relics Matrona of Moscow, as well as acquired the remains of other saints of Christianity are particularly revered object.Even at the VII Ecumenical Council, held in 787, he was assigned to the dogma on which the relics of saints should be placed in the altar of the church, and especially reading.The Church believes that the holy relics of the Holy Spirit dwells as in a temple.
Finding body
relics Matrona of Moscow were discovered in 1998, March 8 at exactly 24:00.Carrying them took place in a festive atmosphere.With the blessing of Patriarch (headed by MP was Alexy II), in Moscow, where in 1952 a tomb was Matrona oxbow (Danilovskoe cemetery), representatives of the higher clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate fair remains or relics of the saint were transferred to the cemetery in the Danilov Monastery.People gathered a lot, according to the majority, and the air was diffused goodness.The relics Matrona of Moscow were in a coffin, which was installed in the church, built in the name of righteous Simeon spent on a pillar in prayer and fasting 37 years (which is why it is called Simeon Stylites).The temple where the relics were placed, Gate.
simple peasant who became a saint
Who she is - holy bayou?In a simple peasant family (in very elderly Nikonov, father's name was Dmitry, Natalia's mother was) living in Tula province, in the village of Serbin Epifanskie County, in 1881 was born the fourth child, a blind girl.The Life of Saint mentions that parents would be away from her and leave the shelter.But the mother in a dream saw a large white bird without eyes, do not blindly, namely without eyes, shrunken on her chest.Considering prophetic dream, the parents took the child home.It is known that in childhood Matrona Nikonov had the gift of healing and divination.
signs of holiness and eccentricity
about her being chosen by God first told Father Vasily, baptized the girl - when the baby was lowered into the baptismal font, the fragrant rose above her post.The body she was also a sign of the divine - on the chest of the child had a hump in the form of a cross (so small Matron refused to wear a pectoral cross, arguing that it already has its own), which discovered and exhumed.His name was in honor of the girl Matrona of Constantinople, the ascetic who lived in the V century.There were other signs - the girl did not take the breast on fasting days - Wednesday and Friday, she slept all the time.Spiritual vision, which was awarded the Matron in excess shall be reimbursed to her physical disability - she was deprived of in the usual sense of the word, at the Matron had no eyes at all, eyelids were tightly fused.The gift of divination and healing soon learned the whole district, and to the house where the young saint lived, began arriving crowds.
disadvantaged and holy
At the age of 14 there was a meeting with her righteous John Kronstadt.It is in the presence of a large number of people is very high and figuratively said of the divine gift and the future role of women in Orthodoxy.The seven pillars - the seven Ecumenical Councils.Righteous figuratively named Matrona eighth pillar.At the age of 17 at the Matron paralyzed legs.This event was predicted by herself.Revolution, which deprived Matrona homes, bayou predicted long.Wandering on other people's houses and apartments (and wandering lasted 50 years), Matron never complained, and the glory of her holy deeds all grew and grew.There is a myth about visiting the holy Stalin, and even has an icon depicting the scene.But that's just a beautiful legend, talking about faith in the power of the holy people.
Death oxbow
death of his Matron predicted, too, like a pilgrimage to the temple, where are the relics Matrona of Moscow, that is, it predicted the day to day turns to the altar where her remains will rest.
exactly what happened.Starica Matron - the most revered saint in Moscow.Crowds of people began to go to her grave on the Danilovsky cemetery, which became a place of pilgrimage informal.There was a need for the canonization of blessed Matrona oxbow lakes and finding her relics.It goes to the communion of saints was on 2 May 1999, Pokrovsky Stauropegial (monastery, reporting directly to the patriarch, bypassing the government of dioceses) convent.
first canonization
Act canonization read head of the Moscow Patriarchate (Alexy II).In this monastery, the most visited monastery of the capital, and is a cancer in which the enclosed power Matrona of Moscow.In Moscow, there are a few places where there are fragments of the precious relics of saints Blessed Matrona Nikonov.People come here with the vital questions and requests, are ready to defend the queue for hours in winter and summer, in the heat and cold - so great faith in the miraculous power of a local saint.The relics Matrona of Moscow in Moscow, or rather their particles are still in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.Here, next to the icon Matrona particle rest of her relics.
other Moscow churches resting place of the relics of the saint
relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow, and the temple of Sacred Princess Euphrosyne of Moscow, located at Nakhimov avenue, Vlad.6.
In the above two temples, along with relics Matrona, there are the remains and other great Christian saints - Alexander Nevsky, Barbara, Bishop Ipponiyskogo, St. Tikhon of Moscow and some others.In Shubin at the Saints, who in the Russian church books are known as brothers and healers miracle workers (bessrebrenniki brothers Cosmas and Damian), who lived in the III-IV centuries, there are icons and relics Matrona of Moscow.Moscow is another place where it is stored is the same icon with a piece of the precious relics Matrona - a temple in Philippovsky Lane (Resurrection).It is so called because there is a well-known holy day of the Resurrection (from the word "to be known as" - "be known"), which is dedicated to the temple built at Calvary Saints Constantine.And in Moscow there is one place where the relics Matrona of Moscow buried in a decent environment - close to the remains of the Great Martyr St. George the Martyr and St. Panteleimon.This Compound Solovetsky Monastery (1992), where the Church of St. George the Victorious in the valley, which is an architectural monument of the XVII century and is in the style patterns the Moscow characterized by an abundance of intricate shapes and decoration.In addition, there are the remains of the old women in the church of St. Gregory of Neo-Caesarea in Derbitsah, located at the address: Moscow, Bolshaya Polyanka, 29a.In Alexis New Sloboda (Solzhenitsyn Street, Building 15), in the church of St. Martin the Confessor, kept a special relic - the most sacred burial shirt.The image written with the blessing of the Matron, and the icon of the Mother of God "Perishing" are in Pokrovsky Monastery.
special veneration and national love
In Russia, there are more than 30 churches of St. Matrona, its power is delivered in many cities of Russia - Krasnoyarsk and Lipetsk, Vologda and Perm Novokuznetsk.In 2004, the Holy Synod to address the issue of the churchwide glorification of the Holy Blessed Matrona of Moscow.Churchwide canonization took place in October of the same year.In 1999, she was canonized as a saint Locally Moscow.Today Matrona of Moscow, perhaps the most beloved of all the saints of the XX century.In people it is called Matrona, it is incredibly loved by Muscovites, and that love and faith in the sacred power of the older women can be compared only to that of love to the residents of the northern capital of Xenia of St. Petersburg, which they also called Ksenyushkoy.By relics Matrona of Moscow in a hurry not only residents of the metropolis, known for hundreds of cases where, having left just two hours between trains, people rushed to help Matrona, who came immediately and was waiting for them when they return home.Memorial Day of Blessed Matrona in the church calendar - May 2nd.
