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ELISABETH OF CONSTANTINOPLE

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Elizabeth of Constantinople (VI - VIII), abbess, wonderworker, reverend.

She grew up in fasting and labor and received the gift of healing not only physical ailments, but also mental ones. The sisters elected the venerable abbess. The monk wore clothes made of sharp hair shirt. Her body was freezing, but her spirit was burning with the flame of Divine love.

The saint's abstinence was immeasurable: for many years she ate only herbs and vegetables without bread, and never took wine or oil. Many times the Monk Elizabeth spent the Holy Pentecost without eating anything. Imitating the publican’s humility, she did not raise her eyes to heaven for three years, but always looked to God with her spiritual eyes.

The saint performed many miracles: she killed a fierce snake with prayer, healed a bleeding woman who had been ill for many years, and drove away unclean spirits from people. Upon death, the coffin of St. Elizabeth also provided healing from illnesses. Even the very ashes taken from her relics gave sight to the blind.

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Day of Remembrance: May 7 - April 24

Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker - St. John the Baptist Monastery in Moscow

The house church in the cell building of our monastery is consecrated in honor of the Venerable Elizabeth, Abbess of Constantinople, the wonderworker, and in the main cathedral of the monastery there is a revered icon of her.

Homeland of the Rev. Elizabeth's capital city was Heraclea Thracian, and her parents were not some unknown and ignorant people, but noble ones, renowned for their wealth and outstanding in virtue (Eunomian is the name of the father, who was then a disciplinarian, and the mother is Euphemia). Living according to the meaning of their names, loving and pleasing to God, and constantly practicing the law of the Lord, they were known to everyone and extolled by everyone. For living near the mentioned city, in a place formerly called Frakocrina, and now Avidina, they were, like righteous Job, pious and blameless and, imitating the hospitality of the patriarch Abraham, generously provided those in need with everything they needed. Therefore, they receive, like him, according to the promise, the fruit of the womb, worthy of their own beauty and charity, and how this happened will explain our story. After all, although sixteen years had already passed since their wedding, they remained childless and, deprived of offspring, naturally grieved, suffered and strenuously begged God, Who Looks at hearts, to resolve their sadness about childlessness and give them a child, which inherits their family and wealth. The Lord, who fulfills the desires of those who fear Him, graciously listened to their prayer and did not despise their prayer for what was pleasing to Him.

May 7th, 2015 , 08:12 am

Today the Orthodox Church honors the memory of:

Mch. Savva Stratelates and with him 70 warriors (272).
St. Savva of Pechersk, in the Near Caves (XIII); St. Alexy, the recluse of Pechersk, in the Near Caves (XIII); mchch. Pasikrates and Valentina (228); mchch. Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus and others (303); St. Thomas the Holy Fool, Syrian (546–560); St. Elizabeth of Constantinople, wonderworker, abbess (V);

sschmch. Branko Dobrosavljevic, presbyter (1941) (Serb.).
Mch. Sergius of Arkhangelsk (1938).

Icon of the Mother of God: Molchenskaya (1405).

Saints of the day, pray to God for us!

Martyr Savva Stratilates, Roman

(martyr Sava Stratilates of Rome, Serbia, Decani, Church of Christ Pantocrator)

The martyr Savva came from the Gothic tribe. With his courage, he reached the high rank of commander-stratelate and served under the emperor Aurelian (270 - 275).

From his youth, Savva was a Christian and diligently followed the commandments of Christ, helped the poor, and visited imprisoned Christians in prison. For his pure and virtuous life, the saint received from the Lord the gift of working miracles and in the Name of Christ he healed the sick and cast out demons.

When the emperor learned that Saint Sava was a Christian, he demanded that he renounce. The martyr threw off his military belt and confirmed that he would not abandon his faith. They beat him, burned him with candles, threw him into a cauldron of tar, but the martyr remained unharmed. Seeing his torment, 70 soldiers believed in Christ, and were immediately beheaded with the sword. Saint Sava was thrown into prison. At midnight, during prayer, Christ appeared to the martyr and illuminated him with the light of His Glory. The Savior commanded him not to be afraid, but to dare. Fortified, the martyr Savva endured new torment the next morning and was drowned in the river († 272).

Troparion of the Martyr Sava
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Having left your earthly rank and honors, you suffered,/ before the tormentor, the flattering king/ you confessed Christ, the existing God/ and for the sake of much suffering you lifted up, glorious./ With that beautiful crown of victory you tied/ from the King of all reigning,/ with the Heavenly howls are lightly decorated./ Standing before Him, Savvo, // pray that our souls will be saved.

Kontakion of the Martyr Sava
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The invincible stratilate appeared, / you defeated the barbarian machinations / and, having suffered, gloriously, most firmly, / you overcame many invisible enemies, / you also weaved a crown of victory. / Pray for us, O all-blessed Savvo, / who honor you with faith.

Venerable Savva and Alexy of Pechersk

He labored in the Near Caves in the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery no later than the middle of the 13th century. In the handwritten calendar, in “ Book of Saints"And in the canon of the service to the venerable fathers of the Kiev-Pechersk he is called a miracle worker. The memory of the Monk Savva is also celebrated on the day of memory of the venerable fathers of the Near Caves, September 28, and on the day of memory of all the Kiev-Pechersk wonderworkers, on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent. On April 24, the memory of the saint is celebrated for the sake of his namesake with the holy martyr Savva Stratelates.

Venerable Alexy, recluse of Pechersk, labored in the Near Caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery in the 13th century. The relics of the saint were discovered after 1675. The memory of the Monk Alexy is also celebrated on the day of memory of the venerable fathers of the Near Caves, September 28, and on the day of memory of all the Kiev-Pechersk wonderworkers, on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent. The holy relics of St. Alexy rest next to the relics of St. Savva of Pechersk.

Troparion to Savva and Alexy the recluse, Pechersk, in the Near Caves
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Our blessed and God-bearing fathers Savvo and Alexie,/ for having acquired boldness in the Lord/ by your equal angelic life,/ for whose sake you enriched Christ/ with incorruptibility and miracles of your power, / we pray to you diligently: / ask for cleansing for our souls / and great and rich mercy.

Kontakion to Saints Savva and Alexy the Recluse, Pechersk
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The wealth of grace and sonship of acquisitiveness/ by many deeds and virtues/ and for the sake of Christ your souls have settled/ in His heavenly villages/ by bestowing the grace of incorruptibility/ and the power of miracles to yours,/ for this reason we cry out to you:/ Rejoice, Savvo and Alexie,/ the faces of the monks praise and decoration

Elizabeth the Wonderworker was chosen to serve God even before her birth. Her mother had a revelation that the young woman would be the chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit. From childhood, her parents sent the girl to a monastery.
She grew up in fasting and labor and received the gift of healing not only physical ailments, but also mental ones. The sisters elected the venerable abbess. The monk wore clothes made of sharp hair shirt. Her body was freezing, but her spirit was burning with the flame of Divine love.

Troparion
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Having adorned yourself with virtues, all-praised, and admiring all with fear of God, you have appeared to the poor, treasure, received wealth in Heaven, remember us to those who honor, glory to the righteous.

Kontakion
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Truly, you will gain a fair word of life, your church, the righteous, without doubting the heights, punishers of God, having pleased God, the more you will drink from nature; For this reason we call you: Rejoice, wise Elizabeth.

Born January 4, 1886 in Skadra near Voynich. In 1908 he graduated from the seminary in Sremski Karlovci. He was ordained a deacon on the 15th and a priest on March 22, 1909. He served in parishes in Buvači, Radovici and Veljuna. Awarded the Order of St. Sava and the Order of the Yugoslav Crown, V degree.

May 6, 1941, on his name day - St. Vmch. George, Fr. Branko was captured by the Croatian Ustasha, led by the Veljun teacher Ivan Šajfor. Together with the archpriest, his son Nebojsa, a medical student, priest Dimitri Skorupan, rector of the parish from Cvijanovic Brda, and about 500 other Serbs were captured. They were all locked up in the Velun gendarme department, where they were brutally tortured, especially the son of Fr. Branko - Nebojsu. The Ustasha demanded that Archpriest Dobrosavlevich perform the funeral service for his living son.

On the morning of May 7, 1941 they were all taken to the Kestenovac forest near Croatian Blaj, where they were killed. After liberation, in 1946. their remains were transferred to Veljun, where they were buried in a mass grave.

Martyr Sergius of Arkhangelsk, psalmist

Commemorated on April 24, at the Councils of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and Moscow Saints.

Born on September 4, 1898 in the village of Pogost Tenth Pyatnitsa, Bogorodsky district, Moscow province, in the family of priest Vasily Arkhangelsky.
In 1910 he graduated from a rural school, and in 1915 from the Perervinsky Theological School. In 1916, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, but did not have time to graduate from it; after the revolution, all theological educational institutions were closed by the Bolsheviks.

In 1919 he was drafted into the Red Army and served as a freight forwarder.
From 1937, for two months until the day of his arrest, he served as a psalm-reader in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the village of Saurovo-Upolzy, Pavlovo-Posad district.

- Have you lost your right to vote? - the investigator asked him.
- Yes, I lost it. From 1922 to the day the constitution was published.
- Who else among your relatives was deprived of voting rights?
- Father, Vasily Dmitrievich Arkhangelsky, as a priest, Cousin Maria Arkadyevna Zachateiskaya, living in the village of Kupelitsy, Vereisky district, Moscow region, as the wife of a priest.
- Testify which of your relatives was repressed by the NKVD.
- Cousin’s husband Ilya Aleksandrovich Zachateisky.
- The investigation has material that you systematically conduct anti-Soviet agitation directed against the activities carried out by the party and the government. The investigation requires truthful testimony from you. What were your anti-Soviet activities?
- I was not involved in any anti-Soviet propaganda and I can’t show anything on this issue.
- The investigation knows that you campaigned for the collapse of Soviet power, you said that Denikin and Kolchak would soon come, sweep away Soviet power, and then we would hang all the communists. Do you plead guilty to this?
- I do not admit myself guilty of agitating for the collapse of Soviet power and the hanging of communists. I've never said this to anyone.
- The investigation knows that you said that the Soviet government strangled you with taxes: you have neither livestock nor land - but let’s pay taxes. Do you plead guilty to this?
“There really was a conversation between me, Nikolsky, Sokolov and Pomerantsev about the fact that I don’t have livestock, a house or anything, and for some reason I was obliged to supply meat. There was also a conversation among us that clergymen are now being arrested. We didn't say anything else.
- You continue to deny, you do not want to testify, you want to hide your counter-revolutionary activities from the investigation. Once again we demand frank testimony from you.
- I was not involved in any counter-revolutionary activities and stand by the testimony I previously gave.
- What did you say regarding the arrest of clergy?
- Regarding the arrest of clergy, we had a conversation with Priest Sokolov and Deacon Nikolsky that people often come to us from other parishes to baptize a child, who say that their priest was arrested, but why they arrested them and their opinions on this issue no one expressed it.

At this point the interrogations were completed, and on November 29 the entire investigation was completed.
On December 3, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced the psalm-reader to ten years in a forced labor camp.

He died in custody on May 7, 1938 and was buried in an unknown grave.
Canonized as the Holy New Martyrs of Russia by a resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on May 7, 2003, for church-wide veneration.

Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus and 40 others

Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus and 40 others were present at the suffering of the Great Martyr George (+ 303) and believed in Christ. They were imprisoned. After the execution of the Great Martyr George, Emperor Diocletian (284-305) issued a decree that all prisoners should offer sacrifices to idols. The martyrs refused. They were beaten with iron rods until their insides were exposed, and then their heads were cut off with a sword.

Venerable Thomas the Syrian, Fool for Christ's Sake

Thomas was a monk of one of the monasteries in Caesarea Cappadocia (Asia Minor). He was obedient to collecting alms for the needs of the monastery. When the Monk Thomas came to the city of Antioch in Syria, he took upon himself the act of foolishness.

The steward of one of the churches, Anastasy, who was tired of the requests of the Monk Thomas, hit him on the cheek. Those present reproached Anastasius for his rude treatment of the holy fool, but St. Thomas reassured them, saying: “ From now on, neither I will accept anything from Anastasy, nor Anastasy will be able to give me anything. "These words turned out to be prophetic. The next day Anastasius died, and the monk reposed on the way to his monastery in the church of St. Euphemia in the suburbs of Daphne. He was buried in the place where wanderers were buried.

After some time, a certain wanderer was buried over the saint’s coffin. Four hours later, the earth erupted the wanderer’s coffin. She was buried here again, but in the morning the coffin was again on top of the ground. Then she was buried in another place.
The same thing was repeated during the burial of another woman. Everyone then understood that St. Thomas did not want a woman to be buried above him. The incident was reported to the Antiochian Patriarch Domnus (546-560). At his command, the relics of St. Thomas were transferred to Antioch and placed in a tomb where the relics of many holy martyrs rested. A small church was built over these relics, which exuded many healings.
Through the prayers of St. Thomas, the pestilence in Antioch stopped. From that time on, residents began to annually honor the memory of St. Thomas.

Martyrs Pasikrates and Valentin Dorostolsky

The martyrs of Christ Pasikrates and Valentinus came from Rhodostos, a Mysian city, and, being warriors, served under the hegemon of that country, Avsolan. In that country there were many idolaters who made sacrifices to demons, for the rulers of the country, with the threat of torture, forced people to idolatry. The Christians of that country, fearing torture, fled and hid. These same two holy men openly and boldly declared themselves Christians and, glorifying the one true God, cursed soulless idols. For this they were seized by idolaters and brought to the judgment seat, where they were forced to burn incense in front of the idols. There was an idol of Apollo here. Saint Pasikrates, approaching the idol, spat in its face and said:

- Such is the honor due to this god!

Pasikrates was immediately tied up with heavy chains and thrown into prison. The warrior of Christ, adorned with these chains, as if decorated with golden royal attire, rejoiced that he was honored to wear these chains for Christ. Valentin was imprisoned with him. Soon they were again demanded for trial before the hegemon. When they appeared at the court, Pasikrit's brother Papian also came there. He was a Christian, but for fear of torment, he sacrificed to idols. Papian began with tears to beg his brother to, following the example of himself, bring incense to the idol, so that, having become for a while, as it were, an idolater, he would get rid of fierce torment, but Pasicrates rejected his brother’s request and called him unworthy to be considered in his family because he departed from the faith of Christ. He himself, going up to the altar and placing his hand on the fire, said to the hegemon:

- The body is mortal and, as you can see, burns in fire, but the soul, being immortal, despises all these visible torments.

Saint Valentine, interrogated immediately by the hegemon, said the same thing and showed his complete readiness to endure all torment for Christ. They were both sentenced to be beheaded with the sword. When the tormentor's servants led them out of the city to death, Pasikrates' mother followed them, who admonished him to go to death fearlessly, fearing for him, so that he would not be afraid, for he was very young. The heads of the holy martyrs were beheaded. Saint Pasicrates was twenty-two years old, and Valentine was thirty. The mother accepted their bodies with joy and joy and buried them with honor, glorifying Christ God.

Icon of the Virgin Mary of Molchensk

Memory April 24, September 18.

Appeared on September 18, 1405 in the Molche swamp near Putivl. Initially it was located in the Molchensk Sophronium Hermitage, and in 1605, probably on April 24, it was moved to the Putivl Molchensky Monastery.
A fire in the monastery destroyed the original icon, but " by the grace of God, the first copy of the Molchensk Icon of the Mother of God, written in 1724 under Abbot Moses, who became famous for many miracles and is miraculous, has been preserved ".

In 1925, after the monastery was closed, the icon disappeared. For many years they tried to find the icon, but to no avail.

Rediscovery of an icon

Version 1

In the 1960s, Fr. Georgy Kozachenko. Between deanery matters, he was especially interested in the issue of searching for the Molchenskaya Icon of the Mother of God. But neither the clergy nor the laity knew the location of the shrine. Father George often offered his prayers to the Mother of God so that She would reveal where one of her miraculous images was located. In 1969, the wife of the late headman Sekerin approached him so that Fr. George accepted the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos bequeathed to him by his late husband. But it was not the Molchensk Icon, but the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, a list from the 19th century. After a thorough examination of the inside of the repository, it turned out that under the Vladimir image of the Mother of God the miraculous ancient icon of Molchenskaya was kept. At first, the icon was kept as a family shrine at home (for obvious reasons - the communists were in power).

On May 7, 1995, the icon was solemnly transferred to the Putivl Molchensky Monastery. During the religious procession, many people received healing.

Version 2

According to other information, Archimandrite German, rector of the Sofroniyevo-Molchensk Hermitage, in response to prayer, received a revelation according to which the Mochen icon was found in the village of Ugodichi with an unbelieving Tatar family, where the icon was used for grinding chalk. The icon was solemnly brought to the Sophronievo-Molchensky Monastery.

Version 3

"Disappeared"The list has not been lost, it is kept in the Epiphany Church in the village of Ugodichi, Rostov region. Local historian, historian and writer" peasant of the village of Ugodich "Alexander Yakovlevich Artynov reports that Count Mikhail Vladimirovich Tolstoy, author of the book" Shrines and antiquities of Rostov the Great", visited Ugodichi in 1866. Examining the revered Molchensky icon, he said that due to its antiquity and the nature of the writing, the Ugodichi icon may well be the same icon from Putivl.

Troparion
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Today the glorious city of Moscow is shining brightly/ and in Putivl there is great rejoicing,/ as they honor, O Mother of God, Thy wondrous icon,// giving everyone the honey of grace.

Kontakion

Let us come to the people, / to our Lady, the Virgin Mother of God, / for she gave us Her Molchenskaya icon, / exuding currents of healing, / giving all sorts of help in mental and physical ailments, / and leading to eternal life.

Greatness

We magnify You, / Most Holy Mother of Christ our God, / who has risen silently with Your icon from the crony, / and the people who honor Your holy image / / delivering from troubles.

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Life of the Holy Martyr Elizabeth.

WITH Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna is the daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. In this family, the children were raised strictly in English:They were accustomed to simple clothing and food, to housework, and spent a lot of time on lessons.Parents carried out extensive charitable activities and constantly took their children with them to hospitals, shelters, and homes for the disabled. Princess Elizabeth was especially distinguished by her love for her neighbors, serious, deep character.

At nineteen, she became the bride of the Russian Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II. The wedding took place in the Church of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

The Grand Duchess studied the Russian language, culture and history of Russia. For a princess who married the Grand Duke, a mandatory conversion to Orthodoxy was not required. But Elisaveta Feodorovna, while still a Protestant, tried to learn as much as possible about Orthodoxy, seeing the deep faith of her husband, who was a very pious man, strictly observed fasts, read the books of the Holy Fathers and often went to church. She accompanied him all the time and fully attended church services. She saw the joyful state of Sergei Alexandrovich after he received the Holy Mysteries, but, being outside the Orthodox Church, she could not share this joy with him.

The Grand Duchess thought a lot about faith, trying to find the truth, read books in solitude (in general, she was burdened by secular entertainment), and prayed to the Lord for admonition. In 1888, Sergei Alexandrovich was entrusted to be the representative of the Russian Emperor at the consecration of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene Equal-to-the-Apostles in Gethsemane. Elisaveta Feodorovna went with him, rejoicing at the opportunity in the Holy Land to pray that the Lord would reveal His will to her. Seeing this temple, she said:

How I would like to be buried here.

Gradually she came to a firm decision to accept Orthodoxy. She wrote to her father, who took this step of hers with acute pain:

You must have noticed what deep reverence I have for the local religion. I kept thinking and praying to God that He would show me the right path, and I came to the conclusion that only in this religion could I find all the real and strong faith in God that a person must have to be a good Christian. It would be a sin to remain as I am now - to belong to the same church in form and for the outside world, but inside myself to pray and believe the same way as my husband. You cannot imagine how kind he was; he never tried to force me by any means, leaving all this entirely to my conscience. He knows what a serious step this is and that he had to be absolutely sure before deciding to take it.

This change of religion, I know, will make many people cry, but I feel that it will bring me closer to God. I know all its tenets and will happily continue to study them. You call me frivolous and say that the external splendor of the church has charmed me. This is where you are wrong. Nothing external attracts me, not even worship, but the basis of faith. External signs only remind us of the internal. I pass from pure conviction; I feel that this is the highest religion and that I do it with faith, with deep conviction and confidence that there is God’s blessing for this.

The Sacrament of Confirmation was performed on April 12 (25), 1891 on Lazarus Saturday. The Grand Duchess was left with her former name, but in honor of the holy righteous Elizabeth, the mother of St. John the Baptist.

In 1891, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was appointed Governor-General of Moscow. His wife had to attend receptions, concerts, and balls. But this was not what brought joy to the Grand Duchess - her soul strove for acts of mercy, she visited hospitals for the poor, almshouses, shelters for street children, distributed food, clothes, money, wanting in every possible way to alleviate the living conditions of the unfortunate.

In 1894, Elisaveta Feodorovna's sister, Alice, married the Heir to the Russian Throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich, who soon became Emperor. In Orthodoxy she received the name Alexandra.

In 1903, Nikolai Alexandrovich with Alexandra Feodorovna and Sergei Alexandrovich with Elisaveta Feodorovna were at the Sarov celebrations in honor of the glorification of the great Russian saint, St. Seraphim of Sarov, who was always very revered.

In 1904, the Russian-Japanese War began. Elisaveta Feodorovna, who already had good experience in charity work, became one of the main organizers of assistance to the front. She set up special workshops, which occupied all the halls of the Kremlin Palace, except the Throne Palace. Thousands of women worked here at sewing machines and work tables. From here food, uniforms, medicines, and gifts were sent to the front. At her own expense, the Grand Duchess formed several ambulance trains, set up a hospital for the wounded in Moscow, and created special committees to provide for the widows and orphans of fallen soldiers and officers. She also organized the sending of marching churches to the front with everything necessary for worship.

However, Russian troops suffered defeat after defeat. The political situation in Russia became increasingly tense. One could often hear revolutionary slogans and calls for strikes. Terrorist organizations have emerged. The fighting organization of the Social Revolutionaries sentenced Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich to death. Elisaveta Feodorovna knew that he was in mortal danger; she received anonymous letters in which she was warned not to accompany her husband if she did not want to share his fate. But she tried, if possible, not to leave him alone.

On February 5 (18), 1905, Sergei Alexandrovich was killed by a bomb thrown by terrorist Ivan Kalyaev. Three days later, Elisaveta Feodorovna arrived at the prison where the killer was kept. She said that she brought him forgiveness from Sergei Alexandrovich and asked him to repent. She held the Gospel in her hands and asked to read it, but Kalyaev refused. But still she left the Gospel and a small icon in the cell, saying:

My attempt was unsuccessful, although, who knows, it is possible that at the last minute he will recognize his sin and repent of it.

Then the Grand Duchess turned to the Emperor with a request to pardon Kalyaev, but the request was rejected.

From the moment of the death of her beloved husband, Elisaveta Feodorovna did not stop mourning, kept a strict fast, and prayed a lot. Her bedroom turned into a monastic cell: expensive furniture was taken out, the walls were repainted white. The Grand Duchess collected all her jewelry and gave part of it to the treasury, part of it to relatives, and part of it was used for the construction of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent of Mercy.

She worked for a long time on the rules of the monastery, wanting to revive the ancient institution of deaconesses, and went to Zosimova hermitage to discuss the project with the elders. In 1906, Grand Duchess Elizabeth met the priest Mitrofan of Srebryansky, a man of high spiritual life, who took an active part in drawing up the rules of the monastery and became its confessor, as he met all the high requirements.

For our business, Father Mitrofan is God’s blessing

- said Elisaveta Feodorovna.

Father Mitrofan of Srebryansky was glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

The basis of the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy was the charter of the monastery hostel. The sisters were taught the basics of medicine; their main concern was visiting the sick and poor, and helping abandoned children.

The best specialists worked at the monastery hospital. All operations were carried out free of charge. At the monastery there was a free canteen for the poor, an excellent library that anyone could use, and a shelter for orphan girls was created.

Elisaveta Feodorovna led an ascetic life. She slept on bare wooden planks, secretly wore a hair shirt, ate only plant foods, prayed a lot, slept little, but tried in every possible way to hide it. The Grand Duchess always did everything herself, without requiring help from others, and participated in the affairs of the monastery as an ordinary sister. She loved to make pilgrimages to holy places. According to the testimony of those who knew Elisaveta Feodorovna, the Lord rewarded her with the gift of reasoning and revealed to her pictures of the future of Russia.

She also continued to engage in charitable activities outside the walls of the monastery, visiting the unfortunate in various hospitals and shelters. During the First World War, the Grand Duchess was involved in the formation of ambulance trains, arranging warehouses for medicines and equipment, and sending camp churches to the front.

For the first time after the October revolution, the monastery was not touched. The Grand Duchess was acutely worried about the terrible events taking place, but refused offers to go abroad, wanting to share the fate of her country, which she deeply loved - in one of her letters she wrote:

With every fiber of my soul I am Russian.

In April 1918, on the third day of Easter, on the day of the celebration of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, Elisaveta Feodorovna was arrested and taken away from Moscow. Two sisters went with her - Varvara Yakovleva and Ekaterina Yanysheva. They were taken to Perm. The Grand Duchess wrote to her sisters:

For God's sake, don't lose heart. The Mother of God knows why Her Heavenly Son sent us this test on the day of Her feast day; the Lord found that it was time for us to bear His cross. Let's try to be worthy of this joy. As God wished, so it happened. Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.

The Grand Duchess spent the last months of her life in prison, in a school on the outskirts of the city of Alapaevsk. She devoted all her time to prayer. The sisters who accompanied their abbess were brought to the regional council and offered to go free, but they begged to be returned to the Grand Duchess. Then the security officers began to scare them with torture and torment that would await everyone who stayed with her. Varvara Yakovleva replied that she was ready to sign even with her blood, that she wanted to share the fate of her abbess.

In the dead of night 5 (July 18), the day of the discovery of the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna, along with other members of the Imperial House, was thrown into the shaft of an old mine. When the brutal executioners pushed the Grand Duchess into the black pit, she prayed: Lord, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23; 34). Then the security officers began throwing hand grenades into the mine. One of the peasants, who witnessed the murder, said that from the depths of the mine the sounds of the Cherubim were heard, which the sufferers sang before crossing into eternity.

Elisaveta Feodorovna fell not to the bottom of the mine, but to a ledge that was located at a depth of 15 meters. Next to her they found the body of John Konstantinovich, the son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, with his head bandaged. Even here, with severe fractures and bruises, she sought to alleviate the suffering of her neighbor. The fingers of the right hand of Grand Duchess Elizabeth and nun Varvara were folded for the sign of the cross. They died in terrible agony from thirst, hunger and wounds.

The remains of the martyrs in 1921 were transported to Jerusalem by Father Seraphim, abbot of the Alexievsky monastery of the Perm diocese, friend and confessor of the Grand Duchess, and laid in the tomb of the Church of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane. The burial of the New Martyrs was performed by Patriarch Damian. Their relics turned out to be partially incorrupt. Patriarch Diodorus of Jerusalem blessed the solemn transfer of the relics from the tomb to the temple of St. Mary Magdalene itself.

In 1992, the Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Nun Varvara were canonized by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Their memory is celebrated on the day of their death - July 5 (18).

Icon of St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker. End of the 19th century. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Monastery

January 6/19, 2002 to the St. John the Baptist Monastery from the Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul on the Yauza, two revered shrines of the monastery were returned: the ancient miraculous image of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John with a hoop and the icon of St. St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker, Abbess of Constantinople. Church of St. App. Peter and Paul, which was not closed during the Soviet period, became the guardian of these shrines of the Ivanovo monastery by God's providence, to which they returned soon after the revival of monastic life in it.

ABOUT Let us first come to the image of St. Elizabeth, since her church was the first to be restored in the monastery in 1995, and before the consecration of the Cathedral of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, services were performed in the house Elizabeth church. Icon of St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker was written in the second half of the 19th century for the new cathedral of the monastery, which was restored in 1879. The monastery existed for no more than 40 years after its renewal. In 1918, it was one of the first to be closed, and a concentration camp was located on its main territory. The cathedral continued to operate together with the Elizabethan Church until 1926 and early 1927.

According to the inventory of property that was in use of the Orthodox Christian Society at the Church of St. John the Baptist, in 1923 this image was in the main altar of the monastery Cathedral: “Icon of St. Venerable. Elizabeth in an icon case under glass with a chased gold border, picturesque, size 11/2 arch. x 1 arsh. 3 inches*" 1 . The icon is made, like many other similar icons, on metal - zinc. This is evidenced by the same inventory: “In the walls of the temple there are picturesque images of saints of various sizes in gilded baguettes on zinc and linen” 2 .

After the closure of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at the end of 1926 - beginning. In 1927, the community of believers moved with some of the church property of the monastery to the Church of St. Trinity in Serebryaniki. Icon of St. Elizabeth is in the “Inventory of liturgical objects and church property transported from the temple b. Ivanovo Monastery to the Church of St. Trinity in Serebrenichesky lane." 3 dated April 30, 1927. When the turn of closure came to the Church of St. Trinity, icon of St. Elizabeth was transferred to the Church of St. App. Peter and Paul.

Now the restored icon of St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker is located in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Monastery of St. John the Baptist 4.

House church in the name of St. St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker in the John the Baptist Convent was established with the blessing of St. Philaret of Moscow and according to the will of the wealthy widow and benefactor of the monastery Elizaveta Alekseevna Makarova-Zubacheva in honor of her heavenly patroness.

By the providence of God, the ancient holy abbess of the 5th century, Elizaveta the Wonderworker, inspired Elizaveta Alekseevna with the good idea of reviving the ancient Moscow monastery, devastated by the French in 1812. Elizaveta Alekseevna, remembering her late husband, the same name as John the Baptist, and with the prayers of St. St. Elizabeth, fulfilling the will of God, bequeathed her entire considerable fortune to the renovation of the monastery. And the holy abbess Elizabeth became one of the patrons of the St. John the Baptist monastery.

The image of the reverend abbess is made in a soft combination of pink, blue and soft greenish shades, and shows us the spiritual appearance of the saint. St. Elizabeth is depicted in full growth standing on the bank of a river or lake, behind which the outlines of a number of low hills can be seen, as if in a light haze. The saint is clothed in a reddish color, similar to the earth at her feet, a tunic and a green mantle, which, like the blue of the heavens around her, covers her. The head of the saint is shrouded in a lilac omophorion and a schematic pendant of the same color is visible under the mantle on the tunic. There are no external symbols of the abbot’s power on the icon, but the prayerfully focused face of the Holy One and the restrained, integral and soft appearance reveal in it the gifts of unceasing prayer before the Lord and spiritual power - care for those who ask for her help. Her right hand is bent towards her chest and, as it were, points to her heart, which is constantly turned to God. Left hand of St. Elizabeth holds an unfolded scroll with the words of prayer for all those who come running under her protection:

“Lord my God, hear me, grant remission of sins to the one who remembers the name of Elizabeth, and at the hour of departure, accept his soul in peace and give him a place of peace.”

Such is the spiritual power, strength and boldness of the saint, who cares about the forgiveness of sins, repentance and the eternal fate of souls, for which she calls on the mercy of God.

A special providential gift and truly a miracle of God was the discovery of the complete life of St. Elizabeth, which was preserved only in one Florentine manuscript of the 14th century, discovered in the 50s. XX century 5, Its first edition was carried out in 1973 by the Catholic scholar-hagiographer, a member of the Jesuit-Bollandist congregation, Fr. François Alken in the collection Analecta Bollandiana 91 6. The Bollandists are known as a society of learned monks engaged in the research and publication of the Lives of the Saints of the Eastern and Western Churches. The activities of this society were started in 1643 by John Bolland 7 . Several years ago, the life was translated from Greek into Russian by the historian A.Yu. Vinogradov and first published in Russian by the St. John the Baptist Monastery in 2002. In it St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker is not only the patroness of female cenobitic monasticism, but also the vessel of the Holy Spirit from which flow the grace-filled gifts of miracles and healings from various diseases.

Even before her conception in her mother’s womb, she was given the name of the righteous Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, “for (as life tells) she will be like the mother of the Baptist and Baptist John” 8. As a daughter given by God to barren parents, she undoubtedly has the grace to help those burdened with this sorrow. Very young she became the abbess of the monastery of St. Vmch. George in Constantinople, where her paternal aunt had previously been abbess. In the abbess of St. Elizabeth was installed by Saint Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458-471). Thanks to her deepest humility and truly monastic life according to the Gospel commandments, the Lord granted her many gifts at a young age. She healed incurable diseases, cast out demons in the name of Christ, received many revelations and predicted the future for the salvation of her neighbors. Thus, she predicted a terrible fire in Constantinople in 465, which was extinguished by the power of the prayers of St. Elizabeth and etc. Daniel the Stylite; She also delivered one of the outskirts of Constantinople from the terrible serpent that was destroying people. She provided special assistance to many women who suffered from continuous female bleeding; healed from blindness. She was notified 24 days in advance of her death, for which she prepared and, with her constant instructions and teachings, prepared the sisters of her monastery, and blissfully gave up her spirit to God after the patronal feast day in her monastery of St. Vmch. George. After her death, by the power of God, she performed the same miracles of healing as during her life: she healed a withered man, a blind man, and a demon-possessed man; many other miracles “because of their abundance” are not set forth in detail in the life, “but are recorded elsewhere” 9 .

St. St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker, the patroness of the St. John the Baptist Monastery, still prays for all those who resort to her help. She was connected by a special spiritual relationship even before her conception and birth with St. Prophet John and his righteous parents more than fifteen centuries ago. And we see this special prayer cover and unity in our monastery in the construction and revival of two churches of St. St. Elizabeth and St. Prophet John, and in the simultaneous return of two shrines after the opening of the monastery.

* Arshin = 71.12 cm (16 vershok), vershok = 4.445 cm.

1 - TsGAMO. F 66. Op. No. 18. D. No. 334. L. 18 vol.

2 Ibid. L. 22 rev.

3 Ibid. L. 46. No. 9.

4 In 2002, the icon was placed in the house Elisabeth church of the monastery, where it remained until 2005. At the request of pilgrims, with the blessing of the abbess of the monastery, the icon was transferred from the house church to the cathedral.

5 Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Bruxellex, 1957. No. 2121.

6 Orthodox Encyclopedia. M., 2001. T. 2. P. 79, 213.

8 Life of the Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker. M.: Ioanno-Predtechensky Monastery, 2002. P.6.

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