Blessed Matrona oxbow popularly revered saint.Her name is best known residents of St. Petersburg and the region, because it is here that she has lived most of his righteous life.Here, on a farmstead Zelenetskii Holy Trinity Monastery, located her grave, her people come hungry for physical and spiritual healing.
Matron Mother, which is often called the Matron-sandals during his lifetime and became famous as the chudotvoritsa prophetess.People turned to the oxbow lake for prayer help, advice and guidance.Her prophecies and predictions have helped to avoid many deaths and dangers, to cope with difficult circumstances, and to find the right path in life.
Life righteous
Matrona was born in a peasant family in the small village of Vanino (Kostroma Province).For information about how her childhood, did not survive.It is known that at the time she became the wife of the Kostroma tradesman E. Mylnikova.They lived a wealthy life, but not in poverty, as her husband kept a grocery store.In 1877, her husband Matrona called up for military service - there was a war with Turkey.With him gone and a nurse Matrona-barefoot.Even then, the gift of love and compassion evident in her nature, she helped soldiers as their forces and even gave them their pay for their service.
After her husband's death, which happened in 1878, Matron returned home and decided to dedicate his life to serving God and people.Sell the property, she gave the money to the poor and began to live on alms, becoming a pilgrim.Later in life, at any time, she was wearing only summer clothes and went barefoot, and therefore was named Matron-barefoot.Barefoot, she visited all the holy places of vast Russia, and four made a pilgrimage to Palestine, where he took the schema.She visited Solovetsky miracle workers.
last three decades of life Matron held in St. Petersburg.People have always seen her praying at the church chapel Skorbjashchenskoj Church - barefoot, dressed in white, and his staff in his hand.Thousands of people annually visited Matrona.She was a vision, a prayer to the Lord had greater power.All took bayou blessed, consoled, counseled and prayed with people, begging God's mercy.Her prayers rid of alcoholism and other diseases, there have been cases of miraculous healings hopeless patients.Matron-barefoot warn people of impending danger, and they remained unharmed.The focus of her spiritual life had compassion for people, coming from the heart, sign of the cross, prayer, and the Orthodox Church.Matron-sandals was not many years ago, but his intercession before God after death helps people.
After the death
Starica died in 1911, on March 30, the code on the Neva began drifting ice.Even before she spoke that goes with ice and water, that's what happened.On the day of her funeral was Palm Sunday.Matrona was buried in the churchyard Skorbjashchenskoj church, near the chapel, where she loved to pray.After the revolution destroyed the church, the chapel was closed.Lost and trail Matroninoy grave.In 1997 alone, in the churchyard of male Zelenetskii Holy Trinity Monastery, which was formed around the chapel, the crypt was found the coffin Matrona.The coffin with the relics of old women were buried in the same place, and again people come to ask for prayer help Matrona.
Prayer Matrona-sandals
Before dying old woman told the people to come up to her and, as a living, told the story of his affliction, he promised to help his petition to the Lord.And people are coming.Matrona can ask for healing, deliverance from suffering, about motherhood, the preservation of marriage, to meet with constriction help in everyday matters and solving money problems, deliverance from alcoholism, assistance in employment and education.
Thank God that was on the ground molitvennitsy such as Matron-sandals that now, after his death, comforting and helping their prayers.Despite the fact that Matrona, the entire life of their former great example of charity and patience, not yet canonized, it can be treated today with requests for intercession.
