June 25 marks 5 Orthodox church holidays. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of honoring the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

Church Orthodox holidays June 25

Petrov fast (Apostolic) 22 day

Multi-day post. Established in honor of the memory of the apostles Peter and Paul.

Peter's Fast (Peter's Fast, Apostolic Fast) is a fast in the Orthodox Churches, established in memory of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, who fasted, preparing themselves for the preaching of the Gospel (Acts 13:3). It begins a week after the Day of the Holy Trinity, on Monday, after the ninth Sunday after Easter, and ends on the Day of Peter and Paul - June 29 (July 12), when "Peter's firmness and Paul's mind" is sung in Orthodoxy. Thus, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter, it can last from eight to 42 days.

Petrov post is not as strict as great post, the church charter prescribes to abstain only from meat and dairy food, and on Wednesdays and Fridays - also from fish. Wine is allowed on Saturday, Sunday and temple holidays.

The very day of the feast in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul is not part of the fast. However, a holiday that falls on Wednesday or Friday is also fast, writes Therussiantimes portal. In this case, the degree of severity of fasting is only relaxed (compared to the statutory for Wednesday and Friday during the summer "meat-eater"): vegetable oil and fish are allowed at the meal.

Orthodox holiday June 25: Finding of the relics and the second glorification of the Blessed Princess Anna (monastic Euphrosyne) of Kashinsky

The Holy Blessed Princess Anna endured many trials in her life: in the year of her marriage to Prince Mikhail of Tver, her father died, two years later the princely tower with all his property burned to the ground, then her husband fell ill, her daughter died in infancy, and in 1318 her husband left for the Horde and was martyred there. In the same place, in the Horde, then both her sons and her grandson died.

Even after the death of her husband, Anna herself took the tonsure with the name Euphrosyne, and then, having moved to the Kashinsky Dormition Monastery, she was tonsured into the schema with the name Anna. On October 2, 1368, she peacefully passed away to the Lord.

"In a woman's nature, thou hadst a masculine fortress" - the church glorifies her for her spiritual stamina.

The transfer of the relics of the saint from the wooden Assumption Cathedral to the stone Resurrection Cathedral took place on June 12, 1650, and on that day her church veneration was established.

However, since during the schism, St. Anna of Kashinskaya unexpectedly became a symbol of adherents of the "old faith", Patriarch Joachim in 1677 "annulled" her canonization - the only case in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church.

But even "debunked" "for 230 years, the people continued to honor St. Anna. And the church-wide veneration of her was restored only in 1908. And already in 1909 in the city of Grozny, in the region of the Terek Cossacks, a women's community arose in honor of St. Anna of Kashinskaya, and in 1910 a church was consecrated in St. Petersburg in the name of this saint.

But it became especially close to the Orthodox Russian consciousness during the revolution and wars of the 20th century, when the general female destiny began to escort husbands and sons to that dangerous unknown, from where they often do not return, and themselves to flee and hide from enemies.

Church feast of St. Arseny Konevsky

In honor of the miracle worker Arseny. Revered as the patron saint of sailors. Lived until 1447.

The Monk Arseny Konevsky was born in Novgorod the Great. He was a craftsman, a coppersmith. In 1373 he entered the Novgorod Lissitz Monastery, where he became a monk with the name Arseniy.

The young monk lived in the monastery for eleven years, going through various obediences. Striving for even higher spiritual exploits, the Monk Arseny went to the holy Mount Athos. In one of the Athos monasteries, he was 3 years old, making dishes from the copper of Athos monks; Saint Arseny devoted much of his time to prayer.

When it was time to return to Rus', hegumen John blessed him with an icon Holy Mother of God, which later received the name Konevskaya, and handed over to the ascetic the cenobitic charter. The Monk Arseny's further feat took place on Valaam. The monk often called on the Lord, prayerfully asking him to indicate a place for building a new monastery. And one day, when he was at sea, a storm that happened brought him to the island of Konevets, on Lake Ladoga. Here, according to the providence of God, the Monk Arsenii erected a Cross and, remaining for ascetic labors, built a chapel in 1393. After a five-year feat in the skete, the Monk Arseny transformed it in 1398 with the blessing of Archbishop John of Novgorod (1389-1415) into a cenobitic monastery, where he built a temple in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Subsequently, under Archbishop Simeon (1416-1421), the saint of God again visited Mount Athos, where he asked for prayers and blessings for his monastery.

The brethren of the monastery, left without an abbot, began to endure various hardships and wanted to disperse. But Elder John, who lived nearby, constantly prayed for them on the top of the island. The Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and consoled him: “Tell the lamenting brethren that Arseniy will soon deliver them all food.”

Indeed, the Monk Arseny soon returned and brought everything necessary. In 1421, after the flood of Lake Ladoga, the brethren were forced to move to a new place on the same island. Under the wise guidance of the Monk Arseny, the monastery again flourished spiritually. Novgorod bishops did not leave the monks of the monastery without their help.

St. Euthymius II (1434-1458) showed particular zeal. In 1446, he visited the monastery and, in addition to generous donations, presented Reverend Arseny with his klobuk. Thus, “struggling with the Gospel,” on June 12, 1447, Saint Arseniy “ascended to the heavenly triumph” in the arms of a loving brethren and was buried in the monastery church.

Holiday according to the church calendar 06/25/2018: Memorial Day of St. Onuphry and Auxenty of Vologda

Dedicated to the founders of the Trinity Pepper Desert. They lived in the XV-XVI centuries.

In 1499, these reverend fathers came to a completely deserted place in Gryazovets, located 35 miles from Vologda. The hermitage founded by them with a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity was called Pepper, or, according to other sources, Persian. Until their blissful death, the monks labored in it, patiently enduring all sorts of hardships in the midst of a harsh, impenetrable forest. The time of the repose of Saints Onufry and Auxentius is unknown. Already the nearest descendants venerated the Pertsev ascetics as holy saints of God. Their names were included in all ancient calendars. According to ancient manuscript calendars, their memory is June 12. The description of the Russian saints, compiled in the 18th century, contains a mention: "The Monk Fathers Onuphrius and Auxentius, who were in the Pepper Desert, was in the summer of 7007." In 1588, this desert was assigned to the monastery founded by the Monk Kornily Komelsky († 1538; Comm. 19 May/1 June), and in 1764 it was abolished. The relics of Saints Onufry and Auxentius were buried under a bushel in the Trinity Church, which became a parish. Later, this place passed to the Vologda Mountain Convent, and a skete for nuns was set up there.

Whom the church honors on June 25: Venerable Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsk, Solovetsky

It is the day of memory of the monks of the Solovetsky Transfiguration convent- Bassian and Jonah.

Saints Bassian and Jonah perished during the same storm on the White Sea, when John and Longinus of Yarenga were drowned. Their bodies were thrown out by the sea on the eastern shore of the Unskaya Bay, 118 versts from Arkhangelsk. They were discovered by local fishermen, who were surprised by their incorruptibility: the birds circling over the bodies of Saints Bassian and Jonah "were driven away by an invisible force." The fishermen decided to bury the dead near their parish church. But when they went to their village, it suddenly became so dark that they could not get home and were forced to stay. At night, “the Monks Bassian and Jonah appeared to them in a vision and said: “Lay us in an empty place, in a forest, under a large pine tree, but do not take us to your village ... When God pleases, He will build a temple in this place.” The fishermen buried those found in a grave under a pine tree, placing a wooden cross.

Saints Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsk. Icon of unknown origin. Photo source unknown In 1599, the monk of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius Mamant was on his way to the village of Ludy, where the monastery salterns were located. For four days a strong headwind prevented further travel. On the fifth day, Saints Bassian and Jonah appeared to him, telling about their death during a storm. The saints showed him the place of burial and asked him to build a chapel over their grave. When the monk Mamant fulfilled the command, the wind died down, and he could continue on his way.

Miracles and appearances of the saints glorified the place of their burial in this northern side. Travelers and fishermen who landed on the shore considered it their duty to pray in the chapel and donate money and candles to the temple. Later, next to the grave of the Monk Bassian and Jonah, Pertominsky arose monastery. It was founded by an elder from Russian monasteries named Joasaph, a monk of the Alexander-Svirsky monastery. Other monks joined the elder. Their names are known - Savvaty, Dionysius, Hieromonk Ephraim, layman Kozma with his son.

Petrov post. Sunday day.

Today's memory:

Rev. Onuphrius the Great and St. John, Andrew, Heraclemon and Theophilus, ascetics (4th century).

Rev. Peter Athos (VII-VIII centuries).

Rev. Arseny Konevsky, abbot (XV century).

Rev. Onuphrius of Malsky, Saint of Pskov (XV century).

Prpp. Onuphrius and Auxentius of Vologda, ascetics (XV-XVI centuries).

Prpp. Vassian and Jonah Pertominsky, Solovetsky and St. Stefan Ozersky, Komelsky (XVI century).

The acquisition of relics in the 17th century and the second glorification in 1909 led. book. Anna (monastic Euphrosyne) of Kashinsky.

On the 3rd week after Pentecost, cathedrals are celebrated: St. Petersburg, Belorussian, Novgorod, Pskov saints and the celebration in Vologda of all the reverend fathers of Vologda.

We congratulate the birthday people on the day of the angel!

Brothers and sisters, today we commemorate the northern ascetic, hegumen of a monastery on a small island in Lake Ladoga. We know quite a bit about the founder of the Konevsky Monastery, Reverend Arseny Konevsky.

The life of the saint says that Arseny was a native of Veliky Novgorod. Neither exact date his birth, neither his parents, nor even his worldly name are known to us. Arseniy was a skilled craftsman and excelled in forging copper vessels. At the age of about twenty, he leaves for the Novgorod Lisogorsky monastery, where in 1379 he takes monastic vows with the name Arseny.

Having lived for fourteen years in the Lysogorsky monastery, the monk leaves it and, with the blessing of the abbot, goes to Athos, Greece, presumably to the Serbian Hilandar monastery. There he is received by the brethren, led by Abbot John. Arseniy makes copper utensils free of charge not only for the monastery in which he labored, but also for other monasteries on Mount Athos. Soon, neighboring monasteries began to send their monks to Arseny to teach this craft. Fearing that the numerous visitors who came to him for work and study would burden the brethren of his monastery, the monk asked the abbot's blessing to visit some of the Athos monasteries and work for their benefit.

After three years, Saint Arseny had a desire to return to his homeland in order to found a monastery in the name of the Most Holy Theotokos in the northern lands of Rus'. The abbot, seeing in him a great ascetic, blessed Arseny. He gave the monk the charter of the Svyatogorsk community for the founding of a new monastery, and as a blessing to Arseny himself, the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Akathist, later glorified in Russia as an icon Mother of God Konevskaya.

In 1393, the Monk Arseny returned to his homeland. Archbishop John of Novgorod blesses him to build a new monastery. Having set off along the Volkhov River to Lake Ladoga, the Monk Arseny is looking for a solitary place for monastic life. So Arseny arrives on the island of Konevets. However, knowing that there are more remote and deserted islands on Ladoga, the Monk Arseny leaves Konevets and goes further north. On the way, a storm overtakes him and forces him to return back to Konevets. Having waited out the storm, Arseny again leaves the island, however, this time strong wind nails his boat back to the island. In these circumstances, the holy ascetic saw a divine indication that he should stay and found a monastery here.

From that time on, the life of the Monk Arseny was forever connected with Konevets. On the island, Saint Arsenios built himself a small cell on the top of a hill in the depths of the island (now called the Holy Mountain) and settled in it, living in seclusion for about three years.

In 1396 the monk moved to live on the banks of Ladoga. Here, disciples begin to flock to him, thus constituting the first monastic brethren. The brethren build a stone church in the name of the Nativity of the Theotokos and build themselves wooden cells and a fence.

Presumably in the middle of the 15th century, the monastery was visited by the Novgorod hierarch Euthymius, Archbishop of Novgorod, with whom the Monk Arseny had long-standing friendships and with whom he had known since the Lisogorsk Monastery. As a token of good will, Evfimy presented Arseny with a white hood as a gift. In memory of the visit of the bishop to the island, the monastery bay began to be called the Vladychnaya Lakhta, as it continues to be called to this day.

The monastery in Vladychnaya Lakhta existed for almost twenty-five years. In 1421, a terrible flood on Ladoga flooded the monastery, and the Monk Arseny decided to move it to a higher place. Already laid here new temple in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Later, it was repeatedly rebuilt, being, as researchers believe, the first stone temple building on Ladoga and the entire Russian North. In the new temple was placed main shrine monastery - the icon of the Mother of God Konevskaya.

Until 1447, the Monk Arseny labored at Konevets together with the brethren gathered under him. At the beginning of June 1447 reverend began extremely exhausted and felt the nearness of death. He invited the brothers to him, chose from among them the next rector, the pious Elder John, and gave them instruction: “Live with one accord with love for the Lord and take care of the salvation of your souls.” On June 12, 1447, the ascetic reposed, having lived in strict monasticism for sixty-eight years, and in the monastery he had built for fifty-four years. After the repose of the monk, a wonderful fragrance spread everywhere. All the brethren wept inconsolably for their rector and honorably buried his body under the porch of the temple, at the entrance. And now the relics of the Monk Arseny are kept in the monastery under a bushel.

Brothers and sisters, today the holy Konevskaya monastery, with God help, is restored after ruin and desolation during the period of godless persecution. The brethren of the monastery gladly receive pilgrims, laborers and all who wish to pray to the Monk Abbot Arseny and the Most Holy Lady Theotokos in front of her icon of Konevsky.

Reverend Father Arseny, pray to God for us!

Deacon Mikhail Kudryavtsev

June 25 marks 5 Orthodox church holidays. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of honoring the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

Church Orthodox holidays June 25

Petrov fast (Apostolic) 22 day

Multi-day post. Established in honor of the memory of the apostles Peter and Paul.

Peter's Fast (Peter's Fast, Apostolic Fast) is a fast in the Orthodox Churches, established in memory of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, who fasted, preparing themselves for the preaching of the Gospel (Acts 13:3). It begins a week after the Day of the Holy Trinity, on Monday, after the ninth Sunday after Easter, and ends on the Day of Peter and Paul - June 29 (July 12), when "Peter's firmness and Paul's mind" is sung in Orthodoxy. Thus, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter, it can last from eight to 42 days.

Peter's fast is not as strict as Great Lent, the church charter prescribes to abstain only from meat and dairy food, and on Wednesdays and Fridays - also from fish. Wine is allowed on Saturday, Sunday and temple holidays.

The very day of the feast in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul is not part of the fast. However, a holiday that falls on a Wednesday or Friday is also a fast day. In this case, the degree of severity of fasting is only relaxed (compared to the statutory for Wednesday and Friday during the summer "meat-eater"): vegetable oil and fish are allowed at the meal.

Uncovering of the relics and the second glorification of the Blessed Princess Anna (monastic Euphrosyne) of Kashinsky

Feast in honor of the transfer of the relics of Princess Anna from the wooden Cathedral of the Assumption to the stone Cathedral of the Resurrection in 1650. The acquisition of relics and canonization took place in 1649. In 1677, her veneration was abolished. The secondary glorification of the saint took place in 1909.

Holy Blessed Grand Duchess Anna, daughter of Prince Dimitry Borisovich of Rostov, great-granddaughter of Holy Blessed Prince Vasily of Rostov, who adopted martyrdom for refusing to change the saint Orthodox faith. Blessed Anna's grandfather's brother was Saint Peter, Tsarevich of Orda, a baptized Tatar, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1294, Princess Anna married Prince Mikhail of Tver.

Many sorrows befell Saint Anne. Her father died in 1294. In 1296, the grand ducal tower with all its property burned to the ground. Shortly thereafter, the young prince fell seriously ill. In infancy, the firstborn of the grand ducal couple, the daughter of Theodore, died. In 1317, a tragic struggle began with Prince Yuri of Moscow. In 1318, the noble princess says goodbye forever to her husband, who is leaving for the Horde, where he was brutally tortured. In 1325, her eldest son, Dimitry the Terrible Eyes, having met Prince Yuri of Moscow in the Horde - the culprit of his father's death, killed him, for which he was executed by the khan. A year later, the inhabitants of Tver killed all the Tatars, led by the cousin of Khan Uzbek. After this spontaneous uprising, the entire land of Tver was devastated by fire and sword, the inhabitants were exterminated or driven into captivity. The Tver Principality has never experienced such a pogrom. In 1339, her second son Alexander and grandson Theodore died in the Horde: their heads were cut off and their bodies were separated by joints.

The Blessed Grand Duchess was prepared for monasticism with all her previous life. After the death of her husband, the trials followed one after another and it seemed impossible to survive them without indulging in despair, but Anna endured everything. In the female nature, you had a male fortress ... - this is how the Church appeases St. Anna of Kashinskaya for her spiritual stamina. Soon after the martyrdom of her son and grandson, Anna took monastic vows, first in Tver, and then, at the request of her youngest son Vasily, she moved to a monastery specially built for her. Here she reposed in 1368 in the schema, her body was buried in the Dormition monastery church.

Over time, the name of the blessed Princess Anna was forgotten to the point that her tomb was treated disrespectfully, and only in 1611, as a result of the appearance of her pious cleric, did the inhabitants of the city of Kashin awaken a special reverence for her heavenly patroness, who invisibly protected them from enemies and saved their city from ruin. The rumor of miracles from the relics of the Blessed Princess Anna reached the pious Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and His Holiness Patriarch Nikon, and at the Moscow Cathedral of 1649 it was decided to open the relics of Princess Anna. The transfer of the relics of Blessed Anna Kashinskaya took place on June 12, 1650. In the entire history of the Russian Church to this day, not a single saint has been honored with such a brilliant and magnificent celebration.

Church feast of St. Arseny Konevsky

In honor of the miracle worker Arseny. Revered as the patron saint of sailors. Lived until 1447.

The Monk Arseny Konevsky was born in Novgorod the Great. He was a craftsman, a coppersmith. In 1373 he entered the Novgorod Lissitz Monastery, where he became a monk with the name Arseniy.

The young monk lived in the monastery for eleven years, going through various obediences. Striving for even higher spiritual exploits, the Monk Arseny went to the holy Mount Athos. In one of the Athos monasteries, he was 3 years old, making dishes from the copper of Athos monks; Saint Arseny devoted much of his time to prayer.

When the time came to return to Rus', hegumen John blessed him with an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which later received the name of Konevskaya, and handed over to the ascetic the cenobitic charter. The Monk Arseny's further feat took place on Valaam. The monk often called on the Lord, prayerfully asking him to indicate a place for building a new monastery. And one day, when he was at sea, a storm that happened brought him to the island of Konevets, on Lake Ladoga. Here, according to the providence of God, the Monk Arsenii erected a Cross and, remaining for ascetic labors, built a chapel in 1393. After a five-year feat in the skete, the Monk Arseny transformed it in 1398 with the blessing of Archbishop John of Novgorod (1389-1415) into a cenobitic monastery, where he built a temple in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Subsequently, under Archbishop Simeon (1416-1421), the saint of God again visited Mount Athos, where he asked for prayers and blessings for his monastery.

The brethren of the monastery, left without an abbot, began to endure various hardships and wanted to disperse. But Elder John, who lived nearby, constantly prayed for them on the top of the island. The Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and consoled him: “Tell the lamenting brethren that Arseniy will soon deliver them all food.”

Indeed, the Monk Arseny soon returned and brought everything necessary. In 1421, after the flood of Lake Ladoga, the brethren were forced to move to a new place on the same island. Under the wise guidance of the Monk Arseny, the monastery again flourished spiritually. Novgorod bishops did not leave the monks of the monastery without their help.

St. Euthymius II (1434-1458) showed particular zeal. In 1446, he visited the monastery and, in addition to generous donations, presented Reverend Arseny with his klobuk. Thus, “struggling with the Gospel,” on June 12, 1447, Saint Arseniy “ascended to the heavenly triumph” in the arms of a loving brethren and was buried in the monastery church.

Memorial Day of Saints Onufry and Auxentius of Vologda

Dedicated to the founders of the Trinity Pepper Desert. They lived in the XV-XVI centuries.

In 1499, these reverend fathers came to a completely deserted place in Gryazovets, located 35 miles from Vologda. The hermitage founded by them with a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity was called Pepper, or, according to other sources, Persian. Until their blissful death, the monks labored in it, patiently enduring all sorts of hardships in the midst of a harsh, impenetrable forest. The time of the repose of Saints Onufry and Auxentius is unknown. Already the nearest descendants venerated the Pertsev ascetics as holy saints of God. Their names were included in all ancient calendars. According to ancient manuscript calendars, their memory is June 12. The description of the Russian saints, compiled in the 18th century, contains a mention: "The Monk Fathers Onuphrius and Auxentius, who were in the Pepper Desert, was in the summer of 7007." In 1588, this desert was assigned to the monastery founded by the Monk Kornily Komelsky († 1538; Comm. 19 May/1 June), and in 1764 it was abolished. The relics of Saints Onufry and Auxentius were buried under a bushel in the Trinity Church, which became a parish. Later, this place passed to the Vologda Mountain Convent, and a skete for nuns was set up there.

Venerable Bassian and Jonah of Pertominsk, Solovetsky

It is the day of memory of the monks of the Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery - Vassian and Jonah.

Saints Bassian and Jonah perished during the same storm on the White Sea, when John and Longinus of Yarenga were drowned. Their bodies were thrown out by the sea on the eastern shore of the Unskaya Bay, 118 versts from Arkhangelsk. They were discovered by local fishermen, who were surprised by their incorruptibility: the birds circling over the bodies of Saints Bassian and Jonah "were driven away by an invisible force." The fishermen decided to bury the dead near their parish church. But when they went to their village, it suddenly became so dark that they could not get home and were forced to stay. At night, “the Monks Bassian and Jonah appeared to them in a vision and said: “Lay us in an empty place, in a forest, under a large pine tree, but do not take us to your village ... When God pleases, He will build a temple in this place.” The fishermen buried those found in a grave under a pine tree, placing a wooden cross.

Saints Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsk. Icon of unknown origin. Photo source unknown In 1599, the monk of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius Mamant was on his way to the village of Ludy, where the monastery salterns were located. For four days a strong headwind prevented further travel. On the fifth day, Saints Bassian and Jonah appeared to him, telling about their death during a storm. The saints showed him the place of burial and asked him to build a chapel over their grave. When the monk Mamant fulfilled the command, the wind died down, and he could continue on his way.

Miracles and appearances of the saints glorified the place of their burial in this northern side. Travelers and fishermen who landed on the shore considered it their duty to pray in the chapel and donate money and candles to the temple. Later, next to the grave of the Monks Vassian and Jonah, the Pertominsky Monastery arose. It was founded by an elder from Russian monasteries named Joasaph, a monk of the Alexander-Svirsky monastery. Other monks joined the elder. Their names are known - Savvaty, Dionysius, Hieromonk Ephraim, layman Kozma with his son.

* Rev. Onufry the Great (IV) and * Saint Peter Athos (734). Reverend Arseny Konevsky (1447). Venerable Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsky, Solovetsky (1561). Blessed Grand Duchess Anna Kashinsky (acquisition of relics, 1649; second glorification, 1909). Blessed John, Christ for the Holy Fool, Wonderworker of Moscow (acquisition of relics, 1672; c. 1589).
Saints Paphnutius, Timothy, John, Andrew, Heraclemon (Heraklamvon) and Theophilos of Thebaid (IV); Zinona; Julian, hegumen of Constantinople. St. John, Egyptian Warrior (late 6th - early 7th). Venerable Onufry of Malsky, Pskov (1492); Onuphrius and Auxentius of Vologda (XV-XVI); Stefan of Ozersky, Komelsky (1542).

Venerable Onufry the Great

The Monk Onufry the Great lived in the 4th century. At first he labored in one of the monasteries in the Thebaid. Then, inflamed with love for desert life, he withdrew into the desert. Saint Onuphry endured many labors, sorrows and hardships in the desert: he was often tormented by hunger, often tormented by strong thirst, and he had neither food nor drink. Only the desert herbs somewhat strengthened his body, and the heavenly dew quenched his thirst a little. He endured much suffering from the heat of the day and the cold of the night. More than once the monk was close to death from deprivation and suffering; only the providence of God kept him from her, giving what was necessary to sustain life. Therefore, to St. Onufry is resorted to with a prayer for deliverance from sudden death, for the healing of children from deadly diseases, and women for difficult and dangerous childbirth. The monk lived in the desert for 60 years; during this time he acquired hair that served him instead of clothes. His beard was so long that it touched the ground. An angel appeared to him with the Holy Gifts and communed him. When the time came for the death of St. Onuphrius, the Lord sent Elder Paphnutius to him. Onufry told him his life and died with the words: “Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit.”

Saint Peter of Athos

The Monk Peter labored on Mount Athos. He came from Constantinople and was a military dignitary at court. In 667, during the war with the Agarians in Syria, he was taken prisoner, where he vowed to enter the monastery if he was released from captivity. Freed, he went to one of the monasteries in Rome, and then retired to Mount Athos. During a trip to Athos, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to him in a dream and said that Mount Athos was the lot given to Her by Her Son and God; that She loves this place and desires to multiply the monastic order there, and that the mercy of Her Son and God will be with those who labor there. While on Athos, St. Peter settled on the highest point of the mountain. For more than fifty years he labored here. He is also overgrown with hair, like St. Onufry. Many monasteries settled on Athos during the time of St. Peter, and for many of the monks he was a model and leader. His relics were buried in the monastery of Clement. In 969, on the occasion of the constraints on Athos, they were transferred to Thrace, to the village of Fotokami.

Reverend Arseny Konevsky

The Monk Arseny Konevsky founded a monastery on Konevek Island in Lake Ladoga. He lived in the 15th century. He came from Novgorod from a pious family. He was tonsured as a monk in a monastery on Lisya Gora, near Novgorod. From here he traveled to Mount Athos, where he went around all the monasteries, working free of charge on forging copper vessels, which he had been taught back in his parental home. Yearning for his homeland, St. Arseny returned again to Novgorod and had the intention to arrange his own monastery. From Mount Athos, he brought a monastic charter and an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (the celebration of the icon on July 10). To find a place for the monastery, St. Arseny went in a boat on Lake Ladoga. During the journey, a strong wind arose and drove the boat to Konevsky Island. St. Arseny saw in this an indication from above and settled here on a high mountain, in a small cell arranged by him. There was a large rock on the island, called Konkamen, which the pagans recognized as a deity and annually sacrificed a horse to him so that their cattle would remain intact (hence the name of the island - Konevsky). Saint Arseny, with a prayer, drove away the demonic force from the island. When many learned about the ascetic, the disciples began to gather to him. Cells were erected, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built, and a monastery was founded. Novgorodians loved the saint, often visited his monastery and helped her well-being. St. Arseny received all his visitors cordially. In labors and deeds, the monk reached a ripe old age and died in 1447. After his death, he became even more famous, working many different miracles.

Saints Bassian and Jonah

Saints Bassian and Jonah labored in the Solovetsky monastery under St. Abbot Philip, later Metropolitan of Moscow. No information has been preserved about the life of these holy ascetics, it is only known how they died. During the construction of the cathedral church in 1561, they were sent for lime and on the way back, during a storm, they drowned. Their bodies were thrown onto the shore of the Unskaya Bay and buried here by the peasants. A chapel was erected at the burial place, near which monks began to settle over time, and miracles were performed at the graves. Then a temple was built here, and a monastery called Pertominskaya was formed. The relics of the saints rest in the monastery under a bushel.

Holy Blessed Princess Anna Kashinskaya

On this day, the transfer of relics (1650) and the second glorification (1909) of the Blessed Grand Duchess Anna Kashinskaya are celebrated.

Anna was the daughter of the Rostov prince Dmitry Borisovich. On November 8, 1294, she married Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver, who was executed in the Horde on the orders of Khan Uzbek (Mikhail was canonized). In 1326, her son Dmitry the Terrible Eyes was executed in the Horde, and in 1339, another son, Alexander Mikhailovich Tverskoy, and grandson Fyodor Alexandrovich were executed. In 1358, the approximately 80-year-old princess, the grandmother of Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich, is mentioned as a nun (Sofia), probably then she was already the abbess of the Tver convent in the name of St. Athanasius. In 1361, she donated several villages to the Tver Otroch Monastery, where the Tver Bishop Theodore (also canonized) retired. She took part in the funeral of the saint in 1367. In the same year, the princess left Tver for Kashin, following her youngest son, Prince Vasily Mikhailovich of Kashin, to a short time who captured Tver and massacred the people of his nephew Prince Mikhail, who soon knocked him out of Tver again with the help of the Lithuanians. There she died: although she is known as Anna Kashinskaya, only Last year She spent her long life in this city. According to hagiographic tradition, before her death she took the schema, again with the name of Anna; on icons she is often depicted in a schema.

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The Holy Blessed Princess Anna endured many trials in her life: in the year of her marriage to Prince Mikhail of Tver, her father died, two years later the princely tower with all his property burned to the ground, then her husband fell ill, her daughter died in infancy, and in 1318 her husband left for the Horde and was martyred there. In the same place, in the Horde, then both her sons and her grandson died.

Even after the death of her husband, Anna herself took the tonsure with the name Euphrosyne, and then, having moved to the Kashinsky Dormition Monastery, she was tonsured into the schema with the name Anna. On October 2, 1368, she peacefully passed away to the Lord.

"In a woman's nature, you had a man's fortress" - her church glorifies her for spiritual stamina. The transfer of the relics of the saint from the wooden Assumption Cathedral to the stone Resurrection Cathedral took place on June 12, 1650, and on that day her church veneration was established.

However, since during the schism, St. Anna of Kashinskaya unexpectedly became a symbol of adherents of the "old faith", Patriarch Joachim in 1677 "annulled" her canonization - the only case in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church.

But even "debunked" "for 230 years, the people continued to honor St. Anna. And the church-wide veneration of her was restored only in 1908. And already in 1909 in the city of Grozny, in the region of the Terek Cossacks, a women's community arose in honor of St. Anna of Kashinskaya, and in 1910 a church was consecrated in St. Petersburg in the name of this saint.

But she became especially close to the Orthodox Russian consciousness during the revolution and wars of the 20th century, when it became a common female fate to see off husbands and sons to that dangerous unknown, from where they often do not return, but to run and hide from enemies themselves.

Augsburg Confession Day

The Augsburg Confession Day, celebrated annually on June 25, commemorates an important historical event: on this day, Lutheranism received the status of an official religion in Germany.

The Augsburg Confession, the Confessio Augustana, is the earliest of the official Protestant creeds and is still the doctrinal norm for Lutherans. In 1530, it was compiled and presented to the Augsburg Reichstag by the Lutheran theologian Philipp Melanchthon, the closest associate of Martin Luther.

A meeting of the Reichstag was convened by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to reconcile Catholics and Protestants in the face of the Turkish threat. However, the Catholic princes refused to accept the new confession, wrote a refutation in response - Confutatio Pontificio, and Charles V suspended the work of the Reichstag and declared war on the new movement. In response, the Protestants formed the Schmalkaldic League - a kind of defensive alliance, and after several attempts to find a compromise in 1546, the tragic and bloody Schmalkaldic War broke out between them and the Catholics.

Having lost hope of reconciliation with the Catholics, Melanchthon tried to get closer to the Orthodox. Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession was delivered to Constantinople to Patriarch Iosaph II, who went down in Russian history as the founder of the patriarchate in Rus'. However, the patriarch pointed out that some doctrines of Lutheranism are absolutely unacceptable for the Orthodox Church.

Only in 1552 was it possible to conclude the Augsburg religious peace, which made it possible for the Protestants to legitimize their position. And in 1555, the Pope's decision confirmed the treaty granting Lutheranism the status of the state religion.