Brief Life of Saints Cyril and Mary, Parents of Saint Sergius of Radonezh
Pre-excellent Kirill co-sto-yal in the service of sleep-cha-la at the Rostov-sky prince Kon-stan-ti-na II Bo-ri-so-vi -cha, and then at Kon-stan-ti-na III Wa-si-lie-vi-cha, for some reason he, as one of the closest people to them, more than once co-leader-gave to the Golden Ord. St. Cyril ruled to-a-hundred-accurate in his own way with-a-hundred-I-no-eat, but simply-then-gdash-them morals, living in a village, not pre-ne-bre-gal and the usual rural-ski-mi work-da-mi.
In the life of pre-be-good-no-go Ser-gius is-vest-woo-et-sya about the fact that after the Divine Li-tour-gi-she even before birth-de- of the son of the great-ved-naya Mary and mo-la-schi-e-sya heard three-fold resurrection of the baby: before reading we don’t eat the Holy Evangelion, during the time of He-ru-vim-song and when the priest-nick pro-from-carried “Holy to the holy” . Pre-good Kirill and Mary feel the grace of God on themselves, their goodness tre-bo-va-lo so that the feelings of bla-go-gift-no-sti to God would you-ra-same-us in any-one-bo-outwardly move-ge bla-go-che- stia, in b-go-go-vey-nom both. And the great-ved-naya Ma-ria, like St. Anna - ma-te-ri pro-ro-ka Sa-mu-i-la, together with her husband, yes-la both- shcha-tion in-saint cha-do Bla-go-de-te-lu of all - God. The Lord gave them a son, someone called Var-fo-lo-me-em. From the first days of his life, the baby surprised everyone with the post-no-thing: on Wednesdays and Fridays, he didn’t take-no-small mo-lo-ka ma-te -ri, on other days, if she used-la-la in pi-schu meat-so, young-de-nets is also from-ka-zy-val-sya from mo-lo -ka. For-me-tiv this, pre-beautiful Ma-ria in-everything from-ka-za-las from meat pee.
The righteousness of Kiril-la and Ma-rii was from the West not only to God. Bu-duchi strict-gi-mi blu-sti-te-la-mi of all church charters, they might be poor, but especially-ben-but sacred for-after-after all, the holy apo-hundred-la Pavel: countries-but-love-be-for-you-those, all the more so not for the -pri-ya-sha An-ge-ly (). Did they teach the same to their children, strictly impressing them not to miss the chance to call to their house to their house th foreign-ka or other-th mouth-lo-th country-no-ka. We didn’t get any fractional information about the blessings of life of this blessed woman, for some reason we can together with connect with Plato-nom to say that the fruit that came from them is better than any red-but-re-chi-vy- praise the good-ro-that of the b-th-word-of-veins-no-three-va. Are you happy, ro-di-te-li, to-their-name-to-glory-la-yut-sya forever in their children and posterity! Are you and de-ti happy, someone is not only not ashamed, but also pri-smartly live and raise-ve-li-chi-whether honor and blah -the kinship of their ro-di-te-lei and glorious ancestors, for true good-kindness is in good-ro-de-te -whether!
Around 1328, the pre-excellent Kirill and Ma-ria changed from Ros-sto-va to Ra-do-nezh. Ver-stakh in three from Ra-do-not-zha was Khot-kov-sky Po-krov-sky mo-on-stay, at that time one-now-men-but former and masculine, and female. According to the ra-pro-country-nen-no-mu in Rus-si, it is customary for old age to be different with-no-ma-li and pro-ste-tsy, and princes, and bo- yare. The spirit of the otherness co-communicated from the son to the ro-di-te-lyam: at the end of his mournful life, the righteous Kirill and Ma-ria in the same-la-li and take the angelic image yourself.
In this mo-on-stir and on-right-wi-whether they have their feet, so that there pro-ve-sti the rest of their days in a move-for-ka-i-niya, go -that-vyas to another life. But for a short time, schema-ni-ki-bo-yare worked in a new rank. In 1337, they went with the world to the Lord.
April 3, 1992, in the year of the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the re-stav-le-tion of pre-do-no-go Ser-gy, on Ar-khi -erei-skom So-bo-re Russian Pra-in-glorious Church-vi with-hundred-I-moose general-church-noe pro-glory-le-nie schema-mo-on -ha Kiril-la and shi-mo-na-hi-ni Ma-rii. Ka-but-ni-za-tion to-stay-but uven-cha-la she-sti-ve-ko-voe in-chi-ta-nie ro-di-te-lei ve-li-ko-go by -moving-no-ka, giving the world a sample of holiness and christ-en-s-th arrangement of the family.
Full Life of Saints Cyril and Mary, Parents of Saint Sergius of Radonezh
“... The servant of God, Ky-rill, previously gave a big name in the Rostov region, he was a bo-yari-n, one from the glorious and well-known boyars, he owned great wealth, but by the end of his life in old age he became poor and fell into poverty ness. Let's also talk about how and in what way he talked: because of the frequent walks with the prince in Or-du, because of the frequent on-be -govs of the Tatars to Russia, because of the frequent embassies of the Tatars, because of the many heavy gifts and collections of the Or-Dyns, because often there is a shortage of stats in bread ... Because of this misfortune, God's servant Kirill left that village of Rostov, about which then the swarm is already going-in-ri-moose; he took with all his house, and went with all his relatives, and re-se-li-sya from Ro-sto-va in Ra-do-nezh. And, having come there, yes, the eye of the church was pouring, named in honor of the holy Nativity of Christ ...
Sons-no-vya Kiril-la, Stefan and Peter, fox; the third son, the blessed young man Var-fo-lo-mey, did not want the same thread, but all striving for a different life -no. He asked his father many times about this, saying: “Now give me, vla-dy-ka, your consent, so that with bless -ve-no-eat yours, I started a different life. But ro-di-te-whether it from-ve-ti-whether to him: “Cha-do! Wait a little and be patient for us: we are old, poor, we are sick now, and there is no one to care for us. After all, your brothers Stefan and Peter are still and think how to please us; but you, tenderly, think, how to please God, - you chose a more beautiful path, you didn’t from heaven met-sya at you-bya. Just in-ear-live-wai for us a little, and when you, ro-di-te-lei your-them, you lead to the grave, then you can you also eat your own for-we-sat down to os-s-stu-stvit. When you put us in a coffin and fill the earth with earth, then you will fulfill your wish.”
The miraculous young man with joy promised to take care of them until the end of their lives and from that day he tried every day everything to please your ro-di-te-lyam to yours, so that they pray for him and give him a blessing. So he lived for some time, serving and pleasing the ro-di-te-lyam with his whole soul and from a pure heart, ka ro-di-te-whether he didn’t cut his hair in mo-na-hi and each of them at different times didn’t retire to his mo-na-shtir. Having lived for a few years in mo-na-hah, they left this life, went to God, and the sons on their own, bless the young man Var-fo-lo-meya, every day they b-go-word-la-li many times until the last breath. The blessed young man sang his ro-di-te-lei to the grave, and sang over them over-the-tomb-songs-but-singing, and for -returned their bodies, and kissed them, and with pain-she-mi-che-s-mi-lived them in a coffin, and za-sy-fell the earth- lei with tears as some kind of invaluable co-kro-vi-shche. And with tears, he honored the deceased father and mother pa-ni-hi-da-mi and saints-li-tour-gi-i-mi, from-metil pa -myat ro-di-te-lei of their own and mo-lit-va-mi, and once-yes-whose mi-lo-stay-no miserable-gim, and feed-le-no-eat the poor. So until the so-ro-to-on-th day, he ot-me-chal pa-myat ro-di-te-lei of his-them.
After this, the future pre-excellent Ser-gius returned to his house and began to part with life for- bo-ta-mi of this world-ra, in order to start my-na-she-sky life sooner.
It is necessary to do-ba-vit that the mo-na-she-sky image of the saints Ky-rill and Mary took-nya-whether in the Khot-kovsky Po-krov-sky mo-on-the-stand- re, someone-ry race-by-la-gal-sya three versts from Ra-to-ne-zha and was at that time one-nowre-men-but male and female .
Let-the-piss of At least-kovsky-go-of-the-blood-of-the-mo-on-stay-rya gives evidence of how mo-lit-vein-noe-ra -shche-nie to pre-better-no-mu Ser-gius and his ro-di-te-lyam spa-sa-lo people from serious ailments. Mo-shchi-mo-na-ha Kiril-la and shi-mo-na-hi-ni Ma-rii invariably-but-and-were in Po-blood-so-bo- re, yes, after his many-numbers of re-re-stros. Already in the XIV century, in the face of the life of pre-be-good-no-go, Ser-gius ro-di-te-li his image-brother-wife with him-ba-mi. According to the pre-da-tion, the pre-excellent Ser-gius began - “before you go to him, pray for the mention of his ro -di-te-lei over their coffin. And so it was - pa-lo-no-ki, going on a bo-go-mo-lie to Tro-its-kay Lav-ra, in-se-scha-whether sleep-cha-la At least -kov-sky cloister. In the 19th century, according to the chi-ta-nie of the pre-beautiful Kiril-la and Mary, the races-pro-country-ni-moose throughout Russia, about this witness -stu-yut me-sya-tse-slo-you of that time-me-no. Unfortunately, after 1917, the Khot-kovsky mo-na-styr was a face-wee-di-ro-van. But, finally, in July 1981, it would have been established-new-le-but celebrating So-bo-ra Ra-do-nezh-sky saints in some -rum would be pro-glory-le-ny shi-mo-na-hi Kirill and Ma-ria. In 1989, in the Po-krov-church of the mo-on-the-stay, the re-v-r-r-p-o-th of the Russian Pra-glorious Church, again on-cha- if there were services, and in him there would be re-re-not-se-ny of the might of the great-vedic ro-di-te-lei pre-be-good-no-go Ser-gius.
Kontakion to St. Cyril and Mary of Radonezh
Duration, Vermina, / Implaze Blessed Blessed, Blagovevnago Cyril and Maria Danravnaya, / Tii Boi pray with the beloved son with his presence Sergey / to the United Kind of the Trinity of God / Fatherland Out of Property deliver misfortunes and temptations, / strengthen old age / / and save our souls.
Translation: Today, believers, having gathered, we will glorify the blessed couple, the faithful Cyril and the well-behaved Mary, for they pray together with their beloved son, their reverend Sergius to the One in the Holy Trinity God, to establish our Fatherland in Orthodoxy, to save families in the world, to save the young from misfortunes and temptations strengthen old age and save our souls.
Oh servant of God, schemamonk Kirill, schemamonun Mary! And yet you ended your natural temporal life with your body, but do not depart from us in spirit, guide us to Christ God, instruct us to walk according to the commandments of the Lord and carry our cross and follow our Master, your beloved son, have boldness towards Christ our God and towards His Holy Mother of God. Wake up prayer women and intercessors for us, the unworthy ones, who live in your holy monastery, even you are the rulers. Be God's helpers and intercessors to this assembled squad, but who lives in this place and comes in faith, keep your prayers, unharmed from demons and from evil people, glorify the Holy Trinity, the Father, and the Holy Spirit, and the Holy forever and ever. Amen.
Canons and Akathists
Akathist to St. Cyril and Mary of Radonezh
Kondak 1
Elected wonderworkers and great saints of the Lord, the monastery of our intercessor and dream of the souls of our prayer book, the Monk Schemamonk Kirill and Schemanun Mary! Bringing praiseworthy singing to you, we pray earnestly: as if you have boldness in the Lord, by your intercession, free us from all troubles and make us heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, let us call you joyfully:
Ikos 1
The angels of the earth and the people of heaven truly appear to the Reverend Cyril and Mary, from your youth you have a clean conscience to God, and have lived well in piety and purity together, leaving us as an example of imitation of your God-pleasing life, it is miraculous and your miracles illuminate, we call you voices laudatory sitse:
Rejoice, having loved Christ from your youth and worked for Him from the bottom of your heart;
Rejoice, guardians of chastity and guardians of spiritual and bodily purity.
Rejoice, having prepared your souls and bodies on earth in the habitation of the Holy Spirit;
Rejoice, full of Divine wisdom and reason.
Rejoice, for you have gone from earth to heaven, and there you are with the Angels of the Trinity;
Rejoice, as with bodiless faces you sing the thrice-holy song to Her.
Rejoice, glorification in heaven and on earth from the Lord;
Rejoice, having found an eternal all-bright resting place.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 2
Seeing the all-seeing eye of the Father of Lights, make your life pleasing to God, deign to choose you, blessed ones, let the light of the most bright Sergius the Monk appear to the world, and your names will be glorified about him and all the faithful will sing to the Lord who glorified you: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
Mind Divine fullness, Cyril and Mary, tirelessly working for the Lord, instructing their children in obedience and meekness. Make wiser for us, reverend ones, to unceasingly follow the Lord's justification, so that together with you we will find eternal salvation and bring you such blessings:
Rejoice, blessed ones, who have lived in the love of God and preserved pious faith;
Rejoice, full of mercy and compassion.
Rejoice, having acquired the Kingdom of Heaven with alms and prayers;
Rejoice, having improved eternal bliss with humility and fasting.
Rejoice, for there is a lot of your reward in Heaven;
Rejoice, as by your prayers we are not deprived of the hope of the Kingdom of Christ.
Rejoice, for your joy is eternal in the lightness of the saints;
Rejoice, for for the sake of your lordship, we are also heirs.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 3
By the power of God, we protect the Monk Kirill to Prince Rostov with all zeal, serving and together with him in the Agarian horde, for the sake of peace, go, but the Russian people will be weakened by their yoke and God will unceasingly sing: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Having the thought of the venerable Cyril and Mary and the people about the thrice in the womb of Mary in the church of the fruit of the announcement and being surprised, understanding something glorious and wonderful being; and having seen the birth of a joyful son, I rejoice and bring joy to you, saying:
Rejoice, most luminous pair, united by God;
Rejoice, stars of uncharmableness, who faithfully show the path of a God-pleasing marital life.
Rejoice, parents of good good and chosen fruit;
Rejoice, having fulfilled all the grace of God.
Rejoice, spouses of Christians to the piety of the mentor;
Rejoice, teaching them good God-fearing children upbringing.
Rejoice, chastity and continence of conjugal image of grace;
Rejoice, teacher who wants to live pleasing to God.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 4
A storm of sorrows and misfortunes, erected by the viceroy of the Grand Duke, do not weaken your strong love even for God, Cyril and Mary of blessedness, but rather teach you to fairly reflect the fired arrows of the evil one. Teach us, too, to endure all the sorrows of this world with meekness, in joyful crying out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing, blessed, Bartholomew, your wondrous child, once unskilled in literacy, honoring the inspired writings, being astonished, and the elder-schemer, who granted him wisdom, in your house, you have kept the commandment of the Apostle Paul: do not forget the hospitable; all the more not knowing the angels of the stranger. We sing your praises to such a virtue, we cry out to you:
Rejoice, faithful executors of Christ's commandments;
Rejoice, followers of the teachings of the Gospel truth.
Rejoice, saints of God, partakers of the life of the great saints;
Rejoice, imitators of the hospitality of the ancient forefather Abraham.
Rejoice, with the light of your pious life, as if the light of God shone, shining;
Rejoice, love and mercy for the poor and the orphans.
Rejoice, helpless speedy helpers;
Rejoice, as you are always helping us and leading us to the Heavenly Fatherland.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 5
The blessed stars are like the fast, blessed Cyril and Mary, when they came from the country of Rostov to the borders of the principality of Moscow and settled in the city of Radonezh;
Ikos 5
Seeing, saints, the zeal of his son, the Monk Sergius, for a monastic life, I pray to him, may he be with you until your death. He, like a son of obedience, taught from childhood by you to fulfill the commandments of the Lord, obey your will, Cyril and Mary, like God, teaching everyone to cry out to you like this:
Rejoice, partakers of Christ's beatitudes;
Rejoice, form an honest marriage and care for good children.
Rejoice, angelic people;
Rejoice, partakers of the reverend and righteous.
Rejoice, faithful saints of the Most Holy Trinity;
Rejoice, for you have taught your children to please Her.
Rejoice, for this sake your son has built a wondrous abode for the Trinitarian Divinity;
Rejoice, for this sake your holy names are also glorified throughout Russia.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 6
Preachers of the Orthodox faith and zealots of piety, not only in words, but also in your life, fast in the city of Radonezh, praise Cyril and Mary: the same holy Church honors you worthily, silently singing to His Wonderful God in the saints: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Ascension in the city of Radonezh is the light of your virtuous life, blessed Cyril and Mary; when, having reached the age, she is inclined, rushing to the monastery of Khotkovskaya under the cover Mother of God flowed in, there the great image of the Angelic was perceived by nature, the same image of the highest humility showing us, learning from him, crying out to you with love like this:
Rejoice, for you have left the glory of love for the sake of the Lord of this world;
Rejoice, for you diligently perceive the monastic life equal to the angels.
Rejoice, you who came to the ancient monastery and found peace there;
Rejoice, Most Pure Virgin Mother of God, who handed over your souls.
Rejoice, having received the angelic image and preserved it immaculately;
Rejoice, form goodness to all monks and nuns.
Rejoice, before your death, all the passions that mortified by abstinence;
Rejoice, having received the holy schema into the armor of salvation.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 7
Although the Lord, the Lover of mankind, revealed in your life, Reverend Cyril and Mary, an image of edification, not only to worldly people, but also to a monastic countenance, inspire you in your old age to leave the glory of the earth and perceive the image of a monastic, in it fasting, vigil and prayer for good work, tirelessly singing to the Triune God the Seraphim Hymn: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The new grace of showing all the Creator and Lord through you, reverend, when you have passed from the temporary sowing of the vale of deplorable in the eternal abode. Your holy relics, if they are hidden under a bushel, I radiate many miracles, give healing to many who are sick; nay, moreover, babies brought to you shall be healed. For this sake, accept, our healers, blessings, from us the praises of sitz:
Rejoice, having come by temporary death to eternal life;
Rejoice, from the Lord incorruptibility and miracles of glorification.
Rejoice, for your memory is with praises and sleep with the saints;
Rejoice, for your names are honest and blessed in your Fatherland.
Rejoice, giving healing to a sick baby;
Rejoice, gravely ill girl, flowing to you with love, delivering you from the disease.
Rejoice, O representatives of heaven who love and honor you;
Rejoice, you who ever ask the Lord for the gifts of His goodness.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 8
A terrible and terrible disaster came to the land of Moscow, when many people in cities and towns were wounded with a plague of pestilence, and many of them died. Then the cathedral, consecrated with the nun, offering prayers of singing to you and your intercessions, deliverance from misfortune will be received, cryingly benefiting God through you: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All the God-loving people were seized with grief by greatness, when, in the days of hard times, they came to the Russian land, the monastery of the Intercession of the Most Pure Virgin in Khotkovo was betrayed by the theomachists to ruin and desolation. But the memory of you, reverend, is alive in people, and the glory of the Russian children is your life and the miracles of praise with calico:
Rejoice, our wonderful miracle workers;
Rejoice, you who do not leave us in troubled days.
Rejoice, city of Khotkov and our monastery is an indestructible fence;
Rejoice, for the enemies of the visible and invisible strongholds are our supporters.
Rejoice, you who exude many blessings to us;
Rejoice, thou who embraces all by the grace of your compassion.
Rejoice, intercessor of salvation to all of us;
Rejoice, perseverance of the city of Khotkov and guardians of our monastery.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 9
All the Angels and holy faces rejoice with great joy, when your abode, reverend Cyril and Mary, the Church is returned to the speed and relics of your honest, from the years of ancient times hidden by God, they were laid in the cathedral church. And the lampada was lit by the prayer, and all the people, having seen the light of it, are very surprised, they come running to you in misfortune and receive help from you; even vouchsafe us, reverend ones, crying out to God for you: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
Human vitiation does not suffice for a worthy glorification of miracles from your relics and is still being performed, Blessed Cyril and Mary: the old woman, the infirm nun, who underwent bone refraction and was not consoled by doctors, to you, reverend, flowed and prayed to you with tears. Soon, having received perfect healing, in tenderness of the heart, exclaiming to you:
Rejoice, vessels of the chosen by the grace of the Holy Spirit;
Rejoice, intercessors of eternal joy for us.
Rejoice, you soon healed the old woman, weak from illness;
Rejoice, having surprised the skillful doctors with this healing.
Rejoice, imperishable fragrant flowers;
Rejoice, flickering rays of immortality.
Rejoice, shining on the earth with the majesty of miracles;
Rejoice, in heaven from the Angels of God glorifying.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 10
Inheriting eternal salvation, God-blessed Cyril and Mary, with your souls in the abode of heaven, you remain inseparably in Bose, but with your holy relics in the abode of the Immaculate Virgin, you rest incorruptly together and exude abundant healing, guiding us to the Mountainous Jerusalem, crying out to the Ruler of that City: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
You are a wall and a refuge to all who flow to you, reverend. Bo your monastery to the life of monastics, reborn a multitude of those who seek salvation, gather together, you will save them from temptations and temptations, blessedness, and teach monastic work, and having improved what you wish, they will bring you thanksgiving words:
Rejoice, our children-loving intercessors;
Rejoice, you who lead us to Christ God.
Rejoice, you who teach you to walk according to the commandments of the Lord;
Rejoice, you who teach you to patiently bear your cross and follow our Lord.
Rejoice, for with our reverend father Sergius you have boldness towards Christ our God and towards His Holy Mother of God;
Rejoice, for you are the intercessors for us unworthy, who live in our holy monastery, and you are the rulers of it.
Rejoice, for you are helpers, intercessors and prayer books to this assembled squad of God;
Rejoice, for by your prayers we are preserved unharmed from demons and from evil people we remain.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 11
Prayer singing is brought to you, Blessed Cyril and Mary, not in the monastery of Khotkovskaya tokmo, but also in Vysotskaya, your son founded, multi-healing relics of your part of the property, glorify the miracles you perform: the baby has an incurable illness, he receives healing from you, parents of immense joy fulfilling crying healings to the giver of God: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
Shine with a triradiant light, Cyril and Mary, all-blessed, with all the saints, now in Heaven to the Throne of the King of Kings and from there, like the luminaries of light, you always enlighten the souls of those flowing to the race of your relics and teach true repentance. For this sake, glorifying you, we say:
Rejoice, for you have ended your life in body, but in spirit you do not depart from us;
Rejoice, you who with grace sanctify those who come to the race of your relics.
Rejoice, shining beads and graciously enlightening people;
Rejoice, shine of the mind, shining with the dawn of the Holy Spirit.
Rejoice, propitiators of the King of Heaven know;
Rejoice, those who call upon prayerfully honest names of your soon hearers.
Rejoice, trust in you, according to God, who lay marvelous helpers;
Rejoice, fulfilling every petition in their favor to all the faithful.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 12
The grace from God given to you is leading, we diligently pray now, praise the schema monks: pour out a warm prayer for us to the Lord, may it preserve our monastery intact from adversity and disorder, and may we have mercy and save us, crying out to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Singing your God-pleasing life, reverend, and glorification in heaven from God, we bless your righteous repose, magnify the countless miracles from your holy relics flowing, and hopefully for your vigilant prayers, we cry out to you:
Rejoice, you who have finished your earthly life more piously;
Rejoice, having received the crown of glory from the King of Heaven.
Rejoice, denunciation in the robe of grace-filled incorruption;
Rejoice, incorruptible repose in the fragrance of the shrine.
Rejoice, girdling with the power of many miracles;
Rejoice, for your honest clinic of cancer is a human ailment.
Rejoice, for everyone who comes with faith accepts healing gifts from her;
Rejoice, as our abode of relics for the sake of yours is glorified throughout the land of Russia.
Rejoice, reverend Cyril and Mary, intercessor blessings for us before God.
Kondak 13
Oh, glorious wonderworkers and saints of the Lord Cyril and Mary! Accept this prayer of ours from the bottom of our hearts to you now being lifted up and vouchsafe us your intercessions in the rank of angels to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, where all the saints, Angels and people sing unceasing voices of praise Holy Trinity Our God: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
This kontakion is read three times, and then ikos 1st and kontakion 1st
Prayer to St. Cyril and Mary of Radonezh
Oh, servants of God, reverend Cyril and Mary! Even if you ended your temporary life in body, but do not depart from us in spirit, guide us to Christ God, instruct us to walk according to the commandments of the Lord and carry our cross and follow our Master. You, reverend, together with our reverend and God-bearing father Sergius, your beloved son, have boldness towards Christ our God and His Holy Mother of God. Wake up prayer books and intercessors for us, the unworthy ones, who live in your holy monastery, and you are the rulers of it. Be God’s helpers and intercessors to this assembled squad, and those who live in this place and come in faith, keep your prayers, unharmed from demons and from evil people, glorifying the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now, and forever, and in ages of ages. Amen.
Since we are talking about twos and twos, I would like to tell you one entertaining story about a boy who was born at the beginning of the 14th century and studied very poorly.
700 years ago, in a small village near Rostov, a boy was born into the family of the impoverished boyar Kirill. His parents gave him the name Bartholomew.Bartholomew had two brothers. The family lived simply and not richly. When the time came, the boys were sent to learn to read and write. The brothers easily comprehended the basics of book wisdom, but Bartholomew did not study well. No matter how hard he tried, he tried! - he was not given a letter - he could not learn to read in any way.
Like these ones school problems were with the lad Bartholomew with all the ensuing consequences.
The note:
Otrok - a teenage boy in Old Russian
That is, the teacher scolded him every day, the brothers teased him, and his parents were sad and urged him to show diligence ... Bartholomew was very worried because he turned out to be so incapable. In the evening, before going to bed, and in the morning, before studying, he prayed to God and asked for His help.
Once, when his father sent him to look for the missing foals, Bartholomew wandered through the forest for a long time and, coming out into a large clearing, saw an old monk under an oak tree. He was praying for something.
Bartholomew bowed to him and stood nearby. Having finished the prayer, the old monk asked:
What are you looking for and what do you want, son?
The boy told him about his grief and began to ask the elder to pray for him to God, so that he would help him learn to read and write.
After praying, the monk said:
- About reading and writing, son, do not grieve any more - God will grant you knowledge. From this day on, you will read and write better than your brothers and peers.
So it was. And when Bartholomew grew up, he became a monk.
If a person decides to serve God and becomes a monk, he renounces his own name and receives a new one in return - as a sign that the former person who lived in the world “died”, and a new one was born instead of him - a Godly person. The new name of Bartholomew was Sergius - Sergius of Radonezh, the great Russian saint, intercessor for Russia and its people before God.
It was he who founded and built in the deep forest near Moscow one of our most important and beloved monasteries - the Trinity Lavra, and it was he who blessed Prince Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Kulikovo.
The bear in the painting by Nicholas Roerich is not an invention. The beast really got into the habit of going to Father Sergius every day to take something for food. The monk began to leave him food on the stump. The bear took it and left. If he did not find the usual piece, then he stood for a long time, looking around and persisting. Sergius, who was distinguished by extraordinary kindness to both people and animals, sometimes remained hungry himself, and fed the bear.
Miracles are not only in fairy tales -
they are in life. Do you want to have an interesting and favorite job that pays decent money?
So, you need to go to a good institute. And they don't take triplets.
So, your destiny is to learn the rules, solve problems, carefully read the given paragraphs. Nobody will do it for you. It is impossible to go to bed stupid, and in the morning, for no apparent reason, wake up smart. It certainly only happens in fairy tales.
- Well, what about the lad Bartholomew? some may ask.
And we will answer that some of these inattentively read our story. Or too lazy to think about it.
The point is that Bartholomew really wanted and tried hard to learn. But he didn't succeed. Maybe he didn't have the ability. It happens. And when he realized that his human strength was not enough, he did not wave his hand, did not say: “Well, okay. I’ll get by.” He asked God for help. And God responded.
We told you this story so that you know: each of you in a difficult moment, when something does not work out or there is not enough strength, can also do it.
The fact that Sergius of Radonezh would devote his life to serving God was decided even before his birth. His parents gave him the name Bartholomew. From early childhood, he showed his belonging to Higher powers, for example, during the days of fasting, he refused milk. After the death of his parents, he took the monastic vows and called himself Sergius. He believed that his main mission was to help people. Prayers to the saint have been used by believers for more than a dozen years. They help people cope with various problems and gain confidence in themselves.
How does prayer help Sergei Radonezh?
A huge number of people from all over the world come to the relics of the saint to ask for help in different situations. At home, you can pray in front of the icon of Sergius of Radonezh. They read a prayer to Sergius of Radonezh for help in order to pacify their pride, since it is considered one of the most serious sins. The clergy say that Sergius can be contacted with various problems. A person receives gracious advice and instructions, and he also helps to recover from various diseases. Parents and students themselves pray to Radonezhsky for academic success.
Before reading a prayer to St. Sergius of Radonezh, it is recommended to go to and ask for a blessing from a clergyman. In the church shop, get a candle, an icon, and also take holy water and prosphora. At home, light a candle in front of the image, kneel down and read a prayer. Please note that only people who work hard and do a lot to achieve what they want can count on help. If there are impure thoughts and bad thoughts, you should not read prayers, because the desired will not come true.
Prayer to Sergius of Radonezh for help in studies
From the first grade, it is already possible to identify children for whom study is easy, as well as those for whom this is a real hard labor. In this case, parents can help their child change their attitude to learning and begin to achieve certain results. By the way, Sergius of Radonezh himself did not like to read as a child, but sincere prayer God changed his attitude to learning. Prayer helps not only schoolchildren, but also students. Both the student and his parents can read the prayer text:
“O reverend and God-bearing Father Sergius! Look at us (names) mercifully and, to the earth of adherents, raise us to the heights of heaven. Strengthen our cowardice and confirm us in the faith, and we certainly hope to receive all that is good from the mercy of the Lord God through your prayers. By your intercession, ask for every gift to everyone and anyone who is beneficial, and all of us, with your prayers, which hastened your prayers, on the day of the Last Judgment, part of the shuiya will be delivered, the right countries of the community of being and the blessed voice of the Lord Christ to hear: come, bless my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world . Amen".
Prayer to Sergius of Radonezh for help in work
If a person wants to find a good place work that would not only make a profit, but also bring pleasure. A sincere prayer appeal will allow you to receive strength and invisible support to achieve what you want. The prayer goes like this:
“O heavenly citizen of Jerusalem, Reverend Father Sergius! Look at us mercifully and raise those who are committed to the earth to the heights of heaven. You are grief, in Heaven; we are on earth, below, removed from you, not only by a place, but by our sins and iniquities; but to you, as if we are kindred, we resort and cry out: instruct us to walk in your way, enlighten and guide. It is characteristic of you, our father, kindness and philanthropy: living on earth, not only about your own salvation, be your care, but also about all those who flow to you. Your instructions were the reed of the scribe of the scribe, who inscribes the verbs of life on the heart of everyone. You did not only heal bodily illnesses, but more than mentally, an elegant doctor appeared to you, and all your holy life was a mirror of all virtues. If only a fraction was thou, holier than God, on earth: now thou art, in Heaven! Today you stand before the Throne of the Unapproachable Light, and in it, as in a mirror, see all our needs and petitions; you are settling together with the Angels, about the only sinner who repents rejoicing. And the philanthropy of God is inexhaustible, and your boldness towards Him is much: do not stop crying out to the Lord for us. Ask for your intercession from the All-Merciful God of our peace to His Church, under the sign of the Militant Cross, consent in faith and single wisdom, superstition and splits, extermination, affirmation in good deeds, healing to the sick, sad consolation, offended intercession, distressed help. Do not shame us, who come to you with faith. Even if you are not worthy of a great father and intercessor, but you, an imitator of being the love of God, created us worthy through conversion from evil deeds to a good life. All God-enlightened Russia, filled with your miracles and blessed with graces, confesses you to be its patron and intercessor. Reveal your ancient mercy, and you helped their father, do not reject us, their children, marching in their feet to you. We believe that you are with us in spirit. Where the Lord exists, as His word teaches us, there His servant will also be. You are a faithful servant of the Lord, and I exist everywhere to God, you are in Him, and He is in you, moreover, be with us in body. Behold your incorruptible and life-giving relics, like a priceless treasure, give us miracles God. Coming to them, as if I live for you, we bow down and pray: accept our prayers and offer them on the altar of the goodness of God, may we receive grace and timely help in our needs. Strengthen us, the faint-hearted, and confirm us in the faith, and undoubtedly we hope to receive all that is good from the mercy of the Lord through your prayers. Do not stop your spiritual flock, gathered by you, to rule with the rod of spiritual wisdom: help those who struggle, lift the weakened, hasten to carry the yoke of Christ in complacency and patience, and rule us all in peace and repentance, end our life and settle with hope in the blessed bowels of Abraham, where you are now joyfully resting on labors and labors, glorifying with all the saints of God, in the Trinity of glory, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen."
According to ancient legend, the estate of the parents of Sergius of Radonezh, the boyars of Rostov, was located in the vicinity of Rostov the Great, on the way to Yaroslavl. Parents, "noble boyars", apparently, lived simply, they were quiet, calm people, with a strong and serious way of life.
St. Venerable Cyril and Maria. Painting of the Ascension Church on Grodka (Pavlov-Posad) Parents of Sergius of Radonezh
Although Kirill accompanied the princes of Rostov to the Horde more than once, as a trusted, close person, he himself did not live well. It is impossible to speak of any luxury, licentiousness of the later landowner. Rather, on the contrary, one might think that domestic life is closer to that of a peasant: as a boy, Sergius (and then Bartholomew) was sent for horses in the field. This means that he knew how to confuse them and turn them around. And leading to some stump, grabbing the bangs, jump up, triumphantly trot home. Perhaps he chased them at night too. And, of course, he was not a barchuk.
Parents can be imagined as respectable and just people, religious in high degree. They helped the poor and willingly accepted strangers.
On May 3, a son was born to Mary. The priest gave him the name of Bartholomew, after the day of the celebration of this saint. The special shade that distinguishes him lies on the child from early childhood.
For seven years, Bartholomew was sent to study literacy, to a church school, together with his brother Stefan. Stefan studied well. Science was not given to Bartholomew. Like Sergius later, little Bartholomew is very stubborn and tries, but there is no success. He is distressed. The teacher sometimes punishes him. Comrades laugh and parents admonish. Bartholomew cries alone, but does not move forward.
And now, a village picture, so close and so understandable six hundred years later! The foals wandered somewhere and disappeared. Father sent Bartholomew to look for them, probably the boy had wandered like this more than once, through the fields, in the forest, perhaps by the shore of Lake Rostov and called them, patted them with a whip, dragged halters. With all the love of Bartholomew for loneliness, nature, and for all his daydreaming, he, of course, conscientiously performed every task - this feature marked his whole life.
Sergius of Radonezh. Miracle
Now he - very dejected by failures - found not what he was looking for. Under an oak tree, I met “an elder of the Black Sea, with the rank of presbyter.” Obviously, the old man understood him.
What do you want, boy?
Bartholomew, through tears, spoke about his grief and asked to pray that God would help him overcome the letter.
And under the same oak stood the old man for prayer. Next to him is Bartholomew - a halter over his shoulder. Having finished, the stranger took out the ark from his bosom, took a particle of prosphora, blessed Bartholomew with it and ordered him to eat it.
This is given to you as a sign of grace and for understanding. Holy Scripture. From now on, you will master literacy better than brothers and comrades.
What they talked about next, we do not know. But Bartholomew invited the elder home. His parents received him well, as usual wanderers. The elder called the boy to the prayer room and ordered him to read the psalms. The child responded with incompetence. But the visitor himself gave the book, repeating the order.
And the guest was fed, at dinner they told about the signs over his son. The elder again confirmed that now Bartholomew would begin to understand Holy Scripture well and would overcome reading.
[After the death of his parents, Bartholomew himself went to the Khotkovo-Pokrovsky Monastery, where his widowed brother Stefan was already monastic. Striving for "the strictest monasticism", for desert living, he did not stay here for long and, having convinced Stefan, together with him founded the desert on the banks of the Konchura River, on Makovets Hill in the middle of the deaf Radonezh forest, where he built (about 1335) a small wooden church in the name of Holy Trinity, on the site of which there is now a cathedral church also in the name of the Holy Trinity.
Unable to withstand a too harsh and ascetic lifestyle, Stefan soon left for the Moscow Epiphany Monastery, where he later became abbot. Bartholomew, left all alone, called on a certain hegumen Mitrofan and received tonsure from him under the name of Sergius, since on that day the memory of the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus was celebrated. He was 23 years old.]
Having performed the rite of tonsure, Mitrofan introduced Sergius of Radonezh to St. Secrets. Sergius spent seven days without going out in his “church”, praying, “tasting” nothing, except for the prosphora that Mitrofan gave. And when the time came for Mitrofan to leave, he asked his blessings for the desert life.
The abbot supported him and reassured him as much as he could. And the young monk was left alone among his gloomy forests.
Images of beasts and vile reptiles arose before him. They rushed at him with a whistle, gnashing of teeth. One night, according to the story of the monk, when he “sang Matins” in his “church,” Satan himself suddenly entered through the wall, with him a whole “regiment of demons.” They chased him away, threatened, attacked. He prayed. (“Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered…”) The demons disappeared.
Will he survive in a formidable forest, in a wretched cell? The autumn and winter blizzards on his Makovice must have been terrible! After all, Stefan could not stand it. But Sergius is not like that. He is stubborn, patient, and he is "loving God."
So he lived, all alone, for some time.
Sergius of Radonezh. hand bear
Sergius once saw a huge bear near the cells, weak from hunger. And regretted it. He brought a loaf of bread from the cell, gave it - from his childhood, after all, as his parents, he was “strangely acceptable”. The furry wanderer ate peacefully. Then I started visiting him. Sergius always served. And the bear became tame.
Youth of St. Sergius (Sergius of Radonezh). Nesterov M.V.
But no matter how lonely the monk was at that time, there were rumors about his hermitage. And now people began to appear, asking to be taken to them, to be saved together. Sergius responded. He pointed to the difficulty of life, the hardships associated with it. Stefan's example was still alive for him. Still, he gave in. And took a few...
Twelve cells were built. They surrounded it with a tyn to protect it from animals. The cells stood under huge pines and firs. The stumps of freshly felled trees stuck out. Between them, the brethren planted their modest garden. They lived quietly and harshly.
Sergius of Radonezh set an example in everything. He himself cut cells, dragged logs, carried water in two water carriers uphill, ground with hand millstones, baked bread, cooked food, cut and sewed clothes. And he must have been a good carpenter by now. In summer and winter he walked in the same clothes, neither frost took him, nor heat. Bodily, despite the meager food, he was very strong, "had strength against two people."
He was the first in the service.
Works of St. Sergius (Sergius of Radonezh). Nesterov M.V.
So the years went by. The community lived unquestionably under Sergius. The monastery grew, became more complex and had to take shape. The brethren wanted Sergius to become abbot. And he refused.
The desire to be abbess, - he said, - is the beginning and root of the love of power.
But the brethren persisted. Several times the elders “approached” him, persuaded him, persuaded him. After all, Sergius himself founded the hermitage, he himself built the church; who should be abbot, celebrate the liturgy.
The insistence turned almost into threats: the brethren declared that if there was no abbot, everyone would disperse. Then Sergius, spending his usual sense of proportion, yielded, but also relatively.
I wish, - said, - it is better to study than to teach; it is better to obey than to rule; but I fear the judgment of God; I do not know what is pleasing to God; the holy will of the Lord be done!
And he decided not to argue - to transfer the matter to the discretion of the church authorities.
Father, they brought a lot of loaves, bless them to accept. Here, according to your holy prayers, they are at the gate.
Sergius blessed, and several wagons loaded with baked bread, fish and various food entered the monastery gates. Sergius rejoiced and said:
Well, you hungry ones, feed our breadwinners, invite them to share a common meal with us.
He ordered to hit the beater, everyone to go to church, serve a thanksgiving service. And only after the prayer he blessed to sit down for a meal. The loaves turned out to be warm, soft, as if they had just come out of the oven.
Trinity-Sergius Lavra (Sergius of Radonezh). Lisner E.
The monastery did not need now, as before. And Sergius was still just as simple - poor, poor and indifferent to the benefits, as he remained until his death. Neither power nor various "differences" occupied him at all. A quiet voice, quiet movements, the face of the deceased, the holy Great Russian carpenter. In it are our rye and cornflowers, birch trees and mirrored waters, swallows and crosses and the incomparable fragrance of Russia. Everything is raised to the utmost lightness, purity.
Many came from afar just to look at the reverend. This is the time when the “old man” is heard throughout Russia, when he approaches Met. Alexy, settles disputes, performs a grandiose mission to spread monasteries.
The monk wanted a stricter order, closer to the early Christian community. All are equal and all are poor equally. Nobody has anything. The monastery lives in a community.
The activity of Sergius was expanded and complicated by innovation. It was necessary to build new buildings - a refectory, a bakery, pantries, barns, housekeeping, etc. Previously, his leadership was only spiritual - monks went to him as a confessor, for confession, for support and guidance.
All able to work had to work. Private property is strictly prohibited.
In order to manage the more complex community, Sergius chose his assistants and distributed duties among them. The first person after the abbot was considered the cellar. This position was first established in Russian monasteries by Fr. Theodosius of the Caves. Kelar was in charge of the treasury, deanery and economy - not only inside the monastery. When the estates appeared, he was also in charge of their lives. Rules and court cases.
Already under Sergius, apparently, there was their own arable farming - there are arable fields around the monastery, partly they are cultivated by monks, partly by hired peasants, partly by those who want to work for the monastery. So the cellar has a lot of worries.
One of the first cells of the Lavra was St. Nikon, later abbot.
The most experienced in spiritual life were appointed as confessors. He is the confessor of the brethren. , the founder of the monastery near Zvenigorod, was one of the first confessors. Later, Epiphanius, the biographer of Sergius, received this position.
The ecclesiarch supervised the order in the church. Lesser positions: paraecclesiarch - kept the church clean, canonarch - led the "kliros obedience" and kept the liturgical books.
So they lived and worked in the monastery of Sergius, now already glorified, with roads laid to it, where it was possible to stop and stay for a while - whether for ordinary people or for a prince.
Two metropolitans, both wonderful, fill the age: Peter and Alexy. Hegumen Ratsky Peter, a Volhynian by birth, the first Russian metropolitan, based in the north - first in Vladimir, then in Moscow. Peter the first blessed Moscow. For her, in fact, he laid down his whole life. It is he who travels to the Horde, obtains from Uzbek a protective letter for the clergy, and constantly helps the Prince.
Metropolitan Alexy - from the high-ranking, ancient boyars of the city of Chernigov. His fathers and grandfathers shared with the prince the work of managing and defending the state. On the icons they are depicted side by side: Peter, Alexy, in white hoods, faces darkened from time to time, narrow and long, gray beards ... Two tireless creators and workers, two “protectors” and “patrons” of Moscow.
Etc. Sergius under Peter was still a boy, he lived with Alexy for many years in harmony and friendship. But St. Sergius was a hermit and a "prayer book", a lover of the forest, silence - his life path is different. Is he, from childhood - departed from the malice of this world, to live at court, in Moscow, to rule, sometimes to intrigue, appoint, dismiss, threaten! Metropolitan Alexy often comes to his Lavra - perhaps to rest with a quiet person - from struggle, unrest and politics.
Saint Sergius came into life when the Tatars were already breaking down. The times of Batu, the ruin of Vladimir, Kiev, the battle of the City - everything is far away. Two processes are going on, the Horde is decomposing, the young Russian state. The horde is crushed, Russia is united. The Horde has several rivals vying for power. They cut each other, postpone, leave, weakening the strength of the whole. In Russia, on the contrary, it is an ascent.
In the meantime, Mamai advanced in the Horde and became khan. He gathered the entire Volga Horde, hired the Khivans, Yases and Burtases, conspired with the Genoese, the Lithuanian prince Jagello - in the summer he laid his camp at the mouth of the Voronezh River. Jagiello was waiting.
The time is dangerous for Dimitri.
Until now, Sergius has been a quiet hermit, a carpenter, a modest abbot and educator, a saint. Now he faced a difficult task: blessings on the blood. Would Christ bless for a war, even a national one?
St. Sergius of Radonezh blesses D. Donskoy. Kivshenko A.D.
Russia has gathered
On August 18, Dimitri, with Prince Vladimir of Serpukhov, princes of other regions and governors, arrived at the Lavra. Probably, it was both solemn and deeply serious: Russia really gathered. Moscow, Vladimir, Suzdal, Serpukhov, Rostov, Nizhny Novgorod, Belozersk, Murom, Pskov with Andrey Olgerdovich - for the first time such forces have been moved. Moved not in vain. Everyone understood this.
The prayer began. During the service, messengers arrived - the war was going on in the Lavra - they reported on the movement of the enemy, warned to hurry. Sergius begged Demetrius to stay for the meal. Here he said to him:
The time has not yet come for you to wear the crown of victory with eternal sleep; but for many, without number, wreaths of martyrdom are woven to your employees.
After the meal, the monk blessed the prince and the whole retinue, sprinkled St. water.
Go, don't be afraid. God will help you.
And, bending down, he whispered in his ear: "You will win."
There is something majestic, with a tragic tinge, in the fact that Sergius gave two hermit monks as assistants to Prince Sergius: Peresvet and Oslyabya. They were warriors in the world and went to the Tatars without helmets, shells - in the form of a schema, with white crosses on monastic clothes. Obviously, this gave the army of Demetrius a sacred crusading appearance.
On the 20th Dimitri was already in Kolomna. On the 26-27th, the Russians crossed the Oka, Ryazan land advanced to the Don. On the 6th of September it was reached. And they hesitated. Whether to wait for the Tatars, whether to cross?
Senior, experienced governors suggested: wait here. Mamai is strong, Lithuania is with him, and Prince Oleg Ryazansky. Demetrius, contrary to the advice, crossed the Don. The way back was cut off, which means everything forward, victory or death.
Sergius these days was also in the highest rise. And in time he sent a letter after the prince: “Go, sir, go ahead, God and the Holy Trinity will help!”
According to legend, at the call of the Tatar hero, Peresvet jumped out, long ready for death, and, having grabbed Chelubey, hitting him, he himself fell. A general battle began, on a gigantic front for those times, ten miles away. Sergius correctly said: "Martyr's wreaths are woven for many." A lot of them were woven.
The monk, at these hours, prayed with the brethren in his church. He talked about the course of the battle. He called the fallen and recited prayers for the dead. And in the end he said: "We won."
Rev. Sergius of Radonezh. demise
Sergius of Radonezh came to his Makovitsa as a modest and obscure youth, Bartholomew, and left as a most illustrious elder. Before the monk, there was a forest on Makovitsa, a spring nearby, and bears lived in the wilds in the neighborhood. And when he died, the place stood out sharply from the forests and from Russia. On Makovitsa stood a monastery - the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, one of the four laurels of our country. Forests cleared around, fields appeared, rye, oats, villages. Even under Sergius, a deaf hillock in the forests of Radonezh became a light-attractive for thousands. Sergius of Radonezh founded not only his own monastery and did not act from it alone. There are countless abodes that arose with his blessing, founded by his disciples - and imbued with his spirit.
So, the young man Bartholomew, having retired to the forests on “Makovitsa”, turned out to be the founder of a monastery, then monasteries, then monasticism in general in a vast country.
Leaving no scriptures behind him, Sergius allegedly does not teach anything. But he teaches precisely with his whole appearance: to one he is a consolation and refreshment, to another - a mute reproach. Sergius silently teaches the simplest: truth, straightforwardness, masculinity, work, reverence and faith.
Sergius of Radonezh was born on May 3, 1314 in the village of Varnitsy near Rostov. At baptism, the future saint received the name Bartholomew. At the age of seven, his parents sent him to study literacy. At first, the boy was given very bad training, but gradually he studied the Holy Scriptures and became interested in the church. From the age of twelve, Bartholomew began to fast strictly, prayed a lot.
Foundation of the monastery
Around 1328, the future hieromonk moved to Radonezh with his family. After the death of their parents, Bartholomew, along with his older brother Stephen, went to deserted places. In the forest on Makovets hill they built a small Trinity church.
In 1337, on the feast day of the martyrs Sergius and Bacchus, Bartholomew was tonsured under the name Sergius. Soon disciples began to come to him, and a monastery was formed on the site of the church. Sergius becomes the second abbot and presbyter of the monastery.
Religious activities
A few years later, a flourishing temple of Sergius of Radonezh, the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, was formed in this place. Having learned about the emergence of the monastery, the Ecumenical Patriarch Filofey sent a letter to the abbot, in which he paid tribute to his activities. Saint Sergius was a highly respected person in princely circles: he blessed the rulers before battles, tried them on among themselves.
In addition to the Trinity-Sergius, during his brief biography, Radonezh founded several more monasteries - Borisoglebsky, Blagoveshchensky, Staro-Golutvinsky, Georgievsky, Andronnikov and Simonov, Vysotsky.
Honoring the memory
Sergius of Radonezh was canonized in 1452. In the work “The Life of Sergius”, the main primary source of the biography of the hieromonk, Epiphanius the Wise wrote that during his life, Saint Radonezhsky had many miracles and healings. Once he even resurrected a man.
In front of the icon of Sergius of Radonezh, people ask for recovery. On September 25, on the day of the death of the saint, believers celebrate the day of his memory.
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- The Life of Sergius tells that Bartholomew learned to read and write thanks to the blessing of the holy elder.
- Among the disciples of Sergius of Radonezh were such well-known religious figures as Abraham of Galicia, Pavel Obnorsky, Sergius of Nuromsky, St. Andronicus, Pachomius of Nerekhtsky and many others.
- The life of the saint inspired many writers (N. Zernova, N. Kostomarov, L. Charskaya, G. Fedotov, K. Sluchevsky and others) to create works of art about his fate and deeds, including a number of books for children. The biography of Sergius of Radonezh is studied by schoolchildren in grades 7-8.
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