with the others in fear. “Why allow the fear of cowardice into your soul? the monk told him. When battle comes, that’s when courage is needed. We made a vow to live and die in the desert. – We must be faithful to our word given before the Lord. In this case, death brings peace. It’s a different matter for worldly people: they are not bound by words and they need to take care of themselves and for their children.” Strengthened by the words of the monk, Jonah remained with the holy elder. The next day the Poles appeared in the Euphrosyne hermitage. The monk in the schema prayed at the cross, which he erected as soon as he came here. – The brazen robbers demanded the monastery treasures from Euphrosynus. The hermit pointed to the church of the Mother of God as the hermit’s only treasure. Then one of the bloodsuckers hit the saint on the neck and cut his head. The old man fell half dead. The Poles burst into the church of God, but found nothing in it and returned to their victim. One hit Euphrosynus on the head with a hammer and broke the skull right down to the brain. – The new sufferer gave his soul into the hands of the Lord. - Monk Jonah was killed along with him. - On the 8th day after the death of St. the elder, the gathered Orthodox Christians buried his suffering body at the cross; His disciple Jonah was buried with him. Rev. Euphrosynus was of average height, with broad shoulders and a manly chest; his brown hair was decorated with gray hair; the beard is oblong and forked at the end. This is how he recounted the painful death of St. Euphrosyne of Doloss, a resident of John, himself suffered at the same time from the Poles. In 1653, with the blessing of Metropolitan Macarius of Novgorod, the relics of St. Euphrosyne were moved under the bell tower of the Annunciation Church, then a monastery, and now the parish churchyard of Sinozersky 206. St. New Martyr Myron of Crete More than a millennium has passed since the time of disasters from the Muslims in Palestine, but even changing time has not changed their fanatical enmity towards Christians, and to this day the purest vessels of the spirit of Christ are sacrificed to it. Here is another legend, majestic in its simplicity, about a young man who suffered from the Turks in 1793 (on the island of Crete or Candia). Modest, hardworking (a tailor by trade), well-behaved and good-looking young man Miron - with such properties he attracted the selfish attention of the Turks, and they wanted to convert him to Islamism. But, seeing that the young man was not succumbing to their tempting influence, they slandered him and brought him to trial. The judge suggested that Miron, in order to get rid of punishment for the crime charged against him, should convert to Islamism. Fearlessly, the young man then answered the judge that he would not renounce his faith and was better prepared to endure all kinds of torment; then, courageously enduring severe beatings, he was imprisoned. “With the same steadfastness, which seemed to exceed the strength of his age, Myron withstood the new test at trial and fearlessly listened to the death sentence. The condemned man was led to execution. - “Forgive me, brothers! - he addressed everyone who met and accompanied him on the way, - forgive me, and may the Lord forgive you! Then, having asked permission, he rushed to his father, who was walking behind him with bitter sobs, fell at his feet, kissed his hands, begged him not to lament his death and, having received his father’s blessing, returned to his guards and asked the executioners to begin their work... The noose was thrown around the young man’s neck and... a new martyr shone forth among the host of victims of merciless, unquenchable Muslim fanaticism... RKP. life of the Rev. Efrosina. Swedish about the monastery, p. 406. They wrote: “in the days of Tsar Boris, the monk brought hordes of Poles to Rus'... March 19, 1612, the blessed one advised everyone to flee.” - But in 1612, both Boris and the rastriga were already lying on the ground. Probably a gang of the robber Lisovsky appeared in the Euphrosyne Hermitage. Artsybashev, vol. III, 299. East. Hier. VI, 108–112. RKP. Saints: “Venerable Euphrosynus the Hermit, who lived on Lake Sinichie, head of the monastery of St. Apostle John the Theologian.” Dictionary of Saints 106. Known. Russian archaeol. total 2, 366.