Believers from all over the world come to church Matrona in Moscow to bow to its icon and ask the patron saint of good intercession, healing of ailments and blessings.Who is this matron, and why the Russian people go to her with their sorrows and joys?
Bird with closed eyes
Matron D. Nikonov was born in Tula province, in the village of Sebino, 10 (22) in November 1881.Her parents, Dmitri and Natalia were pious and hardworking peasants.Matron was the youngest of four children.The family was very poor, so small Matrona before her birth it was decided to send to the orphanage, who patronized Prince Golitsyn.However, before the birth of her mother she had a dream turned prophetic: it is not yet born daughter appeared in the form of a white bird with a human face and eyes closed.God-fearing woman considered a sign of more than a dream and decided to leave the child in the family.A girl really was born blind.
God's chosen child
Scripture shows that God chooses his assistants on the ground before they were born.Preserved eyewitness, says that the baptism of the Holy Father Matrona said that the child of God's chosen, and not in vain, she was born blind from birth adopting humility and patience.Matron mother later told me that since the birth of the girl did not eat on Fridays and Wednesdays - in those days, when Orthodox Christians are fasting.The breast Matrona had a birthmark in the shape of a cross.Surprisingly, the blind girl always knew about it and called his cross birthmark given at birth.From early childhood, the girl loved to go to church and actually grew up in it ...
In those years, none of the family and could not imagine what was once the name of their ailing girl will be named Orthodox churches across Russia, including to openMatron church in Moscow.But God knew about it back then, giving their pupils special gifts.
Spiritual Gifts Matron
first manifestations will have begun in eight years.Even then the girl came meek and ailing, for whom she prayed fervently.In his youth, Matron traveled a lot with the spiritual mentor, make pilgrimages to the many shrines.Seventeen-year Matrona suddenly paralyzed, but she took it as God's will, and never complained of impotence.Until the end of life remained in a seated matron portable chair.
She happened to live in many cities, but most of her life she spent in Moscow, where she was traveling from all sides pilgrims, prayed for them, healed, predicted the future ... That's why I got her name - Matrona of Moscow.Church in Moscow and now accepts those who ask the intercession of the patroness of good before God.And only at the very end of life, when the matron was already very weak, she began to limit the number of parishioners.Matron time of his death knew in advance so managed to give all the necessary arrangements with regards to the funeral and burial.Burial Blessed Matrona of 2 May 1952, on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers, in the cemetery of St. Daniel.The funeral and burial Matrona was the beginning of it as a glorification of God ugodnitsy.Matron was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church May 2, 1999.
Church of St. Matrona of Moscow: the service, the address
Across Russia there are several churches, temples, chapels, under the patronage of a saint.In 2008-2009, there was a church Matrona in Moscow.The building of the temple - a low-hipped church chapel with a single-span belfry.Watch over the temple nuns Pokrovsky Monastery.Matrona of Moscow Church was built on private donations of the faithful.Every Saturday in the church held all-night vigil and the Sunday Divine Liturgy is performed.From Monday to Saturday at the Temple Matron passes Evening Prayer 17:00 hours.Serve Liturgy at 07:30.On Sundays the Liturgy held at 06:15 and 9:00.
Many believers come to the church of St. Matrona of Moscow, to marry, baptize children, to remember the dead and just pray.Church located at: Moscow, Taganskaya street, d. 58.
