My last 8th pregnancy passed in quite a few places - at the beginning of St. Petersburg, near Svira and Olonets. I definitely became the main point of the day Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery. In fact, entire monastery ensembles with ancient Russian architecture, so that you have a cathedral, a refectory with a church, and all sorts of chambers, and walls with walls (but also in the context of the complete set) - not the same and its intangible thickness. This can be done as much as possible, and it will come out significantly less, until 1917, which is understandable. The most important of them are Solovetsky, Antoniyevo-Siysky, Khresny on Kiy Island, Kirilo-Belozersky, Ferapontov, Goritsky, Spaso-Prilutsky, Tikhvinsky Uspensky, Zelenetsky. Well, Svirsky is also among the top ten, unique in that there are really two monasteries here, two in one.

It’s not enough to sing that this place is clear to everyone. I feel like there is very little specialized literature from the Svir Monastery, there were no architectural reconstructions and plans, and there was no effort to write articles about the architecture of its monuments. The Gogolitsin's book, which has been dragged along on the edges of the monuments of the Leningrad region, has mixed up photographs, through which it is easy to get confused about where and what. The official website of the monastery tells you about the future, but not about the architectural complex. It would seem that the site itself could give us directions for pilgrims, where to go, what to worship. Apart from the plan on which everything would be assigned, there is nothing there. Natomist is on Soborah.ru, so respect. When traveling, you can easily secure the material behind your pouches so you don’t get lost.

First of all, it is not good to joke about the monastery at points similar to the one behind the name, such as Sviritsa and Svirbud. You won't know. Meet in the village Stara Sloboda, approximately 20 km away from the place of Lodeyne Pole, on the right (downstream) birch of the Svir, far from the river, in the middle of forests and lakes.

Like the history of many ancient monasteries, this is also connected with the share, death and glorification of one ascetic, who gave the monastery its life, its name, and all its glory. In this particular situation Oleksandr Svirsky (1448-1533) , Who is alive for a long time and so from the point of view of the church it is correct that one time he was rewarded with a miraculous appearance not of anyone, but of the Holy Trinity itself.For this reason, the visions of all Russian saints. Even 14 years after his death, there were canonizations and immediately for Ivan the Terrible, without specially highlighting the works of the pantheon of their Russian miracle workers. Svirsky was dedicated to one of the affiliations to the Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat (St. Basil's). But later the relics were discovered, and it turned out that the stench was incorruptible. Special mention should be made about the power of Varto. Tsel is practical to the UNIKAL -UNITAL OF THE ROSICHOO Orthodox, if it was not in the mumіfіyfisky "Visus" Vighmi (yaki can be instrumental in the Kyivski Pechers), and Iz Zbereznami is the same fabrin. I guessed the embalmed body of the surgeon Pirogov, which was in the crypt of his garden near Vinnitsa, and there was the result of the embalming and I guessed that Pirogov had been lying there since 1881. And here is a truly unfathomable revelation. The efforts of Oleksandr Svirsky were saved during the Christian hours at the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad and turned again to his monastery.

Then, the monastery was founded on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoye in 1485 by the Venerable Alexander Svirsky, who came from Valaam, quickly gaining popularity and the intercession of the Moscow grand dukes and kings, especially after the canonization of Alexander Svirsky in 1 547. The monastir was built by Boris Godunov, Petro I, other sovereigns. At XIX V. The monastir was called “the monastery monastery”, 27 monasteries and a desert were subordinated to it, and St. Ignatius Brianchaninov and the first Optina elder Leonid lived there. In 1918, the monastery was closed, the rector of the executions was victorious under arrest, a hospital for the disabled, and a psychiatric hospital. It was reopened in 1997 and partial restoration was carried out. Unique for its preservation, the imperishable relics of Alexander Svirsky, discovered in 1641, were turned into a monastery in 1997. The monastery consists of two complexes that were built at the same time, the main Trinity and the center of the Preobrazhensky complex, which look like two independent monasteries.

There is one unique scheme for the two ensembles, which we managed to find out. The legend is in some places Pomilkova, from the looks of it the date was up.
It is important to remember the bunt. The first from the side to the village will meet you Trinity Monastery. This is the main and most significant complex from an architectural point of view. In this place the monastery was built, and the first stones were created. The cathedral has preserved valuable paintings dating back to the 18th century. Another, distant Preobrazhensky Monastery, architecturally less impressive, but valuable for the power of relics and relics. It was in the place where the cell of Alexander Svirsky stood and where the Trinity appeared (there is now a chapel) and where then they began to take over. Tobto. This is the first place. And there, near the cathedral (at the left side, the left side) there are the relics of the saint. There are no paintings and perhaps no bright architecture. I guess so.

Let's start from the Trinity Monastery.
Trinity complex : a bunch of five-headed heads (one section at a time), four-headed Trinity Cathedral(1694-1698, replacing the cathedral of 1533, prompted by the Kostroma masters, in the interior it is visible frescoes 17o8-1713 Kostroma artillery Leonty Markov, new iconostasis); Intercession Church with refectory and dzvinitsa(close to 1585, restored in 1969-1976, architect A.M. Miloradovich); tri-tent dzvinitsya(1647-1674, restored from cob works completed in the 1970s, architect A.M. Miloradovich); Church of John of Damascus(1716-1718); buildings and walls. XVII c., with the coming Perebudovs.

View from the Transfiguration Monastery on Trinity. Between two ensembles there are 200–300 meters. Here you can see that our ancient Russian architecture in today’s country is rich in the creativity of Radyansky restorers. It’s good or bad, besides food, but it’s a trace of recognition as a given. Please note, there are three markings on the doorbell, and in the refectory complex (right-handed) there are no external doors or fire pipes. Only one cathedral has not changed since that time.

At the Radian clock, when there was a psychiatric ward in the monastery, they mercilessly cut the windows of the fraternal building, through which it now looks like a Radyan barracks. Judging by the new glass packages, the historical rhythm of the openings has been restored to the façade, but no one has left yet. I would like to say that this entire complex was transferred to the monastery quite recently, and the great restoration work has not yet begun. All church life is concentrated at Preobrazhensky, where the relics and pilgrims are. And here it is still quiet, although the churches will be opened. All visible restoration is still done in Radyansk, with several renovations that look like green galvanized fabric. And immediately after the restoration there were plowshare covers.

The most valuable in terms of architecture of the entire Svir Monastery (in both complexes) - The Church of the Intercession with the refectory and the tsunnitsa and the surrounding tri-shatro dzvinitsa, which is worth a commission.. These are the main masterpieces of the early stones. It’s true, as was clear from recent investigations by D.A. Petrova, as ancient as they were respected until now. The Church of the Intercession with the refectory dated back to 1533 and was served not only as the stone spores found here (which is true), but also at the right hand of Alexander Svirsky himself, who, not long before his death, began to re-establish the monastery “in stone”. This turned out to be untrue. Under Svirsky, it is likely that only a cathedral will arise, about which we know nothing, because it will change the existing one. Petrov conclusively dates the refectory complex to around 1585, relating it to a number of typological and stylistic characteristics of the refectory of the Klopsky and Tikhvin Dormition monasteries of the 1560-1580s. Also, the most recent dispute of the Svir Monastery appeared when she was young, they thought. Ale is no worse. This is a wonderful monument, so brilliantly restored by O.M. Miloradovich.

These ancient monuments have a special place in the history of ancient Russian architecture. They didn’t even understand where to insert, for example, the hidden course of lectures. As a rule, the architecture of ancient Russian princedoms after the collapse of Kievan Rus is consistently given - the Volodymyr-Suzdal school, then Novgorod and Pskov. Then early Moscow begins, a new stage in the life of the Kremlin and Kremlin cathedrals by the Italians. Then Italian infusions into the 16th century, hipped churches, rich Grozny churches (St. Basil's, Dyakov, Staritsa, Abraham's Cathedral, Klop and Solovetsky monasteries), then refined rouns Great architecture of the 1580s-90s (Veliki Vyazemi, , Chervone-on-Volz) . And then there was a pause, the turmoil and revival of stone everyday life already within the framework of the 17th century. However, outside the framework of the Russian Empire, a great layer of monuments is lost from the ancient and ancient lands, especially Novgorod, between the conquests of Ivan III and the defeat of Ivan the Terrible, from the 1470s to 1 570s. Novgorod architecture of the 16th century was difficult and completely spontaneous, although it strongly rejected the Muscovite chippings. V.V. Sedov and D.A. It is entirely reasonable to respect Petrov, who, after the “sovereign pogrom” of 1569, the Novogrod artillery, having left the destruction of Novgorod, continued to practice in the ancient monasteries, reaching Solovki. As we approached Novgorod, this strong architecture intertwined with the sophisticated stone architecture of Bilozer and Rostov. So while Moscow, with the help of foreign architects, was generating new forms, in most of the territory of the state another architectural tradition continued to live, with obvious original Novgorod characteristics, which created disputes in high technical and artistic level. And the Sverskorm Monastery has one of these masterpieces.

Another artistic masterpiece - dzvinitsya, which fully fits into Rozmov’s account of the transformation of the tent in the first half of the 17th century from constructive to decorative form.

Trinity Cathedral behind its architecture it is second-rate and indestructible. You clearly did not benefit from the long-standing analysis of several sections, and they do not appear in silhouette. The windows have been hewn, especially its fretless leapfrog delights on the apses. A clear orientation towards the prototype can be guessed behind these developments. Iversky Cathedral of the Valday Monastery, debated by Patriarch Nikon at his first hour (before New Jerusalem) ambitious monastic ensemble. Marina Vdovichenko writes about this in her monograph. It is clear that the image comes out with a savage image that does not match the decorative wealth of the 17th century era. It appears that Nikon’s cathedrals, especially the early ones (Valdai and Kiy Island) were strongly ascetic and resurrected the spirit of “ancient piety,” focusing on the forms of Grozny and even earlier monuments. Reminiscent of the Iversky Cathedral, there is a hall structure and, of course, a well-designed gallery with a gank. However, the sporuda turned out to be very primitive and rude for its prototype.

The view of the cathedral gank is barely visible Church of John of Damascus cob 18 tbsp. But wait, don’t bother, but only highlight the mass of the cathedral with its miniature design.

The copper pillar that supports the crypt of the gallery.

In the middle of the cathedral there is good painting requested Kostroma artillery. Tsikavo, that such a mysticism was born in the 1710s, 300 km from St. Petersburg, when they were European masters. The two Russias were working in parallel, and this is the order. Although the paintings would seem archaic, upon closer inspection they reveal a lot of European influences, introduced under the influx of recent engravings, which belonged to the Yaroslavl school of the 17th century, to which they were close and Kostroma and maistri.

There is nothing else to marvel at in the Trinity Monastery, right up to Preobrazhensky. The bell tower looks more picturesque, with towers along the corners, the vertical of the bell tower, and the dome of the church above the gate. This is more important, since it was long ago transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and updated.Preobrazhensky complex : double-pillared, five-headed. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral(1641-1644, right side wall of Zechariah and Elizabeth 1661-1668 (outline of investments, from the beginning of the 1795 rubles in Baroque style), left side wall of Oleksandr Svirsky 1716, the cathedral was seriously reconstructed all in 1856-1777, cut out the window, cut out the entrance Pribudov, exhibited in the cathedral relics of Oleksandr Svirsky); Holy Gate with the abbot's building (1780-1791, architect M. Kiselnikov), dzvinitsya(1903-1904); building and fence XIX century

Regardless of those who call the local stone cathedral the eldest for the Trinity, everything else has happened much later and does not rise to the heights of architectural mastery. At the entrance there is a long building in the classicist style with baroque platbands, designed by Iakimos Kiselnikov.

Well, from the inside. It's amazing to look at chapel at the place of the Trinity box to Oleksandr Svirsky.

The main and practically united architectural monument here - Transfiguration Cathedral. Complete the cross-country and provincial 17th century, even small in size. There was an immediate need for expansion, and as a result, the old cathedral was overgrown with creatures, like the bottom of a ship with turtles. As a result, the cathedral can now be expanded from the side apses. Five-headed (the window of the central drum is ugly hewn), with three apses, double in the interior. The details on the facades are modest. Two river boundaries. The one who is evil from the apse - Zechariah and Elizabeth, pivdenny. It is important to recognize now that the fragments of the Radian hours were carried to the top of the tent. Well, at the same time it’s just a cute cubic piece with 17th century decor. The head does not stand above the boundary, but above the building, built between it and the cathedral. Right (back) side view of Oleksandr Svirsky There is no completeness yet, but it can be recognized by the entrance, the fourth apse. There, at whose place I will meet relics of Oleksandr Svirsky.

From the entrance side, facing the entrance, the cathedral and the entire entrance area have a great vestibule, which actually became the main temple premises. The expanse of the old cathedral has half been transformed into a modern part, hidden behind the iconostasis. The interface has not been saved, everything is new here and it doesn’t seem to stick out much yet. The sterility of white walls and new wooden cabinets placed along the walls is a little unacceptable.

In the old building one can clearly see the wasting of the tent roof above the old aisle. And the ganok, which was not preserved, between the entrance and the apses of the cathedral.

This is how it looked like the shrine with the relics of Oleksandr Svirsky was depleted by the Bolsheviks, and was placed in the monastery by the first Romanov, Mikhail Fedorovich. The reliquary stood in the main area of ​​the cathedral, and not in the chamber, where the relics lay at once. It can be seen that the cathedral is all painted. Nina white walls.

Today, the relics of Oleksandr Svirsky are displayed more modestly. The photo is not mine, there is no loan there.

This hand ended its life on earth in 1533, and from that time on there were no more mausoleums. Hmmm.....

A funny jingle in the Byzantine style - the remains that were created here before 1917. The monastery is rich in its paintings, inspired by the 19th century to Abbot Agafangel, who turned it into a popular and well-established center of pilgrimage.

That same pair of cads with views of the Trinity complex.

And such a kind dog, who saw us off.
So, next to the Trinity Monastery there is a very decent bistro cafe, where everything is completely European, and there is mulled wine with cheesecakes. In my opinion, in such monasteries, as in people, everything is miraculous - both great and small, external and internal. If only they had listed the architecture on their website...

(Russian: Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery; English: Alexander-Svirsky Monastery)

How to get there: From St. Petersburg by train, and from Petrozavodsk - by train you can get to Lodeynoye Pole, take a local bus to the village of Stara Sloboda (settlement Svirske).

ABO: I St. Petersburg, the 1st Bus Station Sisty for the bus behind the route "St. Petersburg-PITKYARANTA" Abo "St. Petersburg-Petrozavodsk", Prikhai Msto Lodein і Pie to the Rozdorіzhi "Svirska" (249 km of Murmansky Shosey Shosey Shoske ), you can go from pishki (5 km) or hitch a ride to the village of Stara Sloboda.

Godini roboti: The monastery can be opened daily from 8:00 a.m. until the end of the evening service at approximately 8:00 p.m. A look at the interior of the monastery by excursion groups of pilgrims and tourists is only possible during the after-hours service and the internal order of life of the monastery. Visitation to the temple, where the Holy relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky are located, is possible from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00 and a week from 12.00 to 17.00.

Holy Trinity Oleksandr Svirsky human monastery is an Orthodox human monastery near the Leningrad region, 21 km from the town of Lodeyne Pole. Wherever you look, you can see through the white walls of the monastery, the oxamite-green dark of a coniferous forest. Even during the life of its founder, the monastery was formed as if two were connected with one another, but were independently separated from the complex (branch): Trinity with brother cells, and Preobrazhensky - a commission from the crown. They are connected by a road that leads from Lake Roshchinskoye.

The valorization of the Orthodox faith, in this region, has become possible due to the harsh, pious ascetic way of life of the founder of the monastery. The holy monastery was founded in 1508 by the Venerable Alexander of Svir, a member of the Valaam Monastery near the branch of the Svir River.

Map of the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery

The Monk Alexander was born on the 15th of June 1448, on the day of remembrance of the prophet Ammos, after whom he was named. When he turned 19 years old, he learned about his father’s intention to befriend him and secretly went to Valaam. After seven rocks spent on Valaam as a novice, in 1474 Ammos took monastic vows under the name of Alexander.

At the most, the monastery had 8 churches, a rich sacristy, expensively decorated icons, a rich treasure trove of ancient manuscripts, ancient manuscripts and books. Historians of the 19th century called the monastery the Monastery Lavra, which supported 27 monasteries in the deserted region.

Before the revolution, the shrine was priceless for all of Russia - the imperishable relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky rested at the side of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, resting near an expensive shrine donated by Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. The raki was prepared by the masters of the Zbroyovo Chamber in Moscow, the shell of the raki was preserved and is kept at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The monastery sacristy, in addition, kept parts of the club of St. Alexander, obtained together with his relics in the trune, the trune itself, the chained chains, the linen chasuble and the armbands, as well as the shrine covers, sent as a gift from King Fe Dora Ivanovicha. This is where the grants of letters to the monastery from the Muscovite kings were saved (most of the letters went to Boris Godunov).

In 1918, the monastery shared its share of the rich Orthodox monasteries of Russia. The relics of the Monk Alexander were taken to the Military Medical Academy, as an exhibit, and part of them was shot. In 1918, in the entrance wall of the Trinity Cathedral, the brethren were in charge of the shack, in which a crayfish and part of the sacristan's speeches were placed, as was later revealed. The Olonets Provincial Supervisory Commission received all the items and transported them to Petrozavodsk.

At the hour of the pogrom of the Svir Monastery, which had been closed since 1925, the relics of St. Alexander were disturbed. The relics of the cancer were withered, they were buried. They wanted to take it with them, but the brothers asked for it and they took it.
All the relics were recently lost from the monastery. In 1918 they were transported to Lodeynoye Pole. After this, the remains of the saint were put on display at the medicine chapel. Everything worked for the “merciless fight against the enemies of the communist idea and socialist thought.”

The land of St. Alexander changed into “Svirlag”. During the Great White War, the monasteries suffered greatly - the front line was not far away. In 1953, the “Svirlag” group was reorganized and it was decided to turn it into a psychiatric hospital, especially for hopeless patients. The guards of the tabernacle and some of the unescorted were controlled by orderlies.

On June 22, 1998, the monastery was officially transferred to the St. Petersburg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Suddenly, the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky were found in 1998, on the 28th of the same fate, they were transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and were found from the beginning on the foundation of the Intercession-Tervinichny monastery in the Church of Saints Iri, Nadiya, Lyubova and mother of Sofia. On November 23, 1998, the relics of St. Alexander were found and transferred to the place of his final resting place - to the Holy Trinity Alexander Svir Monastery.

The report to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladozky, Volodymyr, was informed about the flow of myrrh that had begun in the X-ray room in the emergency room, during the hour of prayer. The myrrh flow and the aroma were so strong that the smell of butterfly honey was golden, that the treasury-stars came, the stench swarmed around the feet of the Reverend, they called along the windowsill, so that they were in order. This fact was of great surprise to the television operators who filmed this story for the NTV channel. The myrrh itself flowed down in streams from the feet of the Reverend, covering them, as they hung, with a cherish shiny oily ball. It was clear that in the evening, after the closing of the temple, when there was silence there, after the great abundance of people, that blessed hour had arrived, when, therefore, it was possible to see again the flow of myrrh, which would settle, - around the droplets of myrrh 'were between the fingers of the Reverend. Numerous pilgrims come to the Venerable One, whose holy relics offer endless miracles and healing.

Scheme of the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery

The monastery, as a whole, was founded in the 16th - 17th centuries, and consists of two independent ensembles - Trinity and Preobrazhensky. Until then, the stinks were reinforced by special fences and bear special names assigned to the churches in them. One of them is called Trinity, and the other, where the Venerable Desert was located, is called Preobrazhensky.

The ancient spores of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery were not preserved - the legacy of the destruction of the monastery by the Poles and Swedes in 1618. The first stone spore of the monastery, which has been preserved to this day, is the church in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, dedicated to the life of the Venerable Alexander himself. The church was heavily rebuilt by the Swedes and Poles in 1618, and was practically rebuilt from the ruins on the old basis in 1619 – 1620.

In 1647-1674, a three-tiered door was erected in the Trinity Monastery, placed on a wide base and topped with three mantles. On the third tier, the “military” anniversary was celebrated, dating back to the 19th century, during the holiday.

The Trinity Cathedral, which is the center of the Trinity ensemble, is the fourth that was founded in that place, where the Monk Alexander, according to God’s orders, built a church in the name of the Holy Trinity.

The cathedral has preserved paintings that were painted in 1715 by the artillery of the Kostroma mayors, under the leadership of Leonty Markov, and an iconostasis with icons from the late 17th century. Monastic archives will remember the names of famous Tikhvin icon painters Gavril Sazonov, Peter and Ivan Falileev, Ivan Ivanov, as well as the Tikhvin “iconist” Irodion Sergiev. The walls and pillars of the Trinity Cathedral were painted by Herodion Sergiev and Ivan Ivanov. The frescoes were preserved, however, in the 1960s the stinks rose up to 50 centimeters from the walls, and the restorers nailed them down with special flowers.

The Church of St. John of Damascus, or “Likarnyana”, was founded in 1716 on the occasion of the Trinity Cathedral.

These churches are located in the Trinity part of the monastery, the cell buildings of which were built in the 60s of the twentieth century as medical chambers (designed by the architect A. N. Naumova), and are still occupied by a psychiatric hospital .
The Transfiguration part, completely, belongs to the monastery, and its territory, as well as the Transfiguration Cathedral, enshrines the holy relics of St. Alexander Svirsky.

The Nishny Transfiguration Cathedral took place in 1641, for Abbot Abraham, and the lateral church in the name of St. Alexander Svirsky - in 1716. In 1856 – 1857, the engineer Gorting-Gortitsky replaced the wood with metal. Then, under the design of the architect Tukhtaryov, the doors were expanded and the windows were opened. In 1900, Archimandrite Agafangel built the entrance to the entrance side of the cathedral with choirs for the brethren, decorated with turned wooden handrails. The cathedral is especially affected by the fact that it is associated with the Zvinitsa and Zakhar’evskaya Church.

The Church of the Holy Prophet Zechariah and Elizabeth was founded in 1668 by Abbot Macarius. After the fire of 1784 and repairs in 1833, the church changed greatly. In front of the main cathedral, a window has been preserved above the entrance to the façade, which excludes two columns from the three-piece pediment.

And in the monastery there is a monastery, as if it were being twirled by the hands of the Reverend. It’s a shame, but now it’s still impossible to drink water from him, because there was a gas station next to him for many years.

The foundations of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery, on this day, were located in the Vesyoly settlement of Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.

Official website of the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery: www.svirskoe.ru

The flowing healing powers, obviously, reveal the presence of living power in those who, preserving in the imperishable, through this activity are revealed to everyone who comes from the world.

D Importantly for the history of mankind, the Threefold God opened himself to the bodily human gaze - first to Saint Abraham at the Mamrian Oak, signifying the great mercy of God to the human race; suddenly - on Russian soil to the holy Venerable Alexander of Svirsky. What this revelation meant to the New Testament saint - we will not be able to confirm. Only we are forced to reclaim this land, that monastery, which once fought on the deep Russian land for the commands of God the Trinity, that very “New Testament Abraham” - our venerable father and the wonderworker Alexander.

Reverend Alexander is one of the few Russian saints who was canonized shortly after his righteous death - and after 14 years. There were still many of his scholars and many of his rogues alive, the Life of St. Alexander was written, which is called “behind the hot traces” and is seen with particular authenticity, in no one there are “pious schemes”, apparently reflects the unique image of the holiness of “all Russia, the wonderworker Alexander.”

Unearthly camp of the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky

“O the sacred head, the earthly angel and the heavenly human, the venerable and God-bearing Father Alexander... Drink to us all that is beneficial until the life of this hour, and necessary until our eternal salvation. Help with your intercession, saint of God, before the Lord on the visible and invisible ... "

(From prayers to St. Oleksandr Svirsky)

Once the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky returned to the native monastery, they took away a large number of sheets from the hierarchs of various dioceses of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, which inform about the need to find a piece of the saint's relics. From the blessing of Metropolitan Volodymyr of St. Petersburg and Ladozky, parts of the relics were taken by the abbot of the monastery, Fr. Lukian (Kutsenko). Even with the first part of the o. Lucian will fight the enemies. And there was something to marvel at. “I discovered that there was a very thick pressed fabric, but there was weariness on the cut, cut by a copy, I found that under the ball of skin of the wax color there was a snow-white porous and soft fabric,” said Father Abbot, and, about Afterwards, having added, - at the Museum of Anatomy of Viyskovo - the medical academy showed me what dried human flesh looks like when broken, exposing a human body for inspection. It was clear that the brush on both sides was sharpened with a thick, balled fabric, similar to pressed cardboard. The bundles and great bundles of ships were preserved in the sight of thick cords, which suggest the snatches of the windmills. The color of dried homilka fabric is yellow on the surface and in the middle. The underwear fabric of the Monk Alexander sharply differs from what we have worked on, both in color and in structure: this fabric reflected its whiteness, fluffiness and lightness.”

The nun Leonida (Safonova), who took part in the search for relics, is a candidate of biological sciences, histologist from the world:

“This explains the safety of the habitual configuration of St. Alexander’s body, his lips, nose, hands and feet, which so impressed the experts. During the process of mummification, the meat and healthy tissues that are under the epidermis are allowed to dry out, preserving their bones.

Its spacious lattice: instead of the core that is steamed, the spaces between the fabric fibers are covered with wind, preventing the fabrics from shrinking. In this way, the tissue of the flesh became soft and fibrous, which made it possible for the organs to preserve their primary function. A similar result cannot be achieved using conventional methods of piece embalming. When embalmed, the fabric thickens and darkens, but here there is fluffiness, whiteness, and also in the middle under the surface of the epidermis - such a differentiated embalming process does not lead to human minds and hands.” At the end of the discussion with the doctors (histologists, pathanatomists), it became clear that the stink was considered an extraordinary phenomenon. One can boldly say that the stature of the flesh is st. Alexandra - his holy relics - is associated with familiar patterns of development and degeneration (disintegration) of tissues in the human body. The oldest medical specialist of the Military Medical Academy, anatomist, candidate of medical sciences M.V. Radiologist E. R. Borisov (scientist of the SMES, taking part in the researched relics of St. Joasaph (Belgorod) also appreciates the preservation of the body, especially, with respect, that this phenomenon “is of interest for science.” It was not preserved only the perfect appearance, and the skin of one’s appearance - not wrinkled and withered, but smooth and elastic, the color of the skin is light, with a yellowish-burshtin tint, it is not surprising in connection with the fact that the relics of St. Alexander (and just a bit of stench) during the “campaign for the acquisition of power” iv" in 1919 .. called a “wax doll” This is negative, hybna, in its essence, an attestation, and at the same time a fleeting characteristic of the good safety of soft fabrics.

From the appointment of the head dentist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the head of the department of splint-facial surgery and dentistry, professor and colonel of the medical service V. N. Balin, at the department of the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky they also underwent an examination: “Completely unique Preservation of soft fabrics and teeth forehead, nose, cheeks, it is clear that it fits in with the testimony about Vinyatkovo’s good security of the relics of holy saints equal to the mummified bodies of worldly people.” This axis is uniquely safe and made it possible to carry out iconographic research, just as our ancestors did before the 1641st generation, at the time of the first production of the relics of the saint. It is necessary to respect that the patch of white flesh was visible from the very beginning of the investigation and can be seen immediately on the open foot of the monk in the place of the epidermis, which has disappeared. From the saint’s feet came the myrrh, the smell of the day of the soaking of the relics was present at the temple for the entire hour, and the bjoli glowed at this smell. “Visit” continued until the holy relics of the saint were recorded on video, and the number of pilgrims also increased.

On the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky

In the summer of 1998, a real miracle happened in St. Petersburg. 28 years ago, in 1918, the holy relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky were discovered. This is significant because the satanic campaign of the Bolsheviks to liquidate and discredit Russian Orthodox shrines began in 1918 from the birth of Oleksandr Svirsky. During this process, sixty-three crayfish with holy relics were taken from churches and monasteries. By the grace of God, all the stinks today, after eighty years, have been identified. Doesn’t it mean that through the collective prayers of the Russian Orthodox Church the Grace of the Lord is returned to richly suffering Russia? When a prayer was heard in the X-ray room of the ship's medical examination after the completion of the investigation of the drive to identify the relics, a myrrh-flow began, which was accompanied by strong odors. “All those present were witnesses of this miraculous manifestation,” says the report of the abbot of the Holy Trinity Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery, Father Lucian, submitted to Metropolitan Volodymyr of St. Petersburg and Ladoz. At the Pivnichno-shading corner of the Valaam archipelago, the Holy Island is growing, open to all the gentle winds. Here, near the stove, cut down from the rock, the Reverend Oleksandr Svirsky labored in prayerful feats for almost a thousand years. Pecherka is small. When you pass by her, your shoulders touch the stone walls. The very light of the lamp that burns in front of the images is enough to illuminate the expanse of the cell. A dozen rocky provinces are here, the Monk Alexander. As it is said in the Life, “as a result of great success, the skin on his body became so fierce that it was not afraid of a stone voice.” The saint was praying at the stove on the Holy Island, when the Voice of the Mother of God pierced his prayer: “Olexandra! Go away and go to the place shown to you, you can be saved from someone else!” And it became clear...

The Monk Alexander climbed out of the oven and behind the stacks of pine trees that stood on the streamy rock, soaking in the quiet waters of Ladoga. Great heavenly light shone in that direction, where the Svir flowed... That same day, the Monk Alexander left Valaam, sailing to the Svir. Here I lived, in the same place, where ten years ago I spent the night on the road to the Valaam Monastery. This year, the saint’s prayer session was interrupted by the boyar Andriy Zavalishin, who, having lost his way at the hour of the shower, Zavalishin taught the saint for a long time that he was alive here. “I’ve been living here for this long time,” the saint said. - And before your arrival, I didn’t care about the thirsty people. I live on the grass that grows here, and there is no bread.” Once the shutter was broken, people began to flock here. The monks' cells were on the birch of the Holy Lake, and the monk himself lived near a large hut, near which the brotherly tsvintar was built - the Vydhidna Desert. Many of the scholars of Oleksandr Svirsky themselves became saints, founders of new monasteries. This is Andriy Zavalishin, who took monastic vows after Andrian Andrusovsky, Gennady and Nikifor Vazheozersky, Kornily Padansky, Ferapont Voznesensky, Kasian Solomyansky... The entire expanse between Onega and Ladaga was illuminated by the foundations of their mesh Kansami. The power of the prayer of Saint Alexander of Svirsky was supernatural. Vidomy is such a freak. There was a valley between two lakes, they dug up an isthmus, and the water from the upper Holy Lake fell down. The onslaught was so strong that the caretaker had monastic disputes; It seemed that they would no longer be taken away, but the venerable one had called out the name of Christ, having placed the sign of Christ on the bistrian waters - and there you go, marvel! — the flow began to slow down. The saint’s foresight was just as great. One time the people made donations to the monastery, and among them was Gregory, who had arrived from Pidyomozero. He stretched out his hand to place his contribution, and the saint took it away. Grigory asked Oleksandr Svirsky why he did not accept the offering. “You don’t know me!” - Vin said. “That’s right! - Holy Father. “I don’t know you and I’m not denouncing you, but your hand is so defiled that there’s no currant in it.” What will you say to your old mother? Great fear descended upon Gregory, who diligently captured his sin. He asked for help so that he could get better. The reverend pleased to study with his mother. No less marvelous was the saint’s modesty. They say that if he was already the abbot of the monastery he founded, its fame spread throughout all of Russia, the new monastery's economist arrived and said, having said, the firewood was running out, it was necessary to send some empty person into the forest. “I am holy...” - the monk said, taking the juice and breaking it from the forest. On the twenty-third day of his visit to the Holy Lake, Oleksandr Svirsky, at the hour of night prayer, bathed three people in a white robes that shone with “invincible light.” It is the Lord Himself who has given the saint His threefold veneration. “Olexander Svirsky,” writes Archimandrite Macarius (Veretennikov) in “History of the Russian Church,” “perhaps the only Orthodox saint to whom, just like the ancestor Abraham, the Holy Trinity appeared.” It is unknown whether anyone knew about this fact of the saint’s life Alexander Svirsky, the people who buried the fate of power in Russia in 1917, but it is reliably clear that they started their satanic campaign from the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery. Under the command of August Wagner, the brethren prayed against the abuse of the holy relics , but the Chekists did not stand on ceremony. “Elements of the evil shtibu” were arrested, the monastery was robbed, and the shrine with the holy relics of the Venerable Oleksandr Svirsky was opened. The preservation of the body of the venerable one, which ended the earthly path a hundred years ago, was forever unforgivable for Wagner, who called it super obvious at their place, the relics of the saint were “like a wax doll.” Not daring to display them, as was the instruction, “to counter Popov’s deception,” the relics were secretly transported to Lodeyne field under the supervision of They buried him in a medicine chapel. At the end of the fall of leaves in 1918, when they shot at the courtyard of the Olonets monastery of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery, it was considered liquidation of the relics... And for exactly sixty fates, Orthodox Russia lived with the thought that The holy relics of the Russian saint have been destroyed by satanic power. The Lord, however, did not allow this. It is worth mentioning that the trip to the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery ended very sadly for comrade August Wagner. The desecration of the relics of the monk and the plunder of the monastery evoked the strongest resonance throughout Russia. Saint Patriarch Tikhon went to the Radnarkom and the All-Russian Central Exhibition Committee with protest. Clarification was sought from the Olonets Cheka. The head of the Cheka of the Army believes that he respects all his actions and orders “faithful to the sense of the merciless fight against the enemies of communist ideas and socialist thoughts.” Such clarification would have completely satisfied the Bolshevik church in Moscow, since during the leafing the juicy detail was not revealed: August Wagner, a fighter for communist ideas and socialist thought, appeared even more impure to their advantage. He extracted forty pounds of herbs from the monastery, and produced only nine to Moscow. Rashta sribla - thirty-one poods! — it was transferred to him “to the Poverty Committee of the Oleksandro-Svirskaya Svoboda for the expansion of the needy.” The Kremlin leadership, obviously, did not manage to carry out such clarifications. A special investigation was launched, with a lot of evidence that could be gathered for Wagner. The history of the search for the holy relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky, collected by the nun Leonida with the blessing of Father Lucian, hegumen of the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery, founded in 1997, is credited with the discovery. The bulk of the documents were destroyed, and the necessary information had to be collected on a case-by-case basis. “Our search,” reveals Leonida’s mother, “is based on faith in the fact that the relics of the saint, who held the Holy Trinity, could not be weakened by any celestial forces and remain under the special intercession of the Lord... In the course of the archival records Yesterday I decided to get together , that on 31 September 1919 the rocks of power were taken from Lodeynoye Pole to Petrograd and placed in the closed anatomical museum of the Military Medical Academy. According to the witnesses of the Soviet Union, at the rocks of the revolution, the cathedral museum received an exhibit that had been lost in scrupulously stored catalogues. On the basis of anthropological, iconographic and radiological research, it has been compiled that the hidden “exhibit” is the mummy of a person, which has been preserved due to age, ethnicity, etc. This particularity is consistent with the description compiled during the first discovery of the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky in 1614. They confirmed the authenticity of the “exhibit” before the canonization of saints and the restoration of the right, blessing hand. Their character leaves no room for doubt, but this is due to the extraction of pieces of flesh for reliquaries. The unusual position of the right leg: “the legs lay like those of a recently dead person, the right foot was uphill, and the left foot was down with the brutalized foot...” - also completely corresponded to the description compiled in 1614. When you marvel at the days of the earthly life of the Russian saints, it is clear that the stench was the greatest among the people of their time. And for your intelligence, and for your talents, and for your courage. But all these tables are highly valued by the world of power and the gift of boules for the saints, both unrelated and insignificant. The main things for them were humility, prayerfulness, submission to God's will, and service to the Lord. And our Church, when it glorifies the saints, is not honored by their earthly merits, but by their merits before God. And here we no longer blame the compromises associated with political sympathies and antipathies, with the Mitt situation. The bodies of God’s saints do not decay; the Church recognizes their holy relics as imperishable. The venerations and lives of the saints do not end at the same time - after death, they continue to take their part in earthly history, being at the aid of everyone who has a heart for them... A miracle, a great miracle happened on a linty day at St. Petersburg terburzi. 465 years after death, the great saint turned again to us, sinners. And turning it back to the light, so that the evils that have thickened over our Fatherland gloom are growing.

Venerable Oleksandr Svirsky

The Monk Alexander was born on the 15th of November 1448, on the day of remembrance of the prophet Amos, and was named in his honor. Yogo’s fathers, Stefan and Vassa, were villagers of the Ladoza village of Manderi, located on the Oyat birch, a tributary of the Svir. From the children's rocks, Amos, a son, had a child, having grown up with his same-year-olds: having lost his temper, laughter and recklessness, without spoiling his mother. At the age of 19, having learned about his father’s plans to befriend him, Amos secretly went to Valaam.

Since then, Amos has been living at the monastery as a novice, spending his days in practice, his nights in spiritual prayer. More than once, naked to the waist, covered in mosquitoes, praying in the forest until dawn. At 1474 r. Amos took monastic vows under the name of Alexander. Having learned from the mandrivniks about the place of the birth of the son, we went to the monastery of his fathers. After his death from the blessed abbot Rev. Alexander ruled his cell on the fortified island and continued his spiritual exploits. If the glory of him became my burden, the ascetic of the pilgrims from Valaam and having lived in his hut in the forest, without any supplies, having lived these days in undefeated prayer. At 1493 rub. The place of discovery of the monk Vipadkovo was discovered at the hour of rain by the sovereign ruler Andriy Zavalishin, who had previously shone a miracle of light over this place. It was the blessing of the monk to tell him about his life and, having become his spiritual son, at his instigation he himself went to Valaam, and later fell asleep at the Ondrusiv Monastery and became famous for the holy lives. Having sensed from Andriy about the righteous, they began to gather money before the monk, aka the venerable. Oleksandr has mastered his monastery with a wind from the gastrointestinal tract.

At 1508 r. wikl. Alexander received a vision of the Life-Giving Trinity - Three People, dressed in light, white clothes, illuminated with Heavenly glory.

The monk, having rejected the order to wake up the church and put the monastery to sleep, and if he asked, in whose name the church may be, the Lord of the Faithful:

“Love, as you love the One who speaks to you in Three Persons, so you will become a church in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Consubstantial Trinity. I will deprive you of peace and give you light.” In the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, this Divine favor of the Trinity is seen as one.

The place for the church was shown to the monk by an Angel, who crossed the place and confirmed what was revealed to him. That same family was born into a tree, and in 1526. Kamianu Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. Due to the abuses of the brethren, the monk resigned his rank and became hegumen. Having accepted the abbotship, Rev. Alexander became even more humble - walking by the rags, sleeping on the bare underside, working hard at the same time: If one time there was no firewood and the housekeeper asked the abbot to send someone from the saints, for firewood, the reverend Vidpov: “I am a saint” - and virushiv chop wood.

For example, life is turned on. Alexander decided to build the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As if in the evening, after the sacred akathist to the Mother of God, the monk sat in the cell and said in rapture to the cell attendant Opanas: “Son, be vigilant and thirsty, for at this hour there will be a miracle and a thirsty miracle.” At the front cell, where the elder hurried, a great light shone upon him, which had spread over the entire monastery, and the monk stood over the sleeping chambers of the Intercession Church, which sat on the altar seat, like on a throne. The Most Pure Mother of God of Nemovlyam, and the endless angelic ranks that go before her. The monk fell and did not leave the light, but the Mother of God encouraged him and blessed the monastery.

Before his death, Rev. Alexander called to his brothers and punished them: “It is a sin to tie my body at the feet with a skein and drag it into a swamp shovel and, burying it in moss, trample it with your feet.” However, the brethren were not pleased with the fragments, the monk ordered not to welcome him in the monastery, but in his wilderness of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Vikl. Oleksandr passed away 85 rocks 30 serpnya 1533 r. In 1641, at the Church of the Transfiguration in Perebud, its relics were found to be incorruptible. We see up to fifteen teachers. Oleksandr Svirsky, glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church.

HOLY TRINITY OLEXANDRO-SVIRSKY MONASTIR

Our world has an urgent place to talk about eternity. Eternal Palestine is a holy land. Here the Mother of God gave birth to Christ, while walking this earth, grunting before Her, praying - and Vaughn received His tears, She transformed into Tabor - and the world was completely transformed, Vaughn died - and Vona took His body.

The land of Russia is also rich in shrines, the saints of God glorified them with their deeds, created powerful transformations, and, like other holy places, they are ready to restore healing, help mental and physical, simply beautiful marvel. “It’s not the same! It’s where the Lord Himself walked on the earth!” You say. And we have such a place, connected with such a great and intelligible sense.

Here, far away, near the forest forest, the Lord Himself appeared to a simple prince, that the entire Holy Trinity stood on our earth with His feet. This happened once during the hours of Christ’s coming. Let's talk about everything in order.

Five centuries ago, the monk Alexander roared on the holy island of Valaam. He built a small stove in the rock, praying and practicing for God. It seems that as a result of such feats, his body became hard and fierce, as if nothing would happen to him even under a stone blow. So, having prostrated himself on the stones, praying like this, I felt the miraculous voice of the Mother of God, who ordered me to go to the new place in order. Coming out of the stove, looking back at Ladoga, so quiet today, in the distance, behind the pine trees, the heavenly light shone, the Mother of God illuminated the place where the Svir River flowed.

Having been blessed by the abbot, that same day Oleksandr left the islands. He settled on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoye, near a small hut, and lived there, not just other people, in emotionlessness, crying about the sins of this fate. Eating only the grass that grew, but not growing any bread. As if his doubt had been destroyed - boyar Andriy Zavalishin, who had fallen in love with the forest, went to Oleksandrov’s house and, remembering, shining light over this place, blessed the ascetic with the knowledge of his life. This is how people found out about Oleksandr Svirsky.

And the saplings are already knocking, there will be cells, the first scholars are quietly singing in the fraternal rule, including Andriy Zavalishin, the venerable Adrian Andrusovsky.

That's true in 1507 r_k. Twenty-three years passed by Oleksandr at Pustel. And the axis was at night, dark, half in the lamp, the ice illuminates the guise of the Most Pure One, the melodious smell of wood and wax, such a honey smell, silence, and then just a bow, and the forehead rises again, all wrinkled, already They have white coaches and heavenly eyes so nice. -It’s ok to marvel. Everything froze... The brightest, most heavenly light was approaching from Abraham, and the small hut became the finger of the road. Three people left like three beautiful suns, in a snow-white bath, the stench touched their clubs. “Yak on the Trinity,” thought Oleksandr, he froze and bowed to the ground.

- Trust, blessed one, and do not be afraid. - Oleksandr felt and saw Yogo’s hand, which affectionately lifted him from his knees. His voice said that for the sake of purity, the Holy Spirit is alive with him, in Oleksandr. What is the need to gather the brethren, establish a church, rule the monastery, and who is hiding through him... Alexander could not stand, lying on the ground again and, shedding tears, thinking, like Vine, the greatest human being, Oh, I came to cry for my sins, respect others. And the Lord again took him by the hand and lifted him from his knees.

- What should we call the church, Lord? — And there was a testimony, as there are three guises, so the church will be in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Consubstantial Trinity. And having walked across the earth, the Lord became invisible.

It was still light and quiet. His wrinkles were still brimming with tears, squeezing his hand as if only the Lord had touched him, and the face of an earthly angel, laughing happily like a child.

And his life was tormented, and he received a lot of punishment, becoming hegumen of the great monastery. One day before the housekeeper arrived and announced that the monastery was running out of wood, he would send some empty-headed man to chop it up. “I am a saint...” - Oleksandr said, having seen juice and pishov near the forest. There would be nights when the monk would come home to thresh, finding them sleeping, sitting down to work himself, and having finished, he would quietly go to his cell, not disturbing the brethren.

Remember, the monastery was built on the birch of a lake, even deep, and the other lake was located at the height of the river, across two arrows. It seems that the brethren of the monastery, together with the abbot, prayed and decided to create a passage for water, from the upper lake to the lower one, in order to put a water mlin. As they began to dig, the water rushed down with a terrible noise, creating a majestic roar under the walls of the monastery. Everyone already thought that the monastery was called Axis-Axis, aka Oleksandr, having healed his colony, he began to pray. The thunderous name of Christ overpowered the noise of the water, then it crossed the flow, and the water sank. Mlyn argued, and after a long time, the Chernech’s work became easier.

When the hour came for me to go before the Lord, Alexander gathered his brothers and taught them to suffer spiritual harm, asking that after death they bind his body with skeins and drown him in the swamp, trampling his feet. So the reverend elder thought to himself, such a lover of God.

When they loved Alexander, they couldn’t believe that he had died, his face was shining and they still wanted to die in order to be with him. Immediately, many miracles and joy began to appear: people began to sleep, the blind began to see, and people began to walk in relaxation. Twelve fates later, life was finished, and after another two rocks, the Council of Russian Bishops declared the Monk Alexander Svirsky a saint. They dedicated the temple and the church, the side church of St. Basil.

In 1641, the relics of St. Alexander were discovered, they were found to have flamboyant rice exposing an icon from the 16th century, whose body had previously been soft and completely intact with the marvelous aroma of the lower regions And in the light that came out.

In 1918, the brethren of the Holy Trinity Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery were arrested and shot, the monastery was plundered, and the shrine with the relics was revealed... The preservation of the body of the venerable monk alarmed the Bolsheviks, the stench was ruined and called his “wax” yu doll." In 1998, the saint's relics were discovered and confirmed by scientific examination. The Holy Patriarch, hierarchs, priests, monks, thousands of believers knelt before the shrine of the saint of God, who, as before, gave healing and great myrrh.

I will return to the Monk Alexander at his monastery. It's a short time away, far away: from the Lodeyne Field station by bus. And the road is beautiful: through the pine forests there is such a tarry spirit; you can’t step on the ground where the lingonberries are spilled, it’s all covered in berries. The Svir River can be a sweet river, take your wife to the sea, the seagulls want to shout over them, and the sky above them is a Swede. It is good to get up early, early, before the sun, in the dew, come to the temple before the venerable one, inhale incense and, quietly kneeling down, pull on the womb: “Rejoice, Reverend Oleksandr, miracle worker of Svir.” Then they open the relics, remove the lid, and, not knowing how to marvel at this miracle, venerately venerate his hand and, having obscured them, walk away, afraid to disturb such an important thought that we live forever.

Holy relics of St. Alexander the Wonderworker of Svir

P The beginning of our faith, the human body is of great importance. It was taken from the earth, but it was not created for the earth. It was created by God for eternity and eternal, after the creation was reaped by an immortal soul and with it buried from the earth to a bright paradise. The body’s ailments were not in power, and there was little need to protect itself from the influx of the elements. For the soul it was a wonderful, forever new garment.

Years later, through the fall, the body experienced discord, illness and death. The body was sown in the grave - “in perishability”, risen “in imperishability”, “in force”. Through the Holy Sacraments established in the Church, our body becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit. Through the sacrament of the Eucharist, the body unites with the Body of Christ Himself, our blood with the Divine Blood. At the same time, a person gradually accepts the removal of sin, the core of his soul, and then his body opens with his soul. In order to heal human beings damaged by sin, God Himself came to renew the fallen people. Through the renewal of the spirit of human flesh itself, the path of convergence to imperishability is revealed. Reading the history of the holy martyrs, we see that their bodies bore mortal wounds. The subsequent centuries of prosperity of the monks were based on the images of miraculous asceticism. The bodies of these saints, in the form of constant and painful fasts, innocent feats of prayer, were felt on the table, which seemed spiritualized, so that in others they aroused doubts about the truth of the flesh. They were little old enough to walk on the waters, during the hour of prayer they rose above the ground, got along with animals and snakes.

All these supernatural forces that acted differently in the bodies of the true servants of God, with traces and traces of internal grace-filled ruins in their souls, and beyond the earthly troubles, the stench never ceases yati in these bodies. The flowing healing powers, obviously, reveal the presence of living power in those who, preserving in the imperishable, through this activity are revealed to everyone who comes from the world.

What kind of miracle payment will the saints of God take away for their piety! Not only their souls are brought together in the grace of union with Christ, but those bodies with which they performed feats... in this short-hour life become accountable to the grace-filled power of Christ. If, behind God's sight, stench emerges in special bursts, then... you can see odors.

The imperishable relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky

About the myrrh-streaming of the holy relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky Myrrh (a precious precious oil) in the Holy Letter and in the Holy Retelling is a symbol of Divine mercy, peace and love. Let's remember the words of the psalm: “Behold, what is good and what is red, let us live together. Tse yak myrrh, why should Aaron go to the wedding..." The Name of the Named One - Christ in the Song The song equals the poured light. Back on Mount Sinai, God commanded Moses to make special myrrh for sacred anointing. Thus, myrrh became a symbol of charismatic (grace-filled) power. Since then, kings, prophets and priests have been anointed with myrrh. The ointment also served for funeral anointing. When Mary Magdalene poured the costly myrrh on Christ, she prepared His body for worship. Hereafter the myrrh will become a symbol of the Holy Spirit and His gift. At the hour of the sacrament of confirmation, the priest anoints the baptized person with the words: “Friend of the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Through this rite, the myrrh is charged with the power of the Gift of the Holy Spirit. Myrrh is also a symbol of Divine mercy and grace. The myrrh appears as a result of a special supernatural phenomenon - the flow of myrrh. In an unwise manner it pours from the remains of a saint, either from his tomb or from an image. This is a marvelous idea. And it seems even more remarkable after the results of the research carried out by biochemists. It turns out that the ingredients present in the living organism, zocrem, contain 75 mg of cooked protein per 100 ml. This means that the flesh of the saint is deprived of life, and by the will of God, synthetic processes can arise in it - we are given only the result of a miracle that occurs - drops of light. The myrrh flow is not confirmed by the Holy Letter. However, this miracle exists in the Holy Retelling as far back as the very beginning of the Church. From the tomb of St. John the Theologian, on the day of his remembrance, a fine myrrh came out, looking like a lot of healing. The “Acts of the Apostle Pylypus” (monument of the 2nd-3rd centuries) talks about those who, after the death of the Apostle, lost myrrh. The “martyrdom of Theodotus” (III century) also talks about the end of the world in the form of the remains of a martyr. Particularly congratulations to the great wonder of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica, sunsets at 304 rotsi, whom the Greeks call Myrovlet, or Myrrh-Streaming. The latest evidence about the healing of the supernatural light from the relics of St. Dimitri will serve until his sixth century. A letter from the place of Sangini (VI century) states that one woman was inspired, “having drawn the holy ointment from the well in which the body of the saint lay.” Demetrius, yogo (totto myrrh) drawn. Relics of St. Demetrius exuded peace and serenity from such a large number that the anonymous ones who came could take with them a small part of this world; preserved anonymous bottles of the 6th-10th centuries, like a true marvel. For the testimony of St. John of Damascus (against Kostyantin Kavalsky, about holy icons) “the bodies of saints were richly weaved with myrrh.” If 1087 rock the relics of St. Mykoli of the Wonderworker was transported from the World of Lycia to Baru, and his trumpet was revealed to the world. About the myrrh-streaming of the relics of Oleksandr Svirsky*)N and Russia is rich in miracle workers, blessed with the myrrh streams of Kiev-Pechersk. That this miracle so clearly appeared on the Monk Oleksandr Svirsky clearly shows the greatness and grace of the saint, as well as the authenticity of the manifestation of his relics, since the myrrh flow in the Church from the beginning was seen as a testimony of holiness. In the Athonite and Greek traditions, it is not the incorruptibility, but the very myrrh-streaming remains of the remains that are sacred relics. And those who have produced the relics of St. from another. It was clearly revealed to Alexander the myrrh-streaming, to confirm its truth, the identity of the remains found at the Military Medical Academy with the holy relics of the Reverend, as at the first birth it was also clear streamed myrrh. The report to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladozka Volodymyr was informed about the flow of myrrh that had begun in the X-ray room in the wake of the hour of prayer. After the relics of the saint were brought to the church of the saints by the martyrs Vera, Nadiya, Lyubova and Mother Sophia, the myrrh stream did not flow, and it was noted that its intensity changed: it was poured out, then changed. w is noticeable. He was watched over by the novice Alexander, who stood by the Rev. all day long. It was noted that the intensity of the myrrh flow varies depending on who serves, how people pray, and whether the temple is filled with people, who pray or worship. Especially the relics of St. Alexander streamed myrrh when they were placed in the temple after the martyrdom, in the first days of the Divine Liturgy for the saint. The myrrh flow and the aroma were so strong that the smell of butterfly honey was golden, that the treasury-stars came, the stench swarmed around the feet of the Reverend, they called along the windowsill, so that they were in order. This fact was of great surprise to the television operators who filmed this story for the NTV channel. The aroma of myrrh stood in the air, and three bjoles were consumed until the Chalice of the Sacraments - they had to be exiled. The myrrh itself flowed down in streams at the feet of the Reverend, covering them as they hung with a worm-like glittering oily ball. The myrrh flows from the upper leg onto the lower leg, causing the lower leg itself to flow clear myrrh; The photograph clearly shows the bright amber-orange color of the infusion that caught on the surface of the Reverend’s great toe, and one speck of Burshtin that caught under the brush of the great toe. When the first light-accented photographic image was discovered on the feet of the Reverend, the appearance was slightly different: the feet appeared to glow and in a small areola. It was clear that in the evening, after the closing of the temple, when there was silence after the great rich people, that time of grace had arrived, when it was also possible to see a new flow of myrrh, which would persist - around the specks of peace, sit between the fingers of the Reverend. ——————————————————————————— *) All episodes of myrrh-streaming, healing and miracles that appeared from the relics of St. Reverend Alexander of Svirsky were documented. Names with addresses and telephone numbers can be found at the Church of the Holy Martyrs Vera, Nadiya, Lyubov and M. Sophia. About the two episodes that began in the evening hour after the closing of the temple, the following is significant. Vipadok 1. The mothers brought two sick people from the monastery of St. John of Kronstadt. The pain of illness from a medical point of view is hopeless, and you don’t know, but you will give up. One of them is a general (he has inoperable cancer), the other, a twenty-five-year-old woman, had rapt legs. The insults and illnesses came to the open crayfish of the Monk Alexander Svirsky, then they became sick, and the woman was put on the couch. 10 weeks passed, and after the sick and the testimonies (the dean and treasury of the St. John's Monastery, the novice of Alexander and the mother of the young wife), the ointment of myrrh flowed clear from the Reverend's feet. The general ruinously said: “I didn’t pay for this” (apparently, the general sacrifices a lot for the Church, the woman is an embroiderer for the Church). So the Reverend encouraged them in their sorrows, showing them evidence that the Lord knows everything, and giving them such a good sign through the Reverend. Then the smells came again and the little girls prayed for a long time. Vipadok 2 Closer to the 22nd year, the priest Fr. Maxim from the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands with his flock (about 20 people), to serve a prayer service and sing an akathist to the Reverend. During the broad, fervent prayers of the monk, who had arrived before the new one, they also confirmed the clear streams of myrrh: the whole foot seemed to “sweat” with drops of myrrh, and, in addition, the streams of myrrh flowed between the fingers. Myrrh-streaming of icons of St. St. Oleksandr Svirsky, consecrated at the shrine of the Venerable. M feet of pilgrims, who came to venerate the holy relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky, were honored for their faith and prayerful diligence, brutalized to the Venerable. Kozhen, whoever approaches and bows down, asking to consecrate the icon of the saint, will sit right next to the temple. The novice, what is the cost of the shrine, putting the icon to the glass of the shrine and turning it over to people. These icons began to stream myrrh for people during the hour of home prayers that same day or several days later. The actions did not mean myrrh, but rather strong odors for many days. There were a lot of such stories. Let’s look at one of them – a parishioner of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Wash away my sorrows” in Nekrasivske, Yaroslavl region, Nar. B. Tetyani.

“THE MONSTER OF THE EXCELLENT OLEXANDER SVIRSKY”

30 April 2006 On the day of remembrance of the great Russian saint, the 500th anniversary of the Holy Trinity Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery is celebrated (in the area of ​​Lodeyne Pole, Leningrad region. - Note MIT)

The greatest holiness is the land of Svirsk, from all over the world people flock to one of the “wonders of the world” - the completely imperishable relics of St. Alexander Svirsky. The saint has been around for eternity, perhaps more than a thousand times, and his body remains in the unbroken human mind of safety. Every day, which followed the relics, they produced an unambiguous conclusion: without the use of any chemical preparations in a person who lived on earth for 500 years, all internal organs were preserved in immortality. The dark cover, the bright expressions of the portrait features, were preserved.

Today’s descendants marveled at this as much as it was with the crowns of the Holy Trinity Alexander of the Svir Monastery, since the stinks of 400 years ago raised from the ground the remains of the founder of the monastery, which had lain in the grave for a hundred years.

The chronicles have saved for us the information about the details of this event, which we now celebrate as a special church holiday - the 30th quarter.

During the Time of Troubles, when the Russian land succumbed to the raids of enemies, between 1613 and 1615, the Tricha monastery experienced ruin. Lithuanians and Poles rolled out 27 cents and 32 soldiers. Pevno, having died and Abbot Paisiy.

At 1613 r. The local militia defeated the interventionists near Olonets and liberated the region. According to the Stolbovo World, the cordon that passed through Ladoga and its lands were lost within the borders of the Moscow state.

The new hegumen Theodorite left the intact wooden church of St. Nicholas at the exit desert. Up to 1620 rub. The monastery gradually began to admire the pecklings of the royal maiden Martha - the mother of the first Sovereign from the house of the Romanovs. Previously, the monastir was protected by the intercession of high officials: Ivan the Terrible, who respected the monastir for life, and Rev. Oleksandr - “the great wonderworker” (sending icons to the monastery to commemorate the soul of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, sribny cross, ring), the homeland of the Godunovs, including Boris Feodorovich and Irina Fedorivna, whose masters hung a cover for the cancer of the Reverend, Tsar Vasily Shuis whom. The Trinity Cathedral, the Church of the Intercession with its refectory, cells and services were restored. The monasteries were the largest in the Olonets region with 200 and 100 poods.

With the advent of Abbess Abraham, there was a rebirth at the stone Transfiguration Cathedral near the great exit desert and in which the relics of St. Alexander were discovered in 1641 people. The day was accompanied by special banners: the 15th and 16th quarters (in the old style) there was an unusual grim and sparkle that shone on the ground, above the burial place of the holy founder of the monastery.

And on the 17th of the week, on the Saturday of righteous Lazarus, the friend of God, during the hour of the Divine Liturgy, workers at the site of the great church were digging a ditch for the walls of the new stone church in honor of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. When they started digging for the front wall, on the opposite side of the temple, which was the altar seat of a large wooden church, they found a thorn. The earth above him stood like a furnace, as if it were not stimulated by anything.

The robot workers, the bachachis, coveted and marveled at such a miraculous establishment of a dud and wondered what they could earn with it.

At this hour, they all passed by the priest of the same monastery, Elisha, who, among them, stood idle for a long hour and marveled, saying to them: “Why are you not standing more timidly?” They asked him to take a look at the truna, which was an object of wonder for them. Elisha, who came before them and bachachi, that the earth, on the stone of the oven stood above the trune, was not impressed by anything, having fenced himself off with the Christian banners and, having carefully removed the crumbs from the top board of the trune, and having baked in the whole trune, a little bit of the body is not damaged, but also the body . The goals and imperishable ones came with great fear, dimming in themselves, with the power of the Reverend Father Alexander, and, having put the board in, quickly went to the monastery and told about those Abbot Abraham and all the brethren.

The abbot at that hour served the Divine Liturgy, having celebrated and communed with the brethren the Divine Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, he immediately began to marvel at the miraculous phenomenon. If the monastic servants sensed about this, then the skins, having lost their jobs, wandering one by one, querulously, with great diligence, went to marvel at the miraculous phenomenon. When the stench came to the base of the church, the abbots immediately showed the trumpet to the trumpet. When the priests and monks entered the river, having removed the top board from the trunion, a strong aroma of the relics of the monk was poured out everywhere, so that the whole place smelled of aroma, and the whole body of the venerable Father Alexander, which lay there, was smeared. le and nothing unskilled, in a mantle and the schema was crowned, the veil was closed, and behind the schema a part of the beard was visible; The injured legs lay, like those of someone who had recently died, the right foot up, and the left one with the brutalized foot sideways, because of the injury, they were stuck in sandals. Along its body, like the flowers that grow, the smell of myrrh grew, and it flowed like water. Bachachi, all the great things there were fulfilled with fear and joy.

And having ordered the abbot to bring a new trune, since the old one was all rotten, only the lower board of the trune was intact, on which the body of the Monk Alexander lay. And having dressed together with the hieromonks at the sacred shrine, they placed the holy relics of the monk in a new trench, and on their shoulders they carried them to the church of the great Saint Nicholas of God, which is located there, at the monk’s exit desert.

At the hour of the revelation of the relics of the former present Metropolitan of Novgorod Athos. The relics were placed at the shrine donated by Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and transferred to the Transfiguration Cathedral until the completion of the day. For example, the 1870s. a new casket for the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky was filled with 11 poods, and a large amount was transferred to the Trinity Cathedral (the casket was preserved in the collections of the Russian Museum).

The Chents, who preserved the incorruptible flesh of their heavenly patron at the first creation of the relics, were hostile to their incorruptibles and wrote a description of the shrine. The stench immediately pointed out to us that over a hundred years after death, the monk, without even looking, died, but slept, and so we lived, having denounced him! Moreover, exposing his astonishing carelessness was recognizable. Even the first icons of St. Alexander were painted by his companions and conveyed portrait features of the face of the Mystery Watcher of the Most Holy Trinity. Moreover, the first look at the relics of the monk was made only on the display of the venerable person with his face on the icon of the 16th century. The similarity was complete and incomparable.

The description of the relics of 1641 people indicated both the unusual shape of the hands and feet of the monk and the amber-yellow color of his skin (often the skins of the relics darken with time).

All these details in the inventory of 400 years ago also helped with another recovery of the relics of St. Alexander, which happened in 1998.

As soon as the relics appeared, miracles began to appear, as the ancient chroniclers recorded.

On that day, when Saint Athos of Novgorod bore witness to the power of the Monk Alexander, on the ninth year of the evening a miraculous light shone from the sky and for a long hour, covering all the place, nothing was even darker. The saint and everyone who was in the monastery of the monk raised this banner and glorified God, saying: “Glory to You, the Holy King, for you look at the holy place and glorify your saint, Reverend Alexander!” Those miracle banners lasted until midnight. The saint visited the monastery these days, praying and praising God and His saint. The first miracles of the relics of St. Oleksandr was noted for his closeness and sensitivity to ordinary people. Let's try some of these miracles.

MIRACLE ABOUT PERMISSION OF INFERTILITY

Near the Pskov borders, on the Velikaya River, 45 versts from the city of Pskov, there lives a certain nobleman Afanasy Feodorov Veniaminov. He was a kind and faithful person and joined the team of Evdokia. There was a stench of great sorrow, so that not a few children of the human race, but all the daughters were chewed. They strongly prayed to God to grant them a son.

One day Athanasius said to his squad: “I feel about the Reverend Father Alexander that God will create many miracles for the sake of his troubles and the rumors that were obtained in imperishable honor and his holy body. Ladies and we have been honored until now, may God bless us, so that we may be worthy of taking away our hats from New One; I repeat that the skin, who seeks help from the saints with faith, rejects it.” At the house there was an image of the Most Holy Trinity and the Reverend Father Alexander the Wonderworker, before which they both prayed diligently. Across the river, after this ceremony, the stinkers came to the monastery of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity and St. Alexander the Wonderworker, bringing with them a silent lad, and asked to serve a prayer service at the coffin of the Reverend. Having bowed to His miraculous and valuable body, God’s and His saints chanted richly to the great wonderworker, Rev. Father Alexander, saying: “How God grants us to endure this through His prayers.” Then, having ordered a garni of frequentings for the brethren and having distributed sufficient mercy, they went to their home, radiating and glorifying God and the Monk Alexander.

MIRACLE ABOUT ROZSLABLENE

Perhaps the nobleman Andriy Danilov Antonov, who lives near the village of Kusyage, not far from the Sya River, fell ill due to the relaxation of his entire body and recognized God. Yogo’s dads were very angry about those; They took him to holy churches and spent a lot of pennies on doctors, but there was no pain among them.

As if they knew about the great Wonderworker, the Reverend Father Alexander, that God would create impersonal healing on his tomb, and, taking their son, they brought the Reverend Father Alexander to the monastery of the Life-Giving Trinity. Having stayed in the monastery for these days, they prayed to God, the Most Pure Mother of God and the Monk Alexander the Wonderworker for the healing of their son, but did not take away their prayers, and went back home. After that, they strongly scolded and cried, repenting of the fact that they had not prayed to the monk for a long time, having long sensed about the glorious miracles that were being wasted in the sight of his honorable and rich relics. And immediately the Reverend Father Alexander, who was ready to help, sensed their prayer and did not receive their prayer, giving healing to the sick, who got up from his bed, as if he were not sick.

MARADO ABOUT WARRIOR

The sickle month has 1673 rubles. came to the monastery of the Life-Giving Trinity and the Reverend Father Alexander, a certain royal warrior, Mokiy Lviv, a citizen of Gorodetsk, near Vezhetsk, who received the following from the monastery: “When I was in military service, in the regiment of the boyar you Ilya Borisovich of the godless Crimean Tatars, we were killed near the place Konotop, where the godless Tatars attacked us uncontrollably, took us rich from the crowd and took us to their land; de mi, thirteen people, were given to one Murza, with whom they stayed in the full rocks of thirteen, doing all sorts of important work during the day, and at night they spent time in bondage, in slimy kayadans.

As if that morning, sitting by the vault, we cried a lot, praying to the Lord God and the Most Pure Mother, calling for help and all the saints. And a great fear and shock fell upon us: we saw the great light of the vine that shrouded us. When we reached you, we heard a noble man with gray hair who had come before us, and we felt a voice saying on fire: “Oh people! Call for help from the Monk Oleksandr Svirsky, who will save you from this trouble.” And immediately the invisible one appeared and the light came out. We were given obitsyanku to the Monk Oleksandr Svirsky.

Two days after this, the Greek merchants came and bought us from that Murzi, and then brought us to Tsargorod, the convoys safely arrived to the God-protecting reigning city of Moscow and they all went back to their places of residence, with the prayers of the great Wonderworker, Reverend Father Alexander."
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Until now, I will add examples of daily miracles that resemble the imperishable relics of St. Alexandra. What Ganna Bobrovich wrote in the St. Petersburg newspaper “Rush Hour” on May 25, 1999: “Oleni Zlobiniy, after a lot of hardships and a painful, but unsuccessful treatment, made a terrible diagnosis - infertility. In 1998, with a secret hope, she miraculously went to the temple where the relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky and venerated the shrine. And after an hour, with fear, she realized that she was pregnant. At the right time, a girl was born, and they baptized the Transfiguration of the Savior Valaam Monastery.”

From these testimonies of the happy fathers, which are preserved in the archives of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery, I will mention one, which seems to be the most destructive, from the friends: “In 1998, the power was found St. Oleksandr Svirsky. My daughter and I venerated the relics of the saint in these very hymns, so that God would grant her child. My daughter got married early - at 18. Nina is 38 years old. All the fates of marriage were the fates of a marred child. And a miracle happened: in the spring the daughter worshiped the relics, and in the evening, as was explained later, she began to wail. The birth of the term gave birth to a beautiful girl. This is a miracle, given by God through the prayers of the relics of St. Alexandra recovered after 19 years of recovery. The greatness of St. was revealed to us. Alexandra about the well-being of the people of this child. On the other hand, the baby’s birth in the womb was greeted quietly, but the mother herself learned about her gestation shortly before birth. For many years she was in the presence of an endocrinologist. During the period of pregnancy, going to the doctor, she told you that there was a flock of more people living with her. The doctor encouraged her to go on a diet and lose weight. To explain, this is dysbacteriosis. All of them were like blind people - daughter, and man (people with great light), they couldn’t think of what vagrancy was. If she went to the gynecologist, you can assume that they would have been licked, stabbed with whites, because... The severity of the disease, and this, in the opinion of doctors, means that there is a real threat to both the child and the mother.

Ozhe, rev. Oleksandr Svirskiy came up to the curtains. Today I like St. Alexandra for the birth of little Mary. All we did was ask God, and God gave us such joy. It’s truly a miracle.”

Our saints display the most amazing love of humanity behind the butt of the Lord. Reverend Alexander of Svirsky is a great ascetic, the only New Testament saint, who was worthy of seeing the Holy Trinity in his eyes, so respectful of simple human life, of such sorrows and joys!

I especially know five friendly couples who sapped the joy of motherhood and fatherhood after long periods of infertility with prayers to the Reverend. I won’t mention their names, I’ll just say that it’s time to take the massacre for your family, people. And I will reveal a secret: the splendor of the Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky monastery, which was reborn in Sweden after ten years of ruin, became possible itself as a result of these and similar people who tried to generously give to the saint for his needs I wish you happiness on earth - be fathers. Sometimes the whole world is overwhelmed when you look at these children who were born in response to the prayerful intercession of St. Oleksandr Svirsky. You think: what kind of stench is there? Why don't you forget the stink about your Abba? Why convey this message to your children and onuks?

Let me tell you what time it is. And to the “beggarly children” of our father Oleksandr, with every fate, more and more new things are being added, the flow of pilgrims to the cancer with relics does not weaken even with all the fates. People are coming from all over the world: from Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Finland, and the center of Russia. And a joyful chant will sound under the crypts of the ancient Transfiguration Cathedral: “Rejoice, pious fathers’ fruits of worship. Rejoice, for you allow the infertility of those around you. Rejoice, you who reproach them with joy!

On June 30, 2006, the 500th anniversary of the Holy Trinity Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery will take place. In this manner, about this leader we can say: “Siva is an old man.” Let us describe the appearance of the miraculous delivery of St. Alexander into the lives of everyday people to embarrass him so close to us that you feel like a close and dear father, who senses the skin, who strives to the next with faith, I hope, with love.

SUPERECHKI NAVOK OF THE POWERS OF REP. OLEXANDER SVIRSKY: STRENGTH OF VIRI OVER CLIFE

Five years later, when the relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky became available, people were bombarded with extremely sad facts that had been slyly deprived to us by the Bolsheviks since 1918. The priests were especially angry: their mischievous priests were locked in a pseudoscientific super-chat. Who needed it - to judge history. It’s a pity that talk about the “incorruption of relics” is still circulating among Orthodox Christians.

We went to nun Leonida, who carried out the search for relics through archival and historical materials, from the archives: a look at these super-intelligent historical documents about the relics, which have become the source of liberation in our days.

In the world, the nun Leonida (Safonova), after graduating from the Leningrad State University for 30 years, was engaged in further work in the field of biology of cells and tissues of the human body, she is the author of over 60 sciences their father, candidate of biological sciences. She exchanged her scientific degree for a monastir just a week before finishing her doctoral dissertation.

Campaign for the acquisition of powers and current “opponents”

In 1918 The head Vikonavian of the Bluesnir campaign against the relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky was the head of Olonets Gubernia, Oscar Kanter. The extreme security of the shrine, obviously, greatly infuriated the representative of the carnal government. Further, I clearly did not control my actions, otherwise without depriving the table of several options, I will describe the image of the relics of St. Alexander, how to eliminate his nonsense and vanity around the shrine table obvious. All the versions created by them were safely preserved in the archives and were passed on to historians of our time - participants in another generation of relics. Kanter’s idea and guess were not lost in vain - among the lower options, historians who took part in the super-tests about relics could easily find out the option they liked:

1. “Wax doll.”

2. “Skull, three teeth and lower slit.”

3. “The primordial skeleton of a mortal man... standing on the eyes of the legs covered with dark crimson shoes.”

4. “A bunch of heavy brushes.”

5. “The body is intact and safe... The feet are broken.”

U zhovtni 1918 r. The open press received information about the growth of the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky, and the readers were informed about those who replaced the relics with cancer. wax doll. Following these reports, the Provincial Department of People's Illumination went to the Olonets Provincial Vikonkomu with lamentations about the donation of “wax relics” to the administration of the Department of People’s Illumination for their preservation in the provincial museum. The Vikoncom praised the transfer of the relics to the museum (praise dated 10/11/18 for No. 57). In the column “if Vikonano” it is written: “Isp. 10/15/18. Gub Cheka (No. 9288)".

Now, due to the decree, the relics are unlikely to be displayed in the provincial museum on the 15th of June. However, the “wax relics” did not reach the museum on either the 15th or 26th anniversary, when the military battalion of the Cheka of the Olonets Provincial Cheka, buried by August Wagner, advanced to the Svirsky monastery to take the relics And requisition values. Wagner did not receive praise - he did not bring the “dry” to the museum, but instead deprived the relics of the monastery for the sake of honor. That commission, later appointed by the Zinovievs, which included a doctor, a chemist and a “Radyan priest”, did not bring the relics, called wax, to the museum, but deprived them of Lodeynoye Polya at the medicine chapel under the Cheka castle 20 breast 1918 r. between the museum, the Vikonkom and the Cheka, did not produce results: so no “wax relics” arrived to the provincial museum and to the other one. A representative of the People's Commissariat for Education, Krutetsky, was allowed to visit the relics at the chapel, along with archival documents. Yoma O. Kanter set up food, “if you don’t find the center of the remains of the monk as a historical relic, and if you find them like that, then the owner will transfer them to the city. Petrozavodsk". It appears that Kanter was about to make the decision on his own. The axis of such destruction was the head of the local Cheka. It would seem simpler: since the relics of the monk are a doll made of wax, then display them in a museum and correct the church’s deception. The Chekists could not reveal the truth about the relics to the clergymen of the department of the People's Illumination, and they, without understanding anything, continued to grab the obligatory exhibit. Listings from this drive are preserved in the archives of Petrozavodsk. The Chekists needed to twist and shake their way out: it’s not fair to sculpt the baby out of wax for the provincial museum - they were serious about stopping, for example, the “red terror” program. The variant with a wax doll has survived to this day and has its beneficiaries, fortunately, countless.

“Certificates of Acknowledgment”, compiled by “religious fighters”

The creative mind of the head of the Cheka Kanter continued. Just a week after the relics were lost to the last drop under the Cheka castle, another “urine” was fabricated (2nd option – skull, three teeth and lower slit). For greater flexibility, it was necessary to provide them with correctly folded documents. With this method, substitute forces are sent to Petrograd to the Marine Medical Department under the People's Commissariat of Health. The archives of the Moscow Ship Medical Expert Service of St. Petersburg still contain documents from the examination of the skull signed by all ship experts in Petrograd. In the act that accompanies the skull, the first rows read: “Breast 27, 1918. I, the head of the Lodeynopol Povitovo Supervisory Commission for the fight against counter-revolution, speculation and mischief behind the planting, took a skull and three teeth, the so-called imperishable relics, which are attributed to Oleksandr Svirsky Oleksandro-Svir this monastery... The skull and teeth are sunburnt in front.”

And at that time the holy relics of the monk, placed in the Lodeynopol chapel, continued to rest there near the trune, “a voluminous one, upholstered in brocade and dark blue oxamite in the middle,” - this trune itself can be identified in monastic documents dating back to 1868. . dated 18 June 1919 The certificate of this is kept by the document-certificate of O. Krutetsky – the conspirator of Viddilu for the burial and registration of monuments of antiquity and history. It was here that, in spite of the reverend’s taunting, the Chekists, demonstrating their relics, asked Krutetsky to take a share of the relics in the center. One might think that the funeral certificate for the relics of Oleksandr Svirsky was revoked by a resolution from the center. The official center in this period was the Archaeological Commission under the People's Commissariat of Education, here academicians known in the scientific world worked: Pokrishkin, Marr, Zolotaryov, Orbeli, Oldenburg, Udalenkov, and here the foundations were compiled about the value of the relics: “The relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky are certainly recognizable. a relic, a place of worship that may be located near the temple... we ask that visits be made to protect this people’s historical value.” The resolution was dated 02/21/19, sent 03/15/19.

In this manner, according to Krutetsky, in which the information about the relics that were in the chapel was laid out, the arrangement of the center absolves the right “to life” 2nd version of Kanter about the skull, teeth and lower slit. Krutetsky wrote about viewing the sacred relics at that very hour If the lies were “followed up,” they were released by the Bolsheviks to make the people happy.

Residents of Lodeynoye Pole can guess that back in the 40s, tassels that were seen as the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky were shown to people. In this manner, Kanter’s second option has been confirmed.

3rd option – “an extraordinary skeleton of a mortal man... standing on the eyes of the dark crimson shoes”, – after svet 11 Bereznya 1919 r. This option can be found in Kanter’s explanatory note about the robber drive, carried out in the Svirsky monastery in the early 1918s. The explanation was sent to the Cheka under the Council of People's Commissars. There was no forensic medical examination of the relics of this option: the skeleton did not appear at hand, and having closed the gates, we advanced on Petrozavodsk. This devotion to the fighters from the Orthodox Church was part of the cult of relics: for which it was necessary to show that the relics of the saints are not an imperishable body, but a “buy of heavy brushes” - the relics of the saint themselves will be named in the remaining document, What does Kanter’s creativity reveal? , dedicated to the relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky

4th option – “purchase of heavy brushes” as the sight of the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky appeared most beautifully in the selection made by one of our St. Petersburg historians. This option, melodiously, seemed most compelling because of the finale: the bedroom is empty, there are no relics, the ceremony is over. The material that the historian relies on is the testimony of B.N. Molas, a soldier at the funeral of Viddill, in the form and registration of the memos of the elder Narkomos, about the trip to the Olonets province near the Veresna ovtni 1919 r. It is important to believe that historians can make serious discoveries from these uninformative and dubious rows, which are missing by Molas: “Having a share of the relics of the Monk Alexander Svirsky, I learned that on the 19th of March 1919 at the Head of the Gubcherzvichkom Kanter asked the Lodeynopolsky Vikonkom to save, so that they could burn and bury leftovers into the ground. , so as to stop the pilgrimages of the dark villagers until the purchase of heavy brushes, which was immediately announced.”

Molas's information about the depletion of the wrists falls into disrepair. Knowing about Kanter's wickedness, Molas does not obey the order about burning the relics, nor does he obey the order about the victor.

It is doubtful both the fact of the bedroom and the purchase of heavy brushes, as described in this fragment, and the relics of the Monk Alexander Svirsky. Based on the historical evidence and documents of that time, the local provincial government could not take over. The truth about the share of the relics of Oleksandr Svirsky was confirmed by the Center - the Presidency of the NCSO and especially by Zinovyev, which is confirmed by documents from the Central Archives of St. Petersburg and the special archive of Zinovyev, which is preserved by many Partarchs. There was a well-established system for the Center to control the action of the local government, so the GubChK could not simply ask the Vikonkom to burn the relics. From the “Circular issued by the NKVS management - to all provincial government committees”: “When the “power” has been transported, the victorious person appears in a new place - the NKVS will immediately need to approve it. Please tell the visconcoms." In addition, there is no need to forget that the only skeletal remains confirmed by examination are those attributed to the Monk Alexander Svirsky, still at the grass (wonderful) were in Petrograd after the examination was carried out, so the provincial Vikonkom could not dispose of them in any way, especially “immediately” after Kanter’s disappearance. There was another important piece of furniture that was stolen by vandalism: the relics of St. Oleksandr concentrated on his respect for the richness of secular and spiritual structures. Based on documents from the archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg, a share of the relics was collected by: Radnarkom, People's Commissariat of Justice, Control and Audit Board, Cheka, All-Russian Church Council and especially Patriarch Tikhin, Metropolitan Veniamin, Olonets diocesan administration and numbers at that hour. Under such a view, the provincial security officers and the police officers of Vikonkomu would not have dared to carry out an act of arbitrariness.

5th option – “the act of viewing the relics”, dated 5/18 leaf fall, 1918, becoming widened “confidently” immediately after the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky were brought to the Church of the Holy Martyrs Vera, Nadia, Lyubov and M. Sophia on 30 June 1998. As if he knew the owner of the document, as if he knew the invaluable service of the relics! The mentality of our ancestors was so high that they did not deprive the sections of the report of the current appearance of the relics, but as a generous confirmation of the truth of the relics identified at the Museum of Anatomy of the Military Medical Academy, we were taken from the document submitted below. We appreciated it as a gift from the past: six signs of similarity came from 1918.

“The act of looking at the relics” is preserved by the famous St. Petersburg historian V.V. Antonov, who doubts its validity. We also have no reason to question the validity of this document, especially in the documents of the monastery archive, and in the “Register of issued papers of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery for 1918”, and in the reported His Eminence Bishop Yoanik will guess about the tribute, one of them is about the requisition in the monastery, the other is “about viewing the relics of the monk.” The act of viewing the relics was not preserved in monastery documents.

The act, according to the historian, is to describe the sign that lies in the place of the relics of the monk, revealed at the Museum of Anatomy of the Military Medical Academy. The act reveals that the powers of the whole and the careless, burned with a scheming robe, which is “in places already smoldering.” “Having lifted the deed, they denounced the saint” (Metropolitan Athos also denounced himself, going as far as the relics, not the bones of a skull!), which also indicates the presence of all the teeth, “only the two upper ones fell out,” - which also shows its effectiveness and is confirmed by current experts ( dentist and anthropologist). We were not insured to obtain such an escape, such fine detail to confirm the authenticity of the relics. The description of breasts and hands (not breasts and hands), which is included in this document, also demonstrates effectiveness, and the details of the description, although a little too much, give an additional indication of similarity.

Now let's look at this detail from the act, which was made public through the official document of this document, including through the Internet, - whose intention was to reveal the truth of the inflated powers of June 30, 1998.

From the act: “...you can’t see your hands, because the stench is all over the cover, and the cover stuck to the board and they didn’t untie it. The feet are structured, and the tassels are folded together with these shoes, in some kind of reverend’s worship, covered with a robe and tied with a stitch.”

Chentsi, who discovered the relics of the monk centuries after his death, memorably described the position of the legs of the imperishable body - “the right foot lies on the left.” At this point, experts wanted to describe the position of the feet after another form of power, they wrote this: “the sole surface of the right foot rests on the back of the left,” from the anthropologist’s description: “the right foot is raised and leans toward the left y star.” However, there is no fundamental difference in the description of the formation of legs, devoid of ancient and current evidence.

Rows about legs according to the act dated 1918. They cry out: the cover was not undone, because it stuck to the board, and old shoes, and worn out feet, and tassels, folded in the shoes, could wear out. For everything, if it was crooked, if it stuck, they didn’t untie it, then their legs weren’t undone.

The monastery archives found a document that proves that the inspectors of the act did not really untie their legs. This is written by the rector of the monastery, Archimandrite Agafangel Yogo, to His Eminence Archbishop Pavel of Olonets: “For your Eminence’s blessings, on the 4th to 5th I performed at the All-English Council of Chuvan, in which the akathist was read to St. Alexander. He had 250 years to go to the royal crayfish, and when everyone had gone, I deprived myself of the retail goods and served a prayer service to the monk, and changed the donated pillow and slippers.” The sheet dates back to 1894.

You read these good series from the past hour and in passing think about those that you will not forget every word from the Lord. And here is a short description of what the tribute gave to Tsarina Mikhail Fedorovich as a gift for the monk, and a prayer service to the venerable Oleksandr Svirsky himself on his Jubilee day, and just a little touch about the change of the shoes. How could these small touches help to emerge today, which protects the relics of the saint from the “historical” lack of balance! It suddenly dawned on me that it was not the old shoes of 385 years of age, as the reverend would have liked, but the new boots (only 24 years had passed since the time of reappearance) that the stewards of the act would have swung, as if they had untied the reverend’s feet.

Although it is paradoxical, the Chekists unintentionally made a positive contribution to the protection of the monk’s nigs. Document dated 11 February 1919 (Div. option 3) signed by the head of GubChK Kanter, specifying that the booties were a dark crimson color. Historians, as they sing, apparently, did not like the chervonomu vzutti - such embellishment was stastosovnym only to the relics of saints. The monastery documents contain the “Inventory of the Oleksandro-Svirsky ancient treasure”, which was compiled by representatives of the Narkomos in 1918-1925, most of which were requisitioned for the museum fund. In the inventory of “Viddili Shittya”, zokrema, play it safe: “244. The ocholiv (cushion) is embroidered with gold on red oxamite with images of the Holy Trinity. 246. Shoes are sewn with gold on red oxamite. 247. Shoes are sewn in gold on crimson aphids. 248. Shoes are sewn with gold on black oxamite. In the margin it is written: “Gift of the faithful for the relics of St. Alexander.”

In such a manner, the organizers of the act, if they had bothered to untie the saint’s legs, would have worn new boots of a dark crimson color and whole, untidy legs, so that you don’t dare to lie parallel to one another, and one on the other (the right to marvel at the mountain, the left - kill to )). This upset the authorities of the act. Wetting the feet, they could not help but smell the toes through the soft oxamite shoes, which were mistaken for tassels folded in shoes.

Therefore, our opponents-historians could not decide among themselves which version they stood on. One did not feel the presence of a whole body, but only accepted it with broken legs. Another historian was not completely ruled by the body: his love did not include a document - the “document” says about the bedroom of the brushes, not the body.

The presence of the Bolsheviks before the mystification of the exit. With the help of Volodyov and Kanter, there are a variety of options for describing the type of relics, and there are a lot of evidence that there will be a valid option that needs to be captured.

The history of the acquisition of powerful relics

The beautiful place, the lower fundamental museum of anatomy at the large Imperial Academy (now VMA), with a 150-year history and over 10,000 different exhibits, was important to know for admission. In addition, it was necessary to revoke the order issued in 1919. about the placement of relics in museums. The tradition of the museum was meticulous cataloging of the skin anatomical specimen, which is the best for the museum, but has never been broken. It was destroyed in only one way: the relics of St. Alexander were never registered - the head of the museum, associate professor M.V. Tvardovska, confirmed this. The date of their arrival at the museum is not indicated anywhere. Such a situation could have collapsed in just one episode - if it was necessary to seize power, there was no other reason. It is not excluded that the application for admission was withdrawn from Zinov'ev. Secret information about the collection of the relics was published back in 1948. The axis of the entry from one report with the stamp “secretly”: “In the funds of museums of the Committee system at the right cultural and educational institutions under the Council of Ministers of the RRFSR, “urine” is saved, but the stench is not in operation, but in special congregations , isolated from prisoners... The Committee by its order for No. 718-C, advocating for directors to allow representatives of religious communities into the museum collections and to provide them with any information about the cult objects found in the museum collections.”

Until 1954, reliable protection of the relics of St. Alexander was ensured by academician V.N. Tonkov, who was descended from the count’s family on the father’s line and the priestly family on the mother’s line. The terrible revolutionary and post-revolutionary fates had their fate right up to 1926. He became the President of the Military Medical Academy and recently became the head of the Department of Normal Anatomy, which is now a museum. She was a strong, courageous, strong-willed person, who never lost her worth. In 1918 Sverdlov gave his characteristics before entering the party, and once the party entered, the characteristics are still saved in the family archive. Todi tse buv vchinok. The Bolsheviks began to respect him, and the world of Petrograd relied on him. Until recently, they themselves were subjected to the arrest of their colleagues. There is no doubt that a well-known and religious person (according to the testimony of his granddaughter N.V. Tonkova, his entire homeland - his team and two daughters - were believers) academician V.M. Tonkov knew that the shrine was entrusted to him by God's will and as Responsibility lies on the new way to preserve this shrine. The rebirth of relics at the department in the early days was met with a wall of dull martyrdom. There is nothing hidden that would not become obvious. It became clear that sometime the KDB spy squads came to the museum under V.M. Tonkov, and then they hovered the relics between the wall and the wardrobe. “The secular explanation for the successful hiding of the relics may only lie in special motives. The old arguments of the state's favor did not work out in the face of despotism. The evil spirit lives only for itself, but in whom there is weakness. To know the one way, where evil is powerless, to go out with honor and learn the sayings - only a wise person can do it. The great spiritual feat of the current academician Volodymyr Mikolayovich Tonkov, and even today the height of his invisible struggle against the rule of the Antichrist is revealed,” - this assessment was made by independent journalist B. Karagandainsky in his article after interview from the manager Department of Normal Anatomy prof. I.V.Gayvaronsky.

The fight for the sacred.

After we became aware of the materials given by M. Leonida, a new version was born of itself: as was ordered in 1918-1919. V. And in our hour there are still doubts about the validity of the relics’ powers. Alexandra, then, is here to bring the power of this shrine. However, the same forces hate the people’s vanity of the ascetic, they are not commanded by those who, following the call of the heart, thousands of pilgrims, who are not embarrassed by anyone, go to the Svirsky monastery from all ends of the Orthodox world in order to bow this dark-looking Holy Trinity, which is in rests in his relics.

Ale God and in this situation he unleashes evil against good. Since it is so powerful to fight against the sacraments of the relics of St. Alexander, then telling yourself this means what to fight against.

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• Prayer to St. Oleksandr Svirsky. Reverend Oleksandr Svirsky accepted blackhood in his youth. A great ascetic and mentor of the Chens. Being honored with the vision of the Holy Trinity. To the Reverend Oleksandr Svirsky to pray to the Bazhanna for the adoption of blackness, for the injunction in the black life, for the calming of the hearts of the fathers, who are worried about the child of the blackness, for help for the wife and in sickness of relaxation (paralysis)

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Holy Trinity Venerable Alexander Svirsky Human Monastir - Orthodox human monastery in the Leningrad region, an architectural monument.
Roztashovany 21 km from the town of Lodeyne Pole on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoye ().
The monastery of the foundations of St. Alexander of Svirsky near the 15th century in the sparsely forested Olonets region is surrounded by settlements of pagan peoples - Karelians, Vepsians, Chuds. Nezabar, Oleksandr Svirsky's scientists appeared. Even during the life of the founder, the monastery was formed as if two were connected, one with another, but independently separated complexes (division): Trinity with the fraternal cells and Preobrazhensky - order with the tsvintar. They are connected by a road that goes around the lake.

The small Kamyana Intercession Church with a refectory in the Trinity part is the oldest monastery. Vaughn was inspired by the fate of Oleksandr Svirsky himself in 1533 for the donation of Tsar Vasily III.

From the middle of the 17th century, the Vvedeno-Oyatsky monastery was attributed to the monastery.
From 1764 to 1786, the Trinity branch of the monastery served as the residence of the bishops of Olonets and Kargopil, vicars of the Novgorod diocese.

In 1873, the abbot of the Svir Monastery was given to the bishops of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, and a ministry was founded in the monastery. Since 1890, the monastery was again built up independently and in private with a special abbot-archimandrite.
In the spring of 1918, the monastery was subject to burials and plunders by the Chekists, and its rector, Archimandrite Evgen (Trofimov), was shot at Olonets.
At the hands of the Radyan rulers, the monastery was victorious under Svirlag, a child and a disabled person. Nowadays, the monastery has opened a technical school, and since 1953 there has been a psychiatric hospital in the Trinity complex.

The renovation of the monastery began in 1997.
The premises of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery are located at the Vesyoly Selishche Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.

Saint Alexander Svirsky
In the history of mankind, there are two of the greatest manifestations of the merciful God to the bodily gaze, depicted in iconography - the Old Testament ancestor Abraham at the Mamrian oak and the Russian saint, the Monk Alexander of Svirsky. In the remote, unoccupied forests of Karelia, more than 500 years ago, the Lord appeared before the eyes of the humble prince Alexander in the form of the Three Angels, and we can still see in this place something special y, or, as they said in ancient times, “above” grace.
Here, on this Holy Land, another Palestine, where the Epiphany took place, the Holy Trinity Monastery of Alexander Svirsky was founded.

Reverend Alexander is one of the few Russian saints (for the votives - Veps), who was canonized shortly after his righteous death - and after 14 years. There were still many of his scholars and many of his rogues alive, and the life of St. Alexander was written, which is called, “in hot pursuit” and is seen with particular authenticity, in no one there is no “pious schemes”, as depicted It is a unique image of the holiness of “all Russia, the wonderworker Alexander.”

Brief life of St. Alexander the Wonderworker of Svir
(Sklav monk Opanas. 1905 rub. lipnya 12 days)
Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery of Olonets province.
Vikl. Alexander Svirsky wonderworker Born St. Alexander 15th 1448 in the village of Mandera on the Oyat River on the Novgorod land, near the Ostrovsky Vvedensky Monastery. Yogo was named Amos. His fathers Stefan and Vassa were poor, pious villagers, and gave Christian religion to their children. When Amos came to the world, the fathers wanted to befriend him, all the while thinking about taking away the light for the sake of saving their souls. Having learned about the Valaam monastery early and often guessing about it, we found, by the will of God, the members of the Valaam Chens. For a long time Ikhnya Rozmova talked about the holy monastery, about the statute of theirs, about the three generations of life of the Chernechs. And the axis, filled with this conversation, decided to go to the “ancient Athos”. , on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoe, the Reverend felt a secret voice, which confessed to him that in this place he would create a monastery. And a great light shone upon him. When they came to Valaam, the abbot accepted him and tonsured him under the name of Alexander in 1474.
It was just 26 years ago. The monk zealously began to practice in practice, listening, fasting and prayer. Here the father came to Valaam, having heard him; The monk decided not only to calm down his angry father, but also to get him to cut his hair at once from his mother. And the fathers listened to their son. Stefan took monastic vows from the name of Sergius, and his mother from the name of Varvara. Their graves still hang around the Vvedeno-Oyatsky Monastery.

Alexander, however, continued to struggle on Valaam, marveling at the harshness of his life of the most famous Valaamians. At first he labored in a hermitage, then on the island that is not called Holy, and spent 10 years there. On the Holy Island there is still preserved wine and cheese, which can easily accommodate only one person. The monk Alexander preserved the grave for himself. One day, while standing in prayer, Saint Alexander felt a divine voice: “Olexander, go away and go to the place shown earlier, you can be saved at a new one.” Great light told my place at the gathering, on. Tse bulo 1485 roku.
There, you know, “there is a lot of greenery, a place where there is a forest and a lake and a lot of water and there are no people there before.” The Reverend placed his hutina on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoe. At the top of the river there is Lake Svyatoe, fortified by Mount Strymnina. Here you will see a small number of rocks, hungry not for bread, but for the crops that grow here. God opened his lamp to boyar Andriy Zavalishin, and through the new year brought riches to the people. The monastery began to grow, and the fame of the gift of clairvoyance and the healing of physical and spiritual ailments, given to its abbot, quickly spread throughout the world. The Orthodox people have already satisfied Oleksandr Svirsky as a saint for his life. Appearance of the Holy Trinity Ven. Oleksandr Svirsky

Incorruptible relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky

On the 23rd day of the Reverend’s settlement in the desert, a great light appeared in his temple and gathered three people who left for the next one. The stench was sweetened by the light clothes and brightened by the glory of heaven “greater than the sun.” From the lips of her holy sense of command: “Love, as you have the Three Persons of the One Who speaks to you, remember the church in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One Essential Trinity... And you will deprive My world and My world under am ti ".
At the place of the appearance of God the Trinity, a great deal was created, and to this day the human soul trembles at this place, thinking about the closeness of God to His people. The Life of St. Alexander argues with those who, despite the great abundance of gifts given to them by God, were once again deprived of a humble disciple who was eager to serve the brethren and simple villagers who came to the monastery.

A few years before the death of the Reverend, God placed in my heart a good idea to build a Kamyan church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos with a meal. I axis once at night, since the laying was already completed, after the completion of the initial prayer rule, the Reverend poured out an extraordinary light that shone throughout the monastery, and at the heart of the Church of the Intercession, at the dawn of the reign of glory sat on the throne of the Most Pure Mother of God with the Ancient Nemovlyam, honed by a host heavenly. The monk fell in reproach to the ground before the majesty of Her Glory, because he could not see this invisible light. Then the Most Pure Lady ordered him to get up and hush him with clothes, inaccessible from the Monastery, and to help with all the needs of those who live in it, both for the life of the Reverend, and after his death.
“Before the death of his Reverend, he called to himself all the brethren and voiced to them that the hour would soon come to rearrange this time-consuming and richly summable life in the hereafter, the painlessness and the joyfulness in the future, acknowledging of his own four holy monks: Isaiah, Nicodemus, Leontius and Herodion to elect one of them as hegumen, then until his death without ceasing to teach his brethren to live a godly life, but the Monk Alexander died on September 30, 1533, 85 years from the birth of the people, starting with his dying commandment That's it, when the ceremonies at the entrance were empty, from the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, from the right side of the Church, in 1547 the birth of the saints was celebrated.

All the small ailments that came before the honest trouble of this and with the world fell to the next, were clearly healed: the blinds began to see clearly, relaxation began to appear in the limbs that suffered from other illnesses. They thoroughly dressed the demons, the demons were driven away from the sleepless, the child was served to the childless.
Our All-Good God is wondrous among His Saints, who glorifies His saint in this hour of life, creating with His hand signs and miracles, favoring His imperishable death, His holy body, like a great light, is placed in His Church And so that it would feel there with its glorious. miracles."

Trinity Cathedral (XVII century) Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery

Church of the Intercession with a refectory (XVI century)

Trishatrova dzvinitsa (XVII century)

The Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery is located 260 km from St. Petersburg and 21 km from the regional center of Lodeyne Pole. Monastir, founded by the holy reverend Alexander of Svirsky at the end of the 15th century in the remote Olonets region in unoccupied dense forests, among the pagan indigenous population of Korels, Vepsians, Chuds, quickly gained popularity. The valorization of the Orthodox faith in this region has become possible due to the harsh, pious ascetic way of life of the founder of the monastery. People have begun to flock here: both the Chinese and those who are looking for prayerful help. Even during the life of the Monk Alexander Svirsky, the monastery developed as a united settlement of two settlements: at the fraternal cells - the Trinity complex, and at the monastery center - Preobrazhensky. Both complexes today represent a single monument of architectural life of the 16th-19th centuries.
The monastery of roztashovaniy near the fry-tree place on the high birch of the Roshchinskoye lake. Most were well preserved, demonstrating the high mystique of the architects they were, otherwise all of them would require today's great restoration works.

The oldest building of the monastery is the Kamyana Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, founded by the Venerable himself. Oleksandr was born in 1533. Its production was carried out on the donation of Tsar Vasily III. The church with the refectory and the church is in the Novgorod style. Kamyany Transfiguration Cathedral from the side dedicated to the Venerable Oleksandr Svirsky (1644). The Stone Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity was built in 1791, and earlier there was a wooden church on this site, inspired by the founder of the monastery himself, which was consecrated in 1509. Church of Sts. prophet Zechariah and Elizabeth were awakened in 1685. The Church of St. John of Damascus was founded in 1718. The Kamiana Chapel of the Holy Trinity was created at that place, where, after the testimony, the Most Holy Trinity appeared to St. Alexander of Svirsky. Tsars, grand dukes, Russian emperors, high-born boyars and nobles, merchants made great contributions to the life of the church and monastery. Vidomosti about each of them was entered with the careful hand of the ceners up to the “Census Books”. Most of the monastic archive was preserved and housed in the National Community Library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and three historical archives in St. Petersburg.

Over the 500-year period of the founding life of the monastery, the life of the monastery changed little from the life of other monasteries in Russia: revelations and falls, invasion of enemies, fires, looting, new renovation of temples and war monastery life, unceasing prayers and work. At the most, the monastery had 8 churches, a rich sacristy, expensively decorated icons, a rich treasure trove of ancient manuscripts, ancient manuscripts and books. Historians of the 19th century called the monastery the Monastery Lavra, which supported 27 monasteries in the deserted region. There were fates if in the monastery after the Ruinuvan the main shrine was lost - the relics of the Holy Venerable Alexander of Svirsky and so many cenci (early and late 19th century).
It was already a hard time (1918), since there was no shrine in the monastery, no treasures. The relics were brought, they were completely fired, some of them were shot, and the abbot of the church was Archimandrite Evgen /Trofimov/. Natomist on the territory of the monastery: prisons, barracks, invalid huts, a hospital, a psychiatric hospital, clogged churches and black chambers in numerous fraternal cells.

The new inhabitants who settled in the monastery in 1997 had a chance to learn a lot - the monastery was left to them. The greatest success in the life of the monastery, which is being renewed, was the creation of the relics of the founder of the monastery - St. Oleksandr Svirsky, who turned 30 in 1998. With your prayers and help, the ancient monastery is revived. The churches, part of the buildings and the territory of the Transfiguration and Trinity complexes were organized, the liturgical life of the monastery was improved.

A short description of the monastery from the 20th century.
The Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery is located in the Olonets district of the Olonets province, on the right side of the Svira river, 6 versts from it, 16 from the place of Lodeynoye Pole, 84 from the place of Olonets and 20 versts from Lake Ladozkoe, with a great postal road from Lodey to Olonets and Petrozavodsk. The pine tree, which draws the monastery's locality from its dry sides, the proximity of the Svira River and the two great lakes located at the monastery: Roshchinske and the Holy Place, a gift and a dry place - all this gives Svira to whom the monastery and its occupation bring a beautiful appearance and a healthy, kind spirit .

The founding of the Svir Monastery dates back to 1506. behind R.H. the Monastery and the first abbot of the monastery was the venerable and God-bearing Father Alexander - as can be seen from the life of the monk, written 11 years after the death of one of his closest disciples, abbot Herodion.
Very little information has been preserved about the primary history of the Svirsky monastery; a long time ago, and most importantly - the ruined monastery, which was in the middle of the 17th century, due to the monastery records under the name of the “Lithuanian Ruin”, and also after 1784, they blamed a lot of expensive memorabilia and documents, which relate to the history of the monastery , especially in the first hours of sleep.
View of the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery. Olonetsk lips. I'll tell you. The Svirskaya monastery itself consisted of two neighboring monasteries, on the same side of one side there are about 130 square meters. And to this day they are fortified with special fences and bear special names, which were established in them by the churches. One of them is called Trinity, and the other, where the monk’s desert was located, is called Transfiguration.

From the time of the Most Reverend until 1764, the Trinity Monastery served as a place of residence for Christians with a rector in the church. In 1764, the monastery was founded in the Olonets region by the vicars of St. Petersburg, which were called Olonets and Kargopol, and this monastery was appointed as the place of vicar bishops, with placements in it this consistory and seminary; Trinity Cathedral before the Cathedral, and the Transfiguration Monastery, after its foundation in 1764. states, once formed into an independent other class monastery, under the name of the Trinity Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery.
After 24 years, then in 1787, the Trinity Monastery, from the closure of the Olonets Vicariate, lost its staff and assignments to the Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery; From what hour has he been under the gaze of the abbots of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery. From 1803 to 1870, the Theological School was located in the Trinity Monastery.
From the time of the founder and the first abbot - Rev. Father Alexander, until the hour of sleep of the staff, then until 1764, the Svirsky monastery became a monastery, and from 1764 to 1800 it became a new establishment. At 1800 rub. Suddenly, a group of residents was restored, who, having lived until 1873, were recognized as abbots of the Svirsky Monastery by the Olonets bishops, again becoming full-time and remaining so for the entire period of the episcopal abbotship, then until 1890, in which, in to whom, the Synod is 8 years old No. 2,242, reads: “The Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastir, which was built under the special administration of the bishop, will be deprived, as before, of its independence, under the administration of the archimandrite, so that the brethren of this People in their inner life followed the rules of the small town that had long been in it.”
So the Svirskaya monastery became a place of worship; The regular settlement for the two girls to settle in the monastery led them to the edge of the capital, as can be seen from the monastic archival records.

Monastery booths.
I. At the Trinity Monastery.
Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery. Olonetsk lips. Trinity Cathedral and Church of St. John of Damascus.
1. Trinity Cathedral, already the fourth in that place, where the church in the name of the Holy Trinity was founded by the Monk Alexander, by order of God. Born in 1695, for Archimandrite Hermogenes, and consecrated on September 29, 1698. His Eminence Iov, Metropolitan of Novgorod. This one has a side vault of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. At 1708 r. The cathedral is in the middle of decorations with wall paintings, for the sake of the great figure of Archimandrite Theodosius. The painter was in remembrance of Archimandrite Paul, in the fiftieth days of the last century *). In 1892 rector Fr. Archimandrite Agafangel completed significant repairs to this cathedral, both at the center and at the center.
2. The Church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, with a meal, was begun by the Monk Alexander himself *). Under this church, under the stone crypts, which had already turned black, preserved traces of the monastic fraternal kitchen of the early hours, and itself - two majestic ovens, a skin of 5 1/2 arshins width; These old reminders can be read and updated.
3. Dzvinitsa between the Trinity Cathedral and the Church of the Intercession; if it is awakened, it is unknown, but you need to think about it from the Trinity Cathedral.
4. The Church of St. John of Damascus, under the supervision of a fence, when there is a lot of medicine, was founded in 1716. The church soon fell into complete ruin, despite the diligent efforts of its rector, Fr. Archimandrite Agafangel, and generous donations from various God-loving benefactors, in 1896. it has been renovated and decorated with wall paintings; and it contains the eternal (non-stop) reading of the Psalter about the benefactors of the holy Alexander-Svira monastery.

5. Double-overhead, with a frame, building on the back side, 72 fathoms long, which has: a) Bishop's chambers with a house church in the name of St. Nicholas, b) Governor's office, c) 46 rooms for the office lasted May strovih s brothers and d) below 4 masters.
6. A double-surface body on the down side, 68 fathoms long, in which: a) a living room for receiving food, b) a wonderful place, c) meals for food, a man’s wife, d) a cube-grain and e) a place for guests and masters - a total of 48 rooms.
7. Double-overhead, with a holy gate, a building on the south side, 48 fathoms long, containing: 8 cells, two masters and two sheds *). All three buildings during the remaining hours of the bishops' reign presented a pitiful appearance and were approaching ruin. The church buildings were also in need of major repairs; But the All-Merciful God, through the prayers of His saint, Reverend Alexander, allowed the present abbot, Father Archimandrite Agathangel, to bring the entire Trinity Monastery to the holy place of the miracle camp, and the ancient monastery stands, until it was re-established. The area occupied by the Trinity Monastery contains 4064 square meters.

II. At the Transfiguration Monastery.
Oleksandro-Svirsky Monastery. Olonetsk lips. View of the Transfiguration Cathedral, where the relics of St. Petersburg rest. Alexander the Wonderworker of Svir.
1. Transfiguration Cathedral, where St. the relics of the Monk Alexander, the Wonderworker of Svir, with God's blessings in his name. This council was held in 1641, under Abbot Abraham, and the lateral church was held in 1716. At 1900 r. Father Archimandrite Agafangel divided 4 fathoms to the back side of the cathedral. at the dovzhin, width 7 fathoms, height at the river from the cathedral. The wood was chopped up; for the brothers there is a laminated choir with turned wooden handrails. The whole temple began to ring, and in the middle of the offerings anew; The walls, crypts and foundations are coated with oil mixture. In 1903 and 1904, the entire cathedral was painted in the middle with fringe images; re-purchases of the side report and also of the schedules. The iconostasis is newly gilded and the decoration has been corrected in places; The icons are all updated.
2. Church of St. Prophet Zechariah and Elisabeth, near the cathedral, with a small dzvinitsa above it, was awakened in 1668, for Abbot Macarius. U 1899 r. guardianship o. Archimandrite Agafangel, this church has been renovated from both sides.
3. The chapel at the monastery, in response to the riddle of the appearance of the Holy Trinity to St. Alexander, was rebuilt under the leadership of Archimandrite Paul; at this hour, as it is called, so it is in the middle.
4. To the back side of the fence there is a new fireplace with a massive door, complete with exquisite architecture; height from the base 21 fathoms; was created in 1903-1904 by the rector of Father Archimandrite Agathangel on the kosts, accessories from various benefactors *).

Having chosen the name of the monastir and St. Oleksandr Svirsky

About the internal camp of the monastery, the monastery dominion and the functions until morning.
The introduction of the banal statute had a beneficial effect on the Svir monastery. There are currently more than 200 brothers living in the monastery and “God-godniks” who are dedicated to them, including: hieromonks, working happily from the monastery in St. Petersburg, 19 people (from there are 2 hegumens and 1 hieroschemamonks) , the Holy Fathers - 12, the Chants - 18, the cassock novices - 20, the Mother of God - 150 individuals, including 40 minors, most importantly orphans from the villages of the neighboring parishes of the Olonets district.
Kozhen and the brethren, working to the best of their ability on bark, take away from the monastery all the necessities of life. Those who hold the priestly rank, in addition to their priestly obligations, also undertake other duties, such as: treasurer, confessor, sacristan, housekeeper, junk worker and others.
Chentsi, novices and godmothers, marveling at the skin’s sensitivity, are given the opportunity to listen to, as if: the sacristan, the sexton, the bell-ringer, the refectories, the innkeepers, the gatekeepers, etc.; Others work at the crafts: carpentry, metalworking, painting, forging, palette, Kravetsov, Shevsk and others, and they read the Psalter for the dead benefactors, work at the prosphora, bread, cooks, carry firewood, boil kvass, serve the elders, in the vital area, or work in other government occupations. From a young age, 28 individuals are among the spies, and others begin to develop various skills.
Divine services are conducted in strict accordance with church statute. Matins begins around the 4th year and continues until halfway through the 7th year; After the start of the early liturgy, the late liturgy begins around the 9th year and continues until the 11th. Evening collection occurs on the 5th year, and flight on the 6th year. After the evening meal in the church, the rule is read, which consists of prayers for the coming sleep, the monument and the prayers of Jesus, with bows, in accordance with the rules that apply in the Valaam Monastery. On the week and holy days, the small vespers begin around the 5th year, and after the evening with the canons and akathist, without leaving the church, the all-perennial feeling begins that it will end around the evening .

lake on the birch of the monastery

The monastery has a sizable pharmacy, which is run by a paramedic who is constantly with her. All our sick brothers and sisters are assured of urgent medical help. And also poor residents who come from nearby villages are freely provided with necessary medicines and medical supplies.
The reign of the Oleksandro-Svirsky monastery lies in agriculture, urban farming, hay mowing, forest farming and cattle breeding.
Orna land 108 acres; yet the earth has been devastated, which reveals even greater goodness; The bread that comes with it is never enough to supply food on the river, and even with a good harvest.
There are about 8 dessiatinas near the city; The vegetables that are being sent out of the city are quickly coming up on the river and the food of the brothers is gone, and there is still a surplus of them for sales. There are 141 dessiatines under the moss; The blue mows on the Svirsky harvests are good, but, at a distance from the monastery, they require a close eye on the workers. The amount of hay that is prepared on them, from the addition of straw, is not sufficient for the yearning of all thinness.
At the monastery there are up to 40 horses with calves, and up to 100 heads of horned horses.

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The pilgrim's witness.

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Z The Holy Trinity Monastery of the Venerable Oleksandr Svirsky Monastir overcame a strong enemy.
This Orthodox human monastery is located in the Leningrad region, 21 km from the town of Lodeyne Pole on the birch of Lake Roshchinskoye.

There will be two posts about this monastery. The monastery consists of two adjacent monasteries. Troitsky and. It stinks to stand alone against one another on a distance of 300 meters. This post is about Trinity (especially the post on Preobrazhensky). Monastir, as before, belongs to the state, but is governed by the Russian Orthodox Church.

The parking lot here is large. Behind this wall there is an ancient settlement, so you can learn everything yourself...

From the middle of the 17th century, the Vvedeno-Oyatsky monastery was attributed to the monastery.

"Representation" of the women's monastery)))

Cafe "Pilgrim"... let's talk, the vipka here is just pumping... very tasty.

In the spring of 1918, the monastery was subject to burials and plunders by the Chekists, and its rector, Archimandrite Evgen (Trofimov), was shot at Olonets.

At the rocks of the Radian rule, the monastery fell under the Svirlag GULAG. One of them is the famous philosopher A.F. Losev. There were children and disabled huts here.

Nowadays the monastery has opened a technical school, and since 1953 there has been a psychiatric hospital in the Trinity complex.

The renovation of the monastery began in 1997. Behind the tight walls of the large sister building there is still a psychiatric hospital.

Stara Sloboda.

And this other “fortification” of the Transfiguration Monastery or “Nova Sloboda”))) there will be an upcoming post about it.

Perspective of Roshchinske Lake.

The monastery of the foundations of St. Alexander of Svirsky near the 15th century in the sparsely forested Olonets region is surrounded by settlements of pagan peoples - Karelians, Vepsians, Chuds. Nezabar, Oleksandr Svirsky's scientists appeared.

Even during the life of the founder, the monastery was formed as if two were connected, one with another, but independently separated complexes (division): Trinity with the fraternal cells and Preobrazhensky - order with the tsvintar. They are connected by a road that goes around the lake.

On the 23rd anniversary of the monk’s settlement in the desert there began to be a period that has long since passed down to the annals of church history. Oleksandr Svirsky was guided by the Divine Trinity. There was great light at the temple, and Oleksandr, having received the three men, came to the new one. From these lips the saint felt the command: "Love, as you have the Three Persons of the One Who is with you, being the Church in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the one and only Trinity" .

Trinity Cathedral (XVII century).

Here you can film a historical movie... but the scenery doesn’t require any work, just like in the Middle Ages, there are no electric darts.

Church of the Intercession with a refectory (XVI century)

Trishatrova dzvinitsa (XVII century).

Everything is being actively restored, part of the monastery is in the woods.

The Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the oldest church of the monastery. Vaughn was inspired by the fate of Oleksandr Svirsky himself in 1533 for the donation of Tsar Vasily III.

Zaishov in the middle... there are still robots coming from the beginning.

As I understand, this temple is still under restoration... The iconostasis is already standing, but the icons have not yet taken their place.

At the birth of 2012, with the blessing of Bishop Mstislav of Tikhvin and Lodeynopolsk, the Holy Episcopal Choir was created. It consists of graduates of the greatest musical works of the SND region. Among the works to be commemorated: ancient Byzantine hymns and famous hymns, liturgical music of the 19th-20th centuries, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian folk songs.

And how the people sleep here... it was fortunate to catch the sleep, but having only realized the ending, it was impossible to stop. Knowing secretly, from the stomach)))

View from the window.

Place of heroic deeds...

Before his death, the monk called to himself all the brethren and recognized four priests: Isaiah, Nicodemus, Leontius and Herodion for the election of one of them as abbot. Rev. Died Oleksandr 30 serpnya 1533 r., 85 years of birth, and since his deathbed commandment, the prayers of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord are the right hand of the day. At 1547 r. Oleksandr Svirsky buv insurance for sainthood.

After 107 years and 7 months from the day of death of Rev. Alexandra, who was born in 1641, abbot of the Svir monastery Abraham and his brethren, intending to stand over his grave in the Kamyan church with the royal order, took over the old church in the name of the venerable one, where it was located tomb placed over yogo body. While they were digging a ditch for the side of the church, the shovel of one of the men reluctantly hit the top of the trench. The abbot was informed about the discovery, and then, having gathered all the brethren, they hastened to look at the throne. They carefully opened the top board of the trone, as the smell of aroma poured out in the wind; On the clothes lying near the trunk - the mantle and the schema - were intact, and the wooden club lay right there. The body appeared unshaded, and part of the beard was visible under the material that covered the body. These are the relics of St. Alexandra. The abbot immediately ordered the creation of a new throne, and after transferring the holy relics into it, he transferred them to the Church of St. Nicholas.

Nezabar the abbot sent letters with information about this idea to Metropolitan Athos of Novgorod, and she informed Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich from his own person. At 1644 r. The holy relics were transferred to an expensive shrine and donated to the monastery for the special orders of the king.

After the revolution, the relics were taken by the Bolsheviks to Lodeyn pole, after which in 1919. The reliquary with the relics was sent to Petrograd. In this case, the reduction of lies during the information was staged, the remains of the prp. Oleksandr was transferred to the People's Commissariat of Health.

According to the data of the specialists of the Department of Normal Anatomy of the Military Medical Academy, at the time of the revolution, an exhibit appeared in their museum, which was lost unregistered from the great catalogs of the museum. Such a position as an “exhibit” in such a museum was a sign of guilt, and there was clearly a misappropriation of the relics. Perhaps, here the will of the Bolshovitsy Kerivnitsya acted like evil, and the good will of the head of the department V.M. Tonkov, who, in his actions, was not a “military atheist.”

I breast 1997 r. the relics were turned. After this, the procedure began and I looked around. First, just now, is this version about artificial body mummification. I’ll look at the act so that we can definitely talk about natural mummification, signed by the conductors of the Military Medical Academy. The obsessive investigation took up 45 pages of typewritten text, and the final copy of this document is a body, without a doubt, with the relics of St. Oleksandr Svirsky. Let the stench remain in the present Transfiguration Monastery, about which there will be an upcoming post with photos of the relics that flow myrrh.

And you can live under the booth similar...

Entrance to the Trinity Cathedral.

The middle can be removed. Hello...