* St. Onuphrius the Great (IV) and * St. Peter of Athos (734). Venerable Arseny Konevsky (1447). Venerables Vassian and Jonah of Pertomin, Solovetsky (1561). Blessed Grand Duchess Anna Kashinskaya (discovery of relics, 1649; second glorification, 1909). Blessed John, Christ for the Fool's sake, Moscow Wonderworker (finding of relics, 1672; ca. 1589).
Saints Paphnutius, Timothy, John, Andrew, Iraklemon (Heraklamvon) and Theophilos of Thebaid (IV); Zinona; Julian, abbot of Constantinople. Saint John, warrior of Egypt (end of VI - beginning of VII). Venerable Onufriy Malsky, Pskov (1492); Onuphrius and Auxentius of Vologda (XV-XVI); Stefan of Ozersky, Komelsky (1542).

Venerable Onuphrius the Great

The Monk Onuphrius the Great lived in the 4th century. At first he labored in one of the monasteries in Thebaid. Then, inflamed with love for the desert life, he retired into the desert. Saint Onuphrius endured many labors, sorrows and hardships in the desert: he was often tormented by hunger, often tormented by intense thirst, and he had neither food nor drink. Only the desert herbs somewhat strengthened his body, and the heavenly dew slightly quenched his thirst. He suffered a lot 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 God's providence kept him from her, providing him with what was necessary to support life. Therefore, to St. People come to Onuphrius with prayer for deliverance from sudden death, for the healing of children from fatal diseases, and for women during difficult and dangerous childbirth. The monk lived in the desert for 60 years; During this time, he grew hair, which 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 gave him communion. When the time came for the death of St. Onuphrius, the Lord sent Elder Paphnutius to him. Onuphry told him his life and died with the words: “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit.”

Venerable Peter of Athos

The Monk Peter asceticised on Mount Athos. He came from Constantinople and was a military dignitary at court. In 667, during the war with the Hagarians in Syria, he was taken prisoner, where he made a vow to enter a monastery if he was released from captivity. Having freed himself, 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 wants to increase the monastic rite there, and that the mercy of Her Son and God will abide with those who labor there. Having stayed on Athos, St. Peter settled on the highest point of the mountain. He labored here for more than fifty years. He is as overgrown with hair as St. Onuphry. Many monasteries were established on Mount 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, due to the constraints on Athos, they were transferred to Thrace, to the village of Fotokami.

Rev. Arseny Konevsky

The Monk Arseny Konevsky founded a monastery on Koneveky Island in Lake Ladoga. He lived in the 15th century. He came from Novgorod from a pious family. He took monastic vows at the monastery on Lisya Mountain, near Novgorod. From here he traveled to Mount Athos, where he visited all the monasteries, working for free on forging copper vessels, which he was taught in his parents' house. Longing for his homeland, St. Arseny returned again to Novgorod and had the intention of setting up his own monastery. From Mount Athos he brought a monastic charter and an icon Holy Mother of God(celebration of the icon on July 10). To find a place for the monastery, St. Arseny set off in a boat on Lake Ladoga. During the trip I got up strong wind and drove the boat to Konevsky Island. St. Arseny saw this as an order from above and settled here on a high mountain, in a small cell he had built. On the island there was a large cliff called Konkamen, which the pagans recognized as a deity and annually sacrificed a horse to him so that their livestock would remain intact (which is why the name of the island came from Konevsky). Saint Arseny drove away the demonic force from the island with prayer. When many learned about the ascetic, disciples began to gather to him. Cells were erected, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built, and a monastery was founded. Novgorodians loved the saint, often visited his monastery and helped its well-being. St. Arseny received all his visitors cordially. Through his labors and exploits, the monk reached a ripe old age and died in 1447. After his death, he became even more famous, performing many different miracles.

Venerable Vassian and Jonah

The Monks Vassian 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 site, around which monks began to settle over time, and miracles were performed at the coffins. Then a temple was built here, and a monastery called Pertominskaya was formed. The relics of the saints rest in the monastery under cover.

Holy Blessed Princess Anna Kashinskaya

On this day, the transfer of the 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 by order of Khan Uzbek (Mikhail was canonized). In 1326, her son Dmitry Groznye Ochi 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); she was probably already the abbess of the Tver Convent in the name of St. Afanasia. 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, a short time who captured Tver and carried out reprisals against the people of his nephew, Prince Mikhail, who soon drove 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 Anna; on icons she is often depicted in the schema.

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On June 25, 5 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasting, days of veneration of 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

Peter's Fast (Apostolic) 22nd day

Multi-day fast. Installed in honor of the memory of the apostles Peter and Paul.

Peter's Fast (Peter's Fast, Apostolic Fast) is a fast in Orthodox churches established in memory of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, who fasted, preparing themselves for preaching 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 in Orthodoxy “Peter’s firmness and Paul’s mind” are glorified. Thus, depending on the date, Easter celebrations can last from eight to 42 days.

Petrov's fast is not as strict as Lent, the church charter prescribes to abstain only from meat and dairy foods, and on Wednesdays and Fridays - also from fish. Drinking wine is permitted on Saturday, Sunday and temple holidays.

The day of the holiday itself in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul is not part of fasting. However, a holiday that falls on Wednesday or Friday is also a fast day. In this case, the severity of fasting is only relaxed (in comparison with the regulations for Wednesdays and Fridays during the summer “meat-eating period”): the consumption of vegetable oil and fish is allowed at meals.

The discovery of the relics and the second glorification of the blessed princess Anna (monastically Euphrosyne) Kashinskaya

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

The Holy Blessed Grand Duchess Anna is the daughter of the Rostov Prince Dimitri Borisovich, the great-granddaughter of the Holy Blessed Prince Vasily of Rostov, who accepted martyrdom for refusing to change the saint Orthodox faith. Blessed Anna’s grandfather’s brother-in-law was Saint Peter, Tsarevich of Ordyn, a baptized Tatar, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1294, the noble princess Anna married Prince Mikhail of Tver.

Many sorrows befell Saint Anna. Her father died in 1294. In 1296, the grand ducal tower with all its property burned to the ground. Soon after this, the young prince became very ill. The first-born of the grand ducal couple, the daughter of Theodora, died in infancy. In 1317, a tragic struggle with Prince Yuri of Moscow began. In 1318, the noble princess said goodbye forever to her husband, who was 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 residents of Tver killed all the Tatars, led by the cousin of Uzbek Khan. After this spontaneous uprising, the entire Tver land was devastated by fire and sword, the inhabitants were exterminated or driven into captivity. The Tver Principality had 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 at the joints.

The blessed Grand Duchess was prepared for monasticism with all her previous life. After the death of her husband, trials followed one after another and it seemed impossible to survive them without succumbing to despair, but Anna endured everything. In your feminine nature you had masculine strength... - this is how the Church blesses Saint Anna of Kashin for her spiritual fortitude. Soon after the martyrdom of her son and grandson, Anna became a monk, 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 the schema in 1368, her body was buried in the Assumption Monastery Church.

The name of the blessed princess Anna was forgotten over time to the point that her tomb was treated with disrespect, and only in 1611, as a result of her appearance to a pious cleric, a special reverence for their heavenly patroness, who invisibly protected them from enemies and saved their city, awoke in the residents of the city of Kashin 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 Council of 1649 it was decided to open the relics of Princess Anna. The transfer of the relics of the 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 received such a brilliant and magnificent celebration.

Church holiday of St. Arseny Konevsky

In honor of the wonderworker 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 Lisitsky Monastery, where he became a monk with the name Arseny.

The young monk lived in the monastery for eleven years, undergoing various obediences. Striving for even higher spiritual achievements, the Monk Arseny went to holy Mount Athos. He was in one of the Athonite monasteries for 3 years, making dishes from copper of the Athonite monks; The Monk Arseny devoted a lot of time to prayer.

When the time came to return to Rus', Abbot John blessed him with the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which later received the name Konevskaya, and handed over the cenobitic rules to the ascetic. The Monk Arseny's further feat took place on Valaam. The monk often cried out to the Lord, prayerfully asking him to indicate a place to build a new monastery. And one day, when he was at sea, a storm brought him to the island of Konevets, on Lake Ladoga. Here, by the providence of God, the Monk Arseny erected the Cross and, remaining for his exploits, built a chapel in 1393. After five years of asceticism in the monastery, the Monk Arseny transformed it in 1398, with the blessing of Novgorod Archbishop John (1389-1415), into a cenobitic monastery, where he built a church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Subsequently, under Archbishop Simeon (1416-1421), the saint of God again visited Holy 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 mourning brethren that Arseny will soon bring 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 leadership of the Monk Arseny, the monastery again flourished spiritually. The Novgorod bishops did not leave the monks of the monastery without their help.

Saint Euthymius II (1434-1458) showed particular zeal. In 1446, he visited the monastery and, in addition to generous donations, gave the Monk Arseny his hood. Thus, “striving evangelically,” Saint Arseny, on June 12, 1447, “ascended to the heavenly triumph” in the arms of his loving brethren and was buried in the monastery church.

Memorial Day of the Venerable Onuphrius and Auxentius of Vologda

Dedicated to the founders of the Trinity Pepper Hermitage. 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 they founded with a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity was called Pertseva, or, according to other sources, Persova. Until their blessed death, the monks labored in it, patiently enduring all kinds of hardships in the midst of a harsh, impenetrable forest. The time of repose of Saints Onuphrius and Auxentius is unknown. Already the closest descendants revered the Pertsevsky ascetics as holy saints of God. Their names were included in all the ancient calendars. According to ancient handwritten calendars, their memory is June 12. The description of Russian saints, compiled in the 18th century, contains the mention: “Reverend Fathers Onuphrius and Auxentius, also in the Pepper Hermitage, existed in the summer of 7007.” In 1588, this hermitage was assigned to the monastery founded by the Monk Cornelius of Komel († 1538; commemorated May 19/June 1), and in 1764 it was abolished. The relics of Saints Onuphrius and Auxentius were buried under cover in the Trinity Church, which became a parish church. Later this place passed to the Vologda Gorny convent and a monastery for nuns was built there.

Venerables Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsk, Solovetsky

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

The Monks Vassian and Jonah died during the same storm on the White Sea when John and Longinus of Yarenga 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 Vassian and Jonah “were driven away by an invisible force.” The fishermen decided to bury the dead near their parish church. But when they headed towards their village, it suddenly became so dark that they could not get home and were forced to stay. At night, “the monks Vassian and Jonah appeared to them in a vision and said: “Put us in an empty place, in a forest, under a large pine tree, but don’t 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.

Venerable Vassian and Jonah of Pertomina. Icon of unknown origin. The source of the photograph is unknown. In 1599, the monk of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius Mamant traveled to the village of Ludy, where the monastery saltworks were located. For four days a strong headwind prevented further travel. On the fifth day, the Monks Vassian and Jonah appeared to him, telling about their death during a storm. The saints showed him the burial place 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 his journey.

Miracles and apparitions of the saints glorified their burial place 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 Saints Vassian 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.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”(). O divine, oh dear, oh sweetest Thy voice! Let us all follow the Lord who calls us! But first we must realize that it is difficult and difficult for us to feel, that is, that we have many sins, and these sins are serious. From this feeling will be born the need to seek relief for yourself. Faith will then show us the only refuge in the Lord the Savior, and our steps will naturally direct themselves towards Him.

A soul that desires to get rid of sins knows what to say to the Lord: “take away from me the heavy, sinful burden, and I will take Your good yoke.” And it happens like this: the Lord forgives sins, and the soul begins to walk in His commandments. And the commandments are a yoke, and sins are a burden. But, having compared both, the soul finds that the yoke of the commandments is light as a feather, and the burden of sins is heavy as a mountain.

Let us not be afraid to willingly accept the Lord’s good yoke and His light burden! Only in this way, and not otherwise, can we find peace for our souls.

On June 25, 5 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, and 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

Peter's Fast (Apostolic) 22nd day

Multi-day fast. Installed in honor of the memory of the apostles Peter and Paul.

Peter's Fast (Peter's Fast, Apostolic Fast) is a fast in Orthodox churches established in memory of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, who fasted, preparing themselves for preaching 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 in Orthodoxy “Peter’s firmness and Paul’s mind” are glorified. Thus, depending on the date, Easter celebrations can last from eight to 42 days.

Peter's Fast is not as strict as Great Lent; the church charter prescribes abstaining only from meat and dairy foods, and on Wednesdays and Fridays - also from fish. Drinking wine is permitted on Saturday, Sunday and temple holidays.

The day of the holiday itself in honor of the holy apostles Peter and Paul is not part of fasting. However, a holiday that falls on Wednesday or Friday is also a fast day, writes the Therussiantimes portal. In this case, the severity of fasting is only relaxed (in comparison with the regulations for Wednesdays and Fridays during the summer “meat-eating period”): the consumption of vegetable oil and fish is allowed at meals.

Orthodox holiday June 25: Finding of the relics and second glorification of the blessed princess Anna (monastically Euphrosyne) Kashinskaya

The Holy Blessed Princess Anna endured many trials in her life: in the year of her wedding to Prince Mikhail Tverskoy, her father died, two years later the prince’s mansion with all its property burned to the ground, then her husband fell ill, her daughter died in infancy, and in 1318 the husband left for the Horde and was martyred there. There, in the Horde, both of her sons and grandson later died.

Anna herself, even after the death of her husband, took monastic vows with the name Euphrosyne, and then, having moved to the Kashinsky Assumption Monastery, she took monastic vows with the name Anna. On October 2, 1368, she peacefully departed to the Lord.

“In your feminine nature you had the strength of a man,” the church glorifies her for her spiritual fortitude.

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

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

But even though “debunked” for 230 years, the people continued to honor Saint Anna. And 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 Saint Anna of Kashin, and in 1910 a temple in the name of this saint was consecrated in St. Petersburg.

But it became especially close to the Orthodox Russian consciousness during the revolution and wars of the 20th century, when the common women's destiny began to accompany husbands and sons into that dangerous unknown, from where they often do not return, while they themselves run and hide from enemies.

Church holiday of St. Arseny Konevsky

In honor of the wonderworker 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 Lisitsky Monastery, where he became a monk with the name Arseny.

The young monk lived in the monastery for eleven years, undergoing various obediences. Striving for even higher spiritual achievements, the Monk Arseny went to holy Mount Athos. He was in one of the Athonite monasteries for 3 years, making dishes from copper of the Athonite monks; The Monk Arseny devoted a lot of time to prayer.

When the time came to return to Rus', Abbot John blessed him with the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which later received the name Konevskaya, and handed over the cenobitic rules to the ascetic. The Monk Arseny's further feat took place on Valaam. The monk often cried out to the Lord, prayerfully asking him to indicate a place to build a new monastery. And one day, when he was at sea, a storm brought him to the island of Konevets, on Lake Ladoga. Here, by the providence of God, the Monk Arseny erected the Cross and, remaining for his exploits, built a chapel in 1393. After five years of asceticism in the monastery, the Monk Arseny transformed it in 1398, with the blessing of Novgorod Archbishop John (1389-1415), into a cenobitic monastery, where he built a church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Subsequently, under Archbishop Simeon (1416-1421), the saint of God again visited Holy 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 mourning brethren that Arseny will soon bring 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 leadership of the Monk Arseny, the monastery again flourished spiritually. The Novgorod bishops did not leave the monks of the monastery without their help.

Saint Euthymius II (1434-1458) showed particular zeal. In 1446, he visited the monastery and, in addition to generous donations, gave the Monk Arseny his hood. Thus, “striving evangelically,” Saint Arseny, on June 12, 1447, “ascended to the heavenly triumph” in the arms of his loving brethren and was buried in the monastery church.

Holiday according to the church calendar 06/25/2018: Memorial Day of the Venerable Onuphrius and Auxentius of Vologda

Dedicated to the founders of the Trinity Pepper Hermitage. 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 they founded with a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity was called Pertseva, or, according to other sources, Persova. Until their blessed death, the monks labored in it, patiently enduring all kinds of hardships in the midst of a harsh, impenetrable forest. The time of repose of Saints Onuphrius and Auxentius is unknown. Already the closest descendants revered the Pertsevsky ascetics as holy saints of God. Their names were included in all the ancient calendars. According to ancient handwritten calendars, their memory is June 12. The description of Russian saints, compiled in the 18th century, contains the mention: “Reverend Fathers Onuphrius and Auxentius, also in the Pepper Hermitage, existed in the summer of 7007.” In 1588, this hermitage was assigned to the monastery founded by the Monk Cornelius of Komel († 1538; commemorated May 19/June 1), and in 1764 it was abolished. The relics of Saints Onuphrius and Auxentius were buried under cover in the Trinity Church, which became a parish church. Later this place passed to the Vologda Gorny Convent and a monastery for nuns was built there.

Whom does the church honor on June 25: Saints Vassian and Jonah of Pertominsky, Solovetsky

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

The Monks Vassian and Jonah died during the same storm on the White Sea when John and Longinus of Yarenga 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 Vassian and Jonah “were driven away by an invisible force.” The fishermen decided to bury the dead near their parish church. But when they headed towards their village, it suddenly became so dark that they could not get home and were forced to stay. At night, “the monks Vassian and Jonah appeared to them in a vision and said: “Put us in an empty place, in a forest, under a large pine tree, but don’t 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.

Venerable Vassian and Jonah of Pertomina. Icon of unknown origin. The source of the photograph is unknown. In 1599, the monk of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius Mamant traveled to the village of Ludy, where the monastery saltworks were located. For four days a strong headwind prevented further travel. On the fifth day, the Monks Vassian and Jonah appeared to him, telling about their death during a storm. The saints showed him the burial place 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 his journey.

Miracles and apparitions of the saints glorified their burial place 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.

The Holy Blessed Princess Anna endured many trials in her life: in the year of her wedding to Prince Mikhail Tverskoy, her father died, two years later the prince’s mansion with all its property burned to the ground, then her husband fell ill, her daughter died in infancy, and in 1318 the husband left for the Horde and was martyred there. There, in the Horde, both of her sons and grandson later died.

Anna herself, even after the death of her husband, took monastic vows with the name Euphrosyne, and then, having moved to the Kashinsky Assumption Monastery, she took monastic vows with the name Anna. On October 2, 1368, she peacefully departed to the Lord.

“In your feminine nature you had the strength of a man,” the church glorifies her for her spiritual fortitude. The transfer of the saint's relics from the wooden Assumption Cathedral to the stone Resurrection Cathedral took place on June 12, 1650, and on this day her church veneration was established.

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

But even though “debunked” for 230 years, the people continued to honor Saint Anna. And 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 Saint Anna of Kashin, and in 1910 a temple in the name of this saint was consecrated in St. Petersburg.

But it became especially close to the Orthodox Russian consciousness during the revolution and wars of the 20th century, when it became the common destiny of women to accompany their husbands and sons into that dangerous unknown, from which they often do not return, but to flee and hide from enemies.

Augsburg Confession Day

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

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

The Reichstag meeting was convened by the 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 with his authority and declared war on the new movement. In response, the Protestants formed the League of Schmalkalden, a kind of defensive alliance, and after several attempts to find a compromise, the tragic and bloody War of Schmalkalden broke out between them and the Catholics in 1546.

Having lost hope of reconciliation with Catholics, Melanchthon tried to get closer to the Orthodox. Greek translation The Augsburg Confession was delivered to Constantinople to Patriarch Joseph 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 Protestants to legitimize their position. And in 1555, the decision of the pope confirmed the agreement on granting Lutheranism the status of a state religion.