Cathedral of Vyatka Saints
Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka
Venerable Matthew of Yaransky
Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsky
Holy Blessed Procopius of Vyatka
Venerable Stephen of Fileia
Confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov
Hieromartyr Michael Tikhonitsky
Hieromartyr Nikolai Podyakov
Hieromartyr Procopius Popov
Hieromartyr Viktor Usov
Archimandrite Alexander (Urodov), confessor
Martyr Nina Kuznetsova
Hieromartyr Anatoly Ivanovsky
Venerable Leonid (Ustnedumsky)
memory 30 (July 17)
Born in 1551 in the Novgorod region, in the Annunciation parish of Poshekhonsky district in the family of the peasant Philip and his wife Catherine. In 1603, when Leonid was already at a respectable age, the Mother of God appeared to him in a dream, commanding the elder to go to the Dvina River in the Morzhevskaya Nikolaev Hermitage, take Her icon from there, called Hodegetria, and transfer the holy image to the Luza River to Turin Mountain.
Taking the revealed image of the Lady, Rev. Leonid headed to the place that She indicated to him. On the way, he met with a local peasant Nikita Nazarov, who helped the elder build a cell and sent him food. Fulfilling the command of the Mother of God, Rev. Leonid went to Rostov to the Metropolitan to receive a blessing for the construction of the temple. The saint blessed the foundation of the temple and elevated the elder builder to the rank of priest. In 1608, a temple in the name of the Presentation of the Mother of God was built and the revealed image was transferred to it. The place where the temple stood was low and damp. Then the elder began to dig canals, connecting the lakes with each other and diverting water from the newly built temple. One day while doing this work he was bitten by a snake. Having prayed to God and the Most Holy Theotokos, Rev. Leonid made it his heart not to think about this misfortune and, not paying attention to the wound, continued his work. The Lord preserved the blessed old man and strengthened his strength. The result was a whole man-made river, which, remembering the recent misfortune and God’s help, he named “Neduma”. Over time, the Ust-Nedumskaya desert formed here.
The Luza River often drowned the monastery during floods, so the elder and the brethren had to once again move the temple to a higher place. The consecration of the temple in the new location took place on May 23, 1652. The icon of the Mother of God was transferred to it. The Lord granted Rev. Leonidas had a long life, most of which he spent in work, silence and prayer. On July 17, 1654, when the blessed elder was already more than 100 years old, he departed to the Lord. The relics of St. Leonid is buried under a bushel in the former monastery, and now parish church of the village. Ust-Neduma (Ozerskaya) Luzsky district, Kirov region.In the world - Stefan Kurteev. Born on July 17, 1830 in the family of a peasant in the village of Molchanovskaya, Vyatka province. He spent his childhood in his parents' house. In 1850, the book “Letters of the Holy Mountainer about the Holy Mount Athos” was published, after reading which the young man had a great desire to devote his life to serving God. He left his studies in St. Petersburg, came to Vyatka and settled near the village of Fileyskoye. Here he began an ascetic feat for the glory of God - he labored in fasting and prayer, taught peasant children to read and write and the Law of God, and grew in the knowledge of God.
In 1864, the Lord vouchsafed Stephen to visit the Holy City of Jerusalem and visit Mount Athos twice. During these trips, he learned smart heart prayer. In 1877, his long-time wish came true. On February 23, with the blessing of Bishop Apollos of Vyatka and Slobodsky, he was tonsured a monk with the name Stefan and was identified as one of the brethren of the Holy Cross Monastery in the city of Slobodsky. However, seeking solitude, he soon returned to his hermitage near the village of Fileyki. The news about the gracious old man, about the miracles and healings that took place through his prayers, quickly spread throughout the area. Many came to him for blessings, advice and consolation. The sermons and instructions of Elder Stefan, which were published in the city of Vyatka by his zealous admirers in the form of brochures that were affordable and understandable to ordinary people, gained great fame. One of his students was Rev. Matthew of Yaransky, who, following in the footsteps of Father Stephen, became a monk and dedicated his life to God and his neighbors.
The fame of Father Stefan was also facilitated by the fact that the settlement of Fileika was located on the path of pilgrims - participants in the Velikoretsk religious procession, many of whom, returning from the Velikaya River, visited the holy ascetic. Finally, on March 10, 1890, permission was received to build the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the place where Father Stefan labored. By this time, his strength had noticeably weakened, but the foundation of the monastery was carried out under his leadership. The blessed death of the elder was approaching. On August 6, Father Stefan was tonsured into the schema, and on August 15/28 he peacefully departed to the Lord. Like the Monk Tryphon, Hieroschemamonk Stefan was buried in the monastery he founded.
During the years of persecution, the brethren of the Phileia Monastery stood firmly in the holy Orthodox faith and therefore fully drank the thicket of suffering to which the God-fighters doomed the Orthodox people. The monastery was closed. Its main temple was destroyed. Wanting to preserve the holy relics of Father Stefan, his admirers moved them first to the Khlynovskoye cemetery, and then to the Phileiskoye cemetery. In July 2002, Father Stephen was canonized among the locally revered saints of the Vyatka diocese. A life was compiled and an icon of the saint was painted. At the same time, at the Fileyskoe cemetery, near the resting place of the elder, an Orthodox chapel was built and consecrated in his honor, to which a religious procession is held on the day of his memory.
Hieromartyr Michael Tikhonitsky
Memory 20 (7) September
Born in 1846 in the family of a psalm-reader. Having completed the full course at the Vyatka Theological Seminary, in 1868 he was ordained to the priesthood. He began his pastoral ministry in the Ilyinsky Edinoverie Church of the Izhevsk plant, then in the villages of Podrelie and Bystritsa, and in 1880 in the city of Orlov. Father Mikhail was an honest and sympathetic man, he loved his parishioners, and they repaid him with impartial love. In Orlov, Father Mikhail taught the Law of God at the local gymnasium. He instilled in his students a sincere sense of reverence for God, love for the Church and respect for people.
In 1917, when Russia was swept by a wave of revolution and red terror, Grieving over the grief that befell the Russian people, Patriarch Tikhon issued a message in which he cursed the persecutors of the Church and called on all people to peace and harmony. On February 15, 1918, Father Mikhail read a message from His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon during the Divine Liturgy in the Kazan Cathedral in the city of Orlov. He was soon arrested and put on trial. The parishioners stood up for their beloved priest and were able to persuade the persecutors to postpone the arrest. But, six months later, when the country was swept by a new wave of Red Terror, Father Mikhail was captured again. The Extraordinary Commission at the Tribunal, having carried out an investigation, decided: “for disseminating counter-revolutionary appeals, priest Mikhail Tikhonitsky should be shot.” The sentence was carried out on September 20, 1918.
Three sons of Father Michael linked their fate with the Russian Orthodox Church: Vladimir took monasticism early and then, already in exile, became a metropolitan, Exarch of Western Europe; Veniamin served as a priest in the city of Vyatka for many years, and in 1942 he became a monk and, in the rank of Archbishop of Kirov and Slobodsky, worked hard on the revival of the Vyatka diocese; Elpidifor, a talented teacher and deeply religious Christian, died in Stalin’s camps. The daughters of Father Mikhail worked for a long time in the teaching field in Orlov and humbly looked after their father’s grave.
By the determination of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Father Michael is now canonized as the new martyrs and confessors of Russia. His glorification took place in 2003. On September 8, 2008, his holy relics were found at the Orlov cemetery, which now rest in the parish church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Hieromartyr Procopius Popov
Memory October 13 (September 30)
The God-fighters who came to power in 1917 tried to take all measures to break and humiliate such honored shepherds. Present them as enemies of the working people. On April 27, 1918, at the third peasant congress, an indemnity was imposed on Archpriest Prokopiy Popov as a representative of the exploiting class in the amount of 7 thousand rubles, which was demanded to be recovered immediately. And when, in the autumn of the same year, the Red government switched to open terror, the hour of suffering struck for Father Procopius. According to eyewitnesses, the archpriest of the Trinity Church Prokopiy Popov was shot on October 13, 1918 by a punitive detachment on suspicion of counter-revolution. The supposed burial place of Father Procopius is the bank of the river. South on the outskirts with Sholga. Podosinovsky district, Kirov region.
Hieromartyr Anatoly Ivanovsky
Anatoly Dmitrievich Ivanovsky was born on February 16, 1863 in the village of Pektubaevo, Yaransky district, Vyatka province, in the family of the priest of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the same village, Dimitry Ivanovich Ivanovsky. After graduating in June 1883 with the 2nd category from the Vyatka Theological Seminary, in September 1884 he was appointed a psalm-reader in the Trinity Church of the village of Salobelak, Yaransky district, Vyatka province, and then, from April 14 to July 15, 1887, he served as a psalm-reader in the cemetery church of the city of Yaransk. that same year, having decided to continue his education, Anatoly Ivanovsky entered Kazan University, where he studied for 3 years and was dismissed due to illness according to a personal petition on April 30, 1890. In 1890-1892, he lived alternately in Kazan, and then in Elabuga and Chistopol, where he sang in the church choir. Soon after this, A.D. Ivanovsky moved to the village of Shulka, Yaransky district, Vyatka province, where the parents of his wife Yulia Mikhailovna lived, whose father was also a priest. On February 24, 1895, Anatoly Ivanovsky again entered the diocesan service and was appointed psalm-reader in the Church of the Baptist in the village of Suvod, Oryol district, Vyatka province, where he served until May of the same year. On November 11, 1895, he was ordained as a psalm-reader in the church of the village of Znamenskoye, Yaransky district, Vyatka province, and carried out this obedience until February 17, 1901, when he was ordained a deacon, and then a priest, with an appointment to the Kazan-Virgin Church in the village of Saltak-Yal, Urzhum district. Vyatka province, where he served for 17 years. In addition to priestly duties, Father Anatoly carried out educational work and served as a teacher of the law at the Shagaranur literacy school from February 23, 1901 to 1903, the Argaranur parish school from February 23, 1901 to August 1914, the Shagaranur parochial school (from September 1 1914), Saltak-Yal Zemstvo School from October 22, 1901, Mokrushinsk Zemstvo School from October 1, 1914. In the first three of the educational institutions mentioned above, Father Anatoly was also the head, and in addition, from November 18, 1902 to November 15, 1906, he also headed the Saltak-Yal girls’ school. The works of priest Anatoly Ivanovsky received recognition, the priest had several awards: a legguard (1905), a skufia (1913), an anniversary breastplate in memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty, a medal in memory of the 25th anniversary of parochial schools. The surviving clergy records of the above-mentioned churches say that Father Anatoly behaved modestly and was of very good behavior. The priest's family consisted of 9 people: wife Yulia Mikhailovna, son Vsevolod, daughters Vera, Nina, Feofaniya, Olga, Lyudmila, Natalia, Alexandra. After the revolution of 1917 and the Bolsheviks coming to power, persecution of the Church began. The Soviet government also took advantage of the tense situation that developed in the country during the civil war. In September 1918, the district towns of the Volga region received a telegram from the Extraordinary Commission of the Eastern Front with the following content: “On the Czechoslovak front, along the entire front line, the broadest unbridled agitation of the clergy against the Soviet regime is observed. In view of this obvious counter-revolutionary work of the clergy, I order all front-line Cherekhovoykom to pay special attention to "the clergy, establishing careful supervision over them, and to shoot each of them, regardless of his rank, who dares to speak out in word or deed against the Soviet government. This order should be sent to the district propaganda and volost councils." On September 13, 1918, the Urzhum Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution responded to this instruction as follows: “The Urzhum Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution orders all priests who delivered counter-revolutionary sermons and agitations to be immediately arrested and forwarded to the commission with protocols of accusation.” On October 4, 1918, a similar instruction became even more stringent: “The commission proposes that priests noticed in anti-Soviet agitation be immediately arrested and brought to the commission, and if they resist, be shot on the spot.” This directive, unfortunately, found a response locally. The zealous service of Father Anatoly, his firm faith in God, the respect he enjoyed among the parishioners caused displeasure. Representatives of the new government, intoxicated by revolutionary “freedoms,” a number of peasants in the village of Saltak-Yal began to seek the removal of the priest. Based on a “signal” from the ground on September 17, 1918, priest Anatoly Ivanovsky was arrested by the Urzhum district emergency investigative committee for the fight against counter-revolution “as a White Guard who is campaigning against the Soviets even with sermons.” During interrogation on October 16, 1918, Father Anatoly did not admit his guilt, saying: “I did not say anything politically to the population of my parish and never conducted any campaigning.” And when asked how he views the law on the separation of Church and state, he directly answered that this means depriving state power of the blessing of God. Father also said that he recognizes Soviet power in civil matters, but not in church matters. Loyalty to God and His Church, to his pastoral duty, was above all for Father Anatoly. “I don’t plead guilty to anything, and I’ll sign my name to that. Anatoly Dmitriev Ivanovsky,” the protocol of the first interrogation ends with this phrase. The priest spoke about this same thing during the re-interrogation on October 18, showing: “I personally did not agitate against the authorities, but only read the appeals of Patriarch Tikhon and the Church Council. I assumed that I should carry out the instructions of the highest church authorities and that the Soviet authorities should not interfere in church affairs in accordance with the decree on the separation of the Church from the state. I fulfilled my duties, and if this is not fulfilled, then I must leave office. I recognize Soviet power as a fact and carry out its orders. It makes no difference to me what kind of power there is, only "If only it had been based on Christian principles. The tsarist government is better for me in that the Church was not separated from the state. In general, I did not set out to judge which government was better or worse, as long as there were fraternal relations between people." Of course, the priest did not conduct any counter-revolutionary activities, but suffered for his faith, for the fact that he conscientiously fulfilled his duties and did not hide his convictions. Father Anatoly enjoyed great respect in the parish. The clergyman of the Saltak-Yala Church spoke out in defense of his pastor. On September 23, 1918, Deacon Ioann Ivanov and psalm-reader Fedot Efremov sent the following petition to the Soviet authorities: “On September 17, 1918, the priest of the village of Saltak-Yal, Anatoly Ivanovsky, was taken by military force and taken to Urzhum to be imprisoned, for which reason, we are absolutely “We cannot explain, since we did not notice any illegal actions in the behavior of Father Anatoly Ivanovsky: he did not deliver sermons on political topics, but only delivered teachings on religious topics.” By a resolution of the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Profiteering, Sabotage and Ex-officio Crimes under the Council of People's Commissars on the Czechoslovak Front dated October 18, 1918, priest Anatoly Ivanovsky was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on October 30, 1918, near the city of Urzhum. HELL. Ivanovsky was rehabilitated on July 1, 1992 by the Prosecutor's Office of the Kirov Region in accordance with Articles 3 and 5 of the RSFSR Law "On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression" dated October 18, 1991. On June 23, 2008, by determination of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, priest Anatoly Ivanovsky was canonized as New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. With the Blessing of Metropolitan of Vyatka and Slobodsky, Chrysanthus was included in the Cathedral of Vyatka Saints.Venerable Matthew of Yaransky
Born on May 23 (June 4), 1855 in the city of Vyatka in the family of a craftsman. Even in his youth, seeking spiritual nourishment, he met Hieromonk Stefan (Kurteev), who labored 6 versts from Vyatka near the village of Fileyki. Father Stefan taught the young man heartfelt mental prayer, prudence and submission to the will of God. At this time, on the site of Elder Stefan’s feat, it was decided to build a men’s monastery in the name of the blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky. On September 16, 1890, the opening of the new monastery took place. And a month before, on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God, Father Matthew’s spiritual father and beloved mentor, Hieromonk Stefan, died. Following in the footsteps of his teacher, Father Matthew in 1891 entered the new Phileian Monastery as a novice. On April 5, 1897, he was ordained to the rank of hieromonk. They often began to turn to the priest for advice and consolation, since they saw in him a spirit-bearing old man, despite his far from advanced age. After ten years of obedience at the Philei Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Father Matthew was sent to the newly created Prophetinsky Monastery near the city of Yaransk to help its builder, Hieromonk Nil. In the new monastery, Father Matthew had to work hard. In addition to performing daily divine services, he performed the duties of the cell attendant of the abbot of the monastery: he stoked the stoves and monitored cleanliness, and he also served as the steward and treasurer of the monastery. His humility was amazing. He always walked with his head down, not paying attention to anything, immersed in prayer. He never allowed empty talk, and always wore the simplest monastic clothes. He loved quiet prayerful singing and was abstinent in food.The coup of 1917 marked the beginning of the great persecution of the Holy Church. In 1921, the monastery was closed, and Father Matthew moved to the village of Ershovo. But the fame of a perspicacious elder brought many people to him seeking advice, consolation and spiritual help. The elder died peacefully on May 16 (29), 1927. Soon his grave became a place of pious pilgrimage for thousands of people. Already at that time, a handwritten akathist to St. Matthew was written. On November 27, 1997, Father Matthew was canonized among the locally revered saints of the Vyatka diocese. An icon was painted, a life and an akathist were compiled.
Blessed Procopius, Fool for Christ's sake,
Vyatka miracle worker
Born in the village of Koryakinskaya near the village of Bobino not far from the city of Khlynov in 1578 in a family of peasants Maxim and Irina Plushkov. Parents often took their son with them to the field, where one day trouble happened to him. At the age of 12, he rode a horse. Suddenly a storm came and a strong clap of thunder was heard. The young man fell from his horse to the ground and lay as if dead. His parents brought him home and asked for help from St. Nicholas, a quick helper in troubles. Soon the boy came to his senses, but behaved like a madman - “he began to tear his vestments on himself and throw them to the ground and walk naked.” Then the parents took their son to the Assumption Monastery to Rev. Tryphon, who sprinkled him with holy water and healed him with the power of prayer.
Soon after this, Procopius, with the blessing of his parents, moved to the city of Slobodskaya, where for three years he carried out various obediences at the Catherine Church. When he turned 2 years old and his parents decided to marry their son, Procopius, seeking another life, left his home and went to the city of Khlynov, where, according to church tradition, he asked the reverend. Tryphon's blessing on the feat of foolishness. Having taken the yoke of foolishness, he carried it for 30 years until his death - he endured the sorrows of pride, wounded by the ridicule, abuse, and coldness of people; He made his flesh suffer to the point of death both from lack of food and from changes in weather. At the same time, the saint hid his asceticism from people in every possible way. Only his confessor, Priest John from the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, knew him better than others - it was to him that the ascetic confessed and here he received the Holy Mysteries of Christ weekly. With his meekness, humility, and non-covetousness, he spiritually healed the proud and wayward residents of Khlynov.
Saint Procopius reposed blissfully on December 21, 1627 and was buried in the Trifonov Monastery, not far from St. Tryfon Vyatsky. His relics rest under the salt in the southern part of the Assumption Cathedral. The veneration of the holy blessed Procopius began soon after his death, but it gained particular fame after, on March 3, 1666, through his prayers and the prayers of St. Tryphon, the Lord gave healing to Martha, a resident of Slobodsky district, who had been suffering from a serious illness for a long time - the day before the saints appeared to the woman in a vision and promised her recovery. At the end of the 17th century, the life of the saint was compiled.
Hieromartyr Nikolai Podyakov
Memory 24 (11) September
But in 1917 everything changed. People who hate the Church of Christ and its ministers came to power. Soon Podosinovets turned out to be a front-line village. Having no other forces to stop the advance of the White Army, the Reds unleashed a policy of outright terror, trying to intimidate the local population with unprecedented cruelty. On September 10, 1918, at eleven o’clock at night, security officers burst into Nikolai’s father’s house. They presented an arrest warrant for Fr. Nikolai, who at that time was rising from the basement into the house. To prevent the future prisoner from escaping, one of the soldiers shot Father Nicholas in the leg. The soldiers put the wounded man on a cloth stretcher and carried him out of the house. At the same time, they had to dismantle part of the window, since the stretcher with the wounded did not fit through the door. Father Nikolai was brought to a pre-dug hole and forced to kneel. He was accused of counter-revolutionary actions by refusing to help the Red Army with food. In his response, the priest called everyone to Christian love and asked all parishioners for forgiveness. The sentence was carried out. Together with Fr. Nicholas also shot his fellow priest Viktor Usov. The body of the murdered Father Nicholas was transferred to the house, where he was dressed in priestly vestments. The funeral service was performed by priest Zosima Trubachev. He was buried at the altar of the Mother of God Church in the village. Podosinovets. A memorial cross is now installed at the burial site, and Archpriest Nikolai Podyakov himself is now canonized.
Martyr Nina Kuznetsova
Martyr Nina was born on December 28, 1887 in the village of Lalsk, Vologda province, into the pious family of constable Alexei Kuznetsov and his wife Anna. Since childhood, Nina loved only prayer, monasteries and spiritual books.
After the closure of the Koryazhemsky Monastery at the beginning of the revolution, its brethren moved to Lalsk. The abbot of the monastery was Abbot Pavel (Khotemov). Father Pavel was a great ascetic. Nina, looking at the feat of Father Pavel, tried to imitate him. The blessed one strictly observed the monastic rules. She slept four hours a day and at two o’clock in the morning she invariably stood with the monks to pray.
After this monastery in Lalsk was closed by the authorities in 1928, part of the brethren and among them abbots Pavel and Nifont, who was the treasurer of the monastery, found shelter in the house of Blessed Nina.
Through the prayers and intercession of Blessed Nina, the cathedral in Lalsk was not closed for a long time, although the authorities more than once took steps to stop worship there. In the early thirties, they nevertheless ordered the closure of the cathedral, but the blessed one then began to write decisive letters to Moscow, collected and sent walkers and acted so firmly and relentlessly that the authorities had to give in and return the cathedral to the Orthodox.
At the beginning of 1937, NKVD officers arrested Father Leonid Istomin, novice Andrei Melentyev, the head of the church, singers, many parishioners and the last priests still remaining at large. All of them were transported to Veliky Ustyug and imprisoned in the Church of the Archangel Michael, which was turned into a prison.
On October 31, 1937, NKVD officers arrested Blessed Nina, but found no charges against her. They kept the blessed one in the Lal prison for half a month, without asking anything, without bringing charges. The authorities forced many people to bear false witness against the blessed one, but only one agreed to this - the deputy chairman of the Lalsky village council. He testified that Blessed Nina is an active churchwoman who not only opposes the closure of churches, but tirelessly works to open new ones.
In mid-November, Blessed Nina was charged. The blessed one did not admit guilt before the Soviet authorities and was sent to the prison of the city of Kotlas. On November 23, 1937, the NKVD Troika sentenced Blessed Nina to eight years in a forced labor camp. Blessed Nina was sent to one of the camps in the Arkhangelsk region, but the confessor did not stay here long. She died in a concentration camp on May 14, 1938.
Subject Art (music) – 8th grade
Topic: “The Holy Lands of Vyatka.”
Lesson type : a lesson in learning and consolidating new material, a trip to the native land.
Problem : what saints of the Vyatka land do we know, what qualities should a holy person have?
Tasks : create conditions for formation of the image of the Saints of the Vyatka land, find out what qualities the saints should have, show their invaluable role in shaping the spiritual image of the Vyatka land.
Concepts : icon, saints, venerable, blessed, saint, paganism, Christianity, relics, commandment, Velikoretsk religious procession, holy confessor, holy martyr, saint.
Forms of organization of cognitive activity: individual, frontal, group ( conversation, message, independent work with text, proverbs, words).
Visibility used : computer presentation
Planned results (in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard):
Subject results:
Learn concepts: saints, venerable, blessed, saint, relics, confessor, martyr, saint.
will learn: recognize the images of the saints, explain what unites them and how they differ from each other, emotionally express your attitude towards the saints, find in the text the features of the life path of the saints, participate in the collective embodiment of the images of the saints, expressing your opinion in communication with peers, teacher, talk about the significance of the Vyatka saints in the formation of the spiritual image of our small homeland.
Universal learning activities (UAL):
Regulatory: perform educational actions as a listener, understand the purpose of the actions performed, make adjustments to your work, analyze the results of your own and collective work, express in verbal form the image of a saint.
Cognitive: use general techniques for solving problems, search for the necessary information, be able to characterize the image of a saint, talk about the significance of saints in the formation of the spiritual appearance of the Vyatka land.
Communication: be active in interaction, conduct a dialogue, work in pairs, groups, listen to your interlocutor, answer questions, formulate your own opinion and position, participate in a collective discussion, build productive cooperation with peers and the teacher, be tolerant of other people’s opinions.
Personal results:
Represent the image of a saint, the image of the Motherland, the historical past, the cultural heritage of Vyatka, demonstrate the position of an active listener, possess the skills of assessment and self-assessment of one’s activities, show cognitive interest in the Vyatka saints, understand the feelings of the Vyatka saints and empathize with them, understand the connection of spiritual and moral content in life land of Vyatka, show a stable positive attitude towards local history lessons.
Homework (preliminary):
1 student (message): “Velikoretsk religious procession.”
Student 2 (message): “S Holy Confessor Victor – Bishop of Vyatka and Glazov.”
3rd student (message): “Hieromartyr Mikhail Tikhonitsky.”
4 student: learn the poem “Saint”.
During the classes
I. Organizing time.
Greetings. Organizational word of the teacher. Checking children's readiness for the lesson.
II. Goal setting and motivation.
Guys, look at the next slide ( slide 1). What do you see on it? ( icons)
What is an icon? (image of a saint or event from scripture)
What saints do you know? ( Nicholas the Wonderworker, Seraphim of Sarov, Alexander Nevsky, Xenia of Petersburg, Praskovya Friday, martyr and healer Panteleimon and other saints)
Well done. In Rus' they have always understood, appreciated and revered icon. For Orthodox people, an icon in the house is the main shrine. All the most important events in the life of a Russian family take place in front of icons. Consecrated, prayed icons protect peace and tranquility in the house.
It is impossible to imagine an Orthodox church or house without icons. We just need to remember that when we pray before the image of the Savior, the Mother of God or a saint, we pray not to the icon, but to the prototype - God or the saint who is depicted on it.
So, who do you think we'll talk about today? ( about the saints)
What subject are you studying? ( local history)
So what is the name of the topic of our lesson? ( Saints Vyatka)
So, The topic of our lesson is the Holy Lands of Vyatka - slide 2 (students write down the topic on a knowledge sheet, which they paste into their notebook at home).
III. Updating knowledge.
-Who do you think the saints are? (these are people who led a correct life and pleased God).
Right. While living on earth, they pleased God with their righteous lives. They loved God, loved people, fulfilled God's commandments. Faith transformed these people and united them with God forever. You can pray to them too.
The saints themselves are called differently: saints, saints, blessed. They are called that because each of them had their own life, their own exploits ( slide 3).
What does the word reverend mean? ( very similar, similar to the saints, to God)
Right . These are people who spent their lives in fasting and prayer in monasteries and deserts. What about the blessed? (crazy, holy fools; those who lead a righteous lifestyle, have the gift of prophecy; seeks good, lives in the heavenly world, for example St. Basil).
- What does the word saint mean? (enlightened, brings light to people, the light of faith, truth, holy monk)
When did saints appear in our country? Let's remember the story ( slide 4). What religion was originally in Rus'? ( paganism)
What does paganism mean? (people worshiped the gods of the elemental forces of nature,fought and were at enmity with each other)
How did Christianity arise? (Prince Vladimir (slide 5) decided to unite all people, decided to choose faith in one God. First, Prince Vladimir himself was baptized, and then all the residents of Russian villages and cities).
IV. Learning new material.
Well, now I suggest you learn about the Vyatka saints (slide 6), completing the table. To do this, you will be distributed in rows: 1st row - Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka; 2nd row – Blessed Procopius; 3rd row - Saint Nicholas of Velikoretsky , V During the work, the table in the knowledge sheet will be filled out.
Table of the Holy Lands of Vyatka
Homeland - Malaya Nemnyuzhka village
Homeland - Koryakinskaya village, near the city of Khlynov
Homeland - Lycia (Roman province) Asia Minor
Name in the world - Trofim Podvizaev
Name in the world - Prokopiy Plushkov
Name in the world - Nikolai Marlikiysky
Event- in his youth, after a sermon by a priest, he decided to devote himself to serving God
Event - on the field he was struck by lightning, and he was mentally damaged, healed by Tryphon of Vyatka,
Event- was very religious from early childhood and completely devoted his life to
founder of the Trifonov Monastery
feat of foolishness - predicted the recovery or death of patients, warned about fires
charity, miracles, pacifier of warring parties, protector of the innocent, patron of farmers, sailors and travelers,
Velikoretsk religious procession
relics in the shrine of the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery
relics in the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery
relics in the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Baria (southern Italy)
The guys read out the answers in the table - group 1 (slide 7-8 )
Well done. God instructed Saint Tryphon to go to the Vyatka land. When he reached the Vyatka River, all nature rejoiced at the saint: the water, sanctified by prayer, became sweet, the trees bowed down, welcoming him. Here he fervently prayed before the Velikoretsk miraculous image of St. Nicholas of Myra, remembering his help at the beginning of his journey, when he was sick. Then he was 22 years old, he had just taken monastic vows. For more than 40 days he could not get up, did not sleep or eat. One day, when he was in a state of oblivion, an old man in light clothes appeared to him, holding a cross in his hands. It was Saint Nicholas of Myra. “Rise and walk,” said the great Wonderworker, blessing the sick man with the cross. And he stood up.
The townspeople fell in love with the unknown wanderer, and when he turned to them with a request to found a monastery across the Zasora River, they agreed and sent the monk for permission to Metropolitan Anthony of Moscow and All Rus'. The monk in Moscow was ordained a priest and returned to Khlynov with a charter for the land for the monastery. There were many obstacles during the construction of the monastery. When up to 40 monks gathered and the temple became cramped, the townspeople helped build a new large church in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The monk donated everything to the needs of the monastery, which grew and became stronger.
Tell me, what is the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery famous for? (V The cathedral kept the Gospel written by St. Tryphon, his chains and staff made of ebony, the relics of the monk)
Guys, what are relics? ( bones). Relics are the incorruptible remains of saints, which are stored in special crayfish - arks, powerful, strong bones (slide 9).
Powers from the word power, i.e. force. Great healing power emanates from holy relics. But the Lord does not heal everyone with the prayers of a saint. Why do you think? ( man is sinful, behaves badly, hatred, theft, evil)
According to Orthodox doctrine, the cause of illness is the violation of God's commandments: disrespect for parents, envy, resentment, deception, slander, malice, hatred, theft, self-will... Healing is received by those people who have realized the cause of their illnesses and realized that it is impossible to live doing evil .
And now, I propose to go to Saint Blessed Procopius ( slide 10).
Read out the answers in the table(slide 11)
For 30 years Blessed Procopius of Vyatka was a fool. There is no doubt that the Monk Tryphon of Vyatka and Blessed Procopius were connected by strong spiritual ties. Blessed Procopius of Vyatka was buried with honor in the Vyatka Trifonov Dormition Monastery. In the 17th century one girl from Slobodsky district, Marfa Timofeeva, was very ill. After prayer in the Vyatka Dormition Monastery, she had a vision: two saints appeared before her and promised healing; she soon recovered.
- And the 3rd row remains - St. Nicholas of Velikoretsky - slide 12 ( read out the answers in the table ).
That's right, he's right became famous for his many exploits and miracles, and did a lot of charity work. Almost seventeen centuries have passed since the death of the Miracle Worker of Myra, but people’s love for him has not weakened, and his glory has not faded over time. Thousands of churches are dedicated to the saint, many icons depicting the saint were painted, among which miraculous and especially revered images became famous.
Tell me guys what it's called the famous religious procession of the Vyatka land (Velikoretskoye religious procession, Velikoretskoye village).
Student message 1.
From June 3 to June 8, the Velikoretsk religious procession takes place in the Kirov region. During the 5-day journey, pilgrims cover 150 km. The Velikoretsky religious procession is more than 600 years old. It is dedicated to the appearance of the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on the banks of the Velikaya River.
Legend has it that in 1383, on the high bank of the Velikaya River, the image of St. Nicholas appeared to the peasant Agalakov (slide 13). Soon healings and miracles began from the icon. With joint efforts, the peasants built a chapel at the site of the appearance of the icon, and later construction of the temple began.
Concern for the Shrine prompted the Vyatichi in 1392 to move the image from the banks of the Velikaya River to the city of Khlynov. The Khlynovites vowed to annually bring the icon to the place of its appearance (slide 14). Thus was born one of the oldest traditions of the Vyatka land - the Velikoretsk religious procession. The religious procession was initially carried out along the Vyatka and Velikaya rivers at the end of May according to the old style. At the end of the 18th century it was approved(slide 15)land route. The ancient Vyatka villages stood on the way of the religious procession: Makarye, Bobino, Zagarye, Monastyrskoye, Gorokhovo, Medyany, Fileyskoye, etc.
In 2013, it was estimated that the number of pilgrims was 32,000 people (slide 16).
Well done boys. In the 20th century, the church, like representatives of other religions in Russia, had a difficult fate. In 1917, a revolution occurred in Russia, Tsar Nicholas 2 was overthrown. The Bolshevik party, hostile to any religion, seized power in the country. Orthodox churches were closed and destroyed, icons were destroyed, many believers and members of the clergy were exiled and even killed.
Which priest do you know?
Student message 2(slide 17).
For example, Hieroconfessor Victor - Bishop of Vyatka and Glazov known for remaining faithful to God and not abandoning him during the years of Soviet power. Even when he was on Solovki, he was complacent and treated others with love. He loved the Vyatka people very much and said: “If only they carried me past Vyatka dead.” In 1997, His relics were found in the village of Neritsa (Komi), and then they remembered what he said - and brought them to Vyatka. Now his relics are located in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Convent. Above the relics is the same icon of the Savior, in front of which the bishop prayed until the end of his days.
So, what does a priestly confessor mean? ( those who openly professed the Christian faith during persecution and were themselves persecuted, but did not suffer martyrdom).
That's right, he was not afraid of difficulties, he remained faithful to God. Now let's move on to the holy martyr.
Student message 3(slide 18).
Hieromartyr Mikhail Tikhonitsky He not only suffered for his faith, but also gave his life. He served in Orlov for almost 40 years. One without a mother raised 6 children. 2 sons became bishops, the third became a teacher in the Baltic states. 3 daughters - talented teachers. And the Bolsheviks killed him in 1918 for his church service.
- So who are the martyrs? (Christians who accepted marking and death for their faith).
V. Awareness and comprehension of educational information.
- Guys, what other saints of our region do you already know? ( look at the material from the previous lesson: St. Stephen of Philae, St. Matthew of Yaran, St. Leonid of Ustnedum and answer:
- Venerable Stephen of Fileia (slide 19) founded the Alexander Nevsky Monastery on Fileyka. He knew how to pray, wrote books, taught children and monks, and treated the sick. He left us his favorite icon of the healer Panteleimon.
- Venerable Matthew of Yaransky (slide 20) was a student of Stefan Fileisky, he lived correctly and did everything according to his conscience. He founded the Proroensky Monastery in Yaransk, in 1921 the monastery was closed, but Matthew continued to receive people, until the last days of his life the priest served his neighbors.
- Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsky(slide 21) He was originally from Poshekhon peasants from Novgorod and became a monk at the age of 50. The Mother of God came to him 4 times in a dream and ordered him to build a temple on the Luza River. So he did. He lived 103 years. I managed to do everything.
Do you think it was by chance that the Mother of God came to him in a dream and that he lived for so long? ( not by chance, because he served God and people, for the purity of his soul, for his faith).
VI. Consolidation of educational information.
And now I suggest you do the work with proverbs - slide 22.
Before you are the beginnings of proverbs, select the endings for them and explain their meaning:
Life is given... (for good deeds)
Do good -… (amuse yourself)
A good deed... (will not go without reward)
You wish well, ... (do good)
Guys, try to find words with the same root as the word saint? ( Saint - , light, doing good, holy, holy, light, divine light)
What qualities do you think a saint should have? ( kindness, honesty, decency, purity, love for all living things, faith in God) –slide 23.
VII. Summarizing.
For a long time they didn’t talk about saints in our country, but over the last twenty years they very often remember, what is this connected with? ( revival of faith, With The saints experienced the same feelings as us, joy and disappointment, hope and despair, inspiration and extinction. Their path is accompanied by a difficult internal feat: they cleansed themselves of bad thoughts, helped people.)
= How many saints do you think there are in the world? (a lot of)
IN Akathist to all Saints(in the song to the saints of the world) it is said: only God knows the number of stars, as well as the number of all saints. But the Church knows and remembers the names of many saints. And if light a candle in the place where the saint lived, then all of Russia will be covered with candles.
In our lesson, guys, today we tried to figure out who the saints are? What conclusion can be drawn on today's topic ( Saints are people who really existed, people just like us, only they overcame their sins. They know what goodness, mercy, compassion, humility, purity and philanthropy are. Saints are role models, people should strive for this image.)
Every nation has its own saints who are loved, honored and remembered. Their names will remain for centuries, Their image becomes brighter and lighter over time. We must remember our Vyatka saints. And at the end of the lesson, let's listen to the poem "Holy" ( message 4 students):
From birth to death
We wander, wandering in the dark,
We find our way by feeling
Fortunately, both to love and to beauty.
And God’s light shines on the saint,
Like a bright candle flame;
The darkness of the night is illuminated
Golden, warm rays.
That is why they are subject to the saint
Our destinies, thoughts and hearts
He sees clearly with spiritual vision
Providence of the Heavenly Father.
VIII. Homework (optional) - slide 24:
Finally, you are given homework.
II.
IX. Reflection
In your knowledge sheet in the corner you see a temple, if you liked the lesson, color its dome with stars. Thank you for your attention - slide 25.
Lesson topic:__________________________________________________________
1. Table. Holy lands of Vyatka
Venerable Tryphon (1546-1612)
Blessed Procopius (1578-1627)
Saint Nicholas of Velikoretsky (240-345)
Homeland -
Homeland –
Homeland –
Name -
Name -
Name -
Event -
Event -
Event -
The goal of all life is
The goal of all life is
The goal of all life is
power
power
power
2. Before you are the beginnings of proverbs, select the endings for them and explain their meaning
(you can connect them with arrows):
Life is given... to amuse yourself
To do good -... for good deeds
Good deed... do good
You wish well, ... you won’t be left without narada
3. P choose words with the same root:
Saint______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
What qualities should a saint have? ___________________________________
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4. Homework (optional):
I. Is there a revered icon in your family, tell us about it.
II. In your family circle, you can call someone a saint, tell (write) about him.
III. Which temple is located close to your place of residence, tell us about it.
Venerable Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka, descended from pious parents who lived in the Arkhangelsk province. When Tryphon's parents wanted to marry him, he, from a young age, feeling a calling to monastic life, secretly left home for the city of Ustyug, where he settled with the parish priest, all the time being in strict fasting and prayer.
Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka
Then he lived in the town of Orlets near the church, enduring cold and hunger, and from there he moved to the Pyskor monastery on the Kama River. Here the Monk Tryphon joined the monastic life and took monastic vows from Abbot Varlaam. The 22-year-old monk did not miss a single church service and carried out difficult obedience in the bakery. When he became seriously ill, Saint Nicholas appeared to him and, having healed him, strengthened him in his feat. In search of solitude, the monk went to the mouth of the Mulyanka River and settled in the place where the city of Perm is now located. Here he converted the pagan Ostyaks and Voguls to Christianity. Then the Monk Tryphon retired to the Chusovaya River and founded a monastery there in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 1580, he came to the city of Khlynov, Vyatka province, also founded the Assumption Monastery there, and was made an archimandrite. Being a strict ascetic, he wore a hair shirt and heavy chains on his body. The soul of the elder longed for the enlightenment of the lost with the light of Christ's faith. He devoted all his strength to this holy cause.
Cancer from St. relics of St. Tryphon in the Vyatka monastery
Before his death, the Monk Tryphon wrote a will to the brethren, which says: “The flock gathered in Christ, fathers and brethren! Listen to me, a sinner. Although I am rude and worse than everyone else, God and His Most Pure Mother allowed me, the bad one, to manage His house. I pray you, for God and His Most Pure Mother, have spiritual love among each other. Without it, no virtue is complete before God. The lips of Christ spoke to the disciples: “Love one another” (John 13:34). According to the Apostle Paul, “bear one another’s burdens” (Gal. 6:2). Do not judge one another before God, whether in church or in a cell, alone or in fellowship with the brethren. Perform cell prayers with fear. And don’t skip church singing at all; even if it was the case, run to the church of God for spiritual singing. First give what is God to God, and then do other things.” The Monk Tryphon passed away to the Lord in old age in 1612. He was buried in the Vyatka monastery he founded.
Troparion to St. Tryphon of Vyatka, tone 4
I to the luminous star, / you shone from the east to the west, / for you left your fatherland, / you reached the Vyatka country and the God-saved city of Khlynov, / in it you created a monastery for the glory of the Most Holy Theotokos, / and there, focusing on virtue, / you gathered the monastics multitude, / and, instructing these on the path of salvation, / you were an angel interlocutor, / and a participant in fasting, Reverend Tryphon, / with them pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
Kontakion to St. Tryphon of Vyatka, tone 8
D Having at the beginning of the foundation of virtue, blessed one, you put the fear of God in your soul, from your youth you took up your cross, you followed Christ piously, you were clothed with an angelic image and became a wonderful monk, flourishing in virtues, reaching out to the future Gods. And to your flesh, like an enemy, you were unmerciful, Father, you were unmerciful, you appeared with patience, blessed, as gold was tempted in the crucible, but even now do not forget to visit your children, remember us who honor your holy memory, and we all cry out to you with gratitude: Rejoice, the wise Tryphon, mentor of monks.
Prayer to the Holy Venerable Tryphon, Vyatka Wonderworker
ABOUT Holy head, Reverend Father Tryphon! An earthly angel and a heavenly man, a bright lamp, illuminating the country of Vyatka with miracles, a wall and a stronghold for our city, a strong helper to the needy, a kind guardian of your abode, a close intercessor for us to God and a warm intercessor for our souls! To you, servant of God, inexhaustible treasure from the All-Good Lord of grace and gifts has been given to heal bodily ailments and drive away spiritual passions and to deliver those who call on your name with faith from all evils. We therefore resort to you and fall into prayer: do not despise us, who pray to you and ask for your help, deliver us from enemies, visible and invisible, who enviously rise up against us and want to devour us with brutal rage, save us with your invisible intercession from confusion and storm and countless sorrows ours, coming to us for our sins. O wonderful and God-bearing Father Tryphon! Seek our help soon. Offer up your powerful prayer to the Lord of hosts: may the Lord free the suffering Russian country from the cruel atheists and their power, and may He erect the throne of Orthodox rulers; His faithful servants, in grief and sorrow, crying out to Him day and night, may the painful cry be heard and may our belly be carried away from destruction, may the Lord consume all frantic sedition from our land, and establish serenity, peace and piety in it, may He preserve the monastery your holy city, our city and all the cities and towns of our country from famine and destruction, from rebellion and disorder, from fire and storm, from enemy attacks and from corrupting winds and from all evil. Appease Christ our God for us with your favorable prayers, so that we may be delivered from our sins and the slander of the enemy, so that through your intercession and help we may live here on earth in peace and silence pleasing to God, and in the future may we be honored with a portion of the saints of our Lord Jesus Christ, Him. honor and worship are due, now and forever. Amen.
Cathedral of Vyatka Saints
Glorification of the Cathedral of Vyatka Saints took place in connection with the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the Vyatka diocese on the day of memory of St. Tryphon of Vyatka on October 21, 2007 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery. The celebration was headed by Metropolitan Chrysanthus of Vyatka. The celebration of the Council of Vyatka Saints was established on the same day. The saints of God glorified in it include:
- St. Tryphon of Vyatka († 1612, commemorated October 8)
- Blzh. Procopius of Vyatka († 1627, commemorated December 21)
- St. Leonid Ustnedumsky († 1654, commemorated July 17)
- St. Stefan Fileisky († 1890)
- Sschmch. Nikolai (Podyakov), prot. († 1918)
- Sschmch. Procopius (Popov), Archpriest († 1918)
- Sschmch. Anatoly (Ivanovsky), priest. († 1918)
- Sschmch. Victor (Usov), priest. († 1918)
- Sschmch. Mikhail (Tikhonitsky), priest. († 1918)
- St. Matthew Yaransky († 1927)
- Spanish Victor (Ostrovidov), bishop. Glazovsky († 1934)
- Mts. Nina (Kuznetsova) († 1938)
- Prisp. Alexander (Orudov), archimandrite. († 1961, commemorated August 14, September 5)
Troparion to the Cathedral of Vyatka Saints, tone 8
Holy Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka
The Monk Tryphon (in the world Trofim) was born in 1546 in the distant Arkhangelsk village of Malaya Nemnyuzhka, into the family of wealthy peasants Dimitri and Pelageya Podvizaev. His father died early, and Trofim was raised by his mother and older brothers, to whom he was accustomed to obey in everything. From an early age, he dreamed of a monastic life and sought to remove himself from the worldly. The words of the church teaching he heard deeply sank into his soul: “Keep spiritual and physical purity from childhood. For whoever maintains purity and takes upon himself the angelic monastic image, the Lord God will number him among his chosen ones.” That is why, when the time came to get married, Trofim refused it. Relatives insisted on marriage, and the young man was forced to leave his parents' home. In Veliky Ustyug he found a spiritual father, the priest John, and then moved to the town of Orlov on the Kama River. Here he led the life of a holy fool, spending the night on the church porch.
One winter, he, defenseless, was pushed down from the steep bank of the river by the people of the Stroganov salt industrialists. A huge snowdrift fell on him. The “Jokers” took pity and dug up Trofim. And then the inexplicable happened: despite the frost, an extraordinary warmth spread from it. Jacob Stroganov learned about this and asked the blessed one to pray for his only son, who was seriously ill. Through the prayers of the blessed one, he survived. So already in his youth the gift of healing appeared to the Monk Tryphon. Soon he resurrected the dead baby.
At the age of 22, Trofim came to a monastery near Solikamsk and became a monk with the name Tryphon. He soon fell ill from harsh obediences. For more than forty days he could not get up, did not sleep, did not eat. One day, when he was in a state of oblivion, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him. Tryphon followed him through the air, saw only a wonderful light, and suddenly a great voice stopped the Angel: “You hastened to take him, return him to where he was.” The angel returned the monk to his cell and became invisible, and Tryphon began to pray fervently. Suddenly he noticed an old man in light clothes, with a cross in his hands, at the bedside: it was Nicholas the Wonderworker. “Get up and walk,” he said to the sick man, lifted him by the hands and blessed him with the cross.
After a serious illness, the Monk Tryphon intensified his exploits. He began to perform miracles of healing, and then, leaving the monastery, he went to the place indicated to him from above - where the pagan tribes of the Khanty and Mansi lived. The pagans made sacrifices near a huge spruce tree, in the magical power of which even some Christians believed. Then Rev. Tryphon decided to follow the example of Rev. Abraham of Rostov. The monk prepared for this for four weeks with fasting and prayer and, calling on the name of Jesus, cut down the ritual tree and burned it. Seeing this, the pagans exclaimed: “Great is the Christian God!” and began to receive holy baptism.
The Lord gave the Monk Tryphon the idea to go to the Vyatka land, where at that time there was not a single monastic monastery. At the beginning of 1580, the blessed one came to Khlynov (Vyatka). Here he prayed fervently before the Velikoretsk miraculous image of St. Nicholas. Having learned that there was an unfinished wooden church in Slobodskoye, Tryphon asked the city residents to donate the frame to him. The dismantled church was transported along the river to Khlynov, but the rafts ran aground and began to get stuck in the sand. The monk said a prayer, after which the waves lifted the rafts and they landed safely on the shore. The people of Vyatcha showed negligence towards the holy work - the construction of the monastery, but the Lord enlightened them.
That year, from the day of the Assumption until the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, there were torrential rains. On the night of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the pious villager Nikita Kuchkov had a vision: the Mother of God, appearing with the Heavenly Powers and John the Baptist, said to the residents of Khlynov: “You promised to build a monastery in My name, why have you now forgotten your promise? The builder given to you by God grieves and in prayers constantly asks the Lord for this, but you despise him. If you do not fulfill My command now, the wrath of God will befall you.” In the morning Nikita spoke about the command of the Most Pure One. On the same day, after the festive liturgy, the townspeople came with a procession of the cross to the site of the future monastery and founded a church in the name of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the rain stopped. Cells soon appeared around the erected temple, since many, having heard about the great ascetic, came to the monastery and took monastic vows there. Pious Vyatchans collected money, with which another temple was erected - in the name of the Dormition of the Mother of God. His Holiness Patriarch Job elevated Blessed Tryphon to the rank of archimandrite. Having become the rector of a crowded monastery, Abbot Tryphon did not weaken his monastic exploits: he wore chains and a hair shirt, in his cell there were only books and icons.
The life of St. Tryphon is an example of serving the Lord, an example of monastic humility and obedience. In his will, the saint wrote: “The flock gathered in Christ, fathers and brothers! Listen to me, a sinner. I pray to you: for the sake of God and the Most Pure Mother of God, have spiritual love among yourself and do not judge each other. Perform cell prayers with fear, and do not dare to skip church singing. If there is something to do, run to the Church of God for spiritual singing... And for God’s sake, in my life, do not forget me, a sinner, but always remember, and you yourself will be remembered by God.”
The relics of St. Tryphon were found in 1684 during the construction of the stone Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, under whose cover they remain to this day.
The Vyatsky Assumption Trifonov Monastery was returned to the Church (the cathedral church was consecrated on August 25, 1991), and now monastic life has been revived in it. The candles at the shrine of the miracle worker are glowing again. A chapel was built at the holy spring with healing water (where the Mother of God appeared to the monk). And in the spring of 1993, a miracle happened: an ancient icon of St. Tryphon. In 1994, the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery was visited by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and celebrated the Divine Liturgy there.
The Holy Church celebrates the memory of St. Tryphon of Vyatka on October 8 (21).
Based on materials from the book “Akathist and the Life of St. Tryphon, the Vyatka Wonderworker.”
“As the land of Vyatka brings to You the images of virtues and prayers, God-given fruit, O Lord God, all the saints who lived and shone in that land, preserve our fatherland with those prayers and the Mother of God.”
With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, the celebration was established in 2007 The Cathedral of Saints who shone in the Vyatka land. It takes place annually October 8 (21) , on the day of memory of St. Tryphon of Vyatka. The Vyatka diocese acquired this holiday in honor of its heavenly patrons on its 350th anniversary. At the suggestion of the Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, His Eminence Chrysanthus, the cathedral included the Venerables Tryphon of Vyatka, Leonid of Ustnedumsky, Stefan of Philei, Matthew of Yaransky, Holy Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, Confessor Victor - Bishop of Glazov, Hieromartyrs Mikhail Tikhonitsky, Nikolai Podyakov, Viktor Usov, Anatoly Ivanovsky and Prokopiy Popov, Archimandrite Alexander (Urodov) - confessor, martyr Nina Kuznetsova. The Council of Vyatka Saints is one of the youngest holidays of the Russian Orthodox Church.
October 8 (21) is also the day of remembrance of St. Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka. He was born in a distant Arkhangelsk village, into a pious peasant family. From a young age, he felt a calling to monastic life, and therefore, when his parents decided to marry him, he secretly left home for the city of Ustyug, where he lived, all the time being in strict fasting and prayer. Then he moved to the town of Orel, and the church porch became his only refuge there. Cold, hunger, ridicule and bullying - he went through all this with truly Christian humility and submission. He received monastic tonsure with the name Trofim at the Pyskov monastery on the Kama from Abbot Varlaam. He did not miss a single service and diligently carried out obedience in the monastery bakery, sometimes exhausting himself with backbreaking work. Being a strict ascetic, the Monk Tryphon wore a hair shirt and heavy chains. Even after a hard day's work, he did not stop his spiritual exploits and spent all his nights in prayer. To disperse sleep, he exposed his body to the waist for mosquitoes and midges. He ate only bread and water. Thus, one of the youngest monks became an example for all the brethren, who were amazed at his humility, patience, obedience and love. And when he became seriously ill and could neither eat nor drink for forty days, Saint Nicholas appeared to him and, having healed him, strengthened him in his feat. In search of solitude, the monk went to deserted places near the mouth of the Mulyanka River. The Ostyaks and Voguls who lived there were pagans, and Saint Tryphon converted them to Christianity. Then he went to the Chusovaya River and founded a monastery there in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Great is the feat of Saint Tryphon, immeasurable is his zealous service to the Lord. His soul longed for the enlightenment of the lost with the light of Christ's faith. The main task of his entire ascetic life was the founding of a monastery on Vyatka. He came here at the command of God. But the Vyatka residents did not immediately believe him, showing indifference to the construction of the monastery. And the Lord enlightened them. From the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary until Her Nativity there were torrential rains in Vyatka. And on the night of Her Christmas, She appeared to one of the Vyatka residents and said: “You promised to build a monastery in My name, why have you now forgotten your promise? The builder given to you by God grieves and in prayers constantly asks the Lord for this, but you despise him. If you do not fulfill My command now, the wrath of God will befall you.” On the same day, after the festive liturgy, a religious procession took place in the city to the site of the future monastery, and a church was founded in the name of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is how the history of the Assumption Trifonov Monastery began.
The great ascetic did not abandon his monastic exploits for a day; he worked hard and was a great man of prayer for the land of Vyatka and its inhabitants. He had to endure a lot of sorrows, undeserved insults and insults. He accepted everything with Christian submission, with humility, without grumbling. The saint left a testament to all of us: “The flock gathered in Christ - fathers and brothers! Listen to me, a sinner. I pray to you: for the sake of God and the Most Pure Mother of God, have spiritual love among yourself and do not judge each other. Perform cell prayers with fear, and do not dare to skip church singing. If there is something to do, run to the Church of God for spiritual singing... And for God’s sake, in my life, do not forget me, a sinner, but always remember me and you yourself will be remembered by God.”
The saint reposed in the Lord on October 8 (21), 1612. Before his death, Saint Tryphon accepted the schema. Having confessed and received the Holy Mysteries of Christ, the ascetic died. When the monks came to his cell, it was filled with fragrance, his face shone, and the chains fell off his body by themselves.
The disciples of St. Tryphon of Vyatka went to different cities and villages of the Vyatka province, bringing people the light of the faith of Christ, and his testament became a spiritual instruction for many generations of Orthodox Christians. Having moved to the heavenly monasteries, the monk did not leave the monastery and the city that had become home to him through his intercession. The monastery he founded became the spiritual center of the Vyatka region.
Through the prayers of Tryphon of Vyatka, many ascetics, confessors, and martyrs of Christ rose up on the Vyatka land, glorifying it. Therefore, on the day of remembrance of St. Tryphon, October 21, a celebration is held in honor of the Council of all saints who shone in the land of Vyatka.
« Today the land of Vyatka rejoices, glorifying all those who have pleased God here; they now stand in the Church and, together with all the saints, pray to the Most High for us, to grant us great mercy.” Kontakion, tone 3.
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On January 3, 2003, the Orthodox Christians of the Vyatka country celebrated the 375th anniversary of the death of Blessed Procopius. We celebrated with a solemn service and a local history conference. But I want to understand the main thing: who was Blessed Procopius over the past centuries for the Vyatka land, for the Vyatchans?
After the February coup, unrest increasingly overwhelmed Russia, uprooting the foundations of national existence. 1917 was the last year when the memory of the blessed one was celebrated according to the old style. Saint Procopius died at the end of December, and the new style “dragged” it in 1918 to the following January, 1919. Even these metamorphoses of dates revealed a kind of foolishness! Life of the Blessed Procopius, his heavenly patronage of the land of Vyatka is a true miracle, a quiet miracle of Russian Orthodoxy. Even the name “Procopius” is translated from Greek as “advanced”, “successful”. Indeed, Saint Procopius was ahead of his time.
"The Odr is the earth, the cover is the sky..."
The blessed one revealed himself to the world at the end of the 16th century, when the feat of foolishness manifested itself in Rus' with unusual force. As the cleric of St. Basil’s Cathedral, Fr. John Kovalevsky, wrote at the beginning of the 20th century, “...in no other country has the feat of foolishness flourished as much as in Ancient Rus': in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.” During this time, at least 10 holy fools (only glorified ones!) can be found in the Russian calendar. But in all countries during the highest flowering of Christianity in the 5th-10th centuries, you can count half as many canonized holy fools.
Procopius was born in 1578 in the village of Koryakinskaya, not far from the main Vyatka city of Khlynov, into a peasant family (or, as one of the ancient lives respectfully clarifies, “by the artistry of farmers”). The Lord preserved the names of the saint's parents - Maxim and Irina. They didn't have children for a long time. Therefore, Procopius became a desired, begged-for son.
The baby grew up for mom and dad's comfort. But at the age of 12, an accident happened to the boy. While working in the field, he was caught in a terrible thunderstorm. Frightened by the hurricane, Procopius fell from his horse and lost consciousness. With tears, Maxim and Irina prayed to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for their son, and he woke up. But the illness did not go away at all. The boy, like a madman, tore his shirt and walked around naked. As the Vyatka priest Sergius Gomayunov subtly noted, “this madness was not feigned. Procopius, by God’s permission, for the sake of the glory of his future exploits, was subjected to a demonic attack. He saw the enemy face to face. It can be assumed that this event largely determined his future life path ".
The unfortunate parents took the sick boy to the city of Khlynov to the Assumption Monastery, whose rector, Rev. Tryphon, served a prayer service, sprinkling the seriously ill man with holy water. Through the prayers of the monk, the boy received healing.
This meeting became truly fateful not only for the two saints, but also for the entire Vyatka land. True, at first after it, external life returned to its usual course. At the age of 17, that is, around 1595, Procopius went to the city of Slobodskoy, where for three years he served the priest of the Catherine Church, Father Hilarion. And when the young man turned 20 years old, his parents decided to marry him (the same story happened with St. Tryphon!).
But Procopius saw his destiny in something completely different. He went to Khlynov, where he began to act like a fool. According to church tradition, Tryphon of Vyatka blessed Procopius both for refusing to marry and for the cross of foolishness. The tradition was reflected in akathists dedicated to both saints. So, in the 1st ikos of the akathist of the blessed one. Procopius is told: “Rejoice, you who were guided and blessed by Saint Tryphon on the path of salvation.”
Blessed Procopius labored in Khlynov for three decades, becoming a living legend of the city. Time passed, Procopius grew old, but still did not have a roof over his head, slept wherever he could, walked the streets almost naked, gave donated clothes to others or tore them. The blessed one hardly spoke, so many considered him dumb (only the holy fool’s confessor, priest John Kalashnikov, knew that Procopius could express himself normally, but the holy fool asked to hide this until his death). At first, many considered him crazy, mocked the holy fool, beat him and mocked him.
However, they gradually began to notice that many of the actions of the “madman” were prescient. The blessed one predicted illness or death, and healed from illness (for example, the wife of his confessor). If he knew about an impending fire, he would climb the bell tower and ring all the bells.
Arriving at the exiled boyar Mikhail Tatishchev in Khlynov, Procopius served the prisoner bread and water, showing through the window that he would pull him out to freedom. And, indeed, the disgraced official was soon released. One day the blessed one went into the official hut and took off the cap of the governor Zhemchuzhnikov. The voivode gave up his place to him. Then Procopius took Zhemchuzhnikov by the hand and took him to the prisoner’s room. And what? Soon the royal order came to imprison the governor for misconduct.
During the service in the Sloboda Baptist Church, the holy fool pushed Korniliy Korsakov into the altar, who later became a priest and later abbot Cyprian.
The wife of the Vyatka governor Alexander Danilovich Priemnikov-Rostovsky, Natalya, greatly revered the blessed one. She invited him to her house, looked after the saint, treated him, and dressed him in clean clothes. But the blessed one, leaving the guests, tore the donated clothes and lay around until he got dirty again.
To the outside eye, he died unexpectedly, but he himself foresaw his last hour. On December 21, 1627, the blessed one stood for the last time at matins in the Presentation Church, then went to service in the church of the Transfiguration Monastery of Women, where he stayed until his release. Then the saint went to the Razderikhinsky ravine, where, after praying for the Vyatka people, for the well-being of the holy churches, for the sovereign, he went to the Lord. The blessed one was buried near the northern side of the Assumption Cathedral. 15 years earlier, St. Tryphon also rested here.
Two brothers...
Starting from the 17th century, the lives of St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius invariably appeared side by side in handwritten collections in Vyatka. The saints seemed to show: “We are two brothers. How can we be separated?”
This is also the only widely known posthumous miracle of Blessed Procopius. On March 3, 1666, after fervent prayer in the Vyatka Assumption Monastery (let me remind you: this is where St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius rest), two luminous men appeared to the girl Martha Timofeeva, possessed by an unclean spirit. They called each other Tryphon and Procopius and promised the sick a speedy healing. And she really soon recovered.
But after this miracle - silence. It was generally unclear who Procopius was for the Vyatchans, whether they revered him. But somehow I accidentally found a manuscript - not a venerable scientist, not a church historian - the thesis of a Vyatka university student S. Yufereva. And by God’s providence this dreary ignorance began to disappear for me. Svetlana writes: the famous historian V.O. Klyuchevsky, back in the 19th century, kept a handwritten Life of Blessed Procopius, which Klyuchevsky dated to the end of the 17th century. And here is the unexpected version of S. Yufereva - the blessed one was glorified by the pious Vyatka Archbishop Jonah (Baranov). Vladyka Jonah headed the Vyatka See in 1675-1699, he went down in the history of Vyatka by starting to build stone churches, was the founder of a number of monasteries, a zealous prayer book and admirer of shrines, and a collector of Vyatka church tradition. One of the main acts of the archbishop. Jonah became the glorification of St. Tryphon of Vyatka. Vladyka Jonah even rested on the day of remembrance of the saint - October 8/21, and Vyatcha residents constantly served memorial services at his tomb (you can read about all this in the essay “The Bishop’s Path”, published in No. 344 of “Faith”, 1999).
Whether the hypothesis that Bishop Jonah also glorified Blessed Procopius will be confirmed, time and new information will tell. But still, Yufereva’s opinion did not arise out of nowhere and should make us perk up once again and look at our history with joy...
After all, the same Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka was revered very modestly in Vyatka until the middle of the 19th century (even the day of memory of the saint on October 8/21 passed almost unnoticed). Only in the 1860-1870s. Temple altars began to be consecrated in honor of the saint and religious processions were held everywhere. This many years of intense missionary work eventually bore fruit: the veneration of Saint Tryphon increased, he truly became Vyatka! The matter was completed in 1912, when, without exaggeration, the entire Vyatka country celebrated the 300th anniversary of the death of St. Tryphon.
St. Tryphon seemed to lead his younger brother by the hand, blessed. Procopius, to our souls, as if asking: “For you, I am Vyatsky? So, Procopius is also Vyatsky!” Saints began to be depicted together on icons. Such a proximity was brighter than many words; it became evidence of the gospel truth: “Blessed are your eyes that they see” (Matthew 13:16). These icons were distributed during religious processions dedicated to Tryphon of Vyatka.
In the 1880s, in the Assumption Trifonov Monastery, during holidays they began to constantly pronounce the names of St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius. Such an innovation was so unusual for older priests that they had great difficulty getting used to it (although in fairness it must be said that even in the Synod of the Suburban Epiphany Cathedral, dating back to the 17th century, “Procopius the Holy Fool” was commemorated).
The first Vyatka bishop who began to constantly pronounce the names of St. Tryphon and Procopius on vacations was Bishop Nikon (Sofia). He headed the Vyatka department in 1901-1904. He is known for the fact that on May 28, 1908, as Exarch of Georgia, he suffered martyrdom at the hands of terrorists, who inflicted eight wounds on him.
But still, the veneration of blessed Procopius lagged behind the veneration of Tryphon by twenty to thirty years and was more modest, quieter...
It seems to me that it spread largely thanks to Rev. Stefan (Kurteev). At the end of the 1880s, the priest was exiled to the Assumption Trifonov Monastery due to the fact that he founded the Alexander Nevsky Phileisky Monastery without written permission (Vladyka Apollos (Belyaev), who verbally blessed the creation of the monastery, had died by that time).
But, as they say, every cloud has a silver lining. While in exile in the Assumption Monastery, Father Stefan could inspire people there with his example to pray to St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius. Father drew strength from his predecessors, who also suffered malice from those around him. During his forced seclusion (the priest lived in a specially built cell), St. Stephen wrote many spiritual works. Perhaps it was then that he compiled and published the lives of both saints.
The works of Father Stefan (Kurteev) were very popular and, of course, sowed many good seeds in the hearts of Vyatchka residents. Moreover, Fr. Stefan not only translated the Life of Procopius, but also spoke about blessed Uar, who lived in Vyatka in the first half of the 19th century and was buried in the Dormition Tryphon Monastery. His grave at the Church of the Three Saints was located next to the grave of another holy fool, Antipas. Both graves were highly revered by Vyatchan believers; memorial services were constantly held here (unfortunately, the graves have not survived).
So, blessed Uar also walked in summer and winter in one shirt and endured 30-degree frosts. This story, writes Father Stephen, is needed “so that we do not doubt such a supernatural feat of blessed Procopius.” On a bitterly frosty evening, the priest continues, Uar knocked on the door of one of the houses, but they did not let him in. In the morning they saw how the blessed one crawled out of the snowdrift, where he had lain all night...
New fans
The second missionary for the glory of the name of Blessed Procopius was the priest of the village of Bobino, Alexander Florov. He not only continued the work of Rev. Stefan (Kurteev) and wrote about the blessed one, but decided to do another good deed - to build a temple in the homeland of blessed Procopius, in the village of Mitino.
But most importantly, the idea of construction was warmly supported by Archbishop of Vyatka and Slobodskaya Alexy (Opotsky). It must be said that the people of Vyatcha have the kindest memory of Vladyka Alexy, who headed the department in 1896-1901. Coming a few years later to Vyatka, St. Righteous John of Kronstadt, seeing the portrait of the bishop, spoke very warmly about him: “My friend, a kind, handsome bishop.”
Later, already serving at the Tambov See, Vladyka became one of the restorers of the veneration of St. righteous princess Anna Kashinskaya, which solemnly took place in 1909. It is worth recalling here that, although the veneration of St. Anna was established at the Council of the Russian Church in 1649, her temple was consecrated in Kashin, and numerous healings took place from the relics of the saint, in 1677 her name was crossed out from the calendar. The official explanation is that the princess's fingers are folded into two fingers. Only under the martyr Emperor Nicholas II was the veneration of Anna Kashinskaya restored. Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna came to the glorification. And the direct organizer of these large-scale celebrations was Vladyka Alexy (Opotsky) of Tambov.
It was a huge work for the glory of God.
The Vyatka works of Bishop Alexy, associated with the glorification of Blessed Procopius, also became a kind of prologue to it. On May 21 (June 3), 1897, after the liturgy in the village of Bobino, a religious procession was held to the village of Mitino, the homeland of Blessed Procopius. This is a special day - the beginning of the Velikoretsk religious procession! And it is remarkable that it was then that the chapel was consecrated in Mitino with a large crowd of people. And on September 17/30 of the next year, 1898, bishop. Alexy (Opotsky) personally consecrated the first temple in the Vyatka land dedicated to the blessed one (a second-grade school was also opened at the temple, built through the zeal of Father A. Florov).
It is truly providential that the archbishop passed away. Alexy in 1914 on December 20, that is, on the eve of the day of memory of Blessed Procopius. We believe that through the prayers of the holy ruler he was honored to acquire the Kingdom of Heaven...
And another righteous death is associated with the name of the blessed one. However, “the saying is true: if we died with Him, then we will live with Him” (2 Tim. 2:11). Three weeks after the consecration of the Church of Procopius of Vyatka, on October 6/19, 1898, the abbess of the Slobodsky Nativity of Christ convent, Abbess Maria (Popova), unexpectedly fell ill with acute pneumonia. The sisters of the monastery prayed for mother’s healing, but she already foresaw the outcome of the illness, often repeating: “Don’t hold me! I’ll go home!”
Three days later, on the morning of October 9/22, the day after the celebration of the memory of St. Tryphon of Vyatka, Abbess Maria quietly passed away into eternity. “It’s rare in the world and monasteries to die such a quiet and peaceful death,” contemporaries wrote about her death.
Before the death of Abbess Maria, she blessed her successor, Mother Olympias, with the image of St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius (and this most likely happened on October 8/21, the day of memory of the saint). Now this icon with its own inscription of St. Mary is in the Trinity Church in the city of Slobodsky.
A few years later, in 1903, Abbess Olympias visited Sarov to glorify Father Seraphim. There, Mother was introduced to the Royal Family, and during Great Lent the following year, 1904, Abbess Olympias was summoned to St. Petersburg, where she was received by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Mother brought the Empress an image of St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius, written by the sisters of the monastery.
And on August 18/31, 1913, in the same city of Slobodsky, but already in the men's Monastery of the Exaltation of the Cross, a chapel was consecrated in the name of St. Tryphon and Blessed Procopius.
Thirst for a holiday
And yet, the above-mentioned Bishop Nikon (Sofia) missed a truly historical chance to make the names of St. Tryphon and Procopius the common property of Vyatka Orthodox life. In 1901, the Holy Synod began, dare I say, a great work. All dioceses were ordered to submit the names of locally venerated saints who were not included in the synodal calendar. We started doing this in Vyatka as well. Information was collected in all deaneries. It was then that it became clear that Blessed Procopius, together with St. Tryphon, was revered in a number of villages in Vyatka, Glazov and Urzhum districts.
In 1903, the Synod released the “Faithful monthbook of all Russian saints honored with prayer services throughout the church and locally.” It also contained the names of St. Tryphon and Blessed. Procopy. But Vladyka Nikon did not complete what he started, did not send instructions to the parishes to be sure to serve on the days of remembrance of the Vyatka saints.
So, unfortunately, the veneration of the blessed one did not take root firmly. There were probably few such active, sincere priests as Father Alexander Florov. And the believers themselves did not kindle the veneration of Procopius in their hearts. In 1915, Archpriest John Osokin wrote: “The solemn service on the day of remembrance of Blessed Procopius is performed, as we know, only in the Vyatka Tryphon Monastery; in all other churches, a simple daily service is performed.”
That's it... But the 300th anniversary of the death of St. Procopius, which occurred in 1928, was celebrated. It was celebrated, as expected, with a religious procession around the Assumption Cathedral with the participation of the clergy of the Trinity and Spassky Cathedrals. Everything is fine, splendid, but all these churches were by that time captured... by renovationists. The false metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky himself was going to come to the celebrations.
And if you look from the other side, the blessed one was acting like a fool here too, as if addressing the Orthodox: “Maybe at least now remember me.”
But then there was no time for the holidays. In 1940, one of the main shrines associated with the blessed one was closed. Procopius, - church in Mitino. To do this, they used a standard scenario: they put pressure on the members of the parish twenty, forcing them to write refusal statements. The results of this work are summarized in a lively report: “In total, the twenty at the Mitino church consisted of... 18 people, of which 15 people filed applications for refusal,... one is mentally ill, two are older, more than 70 years old, are in the hospital.” .
True, in November 1943, believers in the village of Bobino turned to the authorities with a request to open the Mitino temple. The Orthodox insisted: the Bobin church was destroyed in the 1930s, and the Mitin church, located only 3.5 kilometers from the village, was at one time built with the money of Bobin parishioners. The Prokopyevskaya Church was not demolished during the war years; it housed a school. In February 1944, the Kirov Regional Executive Committee, without further explanation, refused to open the temple.
But just as a sprout breaks through the dead thickness of asphalt, so the name of Blessed Procopius did not fade into oblivion. Once again, as at the beginning of the 20th century, a thread stretched between Rev. Seraphim of Sarov and Vyatka saints. Then, in 1903, Vyatka merchants of the same religion, having arrived from the Sarov celebrations in honor of the glorification of St. Seraphim, decided to build a temple to the saint. And they built it in such a way that it’s a pleasure to look at. But he did not escape the fate of closure during the years of persecution. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, there was not a single functioning church left in Vyatka. No one!
But it was St. Seraphim Cathedral that, from 1942, was destined to become the center of local spiritual life for several decades. Then, on the day of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, after several years, the first service was served in the church - and this day is honored on a par with patronal feasts.
Years later, a lower cave temple was built in the Seraphim Cathedral. And one of the chapels was dedicated to St. Tryphon and Blessed. Procopied. There had not yet been a large-scale opening and construction of churches in the 1990s, and such consecration was important - the Vyatka saints blessed the Vyatka people.
Unfortunately, it is useless to look for evidence of the saint’s help in Orthodox periodicals. Church tradition is also silent. Although, of course, it is possible that some stories are still hidden. However, maybe the main reason is in ourselves?
If you had arrived on January 2, 2002, for the all-night vigil at the Vyatka Assumption Cathedral, where the relics of the blessed one rest, you would have been greeted by semi-darkness. Two serving priests, with two dozen parishioners. Not a holiday, but melancholy. But if a year later you found yourself in the same Assumption Cathedral, you would be surprised at the change. On January 3, 2003, on the day of remembrance of the blessed one, the liturgy was led by Archbishop of Vyatka and Slobodskaya Chrysanthus with a host of clergy. Many believers gathered. Many years to the Bishop of Vyatka for understanding the thirst for the holiday and, with his archpastoral decision, turning the service to the blessed one into a true celebration.
And further. At the end of the 19th century, a school was opened at the Church of Procopius of Vyatka. So the first Orthodox kindergarten and diocesan Sunday school in present-day Vyatka were named in the name of Blessed Procopius. This is probably providential. “The children of the flesh are not children, but they are the children of God” (Rom. 9:8).
Only a child can greet everyone with a smile. I will never forget how in the Pochaev Lavra we, Vyatka pilgrims, rose after the liturgy from the cave church in the name of St. Job Pochaevsky. A gallery leads upstairs from this temple, on the walls of which all the holy lands of Russia are depicted in chronological order, starting from the ninth century. And it was so joyful to find the faces of St. Tryphon of Vyatka and Leonid of Ustnedum. And blessed Procopius with a cheerful, cheerful smile... This is how he will meet us, if we are worthy, in the Kingdom of Heaven.
A.Markelov
The author will be grateful for any evidence of modern veneration of Blessed Procopius of Vyatka - for stories about cases of his prayerful help; for information about churches and icons dedicated to him, or about people named in honor of the saint.
You can write to the address: 610000, Kirov (Vyatka), main post office, post restante. A.V. Markelov. Email: