Pilgrimage to Moore monastery Peter and Fevronia

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How beautiful and amazing ancient city of Moore!Monastery of Peter and Fevronia - is the most famous landmark and the main local shrine.To find out what he is famous, you should look into an old book and read the life of pious princes.

monastery Murom Peter and Fevronia became the last refuge of the spouses, which the Church honors as the patrons of marriage, family and children.Here from all over the Russian people come to venerate their relics, to pray for a happy personal life.How it all began?Back in the twelfth century Murom princess visited serpent.Cunning wormed it that the wicked can only kill Peter, the younger brother of her husband.Defending the honor of the family, he fought the reptile and killed her, but at the last gasp of snakes bite grand prince.Poison Peter all white body was covered with terrible sores painful.

While living in the Ryazan land Febronia, daughter Bortnik, is famous as a skilled healer.Peter cure it and asked to marry her: that is, they say, the will of God.Though he did not want to marry a simple girl, yet he kept his word.And since then, they have begun to live in peace and harmony, wisely ruled the city.Old, and they took a monk, like a fairy tale, died in one day.Boyars tried several times to bury them separately, but each morning the dead bodies were put back in a coffin.Therefore, they put in a tomb, and was the last refuge of the monastery (Peter and Fevronia later).

But people continued to come to the grave of his princes, earnestly praying for their souls and asking for their marital happiness.And they say that the saints no one refused to help.

famous for beautiful temple city of Moore.Monastery of Peter and Fevronia (or the Holy Trinity) was built in the seventeenth century.Money for its construction donated a rich merchant.Then the master of the old wooden church was demolished in 1351, and in its place was built a stone church.The five-domed Holy Trinity Cathedral is small, but has a graceful proportions and rich decoration.Skilled tiles with images of birds, animals and herbs give it a special elegance.But that's not all that rich city of Moore.Monastery of Peter and Fevronia is adjacent to the gate of the Kazan church and bell tower.Both buildings have openwork and air architecture, they are filled with light and appear weightless.

attracts many faithful city of Moore.Monastery of Peter and Fevronia acquired its final appearance in the nineteenth century.The ensemble appeared in camera body stone, fence, parochial school.This also in 1975 transported a wooden church of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1715 GP).

Moore, the monastery of Peter and Fevronia in particular - the place is always crowded.Pilgrims come here every day and nuns live in the monastery.One of the oldest traditions of the shrine is embroidered with silver, gold and precious stones.His hands nuns decorate the temple and miraculous icons that are in it.In Soviet times, complex though closed, forbidding worship, but not destroyed, identifying it to the monuments.In 1991, the monastery began to revive to its original grandeur.