Prayer to all the saints who shone in the Russian land. Week of all saints who shone in the Russian land
“On that fateful day, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was going to her workshop in the Kremlin Palace. Soon after Sergei Alexandrovich drove away from the Nikolaevsky Palace, there was a strong explosion that shook the building so that the glass in the windows rattled and the chandeliers rattled and swayed. Then there was an ominous silence.
Elizaveta Feodorovna immediately felt in her heart that a terrible, irreparable misfortune had happened. As she was, in one dress, without a hat, she rushed down the palace stairs.
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich died in the same way as his father, Emperor Alexander II, the Liberator - he was torn apart by a terrorist bomb. The killer Kalyaev, slightly wounded by the pieces of wood scattered from the sled, was immediately arrested by the police. Struggling with the police, he managed to shout “Down with the king! Long live the revolution!"
The Grand Duchess, visiting the hospital with the wounded, saw blood and mutilated bodies, but what now appeared before her eyes surpassed all imagination in its horror: pieces of the body, pieces of clothing, fragments of the crew were scattered on the snow, covered in blood.
Elizaveta Feodorovna silently, without a cry or tears, bent over the bloody mess. She didn’t look at anyone, didn’t realize anything, except that everything that was left of Sergei Alexandrovich should be collected as soon as possible: “Hurry, hurry - Sergey hated the mess and blood so much”
When everything was over, Elizaveta Feodorovna got up from her knees and went for the stretcher. In her hand, she firmly held the icons that Sergei Alexandrovich always wore on a chain around his neck ”(L. Miller“ The Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna ”M., 2005).
What will she do next? It is in her power to demand the immediate execution of Kalyaev. Brutal executions, reprisals, revenge. But no. She really goes to prison to Kalyaev. But it does not come with revenge, not with the promise of reprisals. She comes with the gospel. She asks him to repent for the murder, she asks him to remember God and his soul. And then he promises to ask for ... his pardon. And all he hears in response is laughter.
All the outfits and decorations of Europe were available to her, she was considered one of the first European beauties ... She takes monasticism. All of Moscow knew her - Moscow was not only high-society - the whole Khitrov market knew her - the most terrible, dirty and criminal place - she came there. To heal, console, feed, help.
The Estonians were taking her to be shot. She was thrown into a mine in Alapaevsk. And they dropped the bomb. And, throwing it off, they shuddered with horror - from the mine came the singing of the Cherubim - the hymns of the Liturgy. This was sung by Elizaveta Feodorovna, praying before her death. When the bodies were taken out of the mine, it turned out that even in the face of death she did not leave her neighbors - tearing the fabric from her clothes, she bandaged the wounds of those who had been thrown along with her.
She is one of those whom the Russian Orthodox Church remembers this Sunday. Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova.
Cathedral of All Saints Who Resplendent in the Russian Land, which is celebrated on the second week after Pentecost, continues the feast of All Saints, which we celebrated last week. This day was restored for celebration at the Local Council of 1918, and many of those who made this decision soon became martyrs and were also included in the cathedral of Russian saints. Today the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates that diverse host of Christians who spoke Russian and acquired the Holy Spirit.
The language changed, and the first Russian saints - the first martyrs of Russia Fedor and John, who were sacrificed to pagan idols by the future baptizer of Russia, Prince Vladimir - spoke completely differently than Patriarch Tikhon or St. Hilarion of Troitsky. Some lived in small villages and villages of specific principalities, others in the capitals of powerful states - Kievan Rus, the Moscow Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the USSR. Some lived all their lives in one place, others traveled great distances, serving the Lord on Mount Athos as St. Silvanus, in Alaska as St. Herman, in the Philippines as St. John of Shanghai, as St. Nicholas (Kasatkin). In Christ there is neither a Greek nor a Jew, but among the glorified saints there are not only Slavs by origin, but also Varangians, Italians, Greeks, Tatars. Many saints carried the gospel word to nations that had not heard it before: to the Perm Territory, to the Kola Peninsula, to Siberia, to Japan. Among the saints were God-loving peasants, and wealthy merchants, and virtuous wives, and great rulers. All were united by God's grace, but all in different ways.
From the very baptism, Russia, adopting Byzantine asceticism in the person of St. Theodosius of the Caves put serving people, mercy at the forefront, remembering that "faith without works is dead." The times of the Horde yoke give us the "first Russian mystic", according to the historian G. Fedotov, - St. Sergius of Radonezh. In the 16th century, these two ways of Russian holiness found themselves in a forced confrontation, but the Church honors, as a socially oriented St. Joseph Volotsky, and the hermit St. Nil Sorsky.
In the 18th century, the Church, subject to strict state control, suddenly acquires a new spirit of ancient asceticism - through St. Paisius Velichkovsky, the marvelous fires of Russian spirituality are lit: Optina Pustyn and Sarov. In the 20th century, severe persecution produces a long list of new martyrs and sufferers for the faith of Christ as never before.
“Behold, the Lord sends us a sign,
Yes, you don’t need to be afraid of him:
Fear the unforgiven sin...
God is free and in anger and in a sign,
And for good or for worse - we can see ... ”,
wrote in the middle of the 19th century Lev Mei.
Celebrating the cathedral of saints who shone in the Russian land and reading them, sometimes ready to become detective novels at the turn of the plot, willy-nilly agree with May: sometimes it’s hard to imagine what hardships and hardships laity and monks had to endure, priests and bishops even in the most, it seemed would be calm for Orthodox times.
Cathedral of all the saints who shone in the Russian land
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All Saints, in the Land of the Russian pro-si-yav-shih, Week-la - 2nd Sunday after the holiday tsy, in a sacred way, celebrating the pa-my-ti of all Russian saints.
The idea of \u200b\u200bso-bor-no-go feast-no-va-niya pa-my-ti Rus. the saints appeared in the middle. XVI century, after pro-glory-le-niya son-ma rus. saints at the Moscow So-bo-rakh in 1547 and 1549 The first service in honor of the "new Russian miracle-do-creators" would-la-become-le-on Gri-go-ri-em, a foreign suz-far- sko-go Spa-so-Ev-fi-mi-e-va mon-rya, and was pre-signed for singing on July 17; this day became the first-in-the-initial da-toy holiday of So-bo-ra of Russian saints. Service pe-re-pi-sy-va-las in ru-ko-pi-syakh (Ser-gii (Spassky). Me-sya-tse-word. T. 1. S. 385), but did not enter the printed Moscow editions of divine service books of the 16th-17th centuries. From con. 18th century she from-da-wa-sta-ro-ob-row-che-ski-mi ti-po-gra-fi-i-mi (Kra-kov, B. g.; Grod-no, 1786, 1789; Su-p-rasl, 1786, 1787; M., 1911). After the 17th century this is a holiday-but-va-nie with-storage-nya-et-sya only in the old-ro-about-row-che-sky environment and co-ver-sha-et-sya in a week ( i.e., on Sunday-se-nye) after pa-my-ty prophet. Elijah (July 20). After-before-va-nie includes a tro-pair of the 3rd glas-sa: "Honorable ver-hundred by God beloved-len-naya, father preb-la -women-nii", kontakion of the 8th glas-sa, on-do-ben "Yako na-chat-ki": "Like the blessings of pro-weed-no-ki and nothing stia burden-yes-the-li", cannon of the 8th glas-sa, ir-mos: "Song of the air, people," beginning: "All songs-n-mi du-hov-ny -mi, like in a stom about-si-yav-shay. According to the singer ru-ko-pi-syam from the 17th century. from-the-news-ra-n-th verses-khi-ry (glory-ni-ki) from this service. A set of slav-nik-kov (usually 6) stay-chi-in-in-dit-sya in ru-ko-pi-syah in the sea tradition (Sing-che- sky books. 2001).
OK. 1643 Hierom. Me-le-tiy Si-rig, pro-to-sin-kell K-pol-sko-go pat-ri-ar-ha, at the request of Met. na-pi-sal service-bu "pre-beautiful fathers Ki-e-vo-pe-cher-sky and all the saints, in Little Russia pro-si-yav-shim ", i.e. Ukrainian. an analogue of services in honor of All Russian saints. In con. 40s 17th century in the manner of serving as a hierarch. Me-le-tia so-lo-vets-cue hier. Ser-giy (She-lo-nin) on-pi-sal service-bu "to all the saints, like in Ve-li-tsei Rosii in the post pro-si-jav-shim" (from the West -on according to the only rkp of the 17th century - RNB / 987). Despite the names, the service would be hiero-mo-na-hov Me-le-tia and Ser-gius in the sacred, not only pre-beautiful, but also saints, glorified in other faces; the titles are due to the words-le-na by the fact that both services would be-become-le-na according to the model of the service in honor of All the venerable fathers in Sy -ro-empty sub-bo-tu (Pan-chen-ko. 2004). The pain of the ras-pro-country-non-niya in the bo-go-service-practice-ti-ke after-before-va-niya, composed of hiero-mo- na-ha-mi Me-le-ti-em and Ser-gi-em, not lu-chi-li.
In-mi-mo gim-no-gra-fi-che-sky pro-from-ve-de-ny, for Russian services. saints co-zda-va-lis-thy texts. So, the monk Gri-go-riy of Suz-dal-sky on-pi-sal "In-praise-word-in" in honor of the new miracle-do-creators (Ma-ka-riy, ar-khim . 1997), Hierom. Ser-giy (She-lo-nin) - "In a laudatory word-in Russian pre-in-dob-nym" (Pan-chen-ko. 2003).
Modern celebrating All Saints, in the land of the Russian pro-si-yav-shih, it would have been established-new-le-but by decision Locally th So-bo-ra of the Russian Pra-in-glorious Church 1917-1918. At the meeting 7 (20) Aug. was for-listened to the treasure of prof. B.A. Tu-ra-e-va about the celebration of the pa-my-ty of all the saints, new miraculous-to-creators of the Russian-si-s (De-i-nie 146 - Co- boron 1918. De-i-nia, vol. 10, pp. 146-147). In the pre-cla-de, a brief review of the history of the service to the new Russian miracle-do-creators was made, with-ve-de-us with-me -ry of other services (vet-ho-behind-vet-nym great-from-tsam, pre-dob-nym Athos, etc.) and pre-lo-same-but re-sta- but-vit-holiday-no-va-nie pa-me-ti Rus. saints on Sunday after pa-my-ti All the saints of the week, according to the example of pa-my-ti Athos movements, from me -cha-e-my on St. Go-re. For-listening to the treasure, So-boron determined-de-lil to re-sta-but-vitate the feast-but-va-tion of the day of pa-me-ti of all Russians. of the saints on the 1st Sunday of the Se-Nie Pet-ro-va in a hundred, and with-the-reply-stu-u-th after-before-va-nie (os-no-van -noe on the after-before-va-nii foreign-ka Gri-go-riya, but correct-len-noe and supplemented by the Higher Church Administration-le-ni -em) on-pe-cha-tat at the end of Tsvet-noy Tri-o-di. Would-be-whether we-re-da-na in the Red-dak-chi-on-ny department of So-bo-ra and took you with a little-shi-mi in-right-mi 13 (26) Aug. (De-i-nie 150 - Ibid. S. 216-217). To-half-not-and-right-le-serving-would-lo-ru-che-but Tu-ra-e-vu and hierom. (last. bishop, priest-but-is-by-wise-nick). The service would have been almost half a pe-re-pi-sa-na, only a few remained from the old swarm. dog-but-pe-ny. The first-to-initial variant of the service from-yes-whether a bro-shyu-swarm of a civil pe-cha-ti in Moscow in 1918; from-da-ing from-whether-cha-moose by a large number of op-cha-talks. Sacred-but-isp. Afa-na-this re-dak-ti-ro-val service-boo in the prolongation of the whole life. The next edition of it came out in Moscow in 1946. The final text of the service, more complete in comparison with the text the first from-yes, was released in the co-hundred-ve of Mi-ney, under-go-to-len-nyh Moscow pat-ri-ar-khi-ey in 1978 -1989 (Mi-neya. (MP). May. Ch. 3. S. 308-387; see also: Service. 1995). The service has a lot of special ben-no-stay, ob-word-len-nyh-la-ni-em sacred-but-isp. Afa-na-siya you-de-pour it in the circle of holidays of the Russian Orthodox Church; she turns on from-to-exact-gim-no-gra-fi-che-sky ma-te-ri-al, which pos-in-la-et from the whole half-but-that co-ver -shut it both on Sunday and on a weekday. Some features of the ben-no-sti of the composition of the sacred priest-but-isp. Afa-na-si-em service would not be quite tra-di-qi-on-us: in-nominal translation of all Russian. saints in lithium has no ana-logs in ancient services (and after pro-glory-le-niya son-ma but-in-mu-che-no-kov on Ar-khi-herey-anniversary-lei-nom So-bo-re 2000 became practi-ti-che-sky unrealistic), con-ed-not-nie 3 ve-whether -cha-ny, about-ra-schen-nyh to God, God-mother Ma-te-ri and to all Russian. saint, does not na-ho-dit co-reply in the T-pee-con.
In-me-shchen-noe in Mi-her, after-before-va-nie includes tro-pa-ri of the 8th chapter: "Like the red fruit of Yours spa-si-tel-no-go se-i-niya" and the 4th glas-sa: "Ieru-sa-li-ma vysh-nya-go-da-na"; kontakion of the 3rd voice, in-do-ben "De-va today": "Today is the face of the saints, in the land of our God-divine-shih"; ka-non of the morning of the 8th voice (ir-mos: "In black-it, far-ra-o-na with ko-les-ni-tsa-mi, you were loaded", beginning: "All in the song of the spirits of the resurrection according to them in accord"); small mo-leb-ny ka-non, composed according to the mo-leb-no-go ka-no-on Bo-go-ro-di-tse of the 8th chapter -sa (ir-mos: "Vo-doo pro-shed like su-shu", beginning: "Many-gi-mi with-hold-me-mi-paws, come to you" ); more than 10 sa-mo-glas-nov, 3 cycles-la in-dob-new, as well as cycles-ly sti-khir on lithium, on ve-black and on eleo-po-ma-za -nii at the end of the morning, including all the voices. Pa-re-mii ve-black-ni:; Gospel-ge-lie matins:; reading li-tur-gyi: pro-ki-men from (or), al-li-lu-i-a-riy with sti-ha-mi (or), with-cha-sten; in my opinion about something, the composition of the services would include special tro-pa-ri on blessed women.
The service uses a lot of popularity (ho-tah, as it is right, some of its parts - mo-leb-noe-nee- ka-nune, a number of songs-no-sings, etc. - in practice-ti-ke so-kra-scha-yut-sya or opus-ka-yut-sya), some of its texts (for example The in and.
Li-te-ra-tu-ra: Spas-sky I. The first service to All Russian Saints and its author // ZhMP. 1949. No. 8. S. 50-55; Service to All Saints, in the land of the Russian pro-si-yav-shim. M., 1995; Ma-ka-riy (Ve-re-ten-ni-kov), ar-chem. The era of new miracle-workers: (A laudatory word for the new Russian saints of the monk Gri-goriya of Suz-dal-sko-go) // AiO . 1997. No. 2 (13). pp. 128-144; Singing books of you-go-lek-sin-s-th letter. XVIII - 1st half. 19th century / Comp. F. V. Pan-chen-ko. SPb., 2001. (Description of the RO Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences; T. 9. Issue 1); Kazan-tse-va G.E. Especially-ben-no-sti church-kov-no-glory. the language of the service would be “To All Saints, in the Russian Land, pro-si-yav-shim” St. Afa-na-siya (Sa-kha-ro-va) // EzhBK, 2003. P. 377-380; Pan-chen-ko O. V. From archeogr. research in the field of co-lo-vets-coy books: I. “In a laudatory word-in Russian. pre-in-ad-ny" - op. Ser-giya She-lo-ni-na: Question of at-ri-bu-tion, yes-ti-ditch-ka, ha-rak-te-ri-sti-ka author. editorial) // TODRL. 2003. V. 53. S. 547-592; he is. From archeogr. investigation: II. “Ka-non to all the saints, like in Ve-li-tsei Rosii in the post pro-si-yav-shim” - op. Ser-giya She-lo-ni-na // TODRL. 2004. V. 56. S. 453-480.
A.A. Lu-ka-she-wich
An article from v. 9 “Pra-glorious en-tsik-lo-pe-dia”. Moscow, 2005
Prayers
Troparion to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
Like the red fruit of Your saving sowing, / The Russian land brings Thee, Lord, all the saints, who shone in that one. / With those prayers in the depths of the world / / Keep the Church and our country with the Mother of God, Many-merciful.
Translation: As a beautiful fruit of Your saving sowing, the Russian land brings You, Lord, all the saints who shone in it. By their prayers and the intercession of the Mother of God, save the Church and our country in the deep world, O Most Merciful.
John troparion to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
Citizens of Jerusalem of the Most High, / from our land resplendent / and to God in every rank and every feat pleasing, / come, let us sing, faithful: / O all-blessed land of the Russian intercessor, / pray to the Lord, / may He have mercy on this her contrition, / and His faithful people will comfort.
Translation: Citizens of Heavenly Jerusalem, who shone in our land and God in every rank and every feat, come, believers, let us sing: O all-blessed lands of the Russian intercessors, pray to the Lord, may He have mercy on her from His anger, healing her troubles, and comfort His believing people .
Kontakion To all the saints who shone in the Russian land
Today, the face of the saints, who have pleased God in our land, stands in the Church / and invisibly prays to God for us. / The angels with him glorify him, / and all the saints of the Church of Christ celebrate him, / for us all pray loudly / / to the Eternal God.
Translation: On this day, a host of saints who have pleased God in our land are in the temple and invisibly pray to God for us. Angels with them glorify and all the saints of the Church of Christ celebrate - for we are all praying together to the Eternal God.
In kontakion to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
The representative of the country of our insomnia, / intercede for us to the Creator of unceasing, / do not despise our prayers, / but, in anticipation of help, like our relatives, / hasten to prayer / and try to supplicate, / / intercession ever for those who honor you.
Translation: The tireless representatives of our country, constant intercessors for us to the Creator, do not forget about our prayers, but when you come to the rescue, like our relatives, hasten to prayer and worry about propitiation, always interceding for those who honor you.
Magnification to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
We bless you, / our wonderworkers of glory, / by your virtues illuminating the Russian land / and the image of salvation to us / / brightly showing.
Prayer to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
Oh, all-blessed and wise, pleasers of God, with your deeds, you sanctified the Russian land and your body, like the seed of faith, left in it, with your souls standing before the Throne of God and praying unceasingly for it! Now, on the day of your common triumph, we, sinners, your lesser brethren, dare to bring you this laudatory song. We magnify your great deeds, spiritual warriors of Christ, with patience and courage to the end of the enemy, and delivering us from his charms and wiles. We bless your holy life, divine lamps, shining with the light of faith and virtues and illuminating our minds and hearts with divine wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, blooming flowers, beautifully flourishing in our country to the north, and the aromas of talents and miracles fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessors and patrons, and, relying on your help, we fall down to you and cry out: all our holy relatives, who have shone forth from ancient years and in the last days labored, manifest and ignorant, and ignorant! Reward our dismissions and humiliation and prayers from Christ from Christ of our God, and we, and we, having pretended the life of the Bucchin and is increasingly observed by the treasure of faith, in the refuge of the permanent salvation and in the blessed abdomen of the Mountain of the Fatherland and Holy Holy Let us dwell in the grace and love of mankind of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, to Him, with the Eternal Father and with the Most Holy Spirit, unceasing praise and worship from all creatures for ever and ever befits. Amen.
Canons and Akathists
Akathist to all the saints who shone in the Russian land
Text approved by the Holy Synod
Russian Orthodox Church
May 14, 2018 (Journal No. 38)
Kondak 1
Holy saints chosen from God, shone in the Russian land, and our Church, like bright stars, having descended by faith today, we praise your most honorable memory. But you, as if you have boldness towards the Savior, free us from all troubles, calling:
Ikos 1
Angels and men, Creator and Tsar, now open our sinful mouth to worthily sing of all Thy saints, by Thy grace in the Russian land shone and to Thee, our God, glorifying with thy piety, but with love I call:
Rejoice, Apostles of Christ to Andrew, Bartholomew and Simone Kananite, who have reached our borders and proclaimed the truth of the Gospel in them; Rejoice, Theodora with young John, the first martyr of Russia, who suffered before the enlightenment of our country for Christ.
Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Olgo, illuminating the darkness of paganism with the light of Christ; Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, glorious baptizer of the Russian land.
Rejoice, Michael, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church and the planter of Orthodox piety and rank in our land; Rejoice, wise Hilarion, about the Law and Grace of the Word of the wondrous writer.
Rejoice, Boris and Gleba, holy martyrs, who offered God as a pure sacrifice to yourself; Rejoice, holy princes Yaropolcha and Igor, who irrigated the Russian land with your blood.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 2
Seeing the Lord of sorrow and the oppression of His small verbal flock, in our land from idol wickedness we are embittered, His strong help is given, but the temptation of the enemy has been put to shame, His people in the faith of Christ shall be established and unceasingly
Ikos 2
Rejecting the mind of the reasonable age of this age and destroying the foolish wisdom of the wise, Thou hast received, O Lord, like a red fruit from Thy new helicopter, our land, all holy, shining in it; even their deeds are now praising, let us please them like this:
Rejoice, Hieromartyr Leonty, illuminator of the land of Rostov; Rejoice, Isaiah, Ignatius, Theodora and Jacob, holy city of Rostov.
Rejoice, Kuksho, evangelist and holy martyr of the Vyatichi lands; Rejoice, Nikito and John, and other saints of Novagrad the Great, who have shone forth in the house of the Wisdom of God.
Rejoice, Cyril, Saint of Turov, a fair preacher of the words of God; Rejoice, Euphrosyne, joy to the city of Polotsk and radiance to the virgins.
Rejoice, reverend Ephraim, the Enlightener of Novotorzhsk, with Saints Moses and George, your brothers; Rejoice, lamps of Vyazemstia, marvelous Arcadius with the glorious Julian.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 3
The power of God, perfected in human infirmities, strengthens you, holy saints, who have served God in many ways in our land, We sing to Him together with you: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Possessing us a fraction of clouds of witnesses, all the multitude of saints who shone in our land, we triumph joyfully and spiritually rejoice, bringing them this laudatory singing:
Rejoice, Simone, the hierarch of Vladimir and Suzdal lands and the zealous builder of the temples of God; Rejoice, Theodora, John and Dionysius, saint of Suzdal and miracle workers.
Rejoice, venerable Euthymius and Euphrosyne, Suzdal brightest stars; Rejoice, Murom countries to the educator Konstantin, with your children Michael and Theodore.
Rejoice, Peter and Fevronia, miracle-workers of Muromst, with Julian the righteous and merciful; Rejoice, Saint Basil, in Murom you received a false reproach and naturally sailed to Ryazan.
Rejoice, Nikito Stolpniche and Daniil, the dead burialer, Pereslavl Zalesky decoration; Rejoice, God-wise prince Andrey Bogolyubsky, despising the vanity of this world and showing marvelous humility.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 4
The storm of idolatrous wickedness, even if you rise up in our land against the Orthodox Church of Christ, it is not possible to sink it: until now, for it stands in its rank, victoriously sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing the holy, sweetest voice of Christ, calling to salvation, and the good yoke through all your life you have endured, now you have found peace, painless and eternal in the heavenly abodes. For this sake they hear from us this:
Rejoice, venerable Anthony and Theodosius, holy Lavra of the Kiev-Pechersk dispensation and the life of a monastic in our founding land; Rejoice, Alipie, head of the Russian icon painters, and Agapit, unmercenary doctor.
Rejoice, Nestor, the writer of memorable deeds, and long-suffering John, with all the face of the reverend Caves, glorified from the Lord; Rejoice, Job, Pochaev Lavra decoration, with all the saints and wonderworkers of Volyn.
Rejoice, Anthony, John and Eustathia, Lithuanian martyrs, who rejected the fire and brought many people to Christ through their suffering; Rejoice, Presbyter Isidore, with the whole council a martyr in St. George's city of Livonstem, from the Latins who suffered for the Orthodox faith.
Rejoice, Athanasius, hegumen of Brest, venerable martyr; Rejoice, infant martyr Gabriel, shining in the suffering of the fierce.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 5
Divine stars, illuminating our earth with grace, we praise the saints of God: for in holiness, friends in monasticism, and others in the foolishness of Christ for the sake of asceticism; All the same, having served God in righteousness and righteousness, we sing to Him according to: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Seeing the unremitting patience in this world and in Heaven, the unspeakable glory of God’s saints shining in the land of Russia, encourage ourselves and each other to imitate those, let’s try, calling them:
Rejoice, Sergius, wonderworker of Radonezh, founder of the monastery of the Holy Trinity, chief of the monks and for all our land, warm prayer book; Rejoice, Sergius and Germans of Valaamst and Arseniy of Konevsky, mentor monks and enlighteners of other faiths.
Rejoice, Anthony the Roman, from your fatherland, sailing to Novgorod the Great on a stone and there revealing the image of a monastic life; Rejoice, Varlaama, miracle worker of Khutyn, Praise of Novagrad and lamp of all our country.
Rejoice, Zosima, Savvaty and Germans, stars of monasticism, with all the saints of Solovetsky; Rejoice, Alexandra of Svir, most glorious of the Holy Trinity.
Rejoice, reverend Father Cyril, like a crepe prosperous in the desert; Rejoice, and the whole Russian Thebaid: the deserts and wilds of Olonets, Beloezersk and Vologda, the holy and glorious multitude of venerable fathers has grown.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 6
Preachers of the faith of Christ and the piety of the Christian fast, saints, on earth; the same now in heaven with joy is coming to Christ, sing unceasingly to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
The nature shone upon us, saints, richly adorned with various gifts, in the image of the Ascetic Christ crowning you. Resorting to you, we do not labor in vain, God's grace and mercy, hoping to improve with your prayers. For this sake we cry out to you:
Rejoice, honest sufferers of Chernigov, Mikhail and Theodora, who disobeyed the command of the tormentor and worshiped the One God; Rejoice, Alexandra Nevsky and Andrey Bogolyubsky, George and Glebe, Wonderworkers of Vladimir, zealots and defenders of the faith.
Rejoice, martyr Abraham, in the city of Bolgar suffered for Christ and adorned the city of Vladimir; Rejoice, Daniel, patron of the city of Moscow, parental blessing of the heir.
Rejoice, Arseny, Saint of Tver, faithful to Prince Michael and Princess Anno Kashinskaya, our prayer women; Rejoice, Reverend Abraham and Martyr Mercury, Wonderworkers of Smolensk.
Rejoice, Paisia and Cassian, the city of Uglich, the intercessor of mercy; Rejoice, reverend Irinarsha, pleasing in the gate and chains of the Lord.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 7
If you want to improve eternal salvation, follow Christ in the sorrowful and narrow path, and pleasing Him alone, having mercy, and now, face to face of Him in glory beholding, they sing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The new luminary that adorns the Orthodox Church, we see all the holy lands of our land, and we are affirmed in our faith, they intercede for our salvation before God; the same we cry out to them:
Rejoice, Peter, great saint, primate of Moscow; Rejoice, Alexis saint, warm intercessor for the liberation of the Russian land and wonderful healer among the people of God.
Rejoice, Iono, guide and representative of your flock; Rejoice, Philippe, denouncing the king of fury and for this sake slain.
Rejoice, Hieromartyr Hermogene, who served the glorification of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God and laid down your Orthodox soul for the faith; Rejoice, glorious Tikhon, Patriarch and Confessor, who labored for the Church in the fierce year.
Rejoice, Vasily, John and Maxim, miracle-workers of Moscow, blessed fools of Christ for Christ's sake, ascetics of no falsehood and prayer women of warmth; Rejoice, righteous Alexis, good shepherd, and blessed Matrono, consolation to those who grieve.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 8
It is strange for unbelievers to see how the power of God is perfected in weakness; but we, firmly containing the true faith of Christ, rejoice in the glory of our saints, and unceasingly and earnestly sing to the Lord who glorifies them: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All the cares of life and having rejected themselves, unswervingly follow Christ, blessed; the tongue cannot depict and sing worthily your faith and love, labors and illnesses, patience and suffering, in the image of the joy of your Lord in the vnidos. For this sake we praise you:
Rejoice, Nikon of Radonezh, the successor of the Venerable Sergius, and the humble Mikheya, and Savvo of Zvenigorodsky, and Stephane Makhrishchsky, and other disciples of Sergius, many monastic monasteries; Rejoice, Macarius of Kalyazinsky and Unzhensky of the same name, pleasing God in labors.
Rejoice, Nile Stolobensky, in prayers and labors, unsleepingly ascetic; Rejoice, wondrous Nile, loving the poverty of the Skete and drinking the desert of Sor with tears.
Rejoice, Joseph, Father Volotsky, monastic rank zealot; Rejoice, Pafnutie Borovsky, corrector of the fallen, with Tikhon, the miracle worker of Kaluga, who lived inside the oak.
Rejoice, you, reverend Seraphim, our joy, marvelous ascetic of Sarov; Rejoice, Leo, Macarius, Ambrose, Barsanuphius and all the elders of Optinstia, spirit-bearing mentor men of God.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 9
Every feat and every virtue is right, saints, showing the image of Christian piety in people, as if seeing your good deeds, they will glorify our Father, Who is in Heaven, singing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
Vetius exalted art, holy the grace-filled power of the faith of Christ with life and manifest your exploits to the whole world, tirelessly trampling the invisible enemy by the grace of God. For this sake we call:
Rejoice, Saint Stephen, glorious Apostle of Perm; Rejoice, that heirs Gerasim and Pitirim, the holy martyrs and Iono, wonderworkers of Ust-Vymstiya.
Rejoice, reverend Tryphon, who brought the country of Vyatka from the evil faith of idols to Christ; Rejoice, Tryphon, Pechenga wonderworker, your abode of praise, bringing the light of Christ's faith into the darkness of the pagan lands of midnight.
Rejoice, Guria, Barsonophia and Germans, the city of Kazan and all the surrounding countries, the most bright luminary; Rejoice, enlightener of tongues, wonderful Innocent and Sofroniy the wise, saint of Irkutsk, with John of Tobolsk, who illumined all the Siberian countries with your kindness.
Rejoice, Innocent, reverend Saint of Moscow and Herman, who performed the Equal-to-the-Apostles ministry in America; Rejoice, Saint Nicholas, wonderful planter of the Orthodox Church in the land of Japan.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 10
At least save the people of our land, Thou hast given them, Lord, all the saints who shone in it, like images of the life of salvation, and intercessors, and helpers, yes thanks to You cry: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
You are a wall and an intercession to all who come running to you in faith, saints. For you have been given a useful grace to all who need it: healing to the sick, consolation to those who grieve, deliverance to those who are in misfortune, let us sing to you this:
Rejoice, meek Vsevolod and strong Dovmonte, the city of Pskov has invincible walls; Rejoice, Nicander the desert-dweller and Euphrosyne reverend, who labored in the land of Pskov.
Rejoice, blessed Procopius, your city of Ustyug, delivering from stone-throwing clouds; Rejoice, righteous Simeon, Verkhotursk prayer book and affirmation of the whole land of the Urals.
Rejoice, blessed fools of Christ for Christ's sake, Nicholas and Theodora Novogradstiya and Isidora of Rostov, denunciation of injustice and the wisdom of this age to shame; Rejoice, wise Xenia, strong intercessor for the city of St. Peter.
Rejoice, wonderful John, the Kronstadt prayer book and miracle worker; Rejoice, blessed Paul of Taganrog, merciful comforter in bondage.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 11
Receive this laudatory and thankful singing from us, servants of God: for those who come running to you, we hope for your intercession and help, but we cry out to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
The radiant rays of the feat of your diverse ones have illumined every Christian soul, they induce tenderness and zeal for salvation, but you are moved to sing like this:
Rejoice, Mitrofan, praise of Voronezh, uncomplicated saint and wise leader of souls to Christ; Rejoice, Tikhon, wonderworker of Zadonsk, honey-spewing mouth, sweetest broadcaster of the Gospel of Christ.
Rejoice, Theodosius, holy hierarch of Chernigov, excellent lamp; Rejoice, Russian Chrysostom, Rostov Saint Demetrius, who collected the lives of the saints and wrote for the edification of all;
Rejoice, Joasapha, prayer book of Belograd and great zealot of piety; Rejoice, Pitirim, of the country of Tambov to the bishop and intercessor before God, not lazy.
Rejoice, Ignatius the wise, the spiritual crown, the deeds of a clever zealot; Rejoice, Feofana, recluse Vyshensky, transcriber of the fatherly writings.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 12
Ask the grace of the Lord for us, holy servants of God, that by the power and action of the Holy Spirit we protect, we will avoid destruction, heresies and schism, always singing Orthodoxy: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Sing your great and most radiant regiment, all the saints in our land shone, thankfully we magnify the Lord who glorified you, ask His mercy and forgiveness for us sinners, but earnestly cry out to you:
Rejoice, Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Rome, your deed in our country, the deceased; Rejoice, hieromartyrs of the seven, with your blood in Chersonis Taurice, you confirmed the Church of Christ.
Rejoice, reverend Father Paisios, in the Mount of Saints and the limits of Moldavian labored and the Philokalia sacred into the Slovenian language; Rejoice, before Silouan, Athos fertilizer and Russia praise and intercession.
Rejoice, miracle worker of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, the image of unceasing prayer and mercy; Rejoice, saints of our land, who have labored in the gospel of Christ and planted the Orthodox Church in Siberia, America, China and Japan.
Rejoice, Vladimir of Kiev, Veniamin of Petrograd, Peter of Krutitsky and Kirilla of Kazan, Holy Martyrs of Novia, in the time of persecution, who suffered and approved the Russian Church with your blood; Rejoice, holy royal martyrs and all new martyrs of the Russian Church, who laid down your souls for Christ.
Rejoice, all saints, shining in the Russian land.
Kondak 13
Oh, saints of God, shining in the Russian land! Allopeful memory is now worstiously, to your prayerful concept and interference, and your prayers will get rid of Easter from the falls of sinful, from the naval of evil people and from sudden death, and in the future will ensure the salvation of the departure, and the eternal benefit of pleasure, I am in an angelic singing to God: Alleluia.
(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1).
Prayer
Oh, all-blessed and God-wisdom saints of God, with your deeds, you sanctified the Russian land and your bodies, like the seed of faith, left in it, with your souls standing before the Throne of God and praying unceasingly for her! Now, on the day of your common triumph, we, sinners, your lesser brethren, dare to bring you this laudatory singing. We magnify your great deeds, spiritual warriors of Christ, with patience and courage to the end of the enemy, who overthrew us, from the charms and wiles of his deliverance. We bless your holy life, luminaries of the Divine, shining with the light of faith and virtues and illuminating our minds and hearts with divine wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, bloom raistia, in our country to the north, beautifully flourishing and the aromas of talents and miracles are fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessor and patron, and, relying on your help, we fall down to you and cry out: our enlighteners are equal to the apostles! Help the people of the Russian land to firmly hold the Orthodox faith that you have betrayed, so that the saving seed, planted by you, will not be dried up by the heat of unbelief, but, drunk by the rain of God's haste, will bear abundant fruit. Saints of Christ! Establish the Russian Church with your prayers, consume heresies, schisms and disorder in it, gather the wasted sheep together and protect from all kinds of wolves that enter the flock of Christ in sheep's clothing. Reverend fathers! Save us from the charms of this evil world, yes, rejecting ourselves and taking up our cross, let us follow Christ, crucifying our flesh with passions and lusts, bearing each other's burdens. Blessed Prince! Look graciously at your earthly fatherland and all the wickedness and temptations that currently exist in it, use the weapon of your prayers, yes, as of old, so now and in the future, the Name of the Lord is glorified in Holy Russia. Passion-bearers of Russian glory! Strengthen us in courageous standing even to the point of blood for the Orthodox faith and the customs of the fathers, but neither sorrow, nor tightness, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor misfortune, nor a sword can separate us from the love of God, even in Christ Jesus. Blessed, Christ for the sake of the holy fool and the righteous! Shame the wisdom of this age, ascending to the mind of God, but help us, having affirmed the saving riot of the Cross of Christ, the temptations of the wisdom of the worldly unshakable being, Higher ever, and not earthly thinking. God-wise wife, in a weak nature, great deeds revealed! Pray that your spirit of love for the Lord and zeal for pleasing Him and for your own and near salvation will not be impoverished in us. All our holy relatives, who have shone from the ancient years and labored in the last days, appearance and non-appearance, knowledge and ignorance! Remember our weakness and humiliation and ask with your prayers of Christ our God, and we, having comfortably sailed through the abyss of life and unharmedly keeping the treasure of faith, will reach the haven of eternal salvation and in the blessed monasteries of the Mountainous Fatherland, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased Him from time immemorial let us dwell in the grace and love of mankind of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, to Him with the Eternal Father and the Most Holy Spirit befits unceasing praise and worship from all creatures forever and ever. Amen.
Akathist second to all the saints who shone in the Russian lands
Kondak 1
Elected from God, holy saints, who shone in the lands of Russia and our Church, like bright stars, having come down by faith today, we praise your honorable memory. But you, as if you have boldness towards the Savior, free us from all troubles who call:
Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Ikos 1
Angels and men, Creator and Tsar, now open our sinful mouth worthily to sing of all Your saints, by Your grace in the lands of Russia, shining and You, our God, glorifying with your piety, and with love we call to them such: Rejoice, holy martyrs of seven, with your blood in Chersonese Taurichestem approved the Church of Christ, from the very beginning we also received consecration. Rejoice, Theodore with young John, the first martyr of Russia, who suffered before the enlightenment of our country for Christ. Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga, illuminating the darkness of paganism with the light of Christ's faith. Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, glorious baptizer of the land of Russia. Rejoice, Michael, Russian Church of the first hierarch and Orthodox piety and rank in our land planter. Rejoice, venerable Anthony and Theodosius, holy laurels of the Kiev Caves and the life of the monastic in our founding land. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 2
Seeing the Lord of sorrow and the oppression of His small verbal flock, in our land of old from idol wickedness, we are embittered, His strong help is a gift, but having shamed the temptation of the enemy, it will be established in the faith of Christ and unceasingly sings: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
Rejecting the reason of this reasonable age and destroying the foolish wisdom of the wise, destroying, Thou hast accepted, O Lord, like the red fruit from Thy new garden, our land, all the saints, shining in it, their work is now praising, we bless them like this: Rejoice, Boris and Glebe, passion-bearers saints, sacrificed to the pure God. Rejoice, Hieromartyr Leonty, illuminator of the Rostov land, and Isaiah, Ignatius, Theodore, Jacob, saint of the city of Rostov. Rejoice, Kuksho, evangelizing and holy martyr lands of the Vyatichi. Rejoice, Nikito and John, who served the sign of the Mother of God, to the other saints of Novograd the Great. Rejoice, Cyril, Saint of Turov, a fair preacher of the word of God. Rejoice, reverend Ephraim, enlightener of the city of Torzhok, with Arkady and Juliana the virgin. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 3
The power of God, perfected in human infirmities, strengthens you, holy saints of God, who have served the Lord in many ways in our land, We sing to Him together with you: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Having surrounded us with clouds of witnesses, all the many saints who have shone in our land, we triumph joyfully and spiritually rejoice, bringing them this laudatory singing: Rejoice, Simone, the Vladimir and Suzdal lands to the saint and the temples of God, the zealous creator. Rejoice, Theodora and John, with the Monk Dionysius, Euthymius and Euphrosyne, Suzdal brightest star. Rejoice, Murom country to the illuminator Constantine with your children Michael and Theodore. Rejoice, Peter and Fevronie, miracle workers of Muromst, with Juliana the righteous and merciful. Rejoice, Saint Basil, in Murom you received a false reproach and sailed to Ryazan most naturally. Rejoice, Nikito Stolpniche and Daniil, dead to the grave, Pereyaslavl Zalessky decoration. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 4
The storm of impiety of the idolatrous, even if you have risen in our land to the Orthodox Church of Christ, is not possible to sink it: until now, it stands in its rank, victoriously singing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing the holy sweetest voice of Christ, calling for salvation, and that good yoke through all your life you have suffered, now you have found peace, painless and eternal in heavenly cloisters. For this reason, they hear from us this: Rejoice, Nestor, memorable deeds to the writer, John the long-suffering, Alipie, holy icons to the painter and the whole face of the other reverend Caves, glorified by the Lord. Rejoice, Job, laurels of Pochaev decoration, with all the saints and wonderworkers of Volyn. Rejoice, Euphrosyne, joy to the city of Polotsk and radiance to the virgins. Rejoice, Reverend Abraham and Martyr Mercury, Wonderworkers of Smolensk. Rejoice, Anthony, John and Eustathius, Lithuanian martyrs, who rejected the fire and brought many people to Christ through their suffering. Rejoice, Presbyter Isidore, with the whole cathedral a martyr in St. George's city of Livonstem, who suffered from the Latins for the Orthodox faith. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 5
God-bearing stars illuminating our land with grace, we praise you, servants of God, hove in holiness, friends in monasticism, and in the foolishness of Christ for the sake of laboring, all the same serving God with reverence and righteousness, according to Him we sing: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Seeing the saints of God shining in the lands of Russia, unremitting patience in this world and indescribable glory in heaven, encourage ourselves and each other to imitate those who sweat, calling to them: Rejoice, Sergius of Radonezh wonderworker, monks and for all our land a warm prayer book. Rejoice, Sergius and Herman of Valaamstii, Alexandra Svirsky and Arseniy Konevsky, mentor monks and enlighteners of other faiths. Rejoice, Anthony, from the decrepit Rome, your fatherland, to Novograd the Great sailing on the stone and here the image of the monastic life is revealed. Rejoice, Varlaam, miracle worker of Khutyn, Praise to Novograd and our lamp of all our country. Rejoice, Zosimo, Savvaty and Germane, most bright stars of monasticism, with all the Saints of Solovetsky. Rejoice, and all the Russian Thebaid, - the deserts and wilds of Olonets, Beloezersky and Vologda, - the holy and glorious multitude of reverend fathers has increased. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 6
Preachers of the faith of Christ and the piety of Christianity, fast holy on earth, the same now in heaven with joy coming to Christ, silently sing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Naturally, the saints shone for us, embellished with an abundance of various gifts, crowning you with the image of the ascetic Christ. Resorting to you, we do not labor in vain: God's grace and mercy are improved by your prayers. For this reason, we cry out to you: Rejoice, honorable sufferers of Chernigov, Michael and Theodora, who do not obey the command of the tormentor and bow to the One God just by deigning. Rejoice, Alexandra Nevsky and Andrey the God-loving, George and Glebe, miracle workers of Vladimir, zealots and defenders of the faith. Rejoice, martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, who suffered in Kazan for Christ and adorned the city of Vladimir. Rejoice, Daniel, protector of the city of Moscow, heir of parental blessings. Rejoice, Arseny, Saint of Tver, Prince Michael and Anno Kashinskaya, our prayer books. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 7
Wanting to improve eternal salvation, following Christ in the sorrowful and narrow path and pleasing Him alone, and now, face to face in glory seeing, they sing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
The new luminaries, who adorn the Orthodox Church, we see all the holy lands of ours, with their glorification they affirm our faith and intercede with God for salvation, but we cry to them: Rejoice, Peter, great saint, chief altar of Moscow. Rejoice, Alexis, the divine doctor, the city of Moscow and all the earth is our praise. Rejoice, Iono, guide and representative of your flock. Rejoice, Philip, the king of the furious denunciation and fiercely slain. Rejoice, Hieromartyr Hermogene, who served the glorification of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and laid down your Orthodox soul for the faith. Rejoice, Basil, John and Maximus, wonderworkers of Muscovy, blessed fool for Christ's sake, ascetic of non-falsehood and prayer book of warmth. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 8
It is strange for the unfaithful to see how the power of God is accomplished in weakness, but we, firmly containing the true faith of Christ, rejoice in the glory of our saints and the Lord, glorifying them, unceasingly and zealously sing: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All the worldly cares are put aside and rejected by themselves, unswervingly follow Christ, blessed; the tongue cannot portray and sing worthily of your faith and love, labors and illnesses, patience and suffering, in the image you entered into the joy of your Lord. For this reason, we praise you: Rejoice, Nikon of Radonezh, the successor of St. Sergius, and the humble Micah, and Savvo of Zvenigorod, and Stefan Makhrishchsky, and other disciples of Sergius, many monastic monasteries. Rejoice, Macarius of Kalyazinsky and Macarius of Unzhensky, Zheltovodsky, who pleased God. Rejoice, Nile Stolbensky, in prayers and labors vigilantly labored, and Nile Sorsky, beloved of the poverty of the skete. Rejoice, Joseph, Father Volotsky, zealot of the monastic rank. Rejoice, Pafnutiy Borovsky, corrector of the fallen, with Tikhon the Wonderworker of Kaluga who lived inside the oak. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 9
Correct every feat and every virtue, saints, showing the image of Christian piety to people in themselves, as if seeing your good deeds, they will glorify our Father, who is in Heaven, singing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
Vitiy surpassed art, saints, the grace-filled power of the faith of Christ by life and his deeds to the whole world, revealing, by the grace of God, tirelessly trampling the invisible enemy. For this reason we call: Rejoice, St. Stephen, glorious Apostle of Perm. Rejoice, that successor: Gerasim and Pitirim the Hieromartyrs and Iono, Wonderworkers of Ust-Vymsk. Rejoice, O reverend Tryphon, who brought the country of Vyatka from the wickedness of idols to Christ. Rejoice, Tryphon, wonderworker of Pechenga, your praise of the abode, bringing the light of the faith of Christ into the darkness of the pagan countries of midnight. Rejoice, Guria, Barsanuphius and Germana, the city of Kazan and all the surrounding countries, the most bright luminary. Rejoice, Apostle of Siberia, Innocent of Irkutsk, the first bishop, with Sophronius the Wise and John of Tobolsk, who enlightened all the Siberian countries with your kindness. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 10
At least save the people of our land, Thou hast given us, Lord, all the saints who have shone in it, like images of a saving life and like intercessors for us and helpers, yes, thanks to You, we cry out: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
The wall is also an intercession for everyone who comes running to you with faith, saints. For grace has been given to you by all who require a useful gift: healing to the sick, consolation to the grieving, deliverance to those who are in misfortune, let us sing this to you: Rejoice, Vsevolod the Meek and Dovmonte, the city of Pskov, the walls are invincible. Rejoice, Nicander the desert-dweller and Euphrosyne reverend, laboring in the land of Pskov. Rejoice, blessed Procopius, delivering your city Ustyug from stone-throwing clouds. Rejoice, righteous Simeone, Verkho-Tursky prayer book and affirmation to the entire Urals. Rejoice, blessed fool of Christ for the sake of: Nicholas and Theodora Novogradstiya and Isidora of Rostov, denunciation of untruth and wisdom of this age to shame. Rejoice, you too, Russian Chrysostom, St. Demetrius of Rostov, who collected the lives of the saints and wrote for edification with all your words. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 11
Accept this singing of praise and thanksgiving from us, servants of God: to you, our hope that has resorted to intercession and your help, we entrust, to God we cry: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
The rays of light illuminating the feat of your diverse illuminating every Christian soul, inspire tenderness and zeal for salvation, but they sing to you like this: Rejoice, Mitrofan, Voronezh praise, the most simple hierarch and the wise leader of souls to Christ. Rejoice, Tikhon, wonderworker of Zadonsk, honey-smoking mouth, the sweetest broadcaster of the Gospel of Christ. Rejoice, Theodosius, holy hierarch of Chernigov, excellent lamp. Rejoice, Joasapha, prayer book of Belogradsky and great zealot of piety. Rejoice, Pitirim, primate of the country of Tambov and intercessor before God, not lazy. Rejoice and you, reverend Seraphim, our joy, ascetic Sarov wonderful. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 12
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, ask us, our saints, that by the power and action of the Most Holy Trinity we protect, we will avoid destruction, heresies and schism, singing Orthodox: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
Sing your great and bright regiment, all the saints in our lands that have shone forth, we thankfully magnify the Lord who glorified you, ask His mercy and forgiveness for us sinners, but we zealously cry out to you: Rejoice, saints in our lands who labored in the gospel of Christ and the Orthodox Church in Siberia, China , Japan, America and India planted. Rejoice, you who have sealed the feat of the gospel with your blood and laid down your soul for the confession of Christ. Rejoice, holy royal martyrs and reverend elders of Optinstia, and all our other holy lands, here we do not name, God knows, the Church appears and does not appear, but constantly praying for us. Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino with many martyrs and venerable Iberians. Rejoice, Apostles of Christ Bartholomew and Simone Canaanite, who have reached our limits. Rejoice, Clement of Rome, holy martyr, your feat in our country is deceased. Rejoice, Athanasius of Constantinople, who came to us and left his relics in the city of Lubny for a blessing. Rejoice, you too, O Primordial Church of Russia, Andrew, the Apostle of the First-Called, now looking at the abundant fruit of your first sowing. Rejoice, all saints, shining into the lands of Russia.
Kondak 13
O servants of God, saints, shining into the lands of Russia! We are now celebrating your all-honourable memory, we resort to your prayerful intercession and intercession, so that by your prayers we will get rid of sinful falls, from the slander of evil people and from vain death, and in the future we will be able to improve salvation and enjoy eternal blessings, together with you angelic singing to God: Alleluia.
(This Kontakion is read three times, then Ikos 1 and Kontakion 1).
Prayer to All the Saints in the Russian land resplendent
About the glorification and all-praise of the saint of God, all the saints in the lands of Russia that have shone! Many of your names and talents! We are now performing your sacred and all-holiday memory, magnifying Christ our God who magnified you: by faith and love, through all your life, serve well and with diverse labors and deeds with your pleasing and glorifying Him; by the holiness of your life, the Church of Christ is strengthened and adorned, the Orthodox faith is affirmed, our entire Russian land is sanctified, and we, as your spiritual child, triumph brightly: as truly from the East of the sun to the West, throughout our land the name of the Lord is praised. Both leading our immeasurable iniquity, we ourselves condemn ourselves and to you, as our warm intercessor, with love we resort and humbly pray: yes, with your favorable prayers, but with His philanthropy, Christ God the suffering country of Russia from evil atheists and free their power, and set up the throne Orthodox kings. His faithful servants, crying out to Him day and night in sorrow and sorrow, will hear a painful cry, and will bring our stomach out of perdition; may he grant us all a quiet and silent life in this world, live in all piety and purity, delivering us from the temptations and temptations of the crafty enemy, from troubles and misfortunes, and from all evil; at His terrible judgment, let us be worthy of standing on the right hand, and let the heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven create, as if blessed and glorified, the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer is different
Oh, glorious and all-praise saints of God, all the saints, known and unknown, shone in the land of Russia! To you, as to our warm intercessors and intercessors, we resort with love and humbly pray: implore the Lord God, and with your favorable prayers, with His philanthropy, may He grant us (names) a quiet and pious life in this age, may He save us from temptations and the temptations of the crafty devil and from troubles and misfortunes, and from all evil; at His Last Judgment, let us be worthy of our right standing and the heirs of His Kingdom of Heaven, let him create, as if blessed by the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
As in every Orthodox Church, in church in Victory Park to the right of the Royal Doors is a temple icon. This the image of "All Saints, in the Russian Land shone". The name of the holiday was recently changed to "All Saints, in the Earth Russian shone", but the inscription on the icon remained the same, this is allowed by tradition. The sacred meaning in the icon is only the signature of the name of the saint next to each image. The name of the event to which the icon is dedicated does not have to be formulated exactly according to the church calendar: the main thing is that it corresponds to the true meaning of the depicted.
The temple icon of All the Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land was painted in the tradition of the Moscow school of icon painting of the late 15th-16th centuries. The author of this wonderful image is the famous St. Petersburg icon painter Khristina Prokhorova. The icon came to the temple on January 27, 2012, on the memorable Day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad. The icon seems too big for our church. And this is no coincidence. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the order of President V.V. Putin in Victory Park, a memorial church should be built, which will adequately perpetuate the memory of the people burned and buried in it and replace the current small church-chapel.
Icon of "All the Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land", painted by nun Juliania (Sokolova)
The iconographic concept of the image of all Russian saints was developed by St. Afanasy Kovrovsky, who corrected and edited the text of the service “To All the Saints in the Russian Land Resplendent” by decision of the Local Council of 1917-1918. According to his description, two different icons were originally painted, but only one, created by the nun Juliania (Sokolova), became the canonical model. The icon of mother Juliana formed the basis of the iconography created in the Russian Church Abroad, where it was supplemented by the image of the holy royal martyrs and new martyrs of Russia. After the canonization by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, the holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, the image of their cathedral was added to the icons painted in Russia.
Next to the temple icon there are shrines that make our church a place of intense prayer for the Russian Land, which is so necessary for the Fatherland in this turbulent time. This is (so far only in the form of a reproduction) the image of St. blgv. book. Alexander Nevsky, the defender of the Russian Land, and the reliquary with the relics of the saints resting in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The very first Russian saints, standing at the origins of our spiritual history, mystically came to the place of the new Russian Golgotha of the 20th century. Here, among the thousands burned and buried in the park pond, lies the ashes of many innocently murdered martyrs. They are new branches of the tree of Russian holiness, which started its first shoots more than a thousand years ago in the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The icon of "All Saints in the Russian Land Resplendent" is unusual. There are no other similar images depicting saints, where the earth occupies the entire icon-painting space, rising vertically upwards. Usually the saints are depicted standing on a conditional strip - earth - and their figures are surrounded on all sides by a gold or ocher background. This background symbolically indicates that God's chosen ones only figuratively appear in our sinful world, but in reality they eternally abide in the Kingdom of Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in Heavenly Jerusalem. The earth takes the place of a symbolic background only when the icon tells about the presence of God on earth: about His Nativity, Baptism, the Second Coming for the Last Judgment - because where God is, there is Heaven. The icon of "All the Saints in the Russian Land Resplendent" with its unusual composition testifies: God is with us! Our land, inhabited by saints, ascends directly to the Divine Throne. The saints did not leave the Russian Land. With their presence, with their prayers, they fill it with the grace of the Holy Spirit, make it "Holy Russia", which is alive and inseparable from the Holy Trinity. The icon of "All the Saints Who Resplendent in the Russian Land" is an icon of our holy Russian Land.
The abundance of the grace-filled gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are poured out on our earth by the prayerful standing of the Russian saints, is metaphorically represented on the icon in the form of a stream of a full-flowing river that flows from the throne of the Holy Trinity. This metaphor is taken from the Gospel, where Jesus Christ several times compares the gifts of the Holy Spirit with living water: “ TOthen thirsty, come to Me and drink"(John 7:37). In a conversation with a Samaritan woman at the well, the Lord calls to Himself all those “thirsty” for the truth as to a new, true source: “... everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water springing up into eternal life.(John 4:10,13-14).
The Russian land, filled with living water of grace, seems to bloom on the icon with hundreds of images of saints. “They are countless in the entire history of Russia,” said the Pskov-Pechersk elder John (Krestyankin), “manifested and unmanifested, many holy men, wives, saints, miracle workers, princes, monks ... They show different properties of Russian religiosity, but they have something in common that they are all filled with one spirit - the spirit of holy faith and church piety, the Spirit of Christ. The images of saints are interconnected into groups that merge into a single stream. The symbolic river of Russian holiness on the icon flows upward, rising towards the river, symbolizing the descent of the Holy Spirit to the Russian land. The stream of saints in the center of the icon is divided into two arms that go around the white walls of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. In front of his throne, overshadowed by the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, are Moscow saints. First, Peter and Alexy, followed by Theognost, Jonah, Hermogenes, Philip, Job, Photius, Macarius… Nearby are the reverends, the holy fools, the faithful… The names of each are written in a halo around the face. The liturgical service of Moscow saints at the main altar of the country reveals the main theme of the icon: communion of the Russian land with God.
Drawings of Nun Juliania (Sokolova)
“The river of Russian folk life, giving birth to saints, flowed in a given direction, but sometimes quickly and fruitfully, sometimes slowly, sometimes so quietly that it was difficult to establish whether it was flowing forward or backward,” said John (Krestyankin). The Pskov-Pechersk elder divided Russian religious history into seven periods from the holy prince Vladimir to the present day, comparing them with the Seven Sacraments. “The first period - Vladimir - corresponds to the Mystery of Holy Baptism. It is short, but unusually significant, as a result of a radical change in the life and consciousness of the people, as a result of striving for a new goal. Birth from water and the Spirit. Then the first saints appear - mentors of the true faith and our intercessors to the Lord. On the icon, Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, together with his family - the holy grandmother, Princess Olga, the sons-passion-bearers Boris and Gleb and other Kiev saints - is depicted at the very bottom in the center, as if inside the oldest Russian church - Kiev Sophia. This place corresponds to the place of the symbolic root of the spiritual tree of Russian holiness. On both sides of it in dark caves are the Kiev-Pechersk reverends. In the Kiev Caves Monastery, the relics of the holy monks rest in two cave complexes - the Near and Far Caves. On the left are the saints of the Near Caves, and in front of all - St. Anthony Pechersky, founder of Russian hermit monasticism. On the right are the saints of the Far Caves. The first among them is Rev. Theodosius of the Caves is the founder of Russian cenobitic monasticism. The Saints of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, together with the Kiev saints and Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, are the foundation of the symbolic temple of Russian holiness, they mark the beginning of the dispensation of the Holy Spirit on the Russian Land.
Above the Kiev saints, exactly along the axis of the domes of the Kiev Sofia and the Moscow Assumption Cathedral, the Tsar-Passion-bearer Nicholas II is depicted on a dais, surrounded by his family. On both sides of the royal martyrs stands a host of new martyrs: saints who gave their lives for their Christian convictions during the years of godless persecution of the 20th century. Despite the fact that the holy new martyrs have recently entered the host of Russian saints, their place is at the bottom of the icon. With their blood they strengthen the foundation of the temple of Russian holiness.
It is no coincidence that the image of Nicholas II becomes the symbolic center of the holy new martyrs. He is not just a martyr - he is the murdered Anointed of God, and his royal throne, like the liturgical throne in the church, symbolizes the throne of the King of Kings and the Great Hierarch Jesus Christ. The king is the image of Christ the Almighty, and his earthly kingdom is the image of the Kingdom of Heaven. " The king, by nature, is similar to the whole person, but by power, he is similar to the Most High God", - wrote the great Russian elder, Rev. Joseph Volotsky (†1515) Therefore, on the icon of Russian Holiness, Nicholas II is the only one standing on a dais, dressed in red and gold clothes, like the covers of the throne of the Assumption Cathedral above his head.
St. Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov, confessor.
When St. Athanasius (Sakharov) developed the composition of the icon of the Cathedral of Russian Saints, the royal family and the Cathedral of the New Martyrs were not affixed to the face of the saints, and most of those depicted on the icon had yet to ascend to their Golgotha. Vladyka did not know that in four years he himself would enter the path of confession, and the celebration of All Russian Saints according to the service corrected by him would be celebrated for the first time on November 10, 1922 in the 172nd cell of the Vladimir prison. On the icon painted by the nun Juliania (Sokolova), which has become an iconographic model, a number of new martyrs are not yet there. He showed up later. On the icons painted after 2000, there is also an image of St. Athanasius - he is depicted third in the second row to the left of the family of royal martyrs.
Saint Athanasius conceived a circular composition of the icon, where groups of saints were to be located in the direction of the sun, successively displaying the south, west, north and east of Russia. The circular composition of the icon, replenished with a new row, became more complex, but it retained the image of perfect unity, the symbol of which is the circle. We see how the branches of Russian holiness rise from both sides of the center: on the left are hosts of ascetics, consecrating the western limits of the Russian land, on the right - the eastern ones.
To the left of the cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk saints are depicted the saints of southern Russia, the Chernigov martyr princes Michael and Theodore, the miracle workers of Pereyaslavl and Volyn with the Monk Job of Pochaev. To the right of Moscow is the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra with St. Sergius of Radonezh and his closest disciples. Above are the saints who affirmed Orthodoxy in Smolensk, Brest, Bialystok, and Lithuania. The Novgorod and Pskov dioceses became famous for the abundance of saints in the north-west of the Fatherland. The crown of the great Russian tree is formed by the Northern Thebaid, so the monasteries of the northern Russian lands are figuratively called. From left to right, in the upper part of the icon are depicted the Saints of God from Petrograd, Olonets, Belozersky, Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky, Vologda and Perm.
In the lower right corner, a branch of the saints of the Russian Orthodox East begins to grow. At the very bottom we see the image of the saints of the ancient Churches of the Caucasus: Iberia, Georgia and Armenia. Above, in prayer to Christ, the hosts of Tambov, Siberian and Kazan miracle workers are coming. Kazan manifested miraculous icon of the Mother of God overshadows the east of Holy Russia. Above them are all the saints of the Central Russian lands: saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, Uglich and Suzdal, Murom and Kostroma, Tver and Ryazan, ancient Vladimir and Pereslavl Zalesky. “In Holy Russia “there is no difference between a Jew and a Greek, because the Lord is one for all, rich for all who call on him” (Rom. 10:12). Russians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Moldavians, Germans, Karelians, Hungarians, Tatars, Aleuts, etc. - different peoples who lived on Russian soil and professed the Orthodox faith, regardless of nationality, entered Holy Russia, consecrated it his spiritual feat” (V. Lepakhin).
The Russian land, inhabited by saints, rises to the very clouds, to Heavenly Jerusalem, where, sanctified by the golden light of Divine Glory, the Most Pure Mother of God and St. John the Baptist, the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel, the apostles Bartholomew and Andrew, St. Hieromartyrs, Great Martyrs George and Demetrius of Thessalonica, St. Nicholas of Myra and the Slovenian Enlighteners Cyril and Methodius, as well as many other saints, one way or another historically connected with the Russian Church. They pray together with the saints of the Russian land for all those who live on it, for everyone, the righteous and the sinner, the believer and the unbeliever, for every person who walks on our blessed blood of the martyrs, prayed by the Lord and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit of the Russian Land.
O.V. Gubareva.
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Archimandrite John (Krestyankin). Word on the Week of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land.
Gubareva O.V. Questions of the iconography of the holy royal martyrs. (To the All-Russian glorification of Emperor Nicholas II and His Family). St. Petersburg, 1999.
Life of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Kovrov, Confessor and Songwriter. M .: "Father's House", 2000. S. 3-21.
Lepakhin V.V. Iconic Image of Holiness: Spatial, Temporal, Religious and Historiosophical Categories of Holy Russia. In 2 parts.
Chinyakova G.P. Holy Russia, keep the Orthodox faith! Danilovsky Blagovestnik. Issue. 9, 1998, pp. 71-77.
Restored on August 26, 1918 by the decision of the Local Council of the Russian Church in 1917-1918:
1. The celebration of the Day of Remembrance of All Russian Saints that existed in the Russian Church is being restored.
2. This celebration takes place on the first Sunday of Petrovsky Lent.
The initiator of the restoration of the holiday was Boris Alexandrovich Turaev, a professor at Petrograd University. He was also a co-author (together with Hieromonk Athanasius (Sakharov) of the first edition of the Holiday Service (1918).
In 1946, the Service to All the Saints Who Shone in the Russian Lands was published, published by the Moscow Patriarchate and edited by Bishop Athanasius (Sakharov), after which the universal celebration of the memory of All Russian Saints began on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost.
The central moment of the holiday is, of course, the glorification by the Church of the saints who shone with their virtues in our Fatherland, and prayer appeal to them. The saints of the Church are our helpers and intercessors before God throughout our earthly life, therefore frequent appeal to them is a natural need for every Christian; all the more, when addressing the Russian saints, we have even greater boldness, since we believe that "our holy relatives" never forget their descendants, who celebrate "their love of the bright holiday." However, "in the Russian saints we honor not only the heavenly patrons of holy and sinful Russia: in them we seek revelations of our own spiritual path" and, carefully peering into their exploits and "looking at the end of their lives", we try, with the help of God, " imitate their faith" (Heb. 13:7), so that the Lord would no longer leave our land with His grace and would show His saints in the Russian Church until the end of time.
Troparion, tone 8:
Like the red fruit of Your saving sowing, / the Russian land brings Thee, Lord, / and all the saints who shone in that. / Those prayers in the deep world / keep the Church and our country with the Theotokos, O Many-Merciful.
Greatness:
We bless you, / our wonderworkers of glory, / illuminating the Russian land with your virtues / and showing us the image of salvation / clearly showing us.
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| Church of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land. Dubna, Moscow region |
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About all-blessing and God-wisdom, the saints of God, with your deeds, sanctified the Russian land and your bodies, like the seed of faith, left in it, with your souls standing before the Throne of God and praying unceasingly for it! Now, on the day of your common triumph, we, sinners, your lesser brethren, dare to bring you this laudatory singing. We magnify your great deeds, the spiritual warriors of Christ, with patience and courage to the end of the enemy, who overthrew us from the charms and wiles of his deliverance. We bless your holy life, luminaries of the Divine, shining with the light of faith and virtues and illuminating our minds and hearts with divine wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, bloom raistia, in our country to the north, beautifully flourishing and the aromas of talents and miracles are fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessors and patrons, and trusting in your help, we fall down to you and cry out: all the saints of our relatives, who shone from the ancient years and in the last days labored, appearance and non-appearance, knowledge and ignorance! Remember our weakness and humiliation and with your prayers ask Christ God for him, and we, having comfortably sailed through the abyss of life and unharmed keeping the treasure of faith, will reach the haven of eternal salvation and in the blessed monasteries of the Mountainous Fatherland, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased Him from time immemorial let us dwell, by the grace and love of mankind of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, to Him with the Eternal Father and with the Most Holy Spirit befits unceasing praise and worship from all creatures forever and ever. Amen.
On the feast of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land, in all Russian churches the stichera "Holy Rus" beloved by all Orthodox people sounds ( see video ). True, not everyone knows that the author is the senior regent of the choir of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and the head of the joint choir of TSL and MDAiS, Honored Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy, Archimandrite Matthew (Lev Vasilyevich Mormyl), who reposed in the Lord on September 15, 2009 ( see ill.) Since 1961, he led the singing in the monastery of St. Sergius, hegumen of the Russian Land, under four Patriarchs - Alexy I, Pimen, Alexy II and Kirill. During this time, he created his own school of church singing, transposed a large number of chants into chants, which are considered to be Lavra. In the words of Fr. Matthew, “Holy Russia” appeared under the following circumstances: “I had different tunes of this similar. Our local tune, from the Gethsemane skete, which we sing, I recorded from Schema-Archimandrite Josiah, the elder, he was in the skete under the last skete chief Fr. Israel (Father Josiah died on May 17, 1970, a month after the death of Patriarch Alexy. He was at the meeting of the body, stood at the gate in a draft for a fair amount of time and got pneumonia). Then I had to take the Kiev-Pechersk chant, but not in the Optina version, but the one that I once caught on a piece of paper. When I put it on the texts, it made me look at everything differently. This is how “Holy Russia” arose to the new tune “House of Euphrates”. to the new chant "House of Euphrates". The first time we sang "Holy Russia" with a mixed choir was in 1963 at the patronal feast of the Russian saints, under the Assumption Cathedral, where the church in honor of Russian saints is located. For me it was one of the happiest moments in my life. The chorus did what I wanted. And the whole choir wept with emotion.
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Simultaneously with the composition of the service to All the Saints who shone in the Russian land, Vladyka Athanasius (Sakharov) developed the composition of the icon of the Cathedral of Russian Saints. The verbal image of Holy Russia has found its iconographic embodiment. According to the plan of Bishop Athanasius, the groups of saints were to be arranged in a circle, in the direction of the sun, successively displaying the south, west, north and east of Russia, enlightened by the light of the Orthodox faith. The circular composition, ideally reflecting Divine eternity and the fullness of church catholicity, is emphasized by the icon of the Holy Trinity of St. Andrei Rublev, consecrating the Cathedral of Russian Saints, enclosed in a circle.
In the lower part of the icon is the root of the Orthodox Russian state, Saint Kyiv with his saints - the enlighteners of the Russian land, its first martyrs, on whose blood the tree of the Russian Orthodox Church began to grow. The first fruit of the sowing of the Christian faith on the Old Russian land is the luminiferous caves of the Dormition Kiev Lavra. On both sides, the baptist of Russia, Prince Vladimir, is surrounded by a host of Kiev-Pechersk saints. On the left - the ascetics of the nearby caves, led by their chief, the Monk Anthony of the Caves. On the right - the inhabitants of distant caves with the Monk Theodosius. The pictorial image is closely connected with the verbal one. The words of the third song of the canon are consonant with the icon: “You are a mental paradise, the holy city of the Caves ...” To the left of the cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk saints, the saints of southern Russia, the Chernigov martyr princes Michael and Theodore, the miracle workers of Pereyaslav and Volyn with the Monk Job of Pochaev are depicted.
From the grain sown by the holy Grand Duke Vladimir, a great tree of the Orthodox Russian state, Orthodox Russian culture, has grown, the branches of which are studded with many fruits - the holy ascetics and laborers of our Fatherland.
The core of the Russian historical tree is the “glorious city of Moscow”, “the root of the Kingdom”, in the words of the letters of the Time of Troubles of the 17th century. (Germogenes of Moscow, Holy Martyr Creations of His Holiness Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, with the rite of glorification of the Patriarch attached. M., 1912). Under the roof of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, in prayer at the Throne of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin with the Robe of the Lord reclining on it, Moscow saints Peter and Alexy, Theognost and Jonah, Hermogenes and Philip, Photius and Cyprian stand. The faces of the saints are continued by Saints Savva and Andronicus, the Blessed Princess Evdokia - the wife of the Holy Prince Demetrius of Donskoy, the Monk Prince-Builder of Moscow Daniel, Saint Tikhon of Kaluga, Tsarevich-martyr Dimitri of Uglich and others. To the right of Moscow is the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra with St. Sergius of Radonezh and his closest disciples. The central part of the icon corresponds to the fourth song of the canon to Russian saints: “The glorious city of Moscow rejoices, and all Russia is filled with joy...”
The Russian state expanded and grew stronger, more and more stars lit up in the sky of the Russian Orthodox Church. Lights, lit in ancient times in the southwest in Turov, Polotsk, flashed in Smolensk, Brest, Bialystok, distant Lithuania. Especially bright lamps in the north-west of the Fatherland were the Novgorod and Pskov eparchies. The fifth song of the canon is dedicated to them: “Come, we see the flowers of Eden’s paradise and God-pervaded, the deeds of the father, who shone within the boundaries of Novgorod ...” Like the Mother of God, the ancient image of the Mother of God “The Sign” shines over the host of Novgorod saints.
The crown of the great Russian tree is formed by the wonderful Northern Thebaid, sung in the sixth song: “Rejoice, Russian Thebaid, show off, deserts and wilds of Olonets, Beloezersk and Vologda, who raised the holy and glorious father of the multitude ...” From left to right in the upper part of the icon are depicted Petrograd, Olonets, Belozersk, Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky, Vologda and Perm saints of God. Harsh was the life of bloodless martyrs, reverend ascetics-enlighteners of the Russian North.
Following the seventh song of the canon, on the right side of the icon all the saints of the Central Russian lands stand in prayer to Christ: the saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, Uglich and Suzdal, Murom and Kostroma, Tver and Ryazan, ancient Vladimir and Pereslavl Zalessky.
Closer to the east, our gaze meets the Tambov, Siberian and Kazan miracle workers. Kazan manifested miraculous icon of the Mother of God overshadows the east of Holy Russia. The image of the saints of the ancient Churches of the Caucasus closes the circular movement: Iberia, Georgia and Armenia, in the lower right corner. The iconographic image corresponds to the eighth song of the canon to Russian saints: “Show off, city of Kazan... Rejoice, Siberian country... Rejoice, Iberia and all the land of Georgia, triumph, Armenia...”
The verbal liturgical icon of the Russian Church, as well as its icon-painting image, with the fullest possible completeness represent the unity of the diverse and limitless multitude of ways to achieve holiness, to serve God. The venerable and great princes, saints and blessed ones, righteous wives and martyrs have equal dignity before God, Who looks not at faces, but at burning human hearts. The spiritual sky of Russian holiness is beautiful, the luminaries are distinguished by many shades, the brightness of burning, but all are united by the light of Christ, which enlightened and sanctified Russia.
In the upper part of the icon, as if under the vaults of an invisible temple, the Deesis rite is depicted. In the central rainbow medallion is the Holy Trinity. On both sides of the medallion, the Most Pure Mother of God and St. John the Baptist, the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel, especially revered and close to the Russian land saints, the apostles Bartholomew and Andrew, Saints Photius and the seven Kherson Hieromartyrs, Great Martyrs George and Demetrius of Thessalonica, Saint Nicholas of Myra and the Slovenian educators Cyril and Methodius, as well as many other saints, one way or another historically connected with the Russian Church. I recall the prayer at the litia of the service to All the Saints who shone in the Russian land, sequentially listing the ecumenical saints who served within the Russian land and are especially revered by the Russian people.
The Deesis rank helps to understand the deep content of the icon of the Cathedral of Russian Saints. In the vast expanses of great Orthodox Russia, under the blessed protection of the Holy Trinity, the beautiful temple of the Holy Orthodox Russian Church rises invisibly, where with one heart and one mouth all Russian saints, named and unnamed, revealed and unrevealed, celebrate the Divine Liturgy on the throne of the altar of Holy Russia - the Assumption Cathedral of Moscow Kremlin with a great shrine, the Robe of the Lord.
As if three stars shine on the icon, three miraculous images of the Mother of God, the Heavenly Defender of the Russian land: in the northwest - the Novgorod icon "The Sign", in the east - the Kazan icon of the Lady, and in the heart of Russia, Moscow - the Vladimir icon of the Most Pure.
The first icon of the Cathedral of Russian Saints, which did not fully satisfy Bishop Athanasius, was painted by his close friend and fellow student, the priest of Staraya Russa, Father Vladimir Pylaev, who died in exile. The second icon was created at the request and according to the plan of Vladyka by the famous icon painter of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, nun Juliana (Maria Nikolaevna Sokolova). Now the image, painted by the nun Juliana, along with a list of her own work, is kept in the sacristy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Another icon of her work is in the Patriarchal Residence, in the Church of All Russian Saints, and another one is in the Resurrection Cathedral in the city of Romanov-Borisoglebsk, Yaroslavl Region.
The composition of the icon of Russian saints correlates with a stable church tradition of depicting patronal shrines and saints with upcoming ones. The Church Archaeological Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy kept the icon of All Russian Saints, painted by Pyotr Timofeev in 1814, originating from the Old Believers. Prof. N.V. Pokrovsky assumed that it was written off from an older sample. (Pokrovsky N.V. Church and Archaeological Museum of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, 1879-1909. St. Petersburg, 1909. P. 131-144).. The upper part depicts the Holy Trinity, below - the Throne prepared and the instruments of the passions, then - Sophia, the Wisdom of God with those who are present, and, finally, eleven rows of Russian saints, prayerfully coming to Hagia Sophia.
The collection of the Tretyakov Gallery contains three-leaved folds of the first half of the 17th century, the middle of which represents the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, and on the wings, in orderly rows, in a strict hierarchy, the faces of the saints stand before the Queen of Heaven. The saints of each face stand in two rows. Russian saints, as a rule, are located in the bottom row.
Particular attention should be paid to the cathedrals of saints venerated in a particular area or diocese, but this is a topic for serious research that is beyond the scope of our message.
At the heart of the liturgical following of All the Saints who shone in the Russian land is the service to All Saints on the first Sunday after Pentecost, as well as the service to All the Reverend Fathers on Saturday of Cheese Week. In the synaxar of the Week of All Saints, it is said that the Holy Spirit, "having sanctified and made wise" human hearts, led many of them to Christ, "to fill it with the order of the angels." The ways and ways of attracting all those who desire goodness to God are completely different: whom the Holy Spirit brings through martyrdom and shedding of blood, whom by “virtuous living” (Triod Color. Week of All Saints. Sinaksar. M., 1992). Iconographically, services to All Saints and Reverend Fathers are displayed in the icon "Saturday of All Saints", as well as in the cathedral image of the honored saints.
A wonderful duality leads to many reflections and comparisons: the service and the icon of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land. But the best way to conclude our word is the sacred hymn: “Holy Russia! Keep the Orthodox faith, in it is affirmation for you!
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