Pachomius of Nerekhta, St. Pachomius of Nerekhta, Venerable Complete Life of the Venerable Pachomius of Nerekhta

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The Monk Pachomius, the wonderworker of Nerekhta, lived in the 14th century, at the same time as the Monk Sergius of Radonezh, and is considered his disciple.

At the beginning of the 14th century, in the city of Vladimir on the Klyazma River, a son was born to the priest of the church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, father Ignatius, and his wife Anna, who were distinguished by their pious life. At baptism he was given the name Jacob. Until the age of twelve, the pious father himself was involved in raising the boy; from the age of seven he taught the boy to read and write, and from infancy he tried to accustom his son to the fear of God, obedience, and to develop in him good character and other Christian virtues. The teaching bore fruit: Jacob, having learned to read and write, became especially diligent in studying the Holy Scriptures and other soul-saving books. He loved this activity so much that, despite his adolescence, he never entered into even the most innocent games with his peers. Still very young, with the quietness of his character and seriousness he resembled an adult, respectable man.

The youth Jacob loved to be in the temple of God; He was especially attracted to the monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which the relics of the holy noble prince Alexander Nevsky were then located. The young man of prayer was drawn there by both this great shrine and the monastic service, which was distinguished by its length, prayerful spirit and touching singing. Under the beneficial influence of his father's upbringing, reading and prayer, the youth Jacob developed a desire to finally break ties with the world and devote his life to serving God. However, he did not immediately inform his parents about his decision, not wanting to upset them for a time.

When Jacob was twelve years old, his father died. Feeling a strong desire for monastic life, the youth revealed his thoughts to his mother and asked for her blessing. To Jacob’s great joy, his mother did not resist his desire and blessed the young man to become a monk. Upon reaching the age of 21, he took monastic vows at his beloved Nativity monastery with the name Pachomius, in honor of the Venerable Pachomius the Great, an Egyptian ascetic.

Accustomed to obedience from childhood, the young monk unquestioningly, with complete readiness and love, carried out everything that the experienced elder, to whom the abbot of the monastery entrusted the initial teaching of Pachomius, ordered him. After a forty-day trial, the young man received a more difficult obedience - to prepare food for the brethren in the kitchen. So he spent several years without any murmur, completely abandoning his own will. The young ascetic worked all day in the bakery, and at night he prayed fervently. Archimandrite, the abbot of the monastery, soon noticed such zeal of the monk Pachomius in completing obedience. At the request of the rector, Saint Alexy, the future Metropolitan of Moscow, who was then in the Vladimir See, ordained the young monk to the first degree of the priesthood - deacon. Hieromonk Pachomius served in this rank until the time when Saint Alexy became Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.

In 1360, six years after his appointment as metropolitan, Saint Alexy, who loved to found new monasteries and helped the old ones in every possible way, arrived from Moscow to Vladimir and, 15 versts from the city, laid the foundation of a monastery in the name of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsar Constantine and Queen Helena. Knowing the pious life of his protege Pachomius, the saint appointed him abbot of the new monastery. The monk did not refuse the appointment just for the sake of obedience - his humble heart did not strive for power.

For the brethren, Abbot Pachomius became a true father and teacher of obedience. But, having established a new monastery entrusted to his care and the spiritual life of its inhabitants, the monk, burdened by power over the brethren and striving for solitary exploits, decided to leave the monastery and settle somewhere in a deserted place. And so, one dark night, quietly, unnoticed by anyone, the holy abbot left the monastery, taking with him only two books - the Canon and the Psalter.

It is not known exactly how long the monk wandered through his native Vladimir and adjacent Kostroma lands in the hope of finding a convenient place for desert living. On his way, he stopped on the bank of the Solonitsa River at the confluence of the Gridevka River, not far from the village called Nerekhta. Since ancient times this place was called Sypanovo; it was located on a hill near a river, covered with a dense forest, and the saint was very pleased with it, since it was, in the words of his ancient handwritten life, “very red.”

Sypanovo belonged to the inhabitants of Nerekhta, and in order to settle there, Saint Pachomius had to ask permission from the owners. Already the first acquaintance with the saint of God inspired the residents of Nerekhta with complete trust and disposition towards him. Having joyfully ceded a plot of land to the monk, the local inhabitants earnestly asked him to build a monastery on this site, for their part promising all possible help. This kind attitude of the Nerekhta residents towards the hermit can be explained in two ways: either they had already heard about his holy life, or there were no monasteries near Nerekhta that our pious ancestors so loved to visit for prayer.

The locals kept their promise. Work began to boil: soon the place of the saint’s settlement was cleared of forest, and a cell was built for him. All the surrounding inhabitants soon fell in love with the saint and often visited him to discover the depths of their souls and spiritual guidance. Out of their love, they provided the saint with everything necessary for physical life - after all, the saint of God cared so little about earthly needs. However, the Nerekh residents did not abandon their desire to establish a monastery in Sypanov; The monk himself, of course, shared it. Soon they chose a place to build the first temple. With the help of pious local residents, Saint Pachomius painted an image of the Life-Giving Trinity and, in the presence of a large crowd of people, he himself consecrated it and moved it to the place chosen for the temple. Here he performed a prayer service to the Holy Trinity with the addition of prayers for the health of the Grand Duke, the bishop and all Christians. After the prayer service, having blessed and sent all the assembled residents of Nerekhta home, the Monk Pachomius entered his cell and for a long time earnestly prayed to the Lord for the improvement of the monastery, concluding his fervent prayer with the words: “Behold my peace; here I will dwell; as the Lord wills, so it will be.”

Soon preparations began for the establishment of a monastery on Sypanov. The zealous surrounding residents, fulfilling their promise, supplied the monk with everything necessary for the creation of the monastery - primarily for the temple. Saint Pachomius, seeing such piety of the residents of Nerekhta, thanked the Lord and the Most Pure Mother of God, who arranged his life among such zealous Christians, and offered his fiery prayer for them. The news about the establishment of the monastery and about the hermit who settled in it soon spread far throughout the surrounding area, and many visitors began to come to the monk. Some of those who visited the saint asked him to accept them into the monastery for spiritual and physical exploits. The monk, hearing persistent requests, fulfilled the desire of the lovers of God, tonsuring some into an angelic image; Thus, the brethren of the monastery began to increase.

For the inhabitants of the monastery, the Monk Pachomius became the perfect image of monastic life, especially obedience, and, according to the commandment of the Lord, he himself was the first servant of everyone. As the brethren multiplied, the need for the temple of God became especially evident. The holy saint decided to begin construction immediately after all the building materials had been prepared. For this purpose, together with one of his tonsures, he set off on foot to Moscow to visit St. Alexis for a letter authorizing the construction of a temple and monastery. The Moscow high priest was very happy at the arrival of his beloved protege and talked with him for a long time. Having received the blessing of Saint Alexy to build the monastery’s temple, taking from him the holy antimension, Saint Pachomius returned to Sypanovo with heartfelt joy and immediately began building a temple in the Name of the Life-Giving Trinity. He himself took an active part in this construction, was the first to come to work and the last to leave.

Thus, with the blessing of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, St. Pachomius, with the help of the residents of Nerekhtcha, built the first wooden church on Sypanov, which laid the most significant foundation of the new monastery. The church was consecrated by the saint of God himself, in the concelebration of several surrounding priests, in front of a huge crowd of people. There were many benefactors who supplied the new church with everything necessary - icons, vestments and other church utensils.

After the construction of the church, which dates back to approximately 1365-1378, work on building the monastery continued on Sypanov. A fence was built, cells for the brethren were built, and crop lands were plowed up near the monastery. A hotel was set up for the pilgrims who visited the monastery, in which the saint of God, the Monk Pachomius, as a simple novice, very often served the pilgrims. The ascetic gave soul-saving advice to many who came to him, supported and inspired the unfortunate with words of warm sympathy, and diligently cared for the sick.

Soon the life of the monastery settled according to the full monastic rules. Its organizer himself, the Monk Pachomius, became the abbot; A treasurer was also appointed - in all likelihood, the saint's favorite disciple, the monk Theodore. The new monastery became famous in the Kostroma region both for its pious abbot and for the strict ascetic life of the brethren. Diligent donors, deeply respecting the monk, helped the monastery in any way they could. So, one Nerekhta resident purchased two bells for her; the third bell was also purchased with funds from donors. The monastery began to be called the “Sypanov Monastery”, “Pachomius Hermitage”.

Many of those who came to the monastery sought spiritual consolation from the pious monks and asked for prayers; They especially earnestly asked the holy founder himself to pray to God for the sick and unfortunate. As numerous examples have shown, the intercession of St. Pachomius for the suffering was especially strong before the Throne of God. There was a lot of clear evidence of the discovery of the Lord’s mercy through the prayers of the saint, but the following case is especially remarkable, in which the holiness of the ascetic and the strength of his faith were revealed with extreme effectiveness.

This happened on August 1 (old style), on the day of the celebration of the All-Merciful Savior. According to the charter of the Church, the Monk Pachomius with the brethren and many people consecrated the water on the Gridevka River. When the blessing of water was over and the holy icons were already being carried back to the temple, the monk saw that a demoniac was being led to him from the direction of Nerekhta, who had reached such a state as a result of severe drunkenness and had become completely clouded in his mind. The patient's relatives used many means to help him recover, but nothing helped; then they decided to ask the prayers of Saint Pachomius before the Lord for the healing of the possessed. Having stopped the procession with icons on the bank of the river, the saint of God, while the sick man was brought to him, prayed fervently; then he placed the demoniac at the place of the blessing of water and covered him with a cross. The possessed man screamed loudly and threw himself into the water, repeating loudly: “Woe is me! The old man burned me with fire!” But, while in the water, the patient felt that a wonderful relief was happening to him, and became completely healthy. Having come to his senses, he began to warmly thank God and His saint for the miraculous deliverance from his illness and, together with others, carried the holy icons to the church. There the monk gave him prosphora; Since then, the healed person’s attacks of insanity have never recurred. Then the recovered man told those who asked him about what had happened - why he screamed so loudly and threw himself into the water when Saint Pachomius made the sign of the cross over him. According to the narrator, during this overshadowing, strong fire came from the cross and scorched it. The people and brethren of the monastery who participated in the procession, seeing such a wonderful sign of God's mercy through the prayers of the holy abbot, marveled a lot and glorified God in the Trinity Adored. After this incident, the fame of the miracle spread far, and people’s love for the saint and faith in his holiness increased even more.

The Monk Pachomius spent his entire life in prayerful exploits. Having reached a very old age and feeling the approach of his death, he gathered the monks of the monastery and addressed them for the last time with a word of fatherly teaching: “Now I, my children, depart from this timeless age and commend you to the will of God - the Most Holy Life-Giving Trinity and the Most Pure Mother of God; you But, beloved brethren in Christ, choose for yourself a shepherd who can lead your souls to the Lord...” The monk reminded the brethren of the monastery much of what he had taught them before, and for the last time he taught them instructions about monastic life, love and patience. The brethren stood with bowed heads, silently, with heartfelt sorrow, listening with attention to the spiritual testament of their elder abbot. It was hard for them to part with the monk, who was a loving father to the inhabitants of the monastery. Finally, the brethren turned to the Monk Pachomius with a request to appoint a new abbot for them in their place. Fulfilling their desire, the saint transferred the abbot's service to the monk Theodore, whom he had known for a long time: together they were tonsured into monasticism by Saint Alexy in Vladimir, and together they labored for some time in the Tsar Constantine monastery. There is no doubt that the elder prepared the monk Theodore in advance for the difficult position of abbot.

Looking with love at the monks, seeing their heartfelt grief, the Monk Pachomius consoled them in a quiet, exhausting voice, saying: “Do not grieve, my children! I am going to God who calls me, but I entrust you to the Life-Giving Trinity; She is your refuge, She is your the wall is strong..."

“Brethren,” the saint of God concluded his dying sermon, “endure troubles and sorrows, so that in this place you will find grace from God.” Already completely exhausted, the saint, having finished his instructions, asked each of the brothers for forgiveness and, blessing each one, sent him away in peace. Just before his death, the Monk Pachomius partook of the Holy Mysteries for the last time and, turning his gaze to the image of the Most Holy Trinity and filled with gracious consolation, quietly said: “Lord, in Your hands I commend my spirit!” With this prayerful sighing, the pure soul of the righteous departed to the Lord on March 21 (old style) 1384, during the reign of the blessed Prince Dimitri Ioannovich Donskoy, into the priesthood of Metropolitan Pimen of All Rus'.

With bitter tears and sobs, in front of a large crowd of people, the brethren of the monastery buried the body of their father and mentor near the altar at the right wall of the Trinity Cathedral Church. Subsequently, they mourned the elder abbot for a long time, often came to his grave and prayerfully talked with him with tears, revealing to him their sorrows and asking the monk for prayerful intercession for them before God. The monks believed that the Lord would number their abbot among His saints - and subsequent events became confirmation of this.

In the monastery of St. Pachomius lived the monk Irinarchus, an icon painter, who, even during the life of the saint, felt in his soul a demonic obsession - ungodly thoughts. Irinarch struggled long and hard with thoughts in his soul. After the death of the Monk Pachomius, the next year after his death, the demon of temptation took up arms against the icon painter with particular force; The monk was completely exhausted in spiritual warfare, but still strengthened himself. To heal his soul, he repented before all the brethren of the monastery.

Having woken up, the monk-icon painter immediately told Abbot Theodore and the brethren about what had happened, showing the mark on his thigh from the blow from the rod of St. Pachomius; This mark remained with the monk for the rest of his life. All the brethren thanked the Lord, who delivered the monk Irinarch from an ungodly thought at the intercession of the monk and showed them that their faith in the holiness of their beloved deceased abbot was justified. Soon the icon painter, completely freed from his passion, painted an exact image of the monk, since he well remembered the features of his face. The image was placed in the church, and a tomb was built over the grave of the saint of God.

This ends the handwritten life of St. Pachomius. The compiler of the life mentions that there were many other cases worthy of the memory of the saint, in which his prayerful intercession before God was clearly revealed, but the writer of the life “he passed over brevity for their sake,” also because “like the heavenly height, the earthly breadth and the depths of the sea are immeasurable, so the miracles of many saints are not written down for the sake of them.”

It is known that all the saints of the Russian Church until the middle of the 16th century, that is, before the Councils convened by St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, for the canonization of saints, for more or less a long time were glorified locally at first - that is, only in the monastery, city or locality where they lived and labored. Even such great saints of God as St. Theodosius of Pechersk, St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, and St. Sergius of Radonezh were revered locally. Local veneration of some saints - for example, the Monk Varlaam of Khutyn and the blessed Prince Mikhail of Chernigov - lasted for centuries. It was the same with the memory of St. Pachomius: his local veneration lasted for almost 300 years (1384 - 1675)

In 1675, under Abbot Haralampia, construction of a new stone Trinity Cathedral Church began in the monastery on the site of the old wooden one. On May 6 (old style), 1675, during excavations under the altar of the old church, the incorrupt body of St. Pachomius was found.

At that time, the Kostroma land was in church-administrative dependence directly from the All-Russian Patriarch, since it was part of the patriarchal region; Therefore, Patriarch Joachim was immediately informed about such an important event. The High Hierarch informed Tsar Alexy Mikhailovich of the find on Sypanov, who, according to the handwritten monastery chronicle, was very disposed towards the Pachomius Monastery and shortly before this he allocated a significant donation to Abbot Haralampius for the construction of the stone Trinity Church.

The all-Russian recognition and veneration of the Venerable Pachomius, which took place at that time with the blessing of the highest church authorities, is also evidenced by the fact that at the same time, over the shrine of the relics of the saint, in the same building as the Trinity Church, a temple was founded in the name of the Venerable Pachomius “on Nerekhta”, as this written on an old canvas antimension presented in 1838 to the office of the diocesan bishop.

After the construction of the stone church, the veneration of St. Pachomius spread and intensified even more: more and more people from near and far regions began to come to the holy relics of the saint of God, asking for prayerful help and his intercession before God in various unfortunate circumstances of life. Many sick people who turned to St. Pachomius with prayer for healing received what they asked for by their faith. The fame of the miracles occurring at the saint’s shrine quickly spread, and soon the entire Kostroma land learned about the saint. In the church hymn (ikos) it is said this way: “Rejoice, for the city of Kostroma boasts of you, having your relics in its area. Rejoice, praise and affirmation to the place called Nerekhta!..”

Almost no information has been preserved about the history of the Sypanov Monastery in the 15th and 16th centuries; There are no records left of that time about miracles through the prayers of the monk. This is not surprising: during the Time of Troubles, the Sypanov Monastery, together with the city of Nerekhta, was plundered and burned several times by the Poles, who attacked from Rostov, then from Kostroma, then from Shuya - especially at the beginning of the 17th century. The next two centuries also do not contain recorded information about the Monk Pachomius. As the famous researcher of Kostroma antiquity, Archpriest M.Ya. Diev, wrote, “the contemporaries of the saints of this time [that is, the time of St. Pachomius] made little effort to convey in writing the deeds and miracles of the saints, but only in amazement orally conveyed them to each other, and these transmissions so weakened their time from time to time that faint echoes are heard about many, mostly mixed with others..."

Currently, the relics of St. Pachomius rest hidden in the parish church, into which the Sypanov monastery was converted in 1764.

In addition to this narration by priest Nikolai Novoselsky, it can be said that after the construction of the stone Trinity Church, construction in the monastery, thanks to significant donations from benefactors, did not stop: stone abbot cells were erected between the bell tower and the stone church, several fraternal cells with stone cellars, a stone bread chamber and half of the fence with the holy gates. In subsequent years, a “second church with a refectory” in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and a stone hipped bell tower with “a place for sentry weights” were erected in the monastery.

After the conversion of the Sypanov monastery into a parish church in 1764 (the reasons for this are still not exactly known), a school for teaching boys the law of God, church rules and musical singing, as well as a charity pharmacy, were located in the buildings of the monastery.

Further, the book of priest Nikolai Novoselsky contains a description of several miracles associated with the name of the Monk Pachomius. We will limit ourselves here to retelling the story of the deliverance of local residents from the cholera epidemic in 1848 and 1853.

Since the spring of 1848, cholera, which was rampant in the Kostroma province, penetrated both the city of Nerekhta and the Sypanovsky parish. In Nerekhta, the epidemic began on May 17 (old style) and at first was barely noticeable; but then it began to spread and turned into a real pestilence. The Sypanovsky parishioners turned to the intercession of their patron, the Monk Pachomius, and their hope in him did not remain disgraced. After a religious procession was carried out with the icon of the monk, taken from his shrine, to the village of Bortnikovo and prayers were sung from house to house, the cholera completely stopped, and the seriously ill soon recovered, despite their apparent hopelessness. The same thing was observed in other villages of the parish: after prayers before the icon of the saint, cholera stopped, no matter how strong its spread. The effect of the disease this year was terrible: according to the statistics of one Sypanovsky parish over the summer, 22 males and 31 females died from cholera - moreover, in this parish, compared with other nearby areas, the effect of the epidemic was weaker, and it stopped almost immediately after the godfather going to a disease-stricken village with an icon of the monk.

The residents of Nerekhti turned to the saint of God Pachomius with prayer already at the very height of the epidemic. The icon of the saint with his relics was brought to Nerekhta on July 4 and remained there for 10 days. Then the epidemic began to weaken, and after seeing off the icon, which took place in front of a huge crowd of local residents, out of 300 seriously ill people, only 9 people died. The icon of the saint was carried to many villages of neighboring parishes - Neznanov, Fedorovsky, Rozhdestvensky and Esipovsky, and everywhere those who turned with faith to the prayerful intercession of the Monk Pachomius received what they asked for - the disease either completely stopped or noticeably weakened.

Five years later, in 1853, a cholera epidemic again raged in Russia. It also appeared in Nerekhtsky district, where about 3,000 people fell victim to it. In July, the disease came to Sypanovsky parish. Of the six villages of the parish, those that called for religious processions with an icon of the relics of the saint of God - Sypanovo, Bortnikovo, Molokovo and Tupitsyno - were completely free from the effects of the epidemic, there were not even sick people in them. The same villages that did not resort to the prayerful intercession of their Heavenly patron - Varvarino and Kholomeevo, especially the latter - were struck by the disease. When their enlightened inhabitants, six weeks after the appearance of cholera, brought to themselves the icon of St. Pachomius, the epidemic completely stopped, and no one fell ill anymore. The same thing happened in the villages of other parishes - Esipovsky, Pozdeevsky: after the miraculous image of the monk visited them, no one fell ill anymore, and the seriously ill recovered.

In the village of Pishchaline, a few days before the icon of the saint of God was brought there, about 40 people died and there were many sick; however, immediately after the icon was brought, the sufferers began to recover. A few hours before the appearance of the icon in the village, one seriously ill old man was given unction and lay unconscious; From minute to minute, everyone around him was expecting his death. Suddenly the patient shuddered and asked: “Are they carrying the saint?” He was told that the religious procession with the image was already entering the village. The patient immediately got up from his deathbed and went to meet the icon; During the entire time the image was in the village, he took part in carrying it around the houses of the peasants and soon completely recovered.

In the village of Stepanovo, up to 50 people died in one week and there were a lot of sick people. The peasants sent several villagers to Sypanovo; at their request, a water-blessing prayer service was served before the holy relics of St. Pachomius, and the blessed water was brought to the village. After the blessed water was distributed to the sick and the entire village was sprinkled with it, the residents suffering from cholera recovered, and the epidemic stopped.

In Nerekhta, prayer singing before the icon of the saint continued in the houses of the townspeople continuously for six days, and many seriously ill people, contrary to all expectations, suddenly recovered. Those who showed disrespect for the saint of God were severely punished by the Lord. Thus, during religious processions around Nerekhta with the icon of St. Pachomius, one doctor and his wife laughed at “the devotion of the Orthodox to icons and the piety of ignorant people”; on the same day they fell ill with the most severe form of cholera and soon died in terrible agony.

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Pachomius of Nerekhta (+), Rev.

Memory March 21 (glorification), May 15 (namesake), in the Cathedrals of Vladimir and Kostroma saints

In the world, Jacob was born at the beginning of the 14th century into the family of a priest in Vladimir on the Klyazma. Jacob's father was a priest in the church of St. Nicholas, his name was Ignatius, his mother was called Anna. Both of them were God-fearing people and gave their son a pious upbringing; For seven years he was given to study the sacred books and, as soon as he became proficient in the Divine Scripture, he began to show extraordinary zeal for the temple of God.

His father then died, leaving Jacob a 12-year-old orphan, and his mother did not prevent her son from fulfilling his pious intention and blessed her son on the path of monasticism.

Upon reaching the age of 21, he took monastic vows at the Nativity of the Mother of God Vladimir Monastery and resignedly underwent various obediences at the monastery.

A lot of time has passed. The abbot of the monastery, seeing the hard work and humility of the Monk Pachomius, brings him to Saint Alexy, the vicar of the Moscow Metropolitan Theognostus, and asks him to ordain Pachomius as a deacon. Saint Alexy willingly fulfills this. And in the rank of deacon, the monk lived in the Mother of God Nativity Monastery for many years, about ten, and then became rector of the Tsar Constantine Monastery near the city of Vladimir. Saint Alexy, having restored the ancient monastery in the name of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsar Constantine, did not find a more suitable abbot for it than the Monk Pachomius, whose virtues he had long known. Having arrived in Vladimir in the year to inspect the recreated monastery, Saint Alexy appointed Pachomius as its head.

For several years the monk ruled the monastery, establishing order of life in it, edifying the brethren by word and example. But, striving for a silent desert life, at night, secretly from the brethren, the Monk Pachomius left the Tsar Constantine monastery and retired to the Kostroma region, to a place called Nerekhta.

Here, on the Gridenka River, he found a convenient place for monastic life - an elevated peninsula in a dense forest. The monk turned to the residents of the Nerekhta settlement with a request to settle and establish a monastery in the town of Sypanovo, Kostroma Territory. The residents of Nerekhta happily agreed and took whatever part they could in the construction of the monastery.

The Monk Pachomius painted an image of the Holy Trinity and, with prayer singing, brought it to the place where he planned to erect a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity. Having completed the construction of the temple, Saint Pachomius set about establishing order in the new monastery, which was gradually populated by monks. In the newly built monastery, the monks themselves had to cultivate the land and feed themselves with the labor of their hands, in which the saint was the first to set an example for the brethren.

He died on March 21 at a ripe old age and was buried in the Trinity Church he founded. One of his students, Irinarch, painted an icon of the saint.

His holy relics, found incorrupt in , rested in an open shrine in the church of his native monastery.

PAKHOMIUS NEREKHTSKY

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Pachomius of Nerekhta (+ 1384), venerable.

The Monk Pachomius of Nerekhta, in the world Jacob, was born into the family of a priest in Vladimir on Klyazma. Jacob's father was a priest in the church of St. Nicholas, his name was Ignatius, his mother was called Anna. Both of them were God-fearing people and gave their son a pious upbringing; For seven years he was given to study the sacred books and, as soon as he became proficient in the Divine Scripture, he began to show extraordinary zeal for the temple of God.

His father then died, leaving Jacob a 12-year-old orphan, and his mother did not prevent her son from fulfilling his pious intention and blessed her son on the path of monasticism.

Upon reaching the age of 21, he took monastic vows at the Nativity of the Mother of God Vladimir Monastery and resignedly underwent various obediences in the monastery.

A lot of time has passed. The abbot of the monastery, seeing the diligence and humility of the Monk Pachomius, brings him to Saint Alexy, the vicar of the Moscow Metropolitan Theognostus, and asks him to ordain Pachomius as a deacon. Saint Alexy willingly fulfills this. And in the rank of deacon, the monk lived in the Mother of God Nativity Monastery for many years, about ten, and then became rector of the Tsar Constantine Monastery near the city of Vladimir. Saint Alexy, having restored the ancient monastery in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsar Constantine, did not find a more suitable abbot for it than the Monk Pachomius, whose virtues he had long known. Having arrived in Vladimir in 1362 to inspect the recreated monastery, Saint Alexy appointed Pachomius as its head.

The monk died on March 21, 1384 at a ripe old age and was buried in the Trinity Church he founded. One of his students, Irinarch, painted an icon of the saint.

His holy relics, found incorrupt in 1657, rested in an open shrine in the church of his native monastery. In 1675, Saint Pachomius was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and canonized.

The main memory of the Monk Pachomius is celebrated on May 15, the saint’s name day, and March 21, the day of his repose.

Troparion to Pachomius of Nerekhta, tone 4

Everyday rumors, reverend, rejected and, like a bird, found silence in the desert, and having settled in it, you formed the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, and in prayers and labors diligent to God, you flourished like a phoenix, becoming an image of spiritual consolation, Rev. Father Pachomius, pray to the Most Holy Trinity for our souls to be saved.

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http://www.saints.ru/p/Pahomii_Nerehtskii.html

Most likely there is a typo in one of the dates: 1657 or 1675. Relics are usually found in the year of glorification.

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Biography

Born in Vladimir into the family of a priest. For seven years he was given to study the sacred books and, as soon as he became proficient in the Divine Scripture, he began to show extraordinary zeal for the temple of God.

After the death of his father, being a 12-year-old boy, Jacob, with the blessing of his mother, went to the Mother of God Nativity Monastery near Vladimir, and at the age of 21 he took monastic vows with the name Pachomius in honor of the Monk Pachomius the Great.

A few years later, the monk Pachomius was ordained a deacon by Bishop Alexy (Byakont) of Vladimir, the future Metropolitan of Kyiv.

In 1352, he was ordained to the rank of hieromonk, and in 1365, upon the restoration of the Constantine Monastery, he was appointed its first abbot.

While establishing a monastery, the Monk Pachomius was burned with a desire for solitude and soon retired to a deserted place near Nerekhta, where he built the Trinity Church and died in old age on March 23, 1384.

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Troparion, tone 4:

Everyday rumors, reverend, / rejected and, like a bird, found silence in the desert, / and having settled in it, you formed the abode of the Most Holy Trinity, / in prayers and labors diligent to God, / you flourished like a phoenix, / becoming an image of spiritual consolation, / Reverend Father Pachomius, pray to the Most Holy Trinity for the salvation of our souls.

Kontakion, tone 4:

Silent in the desert, / I seek the Lord alone, O God-bearer, / But I will not leave you alone to be in the desert, / and by His command several brethren have descended upon you, / with them I pray to the Lord, / The Trinity is a sacred temple, / in now, Venerable Pachomius, / pray for the salvation of our souls.

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Lives of Russian saints. Publishing house "Siberian benediction", Moscow, Volume 1, 2008, pp. 100-105. ISBN 978-5-91362-096-5.

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Mavra Kuzminishna offered to carry the wounded man into the house.
“The gentlemen won’t say anything...” she said. But it was necessary to avoid climbing the stairs, and therefore the wounded man was carried into the outbuilding and laid in the former room of m me Schoss. The wounded man was Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.

The last day of Moscow has arrived. It was clear, cheerful autumn weather. It was Sunday. As on ordinary Sundays, mass was announced in all churches. No one, it seemed, could yet understand what awaited Moscow.
Only two indicators of the state of society expressed the situation in which Moscow was: the mob, that is, the class of poor people, and the prices of objects. Factory workers, courtyard workers and peasants in a huge crowd, which included officials, seminarians, and nobles, went out to the Three Mountains early in the morning. Having stood there and not waiting for Rostopchin and making sure that Moscow would be surrendered, this crowd scattered throughout Moscow, into drinking houses and taverns. Prices that day also indicated the state of affairs. The prices for weapons, for gold, for carts and horses kept rising, and the prices for pieces of paper and for city things kept going down, so that in the middle of the day there were cases when the cabbies took out expensive goods, like cloth, for nothing, and for a peasant's horse paid five hundred rubles; furniture, mirrors, bronzes were given away for free.
In the sedate and old Rostov house, the disintegration of previous living conditions was expressed very weakly. The only thing about people was that three people from a huge courtyard disappeared that night; but nothing was stolen; and in relation to the prices of things, it turned out that the thirty carts that came from the villages were enormous wealth, which many envied and for which the Rostovs were offered huge amounts of money. Not only were they offering huge sums of money for these carts, but from the evening and early morning of September 1st, orderlies and servants sent from the wounded officers came to the Rostovs’ yard, and the wounded themselves, who were placed with the Rostovs and in neighboring houses, were dragged along, and begged the Rostovs’ people to take care of that they be given carts to leave Moscow. The butler, to whom such requests were addressed, although he felt sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he would not even dare to report this to the count. No matter how pitiful the remaining wounded were, it was obvious that if they gave up one cart, there was no reason not to give up the other, and give up everything and their crews. Thirty carts could not save all the wounded, and in the general disaster it was impossible not to think about yourself and your family. This is what the butler thought for his master.
Waking up on the morning of the 1st, Count Ilya Andreich quietly left the bedroom so as not to wake up the countess who had just fallen asleep in the morning, and in his purple silk robe he went out onto the porch. The carts, tied up, stood in the yard. Carriages stood at the porch. The butler stood at the entrance, talking with the old orderly and the young, pale officer with his arm tied. The butler, seeing the count, made a significant and stern sign to the officer and orderly to leave.
- Well, is everything ready, Vasilich? - said the count, rubbing his bald head and looking good-naturedly at the officer and orderly and nodding his head to them. (The Count loved new faces.)
- At least harness it now, your Excellency.
- Well, that’s great, the countess will wake up, and God bless you! What are you doing, gentlemen? – he turned to the officer. - In my house? – The officer moved closer. His pale face suddenly flushed with bright color.
- Count, do me a favor, let me... for God's sake... take refuge somewhere on your carts. Here I have nothing with me... I’m in the cart... it doesn’t matter... - Before the officer had time to finish, the orderly turned to the count with the same request for his master.
- A! “Yes, yes, yes,” the count spoke hastily. - I'm very, very happy. Vasilich, you give orders, well, to clear one or two carts, well... well... what is needed... - the count said in some vague expressions, ordering something. But at the same moment, the officer’s ardent expression of gratitude already cemented what he had ordered. The count looked around him: in the courtyard, at the gate, in the window of the outbuilding, the wounded and orderlies could be seen. They all looked at the count and moved towards the porch.

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