Orthodox church holidays in March. Paris Commune Day in France

* Martyr Conon of Isauria (I). * Blessed Prince Theodore of Smolensk and his sons David and Konstantin of Yaroslavl, miracle workers (discovery of relics, 1463). Venerable Martyr Adrian of Poshekhonsky, Yaroslavl (1550).
Martyrs Onisius (I); Konon gradar (gardener) (c. 249-251); Eulogius of Palestine; Eulampia; Iraids; Archelaus, Cyril, Photius and 150 others. Venerable Hesychius, presbyter of Jerusalem (c.434); Mark of Postnik (ca. 450); Hesychia of the Fast (c. 790); George. Martyr John the Bulgarian (1784). Hieromartyr John (Peacemaker) presbyter, venerable martyrs Mardarius (Isaev) and Theophan (1938). Icons Mother of God, called "Education".

Martyr Conon of Isauria

Martyr Konon of Isauria was the son of St. Nestor and Nada, contemporaries of the apostles. Suffered from the bishop of Isauria.

Martyr Konon Gradar

The martyr Konon Gradar lived in the Paphylian city of Mandona and was engaged in cultivating vegetable gardens, which is why he is called a gradar. The ruler of the region where Conon lived, Publius, having learned that he professed the faith of Christ, demanded that he renounce Christ. When Konon refused to fulfill the will of the ruler, he ordered to subject him to various tortures, from which the holy martyr died. He lived in the 3rd century.

Reverend Adrian

The Monk Adrian was the founder of the Poshekhonsky monastery, 5 versts from the town of Poshekhonya, Yaroslavl province. At first he labored in the Vologda Komel monastery, from where, together with his disciple, Elder Leonid, he went to a remote and wooded place near Poshekhonye. St. Leonidas died peacefully in 1549, and a year later Adrian himself ended his life as a martyr. A gang of robbers attacked him and, tormenting him, demanded money. The saint gave everything he had. The robbers nevertheless strangled him and threw his body on the bank of the Ushloma River. Priest Isidore buried the body of the reverend martyr in the church. Soon the presence of the saint's body here was marked by miracles. Patriarch Filaret, having learned about Saint Adrian, restored his monastery and transferred the relics of the founder to it; there they rest to this day.

Discovery of the relics of the noble princes Theodore of Smolensk and his children David and Constantine, Yaroslavl wonderworkers

The holy noble prince Theodore, nicknamed Black, was the son of the Smolensk prince Rostislav Mstislavovich and descended from the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. The year of birth of Saint Prince Theodore cannot be determined precisely, but undoubtedly it was between 1240 and 1245. According to the testimony of his biography (Hieromonk Anthony, 2nd half of the 15th century), he is from youth He was brought up in piety and taught divine dogmas, with which his heart was filled with love. As a youth, he already shied away from children's games and customs, devoting himself especially to reading holy books and maintaining spiritual and physical purity.
Theodore had two brothers, Gleb and Mikhail, who, after the death of their father, offended him by giving him only the city of Mozhaisk as his inheritance. He was not angry with his brothers and patiently mastered this inheritance. Mozhaisk was then still a very young, poor and sparsely populated town with a small district and adjacent villages. But Theodore accepted the inheritance, as the compiler of his life put it, resignedly, thinking most of all about acquiring an incorruptible, incorruptible, eternal treasure. In a short time, the smart and kind prince managed to make his lot both populous and not poor, and earned the reverent love of the people.
Around 1267, Saint Prince Theodore married the Rostov princess Maria Vasilievna, after which he took possession of the city of Yaroslavl. After the death of his brother Mikhail, he also inherited the Smolensk reign. Prince Theodore lived piously and pleasingly to God in Yaroslavl. He especially revered priests and monks and did good to the poor. As a valiant warrior of Christ, he pleased his Master in everything and shunned all untruth.
In those days, when the Tatar yoke was heavy over the Russian land, there was a custom for Russian princes to go to the Horde to see the khan to establish their princely dignity. Among other princes, Prince Theodore of Yaroslavl went there with many gifts for the khan and his wife. In the Horde he was received very favorably and served at the Khan's court as a favorite, highly respected. His manly beauty and intelligence captivated the khan's wife so much that she wanted to marry her daughter to him. But he told her that he had a wife in Yaroslavl, and did not bow to her admonitions.
Having asked the khan for approval to reign in Yaroslavl and received it, the noble prince Theodore left the Horde for home. When he arrived in Yaroslavl, he learned that his wife had died. He wanted to enter the city where his son Mikhail and mother-in-law lived at that time. However, the boyars and his mother-in-law did not let him in, saying: “It is not our custom,” they said, “to accept as a prince someone who comes from a foreign land; It is enough for us to have Theodore’s heir, Michael, as our prince.” Saint Theodore again went to the Horde and asked the khan to give him the Yaroslavl principality again. The Khan sent a strict command to the Yaroslavl people to accept their prince, but they did not obey such a command and stubbornly refused to accept Theodore. While the holy prince was in the Horde, visiting the khan, the khan’s wife again began to propose to her husband that their daughter should marry Theodore.
The khan did not agree for a long time, saying that it was not appropriate to give the khan’s daughter in marriage to a tributary, and even a non-religious one. But after some time, the khan agreed to his daughter’s baptism and her marriage to Theodore. In holy baptism the khan's daughter was named Anna. After this marriage, the khan fell in love with Saint Theodore even more. He often sat him with him at his table, placed the khan’s crown on his head every day, dressed him in his purple, built him a beautiful palace and surrounded him with glory and wealth. But amid all this splendor, the heart of the blessed prince did not become proud, and the glory of this world did not distract him from the love of Christ, and he succeeded more and more in fulfilling the commandments of the Lord. While he was still living in the Horde, he had a son, who was named David in holy baptism. Then his second son was born, named Constantine in holy baptism.
Soon after, messengers from Russia arrived to him with the news that his son Mikhail had died in Yaroslavl. Then Prince Theodore began to ask the khan to let him go to Russian soil along with the princess and their children. The Khan released him with great honor, placing a crown on him and honoring him with the great reign of Yaroslavl. The holy prince arrived in Yaroslavl with great honor. With him came many Tatar nobles from the khan’s court, whom he, after some time, honorably released to the Horde.
Holy Prince Theodore reigned piously and godly in his city of Yaroslavl until he was very old. Having fallen ill and feeling that this illness was terminal, he called his princess wife and his children to him and bequeathed to them to abide in love and peace. Then he ordered himself to be taken to the monastery and there with great joy he accepted the monastic image from the abbot and throughout that day he rejoiced and thanked God for having vouchsafed him this gift, which his soul had long desired. Just before his death, he wished to accept the schema, after which, having taught forgiveness to everyone and himself asking forgiveness from everyone, he overshadowed himself sign of the cross and handed over his soul into the hands of God. This was in 1299. He was beautifully buried in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Son and successor of St. Prince Theodore, Prince David died in 1321, and the year of Prince Constantine’s death is not indicated in the chronicles. The bodies of the sons, in accordance with the wishes they expressed during their lifetime, were laid next to the body of their father, in a crypt under the arches of the temple, not in the ground, but on top of it in tombs.

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Martyr Conon of Isauria

Martyr Konon of Isauria was the son of St. Nestor and Nada, contemporaries of the apostles. Suffered from the bishop of Isauria.

Martyr Konon Gradar

Reverend Adrian

Discovery of the relics of the noble princes Theodore of Smolensk and his children David and Constantine, Yaroslavl wonderworkers

The holy noble prince Theodore, nicknamed Black, was the son of the Smolensk prince Rostislav Mstislavovich and descended from the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. The year of birth of Saint Prince Theodore cannot be determined precisely, but undoubtedly it was between 1240 and 1245. According to the testimony of his biography (Hieromonk Anthony, 2nd half of the 15th century), from a young age he was raised in piety and taught divine dogmas, with which his heart was filled with love. As a youth, he already shied away from children's games and customs, being especially diligent in reading sacred books and maintaining mental and physical purity.
Theodore had two brothers, Gleb and Mikhail, who, after the death of their father, offended him by giving him only the city of Mozhaisk as his inheritance. He was not angry with his brothers and patiently mastered this inheritance. Mozhaisk was then still a very young, poor and sparsely populated town with a small district and adjacent villages. But Theodore accepted the inheritance, as the compiler of his life put it, resignedly, thinking most of all about acquiring an incorruptible, incorruptible, eternal treasure. In a short time, the smart and kind prince managed to make his lot both populous and not poor, and earned the reverent love of the people.
Around 1267, Saint Prince Theodore married the Rostov princess Maria Vasilievna, after which he took possession of the city of Yaroslavl. After the death of his brother Mikhail, he also inherited the Smolensk reign. Prince Theodore lived piously and pleasingly to God in Yaroslavl. He especially revered priests and monks and did good to the poor. As a valiant warrior of Christ, he pleased his Master in everything and shunned all untruth.
In those days, when the Tatar yoke was heavy over the Russian land, there was a custom for Russian princes to go to the Horde to see the khan to establish their princely dignity. Among other princes, Prince Theodore of Yaroslavl went there with many gifts for the khan and his wife. In the Horde he was received very favorably and served at the Khan's court as a favorite, highly respected. His manly beauty and intelligence captivated the khan's wife so much that she wanted to marry her daughter to him. But he told her that he had a wife in Yaroslavl, and did not bow to her admonitions.
Having asked the khan for approval to reign in Yaroslavl and received it, the noble prince Theodore left the Horde for home. When he arrived in Yaroslavl, he learned that his wife had died. He wanted to enter the city where his son Mikhail and mother-in-law lived at that time. However, the boyars and his mother-in-law did not let him in, saying: “It is not our custom,” they said, “to accept as a prince someone who comes from a foreign land; It is enough for us to have Theodore’s heir, Michael, as our prince.” Saint Theodore again went to the Horde and asked the khan to give him the Yaroslavl principality again. The Khan sent a strict command to the Yaroslavl people to accept their prince, but they did not obey such a command and stubbornly refused to accept Theodore. While the holy prince was in the Horde, visiting the khan, the khan’s wife again began to propose to her husband that their daughter should marry Theodore.
The khan did not agree for a long time, saying that it was not appropriate to give the khan’s daughter in marriage to a tributary, and even a non-religious one. But after some time, the khan agreed to his daughter’s baptism and her marriage to Theodore. In holy baptism the khan's daughter was named Anna. After this marriage, the khan fell in love with Saint Theodore even more. He often sat him with him at his table, placed the khan’s crown on his head every day, dressed him in his purple, built him a beautiful palace and surrounded him with glory and wealth. But amid all this splendor, the heart of the blessed prince did not become proud, and the glory of this world did not distract him from the love of Christ, and he succeeded more and more in fulfilling the commandments of the Lord. While he was still living in the Horde, he had a son, who was named David in holy baptism. Then his second son was born, named Constantine in holy baptism.
Soon after, messengers from Russia arrived to him with the news that his son Mikhail had died in Yaroslavl. Then Prince Theodore began to ask the khan to let him go to Russian soil along with the princess and their children. The Khan released him with great honor, placing a crown on him and honoring him with the great reign of Yaroslavl. The holy prince arrived in Yaroslavl with great honor. With him came many Tatar nobles from the khan’s court, whom he, after some time, honorably released to the Horde.
Holy Prince Theodore reigned piously and godly in his city of Yaroslavl until he was very old. Having fallen ill and feeling that this illness was terminal, he called his princess wife and his children to him and bequeathed to them to abide in love and peace. Then he ordered to be taken to the monastery and there with great joy he accepted the monastic image from the abbot and throughout that day he rejoiced and thanked God for having vouchsafed him this gift, which his soul had long desired. Just before his death, he wished to accept the schema, after which, having granted forgiveness to everyone and having asked everyone for forgiveness, he made the sign of the cross and handed over his soul into the hands of God. This was in 1299. He was beautifully buried in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Son and successor of St. Prince Theodore, Prince David died in 1321, and the year of Prince Constantine’s death is not indicated in the chronicles. The bodies of the sons, in accordance with the wishes they expressed during their lifetime, were laid next to the body of their father, in a crypt under the arches of the temple, not in the ground, but on top of it in tombs.

Martyr Conon of Isauria

Martyr Konon of Isauria was the son of St. Nestor and Nada, contemporaries of the apostles. Suffered from the bishop of Isauria.

Martyr Konon Gradar

Reverend Adrian

Discovery of the relics of the noble princes Theodore of Smolensk and his children David and Constantine, Yaroslavl wonderworkers

The holy noble prince Theodore, nicknamed Black, was the son of the Smolensk prince Rostislav Mstislavovich and descended from the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. The year of birth of Saint Prince Theodore cannot be determined precisely, but undoubtedly it was between 1240 and 1245. According to the testimony of his biography (Hieromonk Anthony, 2nd half of the 15th century), from a young age he was raised in piety and taught divine dogmas, with which his heart was filled with love. As a youth, he already shied away from children's games and customs, being especially diligent in reading sacred books and maintaining mental and physical purity.
Theodore had two brothers, Gleb and Mikhail, who, after the death of their father, offended him by giving him only the city of Mozhaisk as his inheritance. He was not angry with his brothers and patiently mastered this inheritance. Mozhaisk was then still a very young, poor and sparsely populated town with a small district and adjacent villages. But Theodore accepted the inheritance, as the compiler of his life put it, resignedly, thinking most of all about acquiring an incorruptible, incorruptible, eternal treasure. In a short time, the smart and kind prince managed to make his lot both populous and not poor, and earned the reverent love of the people.
Around 1267, Saint Prince Theodore married the Rostov princess Maria Vasilievna, after which he took possession of the city of Yaroslavl. After the death of his brother Mikhail, he also inherited the Smolensk reign. Prince Theodore lived piously and pleasingly to God in Yaroslavl. He especially revered priests and monks and did good to the poor. As a valiant warrior of Christ, he pleased his Master in everything and shunned all untruth.
In those days, when the Tatar yoke was heavy over the Russian land, there was a custom for Russian princes to go to the Horde to see the khan to establish their princely dignity. Among other princes, Prince Theodore of Yaroslavl went there with many gifts for the khan and his wife. In the Horde he was received very favorably and served at the Khan's court as a favorite, highly respected. His manly beauty and intelligence captivated the khan's wife so much that she wanted to marry her daughter to him. But he told her that he had a wife in Yaroslavl, and did not bow to her admonitions.
Having asked the khan for approval to reign in Yaroslavl and received it, the noble prince Theodore left the Horde for home. When he arrived in Yaroslavl, he learned that his wife had died. He wanted to enter the city where his son Mikhail and mother-in-law lived at that time. However, the boyars and his mother-in-law did not let him in, saying: “It is not our custom,” they said, “to accept as a prince someone who comes from a foreign land; It is enough for us to have Theodore’s heir, Michael, as our prince.” Saint Theodore again went to the Horde and asked the khan to give him the Yaroslavl principality again. The Khan sent a strict command to the Yaroslavl people to accept their prince, but they did not obey such a command and stubbornly refused to accept Theodore. While the holy prince was in the Horde, visiting the khan, the khan’s wife again began to propose to her husband that their daughter should marry Theodore.
The khan did not agree for a long time, saying that it was not appropriate to give the khan’s daughter in marriage to a tributary, and even a non-religious one. But after some time, the khan agreed to his daughter’s baptism and her marriage to Theodore. In holy baptism the khan's daughter was named Anna. After this marriage, the khan fell in love with Saint Theodore even more. He often sat him with him at his table, placed the khan’s crown on his head every day, dressed him in his purple, built him a beautiful palace and surrounded him with glory and wealth. But amid all this splendor, the heart of the blessed prince did not become proud, and the glory of this world did not distract him from the love of Christ, and he succeeded more and more in fulfilling the commandments of the Lord. While he was still living in the Horde, he had a son, who was named David in holy baptism. Then his second son was born, named Constantine in holy baptism.
Soon after, messengers from Russia arrived to him with the news that his son Mikhail had died in Yaroslavl. Then Prince Theodore began to ask the khan to let him go to Russian soil along with the princess and their children. The Khan released him with great honor, placing a crown on him and honoring him with the great reign of Yaroslavl. The holy prince arrived in Yaroslavl with great honor. With him came many Tatar nobles from the khan’s court, whom he, after some time, honorably released to the Horde.
Holy Prince Theodore reigned piously and godly in his city of Yaroslavl until he was very old. Having fallen ill and feeling that this illness was terminal, he called his princess wife and his children to him and bequeathed to them to abide in love and peace. Then he ordered himself to be taken to the monastery and there with great joy he accepted the monastic image from the abbot and throughout that day he rejoiced and thanked God for having vouchsafed him this gift, which his soul had long desired. Just before his death, he wished to accept the schema, after which, having granted forgiveness to everyone and having asked everyone for forgiveness, he made the sign of the cross and handed over his soul into the hands of God. This was in 1299. He was beautifully buried in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Son and successor of St. Prince Theodore, Prince David died in 1321, and the year of Prince Constantine’s death is not indicated in the chronicles. The bodies of the sons, in accordance with the wishes they expressed during their lifetime, were laid next to the body of their father, in a crypt under the arches of the temple, not in the ground, but on top of it in tombs.

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Church Orthodox holidays March 18

Main multi-day fast. Erected in honor of the memory of the 40-day fasting of Jesus Christ in the desert. The duration of Great Lent is 48 days.

Dedicated to the discovery of the holy remains of the blessed Prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl and his two sons in Yaroslavl in 1463.

Grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, born around 1237-1239. From a young age he was distinguished by humility, strict morality and piety. When dividing his father's inheritance, Theodore received only the small town of Mozhaisk. Patiently enduring the insult, in a short time the smart and kind prince made his lot both populous and not poor, earning the reverent love of the people. In 1260, having married the Yaroslavl princess Maria Vasilievna, St. Theodore becomes Prince of Yaroslavl. From this marriage he had a son, Mikhail. In 1277, the prince participated and distinguished himself with military feats in the Ossetian campaign, which attracted the special favor of Khan Mengu-Timur. The holy prince spent three years in the Horde, and when he returned to Rus', it turned out that his wife had died, and his mother-in-law, Princess Ksenia, did not let him into Yaroslavl, and St. Theodore had to return to the Horde again. Here he married the khan's daughter, who was baptized Anna. Such a marriage meant for Rus' great value. Here, in the Horde, at St. Prince Theodore had sons - David and Constantine.

He used the enormous influence that the saint acquired in the Horde for the glory of the Russian land and the Russian Church. The saint built several churches in the Horde. In 1290, after the death of his first son, Prince Michael, St. Theodore and his family returned to Yaroslavl, where he began to zealously take care of the strengthening and improvement of the city and principality, and the welfare of his compatriots. He built many temples and provided them with utensils.

On September 18, 1299, feeling the approach of death, the holy prince accepted the schema. Having touchingly asked forgiveness from the many gathered Yaroslavl residents, he peacefully rested in the Lord on September 19, 1299.

March 5, 1463 were acquired imperishable relics the holy princes Theodore and his children David and Constantine, who became famous for their miracles. Now they rest in the same shrine in Feodorovskoe cathedral Yaroslavl.

The holy noble prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl, nicknamed Black, was born in the terrible time of the Mongol invasion for Rus', around 1237 - 1239, and was named in baptism in the name of the holy great martyr Theodore Stratilates, especially revered by the Russian warrior princes. Holy Prince Theodore was destined by God to become famous in the Russian land for his military exploits. In 1239, when prayers Holy Mother of God The holy warrior-martyr Mercury (November 24) saved Smolensk from Batu’s captivity; the youth Theodore was not in the city: he was taken away and hidden in a safe place for the duration of the war. The next year, 1240, his father, Prince Rostislav, great-grandson of the blessed Prince Rostislav, Smolensk and Kyiv, died (+ 1168; commemorated March 14).

The older brothers, the heirs, divided their father's lands among themselves, allocating the little Mozhaisk to the younger one, the youth Theodore. Here he spent his childhood, here he studied the Holy Scriptures, church service and martial arts.

In 1260, holy Prince Theodore married Maria Vasilyevna, daughter of the holy noble prince Vasily of Yaroslavl (+ 1249; commemorated July 3), and became the prince of Yaroslavl. They had a son, Michael, but soon Saint Theodore became a widower. He spent a lot of time in military labor and campaigns; his son was raised by his mother-in-law, Princess Ksenia.

In 1277, united squads of Russian princes, among whom was Saint Theodore, in alliance with Tatar troops, took part in a campaign in the Ossetian land and in the capture of “their glorious city of Tetyakov.” The Allied forces won a complete victory in this war. The fact is that since the time of Saint Alexander Nevsky (+ 1263; commemorated November 23), the khans of the Golden Horde, seeing unbroken spiritual and military power Orthodox Rus', were forced to change their attitude towards it, began to attract Russian princes to the alliance, and turned to them for military assistance. The Russian Church providentially used this rapprochement for the Christian enlightenment of foreigners. Already in 1261, through the efforts of St. Alexander Nevsky and Metropolitan Kirill III, the Russian diocese was established in Sarai, the capital of the Golden Horde. Orthodox Church. In 1276, the Council of Constantinople, chaired by Patriarch John Veccus (1275 - 1282), answered questions from the Russian Bishop of Sarai, Theognostus, about the procedure for baptizing the Tatars and accepting into Orthodoxy the Monophysites and Nestorians who were among them. During these years, Saint Prince Theodore found himself in the Horde. Distinguished by his military exploits in the Ossetian campaign, he aroused the special favor of Khan Mengu-Temir, who respected the Orthodox Church and issued the first khan's label of ecclesiastical immunity to Metropolitan Kirill. The chronicle says: “But Tsar Mengu-Temir and his queen loved Prince Theodore Rostislavich and did not want to let him into Rus' for the sake of his courage and the beauty of his face.” Saint Theodore spent three years in the Horde. Finally, “the king released him with great honor,” and the prince arrived in Yaroslavl. By this time, his wife, Maria, had already died, and Princess Ksenia ruled the city with her grandson Mikhail. The Yaroslavl people did not accept the prince who had returned from the Horde: “not welcoming him into the city, but telling him: “This city of Princess Xenia is our Prince Mikhail.”

Saint Theodore had to return to the Horde. The queen, the wife of Khan Mengu-Temir, “loved him dearly and wanted to give him her daughter for him.” Such a marriage would be of great importance for Rus'. The Khan did not agree to it for a long time, considering the Russian princes to be his “ulusniks” (i.e., vassals, subjects). Marrying a daughter to a Russian prince meant recognizing his equal dignity. And even more important: this meant for the khan to recognize the superiority of Orthodoxy, because before the wedding it was necessary for the Tatar princess to accept holy baptism. The Khan agreed to this, the alliance with Russia was too important for him: “and he ordered the princess to marry Prince Theodore, and ordered her to be baptized first, and Orthodox faith did not command to desecrate.” Thus Saint Theodore married the daughter of a powerful khan, who was named Anna in baptism. “The king honored him very much and ordered him to sit opposite him, built him a palace, gave him princes and nobles to serve.”

There, in the Horde, his sons were born to Saint Theodore the Black - the holy noble prince David (+ 1321) and the holy noble prince Constantine. He used the enormous influence that Saint Fedor acquired in the Horde for the glory of the Russian land and the Russian Church. Orthodoxy became increasingly stronger among the Tatars, the Horde adopted Russian customs, morals and piety. Russian merchants, architects, craftsmen carried Russian culture to the banks of the Don, Volga, Ural and further to Mongolia. Archaeologists are still finding orthodox icons, crosses, lamps throughout the territory of the former Golden Horde, which became part of Russia. Thus began the great missionary movement of the Russian Church to the East, enlightening all tribes to the Great Ocean with the light of the Gospel truth. Russians Orthodox princes and their warriors, participating as allies in the Mongol campaigns, learned and mastered the vast expanses of Asia, Siberia and the Far East. In 1330, just thirty years after the death of Saint Theodore the Black, the Chinese chronicle will write about Russian squads in Beijing.

Saint Theodore lived in Sarai until 1290, when “news came to him from Rus', from the city of Yaroslavl, that his first son, Prince Michael, had reposed.” Having given the prince rich gifts and a large squad, the khan released him to Rus'. Having again become a prince in Yaroslavl, Saint Theodore began to zealously take care of the strengthening and improvement of his city and principality. He showed special love for the monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord. His fame thundered throughout Rus', all the princes sought friendship and alliance with him. But most of all he loved the son of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Andrei Alexandrovich, supported him in all his endeavors when he was the Grand Duke of Vladimir, went on campaigns with him, shared the joy of victories and the bitterness of defeats. In 1296, a bloody fratricidal war almost broke out between two groups of princes: on one side were Saint Theodore and Grand Duke Andrew, on the other - Saint Michael of Tver (+ 1318; commemorated November 22) and Saint Daniel of Moscow (+ 1303; commemorated March 4). But bloodshed God's help was prevented. At the Vladimir Congress of Princes (1296), Bishop Simeon of Vladimir and Bishop Izmail of Sarai managed to bring peace to both sides. The very fact of participation in the congress of the holy Prince Theodore and the Lord of Sarai Ishmael suggests that the former used all his diplomatic talents and influence in the Horde to help establish peace in the Russian land.

The ties of Saint Theodore the Black with his homeland, Smolensk, were not severed, although it was not easy for him to reign there. Thus, in 1297, Saint Theodore went on a campaign to Smolensk to restore his legal rights to the Smolensk reign, seized by his nephew. But take the city and become again Prince of Smolensk he didn't get to do it this time.

Soon after that campaign, the holy prince-warrior fell ill. On September 18, 1299, the saint of God ordered to be transferred to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and took monastic vows.

At the very end of the ceremony, Saint Theodore asked to interrupt the ceremony. With the blessing of the abbot, in fulfillment of the will of the dying man, the prince was carried out to the monastery courtyard, where many Yaroslavl residents had already gathered. “And the prince confessed before all the people if he had sinned against anyone or held dislike against anyone. And whoever sinned against him and was hostile to him blessed and forgave everyone and accepted the blame for everything before God and people.” Only after this did the humble warrior decide to complete his unusual and difficult life path adoption of an angelic image.

All night the abbot and the brethren prayed over the holy prince. At two o'clock in the morning they started ringing for morning. Instructed by the Holy Mysteries of Christ, Saint Theodore lay silently on his monastic bed. When the monks began the third “Glory” of the Psalter, he made the sign of the cross and gave up his soul to the Lord. His appearance in the coffin was unusual: “It is wonderful to see the blessed one lying on his bed not as if he had died, but as if he were alive. His face shone, like the rays of the sun, adorned with honest gray hairs, showing his spiritual purity and kind heart.”

After him, his son, Saint David (+ 1321), ruled in Yaroslavl. The second of his youngest sons, Saint Constantine, apparently died earlier. Church veneration Saint Prince Theodore in the Yaroslavl land began shortly after his death. In 1322 - 1327, with the blessing and order of Bishop Prokhor of Rostov, the famous Theodore Gospel was written and decorated with miniatures in memory of Saint Theodore, revered by the Bishop. Bishop Prokhor was formerly the abbot of the Transfiguration Monastery in Yaroslavl. He probably knew the holy prince personally and could have been an eyewitness to his tonsure and nationwide repentance. Historians think that the best miniatures sewn into this precious manuscript belonged to an earlier Gospel, the owner of which was Saint Theodore the Black himself and which he brought with him to Yaroslavl as a blessing from his native Smolensk.

On March 5, 1463, the relics of the holy Prince Theodore and his children, David and Constantine, were found in Yaroslavl. A chronicler, an eyewitness to the event, wrote under this year: “In the city of Yaroslavl in the Monastery of the Holy Savior, three great princes lay, Prince Theodore Rostislavich and his children David and Konstantin, lying on top of the ground. The Grand Duke Theodore himself was a great man, his sons David and Konstantin, lying under his bosoms, were no less tall than him. They were lying in one coffin.” This feature of the physical appearance of the holy prince was so imprinted in the perception of eyewitnesses and contemporaries of the discovery of his relics that a record of this was included in the Prologue Lives of Prince Theodore and in the Iconographic Originals.

The Life of Saint Prince Theodore the Black was written shortly after the discovery of the relics by Hieromonk Anthony of the Yaroslavl Spassky Monastery, with the blessing of Metropolitan Philip I of Moscow and All Rus'. Another edition of the Life was written by Andrei Yuryev in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. The third, most detailed Life of Saint Theodore was included in the “State Book of the Royal Genealogy,” compiled under Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Macarius. The Russian people composed spiritual songs about the holy Prince Theodore, which were sung by “walking Kaliki” for centuries. They glorify the piety and justice, mercy and charity of the saint, his concern for the construction and decoration of churches (see: Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov John (Wendland). Prince Fyodor Cherny. - “Theological Works”, collection XI, M., 1973 „ p. 55 - 77). Complexity historical destinies, the severity of the era, the countless number of enemies - not personal, but enemies of Russia and the Church - only more clearly emphasize for us the greatness of the feat of the holy creators of Russia.
Memory of Abbot Adrian Poshekhonsky, originally from Rostov. Years of life: early XVI century-1550. He had the gift of working miracles. Founded Adrian Poshekhonsky Monastery.

He was a student of the Venerable Cornelius of Komel, first asceticised in the Vologda Komel Monastery and was a skilled icon painter. With the blessing of the abbot, on September 13, 1540, taking the icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Monk Adrian, together with his disciple, led by a mysterious elder, went into deserted places for silence. Arriving in the Poshekhonsky forest, on the bank of the Votkha River, an unknown elder showed them a place to live in the desert and became invisible. The Lord marked this place as the site of the future glorious monastery with the ringing of bells. Some time after his solitary monastic exploits, the saint founded a monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, where he became abbot. A strict charter was introduced in the monastery, prohibiting female access to the monastery. The Monk Adrian, being abbot, continued to lead a strict ascetic life and was an example for the brethren in everything.

The Monk Adrian Poshekhonsky was born in Rostov the Great at the beginning of the 16th century from pious parents Gregory and Irina. The Monk Adrian took monastic vows at the monastery of St. Cornelius of Komel (May 19). Among the brethren gathered by the Monk Cornelius there were many builders and icon painters, so that the temples of the monastery were built and decorated with the labors and art of the monks themselves. The Monk Adrian was also a skilled icon painter, and with his talent he also contributed to the decoration of the monastery. IN recent years During the life of the Monk Cornelius, the Kazan Tatars made a predatory raid on the area where the monastery was located. The holy mentor took all the brethren to the Ukhtoma River. However, the Tatars did not touch the monastery, frightened by the vision of the many soldiers guarding it, and soon left the Vologda region. The Monk Cornelius returned with the brethren to the monastery and reposed there on May 19, 1537. Three years after the death of Saint Cornelius, the Monk Adrian, who was then in the rank of hierodeacon, strongly desired to go to a deserted place and found a monastery in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos. The Lord helped the monk fulfill his intention. An unknown, magnificent-looking elder of Chernorize came to the Corniliev Monastery. Having met the elder in the temple, the Monk Adrian asked what his name was, but the elder did not answer. When the monk invited him to his cell and asked him to say something for the benefit of his soul, the elder replied that he could show the monk a desert where he could create a temple and monastery in the name of the Most Pure Mother of God. The Monk Adrian immediately went to the abbot, Abbot Lawrence, and began to ask for a blessing for the desert silence. Remembering the commandment of the Monk Cornelius, who ordered the release from the monastery of monks who wished to retire into the desert, Abbot Lawrence did not restrain the Monk Adrian and gave him his blessing, and also released his novice, Elder Leonidas, with him. Having prayed at the tomb of Saint Cornelius, the Monk Adrian and Elder Leonid set off on their journey, led by the mysterious monk.

The Monk Adrian carried with him an icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God that he had painted. On September 13, 1540, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Monk Adrian and Elder Leonid arrived in the wild Poshekhonsky forest, located between the villages of Belti, Patrabolshiy, Shelshedolsky and Ukhorsky, and stopped on the banks of the Votkha River. And there the elder who was leading them suddenly became invisible.

The amazed travelers began to chant the canon and service to the holiday, thanking God with tears. And as a harbinger of the future glorious monastery - a place of glorification of God - it spread throughout all the surrounding villages bell ringing. The Monk Adrian and the Elder Leonid lived for three years in desert solitude, enduring poverty, overcoming temptations from the devil and reproaches from evil people, and then began to implement their cherished intention. Having chosen a convenient time, the ascetics went to Moscow to Metropolitan Macarius to ask for a blessing to found a monastery and temple in the Poshekhonskaya side, on the Votkha River, in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Saint Macarius blessed the ascetics to establish a monastery, presented them with a charter from the temple, and ordained Hierodeacon Adrian as a presbyter and elevated him to the rank of abbot. In the charter issued to the Monk Adrian, the saint commanded “the priestly monks, deacons, monks and ordinary people to listen to him and obey him in everything, like a shepherd and teacher.” In Moscow, the Poshekhon hermits also found generous benefactors who, seeing the boldness of the elders, gave abundant donations for the construction of the temple. Returning to his desert on May 31, 1543, Holy Abbot Adrian founded a church with a meal in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. Having decorated and consecrated new church, the Monk Adrian began to build the monastery.

The holy relics of the venerable martyr were opened on December 17, 1626, solemnly transferred to the monastery church and placed in an open shrine, opposite the right choir. At the tomb of the Monk Adrian, many healings took place. He was a disciple of the Monk Cornelius of Komel, at first he labored in the Vologda Komel Monastery and was a skilled icon painter. With the blessing of the abbot, on September 13, 1540, taking the icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Monk Adrian, together with his disciple, led by a mysterious elder, went into deserted places for silence. Arriving in the Poshekhonsky forest, on the bank of the Votkha River, an unknown elder showed them a place to live in the desert and became invisible. The Lord marked this place as the site of the future glorious monastery with the ringing of bells. Some time after his solitary monastic exploits, the saint founded a monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, where he became abbot. A strict charter was introduced in the monastery, prohibiting female access to the monastery. The Monk Adrian, being abbot, continued to lead a strict ascetic life and was an example for the brethren in everything.

The monk had to endure many sorrows from the surrounding villagers, who, at the inspiration of the devil, planned to destroy the monastery. In 1550, on March 5, the Monk Adrian, after cruel torture, was villainously strangled by robbers who attacked the monastery. The saint's body was thrown into the forest. One pious priest Isidore, taking the holy body, secretly buried it, and at the burial site he planted a rowan tree, from which many healings took place. On November 19, 1625, the holy relics of St. Adrian were found and placed in the monastery church. Many miracles and healings took place at the relics of the saint.

The discovery of the relics of the Venerable Martyr Adrian of Poshekhonsky, Yaroslavl, took place on November 19, 1625. On December 17, 1625, under Patriarch Philaret, his incorruptible relics were transferred to the monastery he founded.

The Monk Adrian Poshekhonsky was born in Rostov the Great at the beginning of the 16th century from pious parents Gregory and Irina. The Monk Adrian took monastic tonsure at the monastery of St. Cornelius of Komel (May 19). Among the brethren gathered by the Monk Cornelius there were many builders and icon painters, so that the temples of the monastery were built and decorated with the labors and art of the monks themselves. The Monk Adrian was also a skilled icon painter, and with his talent he also contributed to the decoration of the monastery. In the last years of the life of the Monk Cornelius, the Kazan Tatars made a predatory raid on the area where the monastery was located. The holy mentor took all the brethren to the Ukhtoma River. However, the Tatars did not touch the monastery, frightened by the vision of the many soldiers guarding it, and soon left the Vologda region. The Monk Cornelius returned with the brethren to the monastery and reposed there on May 19, 1537. Three years after the death of Saint Cornelius, the Monk Adrian, who was then in the rank of hierodeacon, strongly desired to go to a deserted place and found a monastery in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos. The Lord helped the monk fulfill his intention. An unknown, magnificent-looking elder of Chernorize came to the Corniliev Monastery. Having met the elder in the temple, the Monk Adrian asked what his name was, but the elder did not answer. When the monk invited him to his cell and asked him to say something for the benefit of his soul, the elder replied that he could show the monk a desert where he could create a temple and monastery in the name of the Most Pure Mother of God. The Monk Adrian immediately went to the abbot, Abbot Lawrence, and began to ask for a blessing for the desert silence. Remembering the commandment of the Monk Cornelius, who ordered the release from the monastery of monks who wished to retire into the desert, Abbot Lawrence did not restrain the Monk Adrian and gave him his blessing, and also released his novice, Elder Leonidas, with him. Having prayed at the tomb of Saint Cornelius, the Monk Adrian and Elder Leonid set off on their journey, led by the mysterious monk. The Monk Adrian carried with him an icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God that he had painted. On September 13, 1540, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Monk Adrian and Elder Leonid arrived in the wild Poshekhonsky forest, located between the villages of Belti, Patrabolshiy, Shelshedolsky and Ukhorsky, and stopped on the banks of the Votkha River. And there the elder who was leading them suddenly became invisible. The amazed travelers began to chant the canon and service to the holiday, thanking God with tears. And as a harbinger of the future glorious monastery - a place of glorification of God - the ringing of bells echoed throughout all the surrounding villages. The Monk Adrian and Elder Leonid lived for three years in desolate solitude, enduring poverty, overcoming temptations from the devil and reproaches from evil people, and then they began to realize their cherished intention. Having chosen a convenient time, the ascetics went to Moscow to Metropolitan Macarius to ask for a blessing to found a monastery and temple in the Poshekhonskaya side, on the Votkha River, in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Saint Macarius blessed the ascetics to establish a monastery, presented them with a charter from the temple, and ordained Hierodeacon Adrian as a presbyter and elevated him to the rank of abbot. In the charter issued to the Monk Adrian, the saint commanded “the priestly monks, deacons, monks and ordinary people to listen to him and obey him in everything, like a shepherd and teacher.” In Moscow, the Poshekhon hermits also found generous benefactors who, seeing the boldness of the elders, gave abundant donations for the construction of the temple. Returning to his desert on May 31, 1543, Holy Abbot Adrian founded a church with a meal in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. Having decorated and consecrated the new church, the Monk Adrian began to build the monastery.

The strict rules of St. Cornelius were introduced into the monastery. Having nothing of your own, being content with little in everything, most of The monks devoted time to prayer, church and cell prayer, and a lot of time was devoted to reading Holy Scripture. Moreover, this reading was performed “not in a loud voice, nor eloquently, but in a humble and meek voice; one reads, and the second discusses what he read,” they also read in private. The Monk Adrian, in addition to his work as a rector, was also engaged in painting icons, and when his holy soul desired complete silence, he retired to pray in the thicket of the forest, in a cell with a chapel that he had built, a mile from the monastery. Six years after the founding of the monastery, Elder Leonid peacefully reposed in the Lord, and the Monk Adrian and his brethren honestly buried him. By that time the brethren had multiplied. The monks built three cells for living and a fourth for cooking and baking bread. Saint Adrian began to think about the construction of a large stone temple and collected a significant amount of money for this. But a year after the death of Elder Leonid, in 1550, in Lent, on the night of March 5-6, in memory of the 42 Amorite martyrs, armed robbers burst into the monastery and, after torture, strangled the Monk Adrian.

The day of honoring Saint Conon, originally from the village of Bethany near the city of Isauria. He suffered severe torture during the persecution of Christians in Isauria. He died 2 years after the torture.

The Holy Martyr Conon of Isauria was born in Bethany, not far from the Asia Minor city of Isauria, and was a Christian. Having become engaged to a girl named Anna, after the wedding he convinced her to remain a virgin, and they lived, devoting themselves entirely to God. The ascetic, who devoted himself entirely to monastic labors, fasting and prayer, was awarded the gift of miracles in his old age. Thanks to his preaching and miracles, many pagans turned to Christ. During the time of persecution of Christians, he was subjected to brutal torture. The inhabitants of Isauria, having learned about the torture to which the saint was subjected, went with weapons in their hands to defend the martyr. Frightened by the people's anger, the tormentors fled, and the Isaurians found the martyr wounded and bloodied at the place of torture. Saint Konon regretted that he was not worthy to accept martyrdom for the Lord. Two years later, Saint Conon died peacefully (1st century).