Out of reverence for the memory of the founder of the monastery, St. Sergius of Radonezh, his close disciple and associate, St. Roman Kirzhachsky, many princes and boyars made major contributions to the Annunciation Monastery. Monastic peasants were exempted from duties, fishing was allowed, and other benefits were provided. Sovereign princes, Russian sovereigns, eminent boyar families paid attention to the monastery, but the Miloslavsky boyars, whose family tomb was built under the Church of the All-Merciful Savior, had the greatest care for it. The famous royal painter Simon Fyodorov Ushakov in 1659 painted for the monastery an image of the Lord Jesus Christ with the forthcoming Saints Sergius and Nikon.
Throughout its existence, the Kirzhach monastery had sufficient funds, and therefore could provide significant assistance to the sick and the poor.
Among many Russian monasteries, in 1764 the Annunciation Monastery was abolished and turned into a parish church. The property was transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, and the brotherhood was sent to other monasteries.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Solovyov family, residents of the city of Kirzhach, took on special care of the former monastery churches, repairing them and updating the wall paintings.
The main temple of the monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God was built at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century in the likeness of the Trinity Cathedral of the monastery of St. Sergius. In its basement there was once a chapel in honor of the Equal-to-the-Apostles kings Constantine and Helena. The second church of the 16th century was dedicated to St. Sergius of Radonezh, the organizer of the holy monastery on Kirzhach. The temple in the name of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Cross of the Lord and the All-Merciful Savior was built in 1656 by John Andreevich Miloslavsky, later its basement became the family tomb of the Miloslavskys. The last church was built on the territory of the monastery by the Solovyov brothers at the burial place of their parents in the 19th century and is dedicated to All Saints.
After the October Revolution, around 1928, the liturgical life of the once glorious ancient monastery was interrupted for a long time, the churches were closed. In 1932-34, the temple in the name of St. Sergius was blown up and completely destroyed. For seven decades desolation reigned in the holy land, but by the grace of God, 605 years after the blessed death of the humble disciple of Abba Sergius, the Monk Roman of Kirzhach, the memory of his blessed name is now solemnly glorified in the Annunciation Monastery.
the nuns came here from the Alexander Holy Dormition convent. Ahead of them were great difficulties in restoring the ancient monastery: the buildings were not heated, in addition to the cold, dampness reigned in them. Due to the prayers of the patron saint, the Monk Roman, none of the sisters fell ill.
In May 1997, novice Lyudmila Trubina entered the Annunciation Convent. On the second day after arriving at the monastery, a young, perfectly healthy girl was swollen up to her knees and her legs began to ache. She had to change her shoes. Lyudmila could not stand and moved with difficulty. The pain in her legs was so excruciating that the novice could not help crying, she became discouraged. Hearing about the healing of a girl from Ratkovo, in the evening she decided to read the Akathist to St. Roman over his burial place. The next day, the pain suddenly subsided. The overjoyed girl once again read the Akathist to the First Abbot of the Kirzhach Monastery, thanking him for the relief from her illness, after which she received complete healing.
In 1996, the famous historian S. A. Belyaev began extensive archaeological work in the tomb of St. Roman. In the center of the chapel, at a depth of about two meters from the ancient floor, the holy relics of St. Roman were found, miraculously preserved, despite all the vicissitudes of history, and not disturbed by all kinds of work on this site. This event fell on November 12, 1996, the day of the celebration of the icon Mother of God Gracious and memory of St. John the Merciful.
The question of the veneration of St. Roman is closely connected with the history of establishing the memory of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints, which dates back to the middle of the 17th century, when the significance of St. Sergius as an All-Russian saint and mourner of the Russian land was realized. It was then that the first lists of the disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh were already compiled.
With the blessing of His Holiness Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in 1981, the celebration of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints was established on the day after the feast in honor of the Finding of the relics of St. Sergius, on July 6; in 1982, on the day of the celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, June 23, the memory of the Cathedral of the Vladimir Saints was established. Among the saints who shone in the land of Vladimir and Radonezh, the disciple of St. Sergius, St. Roman, Abbot of Kirzhachsky, was also glorified.
The Annunciation Kirzhach monastery, ruled after St. Roman by numerous abbots and builders, was under the jurisdiction of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery
Returning, the mother took the girl in her arms and went up to the Cathedral of the Annunciation. She prayed with tears, confessed and took communion. The little girl sat beside her on a stool and looked at the church with curiosity. On the wall, she noticed the familiar image of a kind old man who gave her milk to drink, and showed it to her mother. It turned out to be the Monk Roman, the Kirzhach Abbot. After the end of the service, the sick baby felt so much better that she was able to walk the whole way back from Kirzhach to Ratkovo with her legs. After miraculous healing, the girl is always with early spring before late autumn she invariably walked barefoot, causing jokes and ridicule from those around her.
In 1928 the Cathedral of the Annunciation was closed. During the years of the Great Patriotic War in the basement of the temple there was a kerosene shop, where long queues always lined up. One day, people standing behind the kerosene saw an old monk on the roof of the cathedral, dressed in a mantle. With a censer in his hands, the elder went around the roof and censed the city of Kirzhach from all sides. By the prayerful intercession of the patron saint, the city of Kirzhach remained aloof from hostilities.
In 1990-1991, the former Kirzhach Monastery was revived again by Divine Providence: the Annunciation Cathedral was opened for worship as a parish church, and the parish took the first steps to restore the monastery churches.
In 1992, the Annunciation parish was preparing for the solemn celebration of the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the founder of the Kirzhach Monastery. On the eve of the celebrations, Bishop Evlogii of Vladimir and Suzdal visited the church to see how the preparations for the feast were going. Passing through the territory of the former monastery. Vladyka drew attention to the sloppy mound of pebbles near the burial ground of the Annunciation Cathedral and asked to level it. Two days later, a tractor driver was called. Having removed the top layer of pebbles, he stumbled upon a high-explosive fragmentation mine. Shocked parishioners called a brigade of sappers. The mine turned out to be combat-ready and, in the event of an explosion, would destroy the cathedral, people could suffer. So the builder of the Kirzhachsky monastery, St. Sergius, and his first hegumen, St. Roman, miraculously preserved their monastery and prevented misfortune.
With the blessing of Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal, the devastated parish churches in the name of the All-Merciful Savior and the Annunciation Holy Mother of God in 1995 they were again converted to the monastery, but this time to the women's one. It is surprising that the Annunciation Monastery was opened on July 4, before the all-night vigil on the eve of the memory of St. Sergius of Radonezh, with whom the entire history of the monastery is connected. First
On the Holy Gates at the entrance to the monastery long time pilgrims were informed by an inscription that “The Kirzhachsky Annunciation Monastery was founded in the XIV century, from 1354 to 1358, by the Monk Sergius, hegumen of the Holy Trinity Monastery, with the blessing of Metropolitan Alexy, the Moscow miracle worker, on the basis of this pack he returned to the Holy Trinity Monastery, according to exhortation and supplication of two archimandrites sent by Saint Alexy; instead of himself, he left his first disciple, the Monk Hieromonk Roman, as rector in the Kirzhachsky Monastery, whose relics are kept under a bushel here. In his memory, according to the zeal of the people, memorial services are sent, and a troparion and kontakion are minted for him on the tomb.
It is noteworthy that in the manuscript calendars of the 17th-18th centuries, the first Kirzhach abbot is called a reverend and miracle worker. Monastery fires that destroyed most archive, could destroy the records of the miracles of the Monk Roman, which gave reason to call him even a miracle worker.
Priest Alexander Lyanov, who serves in the city of Mstera, Vladimir Region, relayed the story of his grandmother, Anna Ivanovna Yakusheva, which he heard from her in the mid-1980s. In the late 1920s, Anna Ivanovna lived in the village of Ratkovo, Kirzhachsky district. One of the residents of Ratkovo had a little daughter who was seriously ill and could not walk from birth. Around 1928, shortly before the closing of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, on the feast day of St. Roman (July 29), the mother, as usual, decided to go to church with her daughter, deeply revering the reverend. She put the sick child on her shoulders and walked into the city. Fearing to be late for the Divine Liturgy, the woman left early and arrived long before the start of the service. Tired of the road, the mother with the sick girl in her arms sat down to rest on the steps of the Church of the Annunciation. A blue mist rose from the river and softly enveloped the monastery churches. A tired child asked his mother for a drink. Suddenly, a handsome old man in monastic clothes approached them and offered the girl a glass of milk. The little girl took a few sips and, thanking, returned the unfinished milk to the kind grandfather. A few minutes later, the child again turned to his mother: “Mom, I feel so good, I would like to drink more!” Leaving her daughter on the steps of the temple, the woman rushed to catch up with the old monk, but could not find him anywhere.
Together with the fathers of the Trinity Monastery, the brethren of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery prayed with tears for the victory of the Russian Christ-loving army. In 1389, after a serious illness due to exorbitant loads, the noble prince Dimitri Ioannovich, nicknamed after great victory Donskoy. The Monk Sergius with many prayers took leave of him in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. This loss deeply saddened all Russian people, led by their spiritual mentors.
Through the prayers of their abbot, the inhabitants of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery gradually passed the difficult stages of monastic prowess. Patience, love, and the gift of reasoning helped St. Roman protect his disciples from excessive vehemence and awaken them from cold distraction. The very appearance of the monk reflected the deep spiritual world of his inner life.
Many sad and joyful events took place before the eyes of the humble abbot Roman. His clear soul asked for peace and rest in God. On the day of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, the great Trinity Abbot Sergius was miraculously informed by the Queen of Heaven Herself of his imminent death. This prompted him to soon transfer his monastery to the Monk Nikon, in order to stand in silence before the Lord himself. Undoubtedly, the Monk Roman became aware of this wondrous event from his elder-abbot. But he himself died in the world before his teacher, in memory of the holy martyr Kallinikos, on July 29, 1392.
The brethren of the Annunciation Monastery, with many prayers and tears, buried the elder under the deacon of the monastery church, built by the labors of his great abbot, St. Sergius, with his devoted disciples.
Centuries passed, but the veneration of the Kirzhach abbot did not fade away with his death. Over the place of his burial, the monks placed a shrine, and then a carved canopy over it. They painted an icon of St. Roman. Inextinguishable lamps burned in front of the saint's shrine. Troparion and kontakion were minted on its side walls in his honor. Successive hieromonks and priests incessantly served at the tomb of the panikhida ascetic at the zealous requests of the admirers of St. Roman. On the day of his memory, a funeral liturgy was performed according to the order. In the vestibule of the tomb of the first abbot of the monastery stood a bowl of water from a well, according to legend, dug by St. Sergius of Radonezh himself at the foundation of the monastery.
Roman as a hieromonk and conferred on him the rank of Abbot of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery. The year of foundation of the monastery is considered to be 1358. Just as in the Trinity Monastery, a cenobitic charter was soon established in the Kirzhach Monastery. The Annunciation Monastery from its very foundation until its abolition in 1764 remained akin to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. According to the opinion of church historians, the Monk Roman entered the annals of the Kirzhachsky monastery as its first abbot.
Brought up by the great Abba Sergius on the works of the Holy Fathers of the Church, Saint Roman especially encouraged his brethren's book studies, which introduced them to the highest knowledge of spiritual science. In the monastery they read a lot, carefully copied liturgical books and patristic works. This is evidenced by the handwritten books of the Kirzhach monastery of the 14th century that have come down to us: the Lives of the Saints, the Ladder of St. John, the Apocalypse with the interpretation of St.
The Kirzhach abbot experienced the school of wilderness living, where the outward feat of strict fasting and poverty was combined with deep inner prayer and ardent faith in God's help. Once he had the precious opportunity to see how his spiritual father, the Monk Sergius, in his own life embodied the eternal covenants. The ascetic eagerly tried to imitate the dear old man in everything, assimilating his rare meekness of heart, amazing humility, prayerfulness, and endless patience with other people's infirmities. The lofty inner life of the disciple of Abba Sergius made him a spirit-bearing teacher, to whom people flocked for advice and prayerful help, deeply believing that the Lord would soon hear the petitions of His faithful servants. crying out to Him.
Far from noisy Moscow stood the quiet Annunciation Monastery,
but even in it it was impossible to distance oneself from the events that agitated Russia. In 1378, Moscow with tears spent in last way great saint and wonderworker Alexy. Two years later, a dark cloud hung over the Russian land: Khan Mamai marched against the Moscow principality with huge hordes. Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich, hastily gathering an army, before a terrible campaign, asked for a blessing for the battle from the godfather of his children, the Monk Abbot Sergius. On September 8, 1380, a bloody slaughter took place on the Kulikovo field.
The creation of a new temple required the blessing of the Moscow hierarch. Having received it from Metropolitan Alexis, Saint Sergius set about building the church. The prayer of the monk, which he poured then to God, the Eternal Creator of heaven and earth, makes a special impression: O Lord Almighty, hear me, Thy sinful servant, praying to Thee! Accept my prayer and bless this place, which I deigned to create for Your Glory, for the praise and honor of Your Most Pure Mother, Her Honorable Annunciation. Yes, and here it is always famous Your name, the Father and the Son and the Removed Spirit!” Calling on God's blessing, they began to cut down the church.
Neither more nor less, for about four years the Mother of God monastery was built. Many brethren immediately, at the behest of their hearts, transferred to it from the Trinity Monastery. Those who remained mourned, having lost wise spiritual guidance, and conciliarly decided to urgently ask St. Alexis to return Abbot Sergius to the monastery on Makovets. It is known that the elder metropolitan deeply revered the monk. Regretting the ruin of the Sergius monastery, he gladly responded to the prayers of the monks. The saint sent a whole embassy of two archimandrites to the Annunciation Monastery for the return of its founder to the monastery of the Holy Trinity. Instead of himself, Metropolitan Alexy asked the monk to leave in the Kirzhach monastery the most skillful and faithful of his disciples, who became blessed Roman.
Obediently fulfilling the will of the holy elder, Abbot Sergius first offered the abbotship in the monastery on Kirzhach to Isaac, who was close to him. But Isaac most of all loved a silent life - unceasing prayerful communion with God and begged his teacher to bless him for a more akin to him feat of silence. Seeing the will of God in Isaac's striving, the Monk Sergius blessed Roman, with whom he came to this place, for hegumenship and management of the Kirzhachsky monastery. Meekly responded to the beloved abba by agreeing to a great and difficult obedience, this chosen disciple and went to Moscow for confirmation in him. Saint Alexy ordained
The life of St. Sergius of the 15th century, written by Epiphanius the Wise and revised by Pachomius Logothetes, tells that the monk left the monastery completely alone. However, the source of the 17th-18th centuries, “The Book, which is a description of the Russian saints,” claims that the Monk Sergius, leaving, took his disciple Roman with him.
Later evidence is supported by a stable oral tradition, according to which Sergius left the monastery alone with a devotee.
student Roman. After a long march, having walked about twenty kilometers, the abbot and his disciple were very tired. Roman felt thirsty and. unable to endure any longer, he turned to the monk with a request to pray to God that the Lord would bring water out of the nearby mountain, as He had once brought water out of the rock through the prayer of the prophet of God Moses. Seeing the ardent faith of the disciple, for obedience to him, the Monk Sergius prayed to the Lord and struck the side of the mountain with his staff, from which a cold source of healing water immediately gushed. This is how the famous Gremyachiy Key arose.
Leaving the Trinity Monastery, the Monk Sergius came to his friend, hegumen Stephen of the Makhrishchi monastery, and asked for
to him one of the brethren as guides to the surrounding places, in order to build a new monastery. St. Stephen chose for his friend and interlocutor the monk Simon. For a long time the Chernorizians searched, but the heart of St. Sergius did not calm down anywhere. Having reached the banks of the fast-jet Kirzhach River, the travelers saw a high picturesque hill, the slopes of which were covered with fluffy greenery. High elms descended in rows to the transparent streams of Kirzhach. The monk recognized in spirit the place that his soul was looking for. Here he began to build a new monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, who later visited Abbot Sergius in a cell shortly before his blessed death.
Increasing confusion reigned in the orphaned Trinity Monastery: the inhabitants everywhere tried to find their first abbot and elder. One of them, knowing about the friendship of St. Sergius and Stefan, which is on Makhr, went to the monastery of the latter and accidentally found out about the whereabouts of the Trinity Abbot. Joyfully, the brother hurried back to his monastery to console the others.
After a new place of deeds of Abba Sergius was discovered, his disciples began to slowly move towards it. At first, cells were prepared for housing, then it was time to build the church itself. There is no doubt that one of the faithful assistants of St. Sergius in the dispensation of the Kirzhach monastery was the humble monk Roman, who became its hereditary abbot, regardless of whether he came with the teacher or left after him.
In all likelihood, in the second half of the 14th century, on October 1, on the day of the celebration of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the memory of the Monk Roman the Melodist, a disciple of the great Sergius received monastic tonsure in honor of the Holy Melodist. It is possible that the choice of the patron saint was explained by the musical abilities of Roman. After accepting the Angolan rank for the novice ascetic, fasting and prayerful doing became the rule of his entire subsequent life.
Like most Russian monasteries of the 14th century, Sergius Hermitage was originally svoekoshtnoy, or special dwelling. The abbot was the general leader for all the brethren, the monks prayed together, gathering in church, but in relation to food, clothing, housing, they were completely independent. With the strengthening and expansion of the Sergius Monastery, the number of its inhabitants increased. Gradually, a monastic settlement formed around it, and a road from Moscow to the northern Russian cities ran next to the monastery.
The change in the position of the monastery forced Abbot Sergius to think seriously about changing the charter of monastic life. The heart of the monk was especially inclined towards the ancient practice of a strict communal life, where the monks do not have any things for personal use, especially money. The brethren are closely connected with each other by a chain of common obediences, constituting a single living organism. Ideally, a cenobitic monastery revived the structure of the ancient Christian church, where “the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul, and no one from the estate called his own, but they had everything in common.”
With the blessing of St. Alexis of Moscow, after receiving a written wish from the Patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus, in 1354, St. Sergius introduced a cenobitic charter in the monastery. The strictness of the eastern typikon provoked dissatisfied grumbling from many brethren. Some secretly left the monastery. returned at the same time
from Moscow, the elder brother of St. Sergius, Stefan. The murmur of those who disagreed found support from him, all the more so that Stefan was suddenly seized by the thought of his origins in the monastery.
One Saturday, during the evening service, when St. Sergius was dressing in the altar, his brother stood on the left kliros. Noticing that the canonarch took the book in his hands, Stefan turned to him sternly: “Who gave you this book? “The abbot gave it to me,” the canonarch answered humbly. “Who is the abbot in this place?” Stefan retorted angrily. “Am I not the first to come to this place?” Irritated Stephen continued his speech with words that the hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise did not dare to reproduce. Saint Sergius heard his brother's irascible speech from the altar, but calmly conducted the service, showing no sign of his chagrin. After the end of the service, not wanting to give rise to temptation, hegumen Sergius secretly left the monastery
Under him, the Moscow principality strengthened and grew, Russia calmed down, "and there was a silence that had not been experienced for a long time in the Russian land."
During that period of silent gathering of people's forces, a new sun quietly rose in the spiritual sky of our Fatherland. In the wilderness of the Radonezh forests, on Mount Makovets, St. Sergius built a monastery in the name of Holy Trinity. A lot of strength, patience and courage were required in order for a lamp to light up in the forest desert. Orthodox faith. Rumors about the new desert-dweller and his monastery soon spread throughout Russia, attracting lovers of a solitary monastic life to him. One of the close disciples of St. Sergius was the monk Roman.
Saint Roman was born in the first quarter of the 14th century. We do not have exact information about the place and time of his birth, but church tradition has preserved the memory that from a young age the boy's heart was on fire with love for Christ and the desire for monasticism. His bright soul was attracted by the silent service of God in the humble silence of a remote monastery. The muddy seething of the worldly bustle weighed on her. Having heard about the wondrous hermit of Radonezh, Roman went to his monastery, entered the brethren of the Trinity Monastery and completely surrendered his will to the spiritual guidance of St. Sergius, becoming a devoted and obedient disciple.
The Monk Sergius received Roman with love, offering him, according to custom, to cut down a cell for himself. Simple and meager was the life of the hermits. Often there were not enough candles and wine for worship. The brethren served by the light of birch or pine torches. Liturgical books, according to the testimony of St. Joseph Volotsky, were then written in the monastery on birch bark due to lack of funds. It happened that the inhabitants of the desert, together with the abbot, had to eat nothing for several days, since the charter of the monastery forbade collecting alms in the surrounding villages. The weakest murmured against their reverend abba, but he wisely admonished them to give themselves over to patience, as a teacher of life. Through the prayer of St. Abbot Sergius, the Lord soon sent generous donors to the monastery, where poverty was a true spiritual treasure.
Together with everyone, Roman humbly endured the cold, poverty and disorder of the northern desert. Its harsh conditions tempered the will, strengthened and ignited in the young ascetic faith in the Providence of God,
deepened trust in their spiritual father.
According to the charter of the monastery, Roman, having entered the ranks of the brethren, had to go through the hard test of the novice. To those who wanted to take monastic vows, the hegumen gave out long clothes made of black cloth. Together with everyone, the student went through a series of obediences, and only after testing his firmness did he cut his hair.
Teacher and student... This is how a person's life is formed and crowned both here on earth and there in the Kingdom of Heaven, if it is from the Truth and is true.
Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Roman Kirzhachsky showed the world not just life, but the Light of life, becoming His eternal lights.
More than half a century has elapsed since the sad farewell of the Russian people to the "sun of the Russian land", the rightful Prince Alexander Nevsky. The violent princes settled suicidal scores with each other, bleeding and weakening Russia until John Danilovich, nicknamed Kalita for his generous alms, appeared on the grand prince's table. Under him, the Moscow principality strengthened and grew, Russia calmed down, "and there was a silence that had not been experienced for a long time in the Russian land."
During that period of silent gathering of people's forces, a new sun quietly rose in the spiritual sky of our Fatherland. In the wilderness of the Radonezh forests, on Mount Makovets, St. Sergius built a monastery in the name of the Holy Trinity. A lot of strength, patience and courage were required in order for the lamp of the Orthodox faith to light up in the forest desert. Rumors about the new desert-dweller and his monastery soon spread throughout Russia, attracting lovers of a solitary monastic life to him. One of the close disciples of St. Sergius was the monk Roman.
Saint Roman was born in the first quarter of the 14th century. We do not have exact information about the place and time of his birth, but church tradition has preserved the memory that from a young age the boy's heart was on fire with love for Christ and the desire for monasticism. His bright soul was attracted by the silent service of God in the humble silence of a remote monastery. The muddy seething of the worldly bustle weighed on her. Having heard about the wondrous hermit of Radonezh, Roman went to his monastery, entered the brethren of the Trinity Monastery and completely surrendered his will to the spiritual guidance of St. Sergius, becoming a devoted and obedient disciple.
The Monk Sergius received Roman with love, offering him, according to custom, to cut down a cell for himself. Simple and meager was the life of the hermits. Often there were not enough candles and wine for worship. The brethren served by the light of birch or pine torches. Liturgical books, according to the testimony of St. Joseph Volotsky, were then written in the monastery on birch bark due to lack of funds. It happened that the inhabitants of the desert, together with the abbot, had to eat nothing for several days, since the charter of the monastery forbade collecting alms in the surrounding villages. The weakest murmured against their reverend abba, but he wisely admonished them to give themselves over to patience, as a teacher of life. Through the prayer of St. Abbot Sergius, the Lord soon sent generous donors to the monastery, where poverty was a true spiritual treasure.
Together with everyone, Roman humbly endured the cold, poverty and disorder of the northern desert. Its harsh conditions tempered the will, strengthened and ignited in the young ascetic faith in the Providence of God,
deepened trust in their spiritual father.
According to the charter of the monastery, Roman, having entered the ranks of the brethren, had to go through the hard test of the novice. To those who wanted to take monastic vows, the hegumen gave out long clothes made of black cloth. Together with everyone else, the student went through a series of obediences and only after testing his firmness was he cut his hair.
In all likelihood, in the second half of the 14th century, on October 1, on the day of the celebration of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the memory of the Monk Roman the Melodist, a disciple of the great Sergius received monastic tonsure in honor of the Holy Melodist. It is possible that the choice of the patron saint was explained by the musical abilities of Roman. After accepting the Angolan rank for the novice ascetic, fasting and prayerful doing became the rule of his entire subsequent life.
Like most Russian monasteries of the 14th century, Sergius Hermitage was originally svoekoshtnoy, or special dwelling. The abbot was the general leader for all the brethren, the monks prayed together, gathering in church, but in relation to food, clothing, housing, they were completely independent. With the strengthening and expansion of the Sergius Monastery, the number of its inhabitants increased. Gradually, a monastic settlement formed around it, and a road from Moscow to the northern Russian cities ran next to the monastery.
The change in the position of the monastery forced Abbot Sergius to think seriously about changing the charter of monastic life. The heart of the monk was especially inclined towards the ancient practice of a strict communal life, where the monks do not have any things for personal use, especially money. The brethren are closely connected with each other by a chain of common obediences, constituting a single living organism. Ideally, a cenobitic monastery revived the structure of the ancient Christian church, where “the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul, and no one from the estate called his own, but they had everything in common.”
With the blessing of St. Alexis of Moscow, after receiving a written wish from the Patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus, in 1354, St. Sergius introduced a cenobitic charter in the monastery. The strictness of the eastern typikon provoked dissatisfied grumbling from many brethren. Some secretly left the monastery. returned at the same time
from Moscow, the elder brother of St. Sergius, Stefan. The murmur of those who disagreed found support from him, all the more so that Stefan was suddenly seized by the thought of his origins in the monastery.
One Saturday, during the evening service, when St. Sergius was dressing in the altar, his brother stood on the left kliros. Noticing that the canonarch took the book in his hands, Stefan turned to him sternly: “Who gave you this book? “The abbot gave it to me,” the canonarch answered humbly. “Who is the abbot in this place?” Stefan retorted angrily. “Am I not the first to come to this place?” Irritated Stephen continued his speech with words that the hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise did not dare to reproduce. Saint Sergius heard his brother's irascible speech from the altar, but calmly conducted the service, showing no sign of his chagrin. After the end of the service, not wanting to give rise to temptation, hegumen Sergius secretly left the monastery.
The life of St. Sergius of the 15th century, written by Epiphanius the Wise and revised by Pachomius Logothetes, tells that the monk left the monastery completely alone. However, the source of the 17th-18th centuries, “The Book, which is a description of the Russian saints,” claims that the Monk Sergius, leaving, took his disciple Roman with him.
Later evidence is supported by a stable oral tradition, according to which Sergius left the monastery alone with a devotee.
student Roman. After a long march, having walked about twenty kilometers, the abbot and his disciple were very tired. Roman felt thirsty and. unable to endure any longer, he turned to the monk with a request to pray to God that the Lord would bring water out of the nearby mountain, as He had once brought water out of the rock through the prayer of the prophet of God Moses. Seeing the ardent faith of the disciple, for obedience to him, the Monk Sergius prayed to the Lord and struck the side of the mountain with his staff, from which a cold source of healing water immediately gushed. This is how the famous Gremyachiy Key arose.
Leaving the Trinity Monastery, the Monk Sergius came to his friend, hegumen Stephen of the Makhrishchi monastery, and asked for
to him one of the brethren as guides to the surrounding places, in order to build a new monastery. St. Stephen chose for his friend and interlocutor the monk Simon. For a long time the Chernorizians searched, but the heart of St. Sergius did not calm down anywhere. Having reached the banks of the fast-jet Kirzhach River, the travelers saw a high picturesque hill, the slopes of which were covered with fluffy greenery. High elms descended in rows to the transparent streams of Kirzhach. The monk recognized in spirit the place that his soul was looking for. Here he began to build a new monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, who later visited Abbot Sergius in a cell shortly before his blessed death.
Increasing confusion reigned in the orphaned Trinity Monastery: the inhabitants everywhere tried to find their first abbot and elder. One of them, knowing about the friendship of St. Sergius and Stefan, which is on Makhr, went to the monastery of the latter and accidentally found out about the whereabouts of the Trinity Abbot. Joyfully, the brother hurried back to his monastery to console the others.
After a new place of deeds of Abba Sergius was discovered, his disciples began to slowly move towards it. At first, cells were prepared for housing, then it was time to build the church itself. There is no doubt that one of the faithful assistants of St. Sergius in the dispensation of the Kirzhach monastery was the humble monk Roman, who became its hereditary abbot, regardless of whether he came with the teacher or left after him.
The creation of a new temple required the blessing of the Moscow hierarch. Having received it from Metropolitan Alexis, Saint Sergius set about building the church. The prayer of the monk, which he poured then to God, the Eternal Creator of heaven and earth, makes a special impression: O Lord Almighty, hear me, Thy sinful servant, praying to Thee! Accept my prayer and bless this place, which I deigned to create for Your Glory, for the praise and honor of Your Most Pure Mother, Her Honorable Annunciation. Yes, and here Your Name is always glorified, the Father and the Son and the Removed Spirit! Calling on God's blessing, they began to cut down the church.
Neither more nor less, for about four years the Mother of God monastery was built. Many brethren immediately, at the behest of their hearts, transferred to it from the Trinity Monastery. Those who remained mourned, having lost wise spiritual guidance, and conciliarly decided to urgently ask St. Alexis to return Abbot Sergius to the monastery on Makovets. It is known that the elder metropolitan deeply revered the monk. Regretting the ruin of the Sergius monastery, he gladly responded to the prayers of the monks. The saint sent a whole embassy of two archimandrites to the Annunciation Monastery for the return of its founder to the monastery of the Holy Trinity. Instead of himself, Metropolitan Alexy asked the monk to leave in the Kirzhach monastery the most skillful and faithful of his disciples, who became blessed Roman.
Obediently fulfilling the will of the holy elder, Abbot Sergius first offered the abbotship in the monastery on Kirzhach to Isaac, who was close to him. But Isaac most of all loved a silent life - unceasing prayerful communion with God and begged his teacher to bless him for a more akin to him feat of silence. Seeing the will of God in Isaac's striving, the Monk Sergius blessed Roman, with whom he came to this place, for hegumenship and management of the Kirzhachsky monastery. Meekly responded to the beloved abba by agreeing to a great and difficult obedience, this chosen disciple and went to Moscow for confirmation in him. Saint Alexy ordained Roman a hieromonk and bestowed on him the rank of abbot of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery. The year of foundation of the monastery is considered to be 1358. Just as in the Trinity Monastery, a cenobitic charter was soon established in the Kirzhach Monastery. The Annunciation Monastery from its very foundation until its abolition in 1764 remained akin to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. According to the opinion of church historians, the Monk Roman entered the annals of the Kirzhachsky monastery as its first abbot.
Brought up by the great Abba Sergius on the works of the Holy Fathers of the Church, Saint Roman especially encouraged his brethren's book studies, which introduced them to the highest knowledge of spiritual science. In the monastery they read a lot, carefully copied liturgical books and patristic works. This is evidenced by the handwritten books of the Kirzhach monastery of the 14th century that have come down to us: the Lives of the Saints, the Ladder of St. John, the Apocalypse with the interpretation of St.
The Kirzhach abbot experienced the school of wilderness living, where the outward feat of strict fasting and poverty was combined with deep inner prayer and ardent faith in God's help. Once he had the precious opportunity to see how his spiritual father, the Monk Sergius, in his own life embodied the eternal covenants. The ascetic eagerly tried to imitate the dear old man in everything, assimilating his rare meekness of heart, amazing humility, prayerfulness, and endless patience with other people's infirmities. The lofty inner life of the disciple of Abba Sergius made him a spirit-bearing teacher, to whom people flocked for advice and prayerful help, deeply believing that the Lord would soon hear the petitions of His faithful servants. crying out to Him.
Far from noisy Moscow stood the quiet Annunciation Monastery,
but even in it it was impossible to distance oneself from the events that agitated Russia. In 1378, Moscow weepingly saw off the great saint and wonderworker Alexy on his last journey. Two years later, a dark cloud hung over the Russian land: Khan Mamai marched against the Moscow principality with huge hordes. Grand Duke Dimitry Ivanovich, hastily gathering an army, before a terrible campaign, asked for a blessing for the battle from the godfather of his children, the Monk Abbot Sergius. On September 8, 1380, a bloody slaughter took place on the Kulikovo field. Together with the fathers of the Trinity Monastery, the brethren of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery prayed with tears for the victory of the Russian Christ-loving army. In 1389, after a serious illness due to exorbitant loads, the faithful Prince Dimitri Ivanovich, nicknamed Donskoy after the great victory, ended his life. The Monk Sergius with many prayers took leave of him in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. This loss deeply saddened all Russian people, led by their spiritual mentors.
Through the prayers of their abbot, the inhabitants of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery gradually passed the difficult stages of monastic prowess. Patience, love, and the gift of reasoning helped St. Roman protect his disciples from excessive vehemence and awaken them from cold distraction. The very appearance of the monk reflected the deep spiritual world of his inner life.
Many sad and joyful events took place before the eyes of the humble abbot Roman. His clear soul asked for peace and rest in God. On the day of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, the great Trinity Abbot Sergius was miraculously informed by the Queen of Heaven Herself of his imminent death. This prompted him to soon transfer his monastery to the Monk Nikon, in order to stand in silence before the Lord himself. Undoubtedly, the Monk Roman became aware of this wondrous event from his elder-abbot. But he himself died in the world before his teacher, in memory of the holy martyr Kallinikos, on July 29, 1392.
The brethren of the Annunciation Monastery, with many prayers and tears, buried the elder under the deacon of the monastery church, built by the labors of his great abbot, St. Sergius, with his devoted disciples.
Centuries passed, but the veneration of the Kirzhach abbot did not fade away with his death. Over the place of his burial, the monks placed a shrine, and then a carved canopy over it. They painted an icon of St. Roman. Inextinguishable lamps burned in front of the saint's shrine. Troparion and kontakion were minted on its side walls in his honor. Successive hieromonks and priests incessantly served at the tomb of the panikhida ascetic at the zealous requests of the admirers of St. Roman. On the day of his memory, a funeral liturgy was performed according to the order. In the vestibule of the tomb of the first abbot of the monastery stood a bowl of water from a well, according to legend, dug by St. Sergius of Radonezh himself at the foundation of the monastery.
For a long time, on the Holy Gates at the entrance to the monastery, pilgrims were informed by an inscription that “The Kirzhachsky Annunciation Monastery was founded in the XIV century, from 1354 to 1358, by St. Sergius, hegumen of the Holy Trinity Monastery, with the blessing of Metropolitan Alexy, Moscow miracle worker, on the basis of this the paki returned to the Holy Trinity Monastery, at the exhortation and pleading of two archimandrites sent by Saint Alexy; instead of himself, he left his first disciple, the Monk Hieromonk Roman, as rector in the Kirzhachsky Monastery, whose relics are kept under a bushel here. In his memory, according to the zeal of the people, memorial services are sent, and a troparion and kontakion are minted for him on the tomb.
It is noteworthy that in the manuscript calendars of the 17th-18th centuries, the first Kirzhach abbot is called a reverend and miracle worker. The fires of the monastery, which destroyed most of the archive, could also destroy the records of the miracles of St. Roman, which gave reason to call him even a miracle worker.
Priest Alexander Lyanov, who serves in the city of Mstera, Vladimir Region, relayed the story of his grandmother, Anna Ivanovna Yakusheva, which he heard from her in the mid-1980s. In the late 1920s, Anna Ivanovna lived in the village of Ratkovo, Kirzhachsky district. One of the residents of Ratkovo had a little daughter who was seriously ill and could not walk from birth. Around 1928, shortly before the closing of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, on the feast day of St. Roman (July 29), the mother, as usual, decided to go to church with her daughter, deeply revering the reverend. She put the sick child on her shoulders and walked into the city. Fearing to be late for the Divine Liturgy, the woman left early and arrived long before the start of the service. Tired of the road, the mother with the sick girl in her arms sat down to rest on the steps of the Church of the Annunciation. A blue mist rose from the river and softly enveloped the monastery churches. A tired child asked his mother for a drink. Suddenly, a handsome old man in monastic clothes approached them and offered the girl a glass of milk. The little girl took a few sips and, thanking, returned the unfinished milk to the kind grandfather. A few minutes later, the child again turned to his mother: “Mom, I feel so good, I would like to drink more!” Leaving her daughter on the steps of the temple, the woman rushed to catch up with the old monk, but could not find him anywhere.
Returning, the mother took the girl in her arms and went up to the Cathedral of the Annunciation. She prayed with tears, confessed and took communion. The little girl sat beside her on a stool and looked at the church with curiosity. On the wall, she noticed the familiar image of a kind old man who gave her milk to drink, and showed it to her mother. It turned out to be the Monk Roman, the Kirzhach Abbot. After the end of the service, the sick baby felt so much better that she was able to walk the whole way back from Kirzhach to Ratkovo with her legs. After a miraculous healing, the girl always walked barefoot from early spring until late autumn, causing jokes and ridicule from those around her.
In 1928 the Cathedral of the Annunciation was closed. During the Great Patriotic War, a kerosene shop was located in the basement of the temple, where long queues always lined up. One day, people standing behind the kerosene saw an old monk on the roof of the cathedral, dressed in a mantle. With a censer in his hands, the elder went around the roof and censed the city of Kirzhach from all sides. By the prayerful intercession of the patron saint, the city of Kirzhach remained aloof from hostilities.
In 1990-1991, the former Kirzhach Monastery was revived again by Divine Providence: the Annunciation Cathedral was opened for worship as a parish church, and the parish took the first steps to restore the monastery churches.
In 1992, the Annunciation parish was preparing for the solemn celebration of the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the founder of the Kirzhach Monastery. On the eve of the celebrations, Bishop Evlogii of Vladimir and Suzdal visited the church to see how the preparations for the feast were going. Passing through the territory of the former monastery. Vladyka drew attention to the sloppy mound of pebbles near the burial ground of the Annunciation Cathedral and asked to level it. Two days later, a tractor driver was called. Having removed the top layer of pebbles, he stumbled upon a high-explosive fragmentation mine. Shocked parishioners called a brigade of sappers. The mine turned out to be combat-ready and, in the event of an explosion, would destroy the cathedral, people could suffer. So the builder of the Kirzhachsky monastery, St. Sergius, and his first hegumen, St. Roman, miraculously preserved their monastery and prevented misfortune.
With the blessing of Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal, the devastated parish churches in the name of the All-Merciful Savior and the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos were again converted into a monastery in 1995, but this time into a women's one. It is surprising that the Annunciation Monastery was opened on July 4, before the all-night vigil on the eve of the memory of St. Sergius of Radonezh, with whom the entire history of the monastery is connected. The first nuns came here from the Alexander Holy Dormition Convent. Ahead of them were great difficulties in restoring the ancient monastery: the buildings were not heated, in addition to the cold, dampness reigned in them. Due to the prayers of the patron saint, the Monk Roman, none of the sisters fell ill.
In May 1997, novice Lyudmila Trubina entered the Annunciation Convent. On the second day after arriving at the monastery, a young, perfectly healthy girl was swollen up to her knees and her legs began to ache. She had to change her shoes. Lyudmila could not stand and moved with difficulty. The pain in her legs was so excruciating that the novice could not help crying, she became discouraged. Hearing about the healing of a girl from Ratkovo, in the evening she decided to read the Akathist to St. Roman over his burial place. The next day, the pain suddenly subsided. The overjoyed girl once again read the Akathist to the First Abbot of the Kirzhach Monastery, thanking him for the relief from her illness, after which she received complete healing.
In 1996, the famous historian S. A. Belyaev began extensive archaeological work in the tomb of St. Roman. In the center of the chapel, at a depth of about two meters from the ancient floor, the holy relics of St. Roman were found, miraculously preserved, despite all the vicissitudes of history, and not disturbed by all kinds of work on this site. This event took place on November 12, 1996, the day of the celebration of the icon of the Mother of God of the Merciful and the memory of St. John the Merciful.
The question of the veneration of St. Roman is closely connected with the history of establishing the memory of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints, which dates back to the middle of the 17th century, when the significance of St. Sergius as an All-Russian saint and mourner of the Russian land was realized. It was then that the first lists of the disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh were already compiled.
With the blessing of His Holiness Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in 1981, the celebration of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints was established on the day after the feast in honor of the Finding of the relics of St. Sergius, on July 6; in 1982, on the day of the celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, June 23, the memory of the Cathedral of the Vladimir Saints was established. Among the saints who shone in the land of Vladimir and Radonezh, the disciple of St. Sergius, St. Roman, Abbot of Kirzhachsky, was also glorified.
The Annunciation Kirzhachsky monastery, ruled after the Monk Roman by numerous abbots and builders, was under the jurisdiction of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery.
Out of reverence for the memory of the founder of the monastery, St. Sergius of Radonezh, his close disciple and associate, St. Roman Kirzhachsky, many princes and boyars made major contributions to the Annunciation Monastery. Monastic peasants were exempted from duties, fishing was allowed, and other benefits were provided. Sovereign princes, Russian sovereigns, eminent boyar families paid attention to the monastery, but the Miloslavsky boyars, whose family tomb was built under the Church of the All-Merciful Savior, had the greatest care for it. The famous royal painter Simon Fyodorov Ushakov in 1659 painted for the monastery an image of the Lord Jesus Christ with the forthcoming Saints Sergius and Nikon.
Throughout its existence, the Kirzhach monastery had sufficient funds, and therefore could provide significant assistance to the sick and the poor.
Among many Russian monasteries, in 1764 the Annunciation Monastery was abolished and turned into a parish church. The property was transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, and the brotherhood was sent to other monasteries.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Solovyov family, residents of the city of Kirzhach, took on special care of the former monastery churches, repairing them and updating the wall paintings.
The main temple of the monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God was built at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century in the likeness of the Trinity Cathedral of the monastery of St. Sergius. In its basement there was once a chapel in honor of the Equal-to-the-Apostles kings Constantine and Helena. The second church of the 16th century was dedicated to St. Sergius of Radonezh, the organizer of the holy monastery on Kirzhach. The temple in the name of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Cross of the Lord and the All-Merciful Savior was built in 1656 by John Andreevich Miloslavsky, later its basement became the family tomb of the Miloslavskys. The last church was built on the territory of the monastery by the Solovyov brothers at the burial place of their parents in the 19th century and is dedicated to All Saints.
After the October Revolution, around 1928, the liturgical life of the once glorious ancient monastery was interrupted for a long time, the churches were closed. In 1932-34, the temple in the name of St. Sergius was blown up and completely destroyed. For seven decades desolation reigned in the holy land, but by the grace of God, 605 years after the blessed death of the humble disciple of Abba Sergius, the Monk Roman of Kirzhach, the memory of his blessed name is now solemnly glorified in the Annunciation Monastery.
Day of Remembrance: July 29
At reader and disciple… This is how a person’s life is formed and crowned both here on earth and there in the Kingdom of Heaven, if it is from the Truth and is true.
With Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Roman Kirzhachsky showed the world not just life, but the Light of life, becoming His eternal lights.
B More than half a century has elapsed since the sad farewell of the Russian people to the "sun of the Russian land", the noble Prince Alexander Nevsky. The violent princes settled suicidal scores with each other, bleeding and weakening Russia until John Danilovich, nicknamed Kalita for his generous alms, appeared on the grand prince's table. Under him, the Moscow principality strengthened and grew, Russia calmed down, "and there was a silence that had not been experienced for a long time in the Russian land."
AT During that period of silent gathering of the people's forces, a new sun was quietly rising in the spiritual sky of our Fatherland. In the wilderness of the Radonezh forests, on Mount Makovets, St. Sergius built a monastery in the name of the Holy Trinity. A lot of strength, patience and courage were required in order for the lamp of the Orthodox faith to light up in the forest desert. Rumors about the new desert-dweller and his monastery soon spread throughout Russia, attracting lovers of a solitary monastic life to him. One of the close disciples of St. Sergius was the monk Roman.
P Reverend Roman was born in the first quarter of the 14th century. We do not have exact information about the place and time of his birth, but church tradition has preserved the memory that from a young age the boy's heart was on fire with love for Christ and the desire for monasticism. His bright soul was attracted by the silent service of God in the humble silence of a remote monastery. The muddy seething of the worldly bustle weighed on her. Having heard about the wondrous hermit of Radonezh, Roman went to his monastery, entered the brethren of the Trinity Monastery and completely surrendered his will to the spiritual guidance of St. Sergius, becoming a devoted and obedient disciple.
P Rev. Sergius received Roman with love, offering him, according to custom, to cut down a cell for himself. Simple and meager was the life of the hermits. Often there were not enough candles and wine for worship. The brethren served by the light of birch or pine torches. Liturgical books, according to the testimony of St. Joseph Volotsky, were then written in the monastery on birch bark due to lack of funds. It happened that the inhabitants of the desert, together with the abbot, had to eat nothing for several days, since the charter of the monastery forbade collecting alms in the surrounding villages. The weakest murmured against their reverend abba, but he wisely admonished them to give themselves over to patience, as a teacher of life. Through the prayer of St. Abbot Sergius, the Lord soon sent generous donors to the monastery, where poverty was a true spiritual treasure.
AT Roman humbly endured the cold, poverty and disorder of the northern desert together with everyone. Its harsh conditions tempered the will, strengthened and ignited in the young ascetic faith in the Providence of God, deepened trust in his spiritual father.
P According to the charter of the monastery, Roman, having entered the ranks of the brethren, had to go through the hard test of the novice. To those who wanted to take monastic vows, the hegumen gave out long clothes made of black cloth. Together with everyone else, the student went through a series of obediences and only after testing his firmness was he cut his hair.
P In all likelihood, in the second half of the 14th century, on October 1, on the day of the celebration of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos and the memory of St. Roman the Melodist, a disciple of the great Sergius took monastic tonsure in honor of the Holy Melodist. It is possible that the choice of the patron saint was explained by the musical abilities of Roman. After accepting the Angolan rank for the novice ascetic, fasting and prayerful doing became the rule of his entire subsequent life.
To Like most Russian monasteries of the 14th century, the Sergius Hermitage was originally svoekoshtnoy, or special dwelling. The abbot was the general leader for all the brethren, the monks prayed together, gathering in church, but in relation to food, clothing, housing, they were completely independent. With the strengthening and expansion of the Sergius Monastery, the number of its inhabitants increased. Gradually, a monastic settlement formed around it, and a road from Moscow to the northern Russian cities ran next to the monastery.
And The change in the position of the monastery forced Abbot Sergius to think seriously about changing the charter of monastic life. The heart of the monk was especially inclined towards the ancient practice of a strict communal life, where the monks do not have any things for personal use, especially money. The brethren are closely connected with each other by a chain of common obediences, constituting a single living organism. Ideally, a cenobitic monastery revived the structure of the ancient Christian church, where “the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul, and no one from the estate called his own, but they had everything in common.”
P With the blessing of St. Alexis of Moscow, after receiving a written wish from the Patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus, in 1354, St. Sergius introduced a cenobitic charter in the monastery. The strictness of the eastern typikon provoked dissatisfied grumbling from many brethren. Some secretly left the monastery. At the same time, the elder brother of St. Sergius, Stefan, returned from Moscow. The murmur of those who disagreed found support from him, all the more so that Stefan was suddenly seized by the thought of his origins in the monastery.
O One Saturday, during the evening service, when the Monk Sergius was dressing in the altar, his brother stood on the left kliros. Noticing that the canonarch took the book in his hands, Stefan turned to him sternly: “Who gave you this book? “The abbot gave it to me,” the canonarch answered humbly. “Who is the abbot in this place?” Stefan retorted angrily. “Am I not the first to come to this place?” Irritated Stephen continued his speech with words that the hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise did not dare to reproduce. Saint Sergius heard his brother's irascible speech from the altar, but calmly conducted the service, showing no sign of his chagrin. After the end of the service, not wanting to give rise to temptation, hegumen Sergius secretly left the monastery.
F The story of St. Sergius of the 15th century, written by Epiphanius the Wise and revised by Pachomius Logothetes, tells that the monk left the monastery completely alone. However, the source of the 17th-18th centuries, “The Book, which is a description of the Russian saints,” claims that the Monk Sergius, leaving, took his disciple Roman with him.
P Later evidence is supported by a stable oral tradition, according to which Sergius left the monastery together with his devoted disciple Roman. After a long march, having walked about twenty kilometers, the abbot and his disciple were very tired. Roman felt thirsty and. unable to endure any longer, he turned to the monk with a request to pray to God that the Lord would bring water out of the nearby mountain, as He had once brought water out of the rock through the prayer of the prophet of God Moses. Seeing the ardent faith of the disciple, for obedience to him, the Monk Sergius prayed to the Lord and struck the side of the mountain with his staff, from which a cold source of healing water immediately gushed. This is how the famous Gremyachiy Key arose.
P Having toured the Trinity Monastery, Saint Sergius came to his friend, hegumen Stephen of the Makhrishchi monastery, and asked for one of the brethren to be a guide to the surrounding areas in order to build a new monastery. St. Stephen chose for his friend and interlocutor the monk Simon. For a long time the Chernorizians searched, but the heart of St. Sergius did not calm down anywhere. Having reached the banks of the fast-jet Kirzhach River, the travelers saw a high picturesque hill, the slopes of which were covered with fluffy greenery. High elms descended in rows to the transparent streams of Kirzhach. The monk recognized in spirit the place that his soul was looking for. Here he began to build a new monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, who later visited Abbot Sergius in a cell shortly before his blessed death.
AT In the orphaned Trinity Monastery, ever-increasing confusion reigned: the inhabitants everywhere tried to find their first abbot and elder. One of them, knowing about the friendship of St. Sergius and Stefan, which is on Makhr, went to the monastery of the latter and accidentally found out about the whereabouts of the Trinity Abbot. Joyfully, the brother hurried back to his monastery to console the others.
P After a new place of exploits of Abba Sergius was discovered, his disciples began to slowly move towards it. At first, cells were prepared for housing, then it was time to build the church itself. There is no doubt that one of the faithful assistants of St. Sergius in the dispensation of the Kirzhach monastery was the humble monk Roman, who became its hereditary abbot, regardless of whether he came with the teacher or left after him.
With The construction of a new church required the blessing of the Moscow hierarch. Having received it from Metropolitan Alexis, Saint Sergius set about building the church. The prayer of the monk, which he poured then to God, the Eternal Creator of heaven and earth, makes a special impression: O Lord Almighty, hear me, Thy sinful servant, praying to Thee! Accept my prayer and bless this place, which I deigned to create for Your Glory, for the praise and honor of Your Most Pure Mother, Her Honorable Annunciation. Yes, and here Your Name is always glorified, the Father and the Son and the Removed Spirit! Calling on God's blessing, they began to cut down the church.
H and for many, no less, for about four years, the Mother of God monastery was built. Many brethren immediately, at the behest of their hearts, transferred to it from the Trinity Monastery. Those who remained mourned, having lost wise spiritual guidance, and conciliarly decided to urgently ask St. Alexis to return Abbot Sergius to the monastery on Makovets. It is known that the elder metropolitan deeply revered the monk. Regretting the ruin of the Sergius monastery, he gladly responded to the prayers of the monks. The saint sent a whole embassy of two archimandrites to the Annunciation Monastery for the return of its founder to the monastery of the Holy Trinity. Instead of himself, Metropolitan Alexy asked the monk to leave in the Kirzhach monastery the most skillful and faithful of his disciples, who became blessed Roman.
P obediently fulfilling the will of the holy elder, hegumen Sergius first offered the abbotship in the monastery on Kirzhach to Isaac, who was close to him. But Isaac most of all loved a silent life - unceasing prayerful communion with God and begged his teacher to bless him for a more akin to him feat of silence. Seeing the will of God in Isaac's striving, the Monk Sergius blessed Roman, with whom he came to this place, for hegumenship and management of the Kirzhachsky monastery. Meekly responded to the beloved abba by agreeing to a great and difficult obedience, this chosen disciple and went to Moscow for confirmation in him. Saint Alexy ordained Roman a hieromonk and bestowed on him the rank of abbot of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery. The year of foundation of the monastery is considered to be 1358. Just as in the Trinity Monastery, a cenobitic charter was soon established in the Kirzhach Monastery. The Annunciation Monastery from its very foundation until its abolition in 1764 remained akin to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. According to the opinion of church historians, the Monk Roman entered the annals of the Kirzhachsky monastery as its first abbot.
AT educated by the great Abba Sergius on the works of the holy fathers of the Church, the Monk Roman especially encouraged the book studies of his brethren, which introduced them to the highest knowledge of spiritual science. In the monastery they read a lot, carefully copied liturgical books and patristic works. This is evidenced by the handwritten books of the Kirzhach monastery of the 14th century that have come down to us: the Lives of the Saints, the Ladder of St. John, the Apocalypse with the interpretation of St.
To The Irzhach abbot experienced the school of wilderness living, where the outward feat of strict fasting and poverty was combined with deep inner prayer and ardent faith in God's help. Once he had the precious opportunity to see how his spiritual father, the Monk Sergius, in his own life embodied the eternal covenants. The ascetic eagerly tried to imitate the dear old man in everything, assimilating his rare meekness of heart, amazing humility, prayerfulness, and endless patience with other people's infirmities. The lofty inner life of the disciple of Abba Sergius made him a spirit-bearing teacher, to whom people flocked for advice and prayerful help, deeply believing that the Lord would soon hear the petitions of His faithful servants. crying out to Him.
D Not far from the noisy Moscow stood the quiet Annunciation Monastery, but even in it it was impossible to move away from the events that excited Russia. In 1378, Moscow weepingly saw off the great saint and wonderworker Alexy on his last journey. Two years later, a dark cloud hung over the Russian land: Khan Mamai marched against the Moscow principality with huge hordes. Grand Duke Dimitry Ivanovich, hastily gathering an army, before a terrible campaign, asked for a blessing for the battle from the godfather of his children, the Monk Abbot Sergius. On September 8, 1380, a bloody slaughter took place on the Kulikovo field. Together with the fathers of the Trinity Monastery, the brethren of the Annunciation Kirzhachsky Monastery prayed with tears for the victory of the Russian Christ-loving army. In 1389, after a serious illness due to exorbitant loads, the faithful Prince Dimitri Ivanovich, nicknamed Donskoy after the great victory, ended his life. The Monk Sergius with many prayers took leave of him in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. This loss deeply saddened all Russian people, led by their spiritual mentors.
H The villagers of the Annunciation Kirzhach Monastery, through the prayers of their abbot, gradually passed the difficult stages of monastic prowess. Patience, love, and the gift of reasoning helped St. Roman protect his disciples from excessive vehemence and awaken them from cold distraction. The very appearance of the monk reflected the deep spiritual world of his inner life.
M many sad and joyful events passed before the eyes of the humble abbot Roman. His clear soul asked for peace and rest in God. On the day of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, the great Trinity Abbot Sergius was miraculously informed by the Queen of Heaven Herself of his imminent death. This prompted him to soon transfer his monastery to the Monk Nikon, in order to stand in silence before the Lord himself. Undoubtedly, the Monk Roman became aware of this wondrous event from his elder-abbot. But he himself died in the world before his teacher, in memory of the holy martyr Kallinikos, on July 29, 1392.
B The army of the Annunciation monastery, with many prayers and tears, buried the elder under the deacon of the monastery church, built by the labors of his great abbot, St. Sergius, with his devoted disciples.
P Centuries passed, but the veneration of the Kirzhach Abbot did not fade away with his death. Over the place of his burial, the monks placed a shrine, and then a carved canopy over it. They painted an icon of St. Roman. Inextinguishable lamps burned in front of the saint's shrine. Troparion and kontakion were minted on its side walls in his honor. Successive hieromonks and priests incessantly served at the tomb of the panikhida ascetic at the zealous requests of the admirers of St. Roman. On the day of his memory, a funeral liturgy was performed according to the order. In the vestibule of the tomb of the first abbot of the monastery stood a bowl of water from a well, according to legend, dug by St. Sergius of Radonezh himself at the foundation of the monastery.
H and the Holy Gates at the entrance to the monastery for a long time, pilgrims were informed by an inscription that “The Kirzhachsky Annunciation Monastery was founded in the XIV century, from 1354 to 1358, by St. the paki returned to the Holy Trinity Monastery, at the exhortation and pleading of two archimandrites sent by Saint Alexy; instead of himself, he left his first disciple, the Monk Hieromonk Roman, as rector in the Kirzhachsky Monastery, whose relics are kept under a bushel here. In his memory, according to the zeal of the people, memorial services are sent, and a troparion and kontakion are minted for him on the tomb.
P It is noteworthy that in the manuscript calendars of the 17th-18th centuries, the first Kirzhach abbot is called a reverend and miracle worker. The fires of the monastery, which destroyed most of the archive, could also destroy the records of the miracles of St. Roman, which gave reason to call him even a miracle worker.
And Father Alexander Lyanov, who works in the city of Mstera, Vladimir Region, relayed the story of his grandmother, Anna Ivanovna Yakusheva, which he heard from her in the mid-1980s. In the late 1920s, Anna Ivanovna lived in the village of Ratkovo, Kirzhachsky district. One of the residents of Ratkovo had a little daughter who was seriously ill and could not walk from birth. Around 1928, shortly before the closing of the Cathedral of the Annunciation, on the feast day of St. Roman (July 29), the mother, as usual, decided to go to church with her daughter, deeply revering the reverend. She put the sick child on her shoulders and walked into the city. Fearing to be late for the Divine Liturgy, the woman left early and arrived long before the start of the service. Tired of the road, the mother with the sick girl in her arms sat down to rest on the steps of the Church of the Annunciation. A blue mist rose from the river and softly enveloped the monastery churches. A tired child asked his mother for a drink. Suddenly, a handsome old man in monastic clothes approached them and offered the girl a glass of milk. The little girl took a few sips and, thanking, returned the unfinished milk to the kind grandfather. A few minutes later, the child again turned to his mother: “Mom, I feel so good, I would like to drink more!” Leaving her daughter on the steps of the temple, the woman rushed to catch up with the old monk, but could not find him anywhere.
AT turning back, the mother took the girl in her arms and went up to the Cathedral of the Annunciation. She prayed with tears, confessed and took communion. The little girl sat beside her on a stool and looked at the church with curiosity. On the wall, she noticed the familiar image of a kind old man who gave her milk to drink, and showed it to her mother. It turned out to be the Monk Roman, the Kirzhach Abbot. After the end of the service, the sick baby felt so much better that she was able to walk the whole way back from Kirzhach to Ratkovo with her legs. After a miraculous healing, the girl always walked barefoot from early spring until late autumn, causing jokes and ridicule from those around her.
AT In 1928 the Cathedral of the Annunciation was closed. During the Great Patriotic War, a kerosene shop was located in the basement of the temple, where long queues always lined up. One day, people standing behind the kerosene saw an old monk on the roof of the cathedral, dressed in a mantle. With a censer in his hands, the elder went around the roof and censed the city of Kirzhach from all sides. By the prayerful intercession of the patron saint, the city of Kirzhach remained aloof from hostilities.
AT In 1990-1991, the former Kirzhach Monastery was revived again by Divine Providence: the Annunciation Cathedral was opened for worship as a parish church, and the parish took the first steps to restore the monastery churches.
AT In 1992, in the Annunciation parish, preparations were made for the solemn celebration of the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the founder of the Kirzhach Monastery. On the eve of the celebrations, Bishop Evlogii of Vladimir and Suzdal visited the church to see how the preparations for the feast were going. Passing through the territory of the former monastery. Vladyka drew attention to the sloppy mound of pebbles near the burial ground of the Annunciation Cathedral and asked to level it. Two days later, a tractor driver was called. Having removed the top layer of pebbles, he stumbled upon a high-explosive fragmentation mine. Shocked parishioners called a brigade of sappers. The mine turned out to be combat-ready and, in the event of an explosion, would destroy the cathedral, people could suffer. So the builder of the Kirzhachsky monastery, St. Sergius, and his first hegumen, St. Roman, miraculously preserved their monastery and prevented misfortune.
P With the blessing of Archbishop Evlogy of Vladimir and Suzdal, the devastated parish churches in the name of the All-Merciful Savior and the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos were again converted into a monastery in 1995, but this time into a women's one. It is surprising that the Annunciation Monastery was opened on July 4, before the all-night vigil on the eve of the memory of St. Sergius of Radonezh, with whom the entire history of the monastery is connected. The first nuns came here from the Alexander Holy Dormition Convent. Ahead of them were great difficulties in restoring the ancient monastery: the buildings were not heated, in addition to the cold, dampness reigned in them. Due to the prayers of the patron saint, the Monk Roman, none of the sisters fell ill.
AT In May 1997, novice Lyudmila Trubina entered the Annunciation Convent. On the second day after arriving at the monastery, a young, perfectly healthy girl was swollen up to her knees and her legs began to ache. She had to change her shoes. Lyudmila could not stand and moved with difficulty. The pain in her legs was so excruciating that the novice could not help crying, she became discouraged. Hearing about the healing of a girl from Ratkovo, in the evening she decided to read the Akathist to St. Roman over his burial place. The next day, the pain suddenly subsided. The overjoyed girl once again read the Akathist to the First Abbot of the Kirzhach Monastery, thanking him for the relief from her illness, after which she received complete healing.
AT In 1996, the famous historian S. A. Belyaev began extensive archaeological work in the tomb of St. Roman. In the center of the chapel, at a depth of about two meters from the ancient floor, the holy relics of St. Roman were found, miraculously preserved, despite all the vicissitudes of history, and not disturbed by all kinds of work on this site. This event took place on November 12, 1996, the day of the celebration of the icon of the Mother of God of the Merciful and the memory of St. John the Merciful.
AT a survey about the veneration of St. Roman is closely connected with the history of establishing the memory of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints, which dates back to the middle of the 17th century, when the significance of St. Sergius as an All-Russian saint and mourner of the Russian land was realized. It was then that the first lists of the disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh were already compiled.
P with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Russia in 1981, the celebration of the Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints was established on the day after the feast in honor of the Finding of the relics of St. Sergius, on July 6; in 1982, on the day of the celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, June 23, the memory of the Cathedral of the Vladimir Saints was established. Among the saints who shone in the land of Vladimir and Radonezh, the disciple of St. Sergius, St. Roman, Abbot of Kirzhachsky, was also glorified.
B the Lagoveshchensk Kirzhach monastery, ruled after the Monk Roman by numerous abbots and builders, was under the jurisdiction of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery.
And In honor of the memory of the founder of the monastery, St. Sergius of Radonezh, his close disciple and associate, St. Roman Kirzhachsky, many princes and boyars made major contributions to the Annunciation Monastery. Monastic peasants were exempted from duties, fishing was allowed, and other benefits were provided. Sovereign princes, Russian sovereigns, eminent boyar families paid attention to the monastery, but the Miloslavsky boyars, whose family tomb was built under the Church of the All-Merciful Savior, had the greatest care for it. The famous royal painter Simon Fyodorov Ushakov in 1659 painted for the monastery an image of the Lord Jesus Christ with the forthcoming Saints Sergius and Nikon.
AT For the entire time of its existence, the Kirzhach monastery had sufficient funds, and therefore could provide significant assistance to the sick and the poor.
AT Among many Russian monasteries, in 1764 the Annunciation Monastery was abolished and turned into a parish church. The property was transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, and the brotherhood was sent to other monasteries.
AT In the middle of the 19th century, the Solovyov family, residents of the city of Kirzhach, took on special care of the former monastery churches, repairing them and updating the wall paintings.
G The main temple of the monastery in the name of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God was built at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century in the likeness of the Trinity Cathedral of the monastery of St. Sergius. In its basement there was once a chapel in honor of the Equal-to-the-Apostles kings Constantine and Helena. The second church of the 16th century was dedicated to St. Sergius of Radonezh, the organizer of the holy monastery on Kirzhach. The temple in the name of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Cross of the Lord and the All-Merciful Savior was built in 1656 by John Andreevich Miloslavsky, later its basement became the family tomb of the Miloslavskys. The last church was built on the territory of the monastery by the Solovyov brothers at the burial place of their parents in the 19th century and is dedicated to All Saints.
P After the October Revolution, around 1928, the liturgical life of the once glorious ancient monastery was interrupted for a long time, the churches were closed. In 1932-34, the temple in the name of St. Sergius was blown up and completely destroyed. For seven decades desolation reigned in the holy land, but by the grace of God, 605 years after the blessed death of the humble disciple of Abba Sergius, the Monk Roman of Kirzhach, the memory of his blessed name is now solemnly glorified in the Annunciation Monastery.
Brief Life of St. Roman of Kirzhach
The pre-excellent Roman Kir-zhach-sky was a spo-movement-no-one and a teacher-no-one of the pre-excellent Ser-gius, Igu-me-na Ra-do -nezh-sko-go (pa-meat on September 25-Tyab-rya and July 5). Pre-beautiful Ser-gius and Roman in the forests of the Vla-di-mir-sky gu-ber-nii near the Kir-zhach river built-and-whether a temple in honor of Blago -ve-shche-niya Pre-holy Bo-go-ro-di-tsy and os-no-wa-whether a new monastery (1371). Three years later, according to the blessing of the holy-ti-te-la (pa-membrane February 12-ra-la), the reverend Ser-gius re-vra-til- sya in Tro-its-ki mo-on-stay, and pre-on-add-no-go Ro-ma-on left-vil on-sto-I-tel-stvo-vat in new-in-co-created -noy empty obi-the-whether.
Ru-ko-po-lo-women-ny in the holy order of the holy-ti-te-lem Alek-si-em, new-on-sto-I-tel Bla-go-ve-shchen-sko -go mo-na-stay-rya with a big user-di-em used for-after-after-your-spirit-hov-no-th from-tsa and teach-te-la - pre-add-but-go Ser-giya. A zealous mover, a kind and tre-bo-va-tel-ny on-stav-nick, a pre-good Ro-man was a pre-me-rum for his brethren.
Pre-sta-vil-sya saint on July 29, 1392, and was buried in the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky temple. In the ru-to-written saints, the pre-excellent mention-mi-na-et-sya among the saints and na-zy-va-et-sya mi-do-do- cement.
Complete Life of St. Roman of Kirzhach
A teacher and a student-nick ... So-becoming-la-et-sya and so we-cha-et-sya the life of a man-lo-ve-ka both here on earth, and there, in the Tsar -state of Heaven-nom, if it is from Is-ty-ny and true-tin-on.
Saints Ser-giy Ra-do-nezh-sky and Roman Kir-zhach-sky showed the world not just life, but the Light of life, becoming His eternal light -cha-mi.
More than-lo-vin-na-a-hundred-years pro-flowed after the sad-chal-no-th-forgiveness of the Russian people with the "sun of the Russian land -li ", bless the faithful prince Alek-san-drom Nevsky. The violent princes of their own-di-whether with each other the sa-mo-killer-stven-nye accounts, obes-blood-li-vaya and obes-si-li-vaya Russia until -ka on the ve-li-ko-prince-sto-le-sto-le didn’t have a-hall John Da-ni-lo-vich, nicknamed in the na-ro-de for the d-ruyu mi -lo-sty-nu Ka-li-toy. Under him, the Moscow principality was strengthened and the Moscow principality grew, Russia calmed down, “and on-stu-pi-la for a long time, but not used tan-naya ti-shi-na in the Russian land.
In that per-ri-od, they say-cha-li-vo-go-co-bi-ra-niya of the national forces, the new sun-tse ti-ho rise-ho-di-lo on the spirit-hov- nom sky-slope on the th Fatherland. In the deaf de-brea of Ra-do-nezh-sky forests, on Mount Ma-ko-vets, reverend Ser-gius built a monastery in the name of the Pre-holy that Troy. It took a lot of strength, patience and courage to tre-bo-va-elk in order to, in the forest, empty-stay-no for-go-rel-sya svetil-nik great-in-glorious faith. Rumors about the new desert-no-zhi-te-le and its obi-te-whether soon spread across Rus-si, attracting people to it -bi-te-ley away-nen-no-go mo-on-she-sko-go-tia. One of the close disciples of pre-good Ser-gius was monk Ro-man.
Pre-excellent Roman was born in the first quarter of the XIV century. We don’t have exact information about the place and time of his birth, but the church tradition keeps to remember that from a young age, the heart is from-ro-ka for-go-re-moose love-bo-view to Christ and strive-le-ni-em for mo-na-she-stvo. His light soul was attracted by the silent service of God in the humble silence of the remote mo-on-stack. Mud-noe ki-pe-nie worldly su-e-you cha-go-ti-lo her. Hearing about the marvelous Ra-do-nezh-sky desert-ni-ke, Ro-man from-great-vil-sya to his abode, stepped into the number of brethren Three-its-ko-go mo-na-sta-rya and all-whole-given his will into the spiritual ru-ko-vod-stvo -gia, becoming a devoted and obedient scholar.
The venerable Ser-gius received Ro-ma-na with love, offering him, according to custom, to build a cell for himself. Simple and meager-la-la life is desert-no-kov. For-often I don’t have enough candles and wine for divine service. The brethren served in the light of the be-re-zo-vy or sos-no-vy beams. God-go-servic-books, according to the testimony of pre-do-no-go, pi-sa-li then in obi-te-whether on the be-re- ste because of the lack of stat-ka funds. It happened that on the village-no-kam it was empty-not together with the yoke-men-n-ho-di-moose for several days not to eat anything, insofar as the charter of obi-te-whether for-shalled to collect mi-lo-sta-nyu in the surrounding se-le-ni-pits. Weaker roar-ta-li on his-e-pre-do-no-go av-woo, but he wisely instructed them to pre-da-vat himself-be-ter- how to teach-te-lyu life. By the prayer of the holy yoke-me-on Ser-gius, the Lord soon made generous sacrifices-in-va-te-lei in mo-na-stir, where poverty would be a true spiritual spirit with-kro-wi-sch.
Together with all humble-ren-but-re-no-strength Ro-man is cold, poverty and disorder of the northern desert. Her harsh conditions for-ka-la-whether, strengthened-la-whether and revived-me-nya-whether in a young in-motion-no-ke-ve-ru in Pro- the thought of God, deepen-la-whether to-believe to your-e-spirit-hov-no-mu father.
According to the charter of mo-on-stay-rya Ro-man, having stepped into the number of brethren, he had to go through a tough test but-in-at-first-but th. To-mu, who wanted to accept a foreign-style haircut, yig-men you-da-shaft long clothes from a black-no-th cloth. Together with everyone, the student went through a series of listening and only after testing his hard-to-sti-stri-gal-sya .
Throughout the ve-ro-yat-no-sti, in the second swarm in the XIV century, on October 1, on the day of the feast of the Holy -that Bo-go-ro-di-tsy and pa-my-ti pre-do-do-no-go Ro-ma-na Slad-ko-singer, apprentice ve-li-ko-go Ser -gia took my-na-she-sky haircut in honor of the holy Sweet-to-singer. It is not excluded that you-boron of a saint in-a-kro-vi-te-la explained to the mu-zy-kal-ny-mi-s-so-no-stya -mi Ro-ma-na. After the acceptance of the An-gel-sko-go-chi-on for the new-in-at-the-initial-no-go on-movement-no-ka post and mo-lit-ven-noe-de-la- nie became the right-of-thumb of his whole subsequent life.
Like the majority of the Russian obi-te-lei of the XIV century, Ser-gi-e-va pus-styn first-to-first-but would-la its own-to-piece, or especially-but-living-noy. Igu-men was a common ru-ko-vo-di-te-lem for all the brethren, mo-na-hi together mo-li-lis, gathering together in the church, but in terms of food, clothes, housing, they would be co-ver-shen-but sa-mo-hundred-I-tel-ny. With fortified-le-ni-em and ras-shi-re-ni-em of Ser-gi-ev-go-mo-on-stay-rya, the number of his sel-ni-kov was multiplied . In a step-by-step-but around it, mo-na-styr-skaya slo-bo-da, next to the mo-na-sta-rem pro-lay-la to -ro-ha from Moscow to the northern Russian cities.
From-me-not-the-lo-the-same-ob-the-whether for-becoming-la-lo the yoke-me-on Ser-gy seriously-but for-du-we-wat-sya over from -me-no-no-eat, the mouth of my-on-styr-sky life. The heart is pre-good-but-especially-ben-but inclined to the ancient practice of the strict community of life, where you can na-hi don’t have any personal use-no-va-ni-things, all the more money. The brethren are closely connected with each other by a chain of common hearings, constituting a single living orga-nism. Ideally, the general-living-tel-ny mo-na-styr revived the structure of the ancient-non-Christian-sti-an-church-vi, where “many the stature of u-ro-vav-shih would be one heart and one soul, and no one from the estate called his own, but they had everything in common.
According to the blessing of the saint-ti-te-la Mos-kov-sko-go, after the lu-che-writing-men-but-go-the-la-niya Kon -stand-ti-no-pol-sko-go-pat-ri-ar-ha Philo-fey, in 1354 the reverend Ser-gius introduced the community into the mo-on-sta-re -living charter. The strict guest of the hundredth mouth, you called the involuntary roar of many brothers. Some-rye tay-com ear-di-li from ob-te-li. At the same time, the elder brother of St. Ser-gius Stefan returned from Moscow. The roar of inconsistent vowels found support from him, all the more so because Ste-fa-na is out-of-the-way-but embracing the thought of his first-in-on- cha-li in obi-te-li.
One day, on Saturday, during the evening service, when Reverend Ser-gius in al-ta-re was ob-la-chal-sya , his brother stood on the left kli-ro-se. For-me-tiv that the ka-no-narkh took the book-gu in his hands, Stefan su-ro-vo turned to him: “Who gave you this book? » - “Igu-men gave it to me,” - humble-ren-but from-ve-til ka-no-narkh. - “Who is the igu-men in this place? Stefan retorted to him with anger. “Wasn’t I the first to come to this place?” Raz-dra-wife Stefan continued his speech with words, some hagio-count did not dare to re-pro-from-ve-sti. The venerable Ser-gius heard from the al-ta-ry the fiery speech of the brother, but calmly conducted the service, not in any way zy-vaya his-e-go-ogor-che-niya. After the end of the divine service, not wanting to give water to the co-blaze, Igu-man Ser-giy tai-but left mo-na -stir.
Life of pre-good-no-go Ser-gius of the XV century, on-pi-san-noe Epi-fa-ni-em Pre-wise-rym and re-looked Pa -ho-mi-em Lo-go-fe-tom, po-west-woo-et about the fact that the pre-ex-ad-ny came out of the mo-on-sta-rya so-ver-shen-but one. One source from the 17th-18th centuries, “Book, gla-go-le-may Description of the Russian saints”, claims that the pre-excellent Ser-gius, leaving, took with him the teacher of his Ro-man.
Later, evidence is under-strength-la-is-stable-chi-you oral pre-yes-ni-em, according to someone-ro-mu Ser-giy left the monastery together with the pre-given scholar Ro-man. After a long-no-go re-re-ho-yes, pass an eye-lo-two-two-ki-lo-meter-ditch, Igu-men and his student strongly drown mi-lis. Ro-man, in a sense, was thirsty and, unable to endure it, turned to the Pre-beautiful with a request to fight prays to God that the Lord will bring water from the nearby mountains, as He once brought water from the rock according to prayer -ve pro-ro-ka of God Mo-and-sey. Seeing the hot faith of the teacher, for listening to him, the Reverend Ser-gius pleaded with the Lord for good and luck -reel in-so-hom along the slope of the mountain, from some swarm immediately-len-but beat a cold source of healing water. So the well-known Greek key arose.
Po-ki-nuv Tro-its-ki mo-na-shtir, re-beautiful Ser-giy came to his friend, yog-me-nu of the Makhri-sch obi-those -whether Ste-fa-nu, and asked to give him one of the brethren to the water-no-ki in the surrounding places, in order to set up a new one monastery. Pre-beautiful Stefan chose for his friend and co-be-sed-no-ka mo-na-ha Si-mo-na. For a long time is-ka-whether black-but-riz-tsy, but nowhere is it possible to calm down the heart of the pre-beautiful Ser-gius. Reach to the bank of the fast-streaming river Kir-zhach, put-no-ki see-de-do you-with-ki-in-piss-ny hill, slopes to- then-ro-go in-ro-va-la push-shi-flock greenery. You-with-elms row-da-mi descended to the transparent streams of Kir-zha-cha. The pre-beautiful one recognized the spirit of a place, someone swarm is-ka-la his soul. Here he began to build a new monastery in the name of the Blessing of the Pre-holy Bo-go-ro-di-tsy, some kind of paradise in ti-la, as a result of the igu-me-on Ser-gius in the cell, not long before his blissful end-chi-ny.
In the axis-ro-tev-shem Tro-its-com mo-at-sta-re tsa-ri-lo all-increasing-ra-ta-th-th-che-te-te-te-nie: on-sel-ni-ki on -everywhere, they tried to find their-e-first-in-ig-u-me-on and the old man. One of them, knowing about the friendship of the venerable Ser-gius and Ste-fa-na, on Mah-re, went to the mo-to-stay after the trace of the -yan-but found out about the place-to-pre-by-va-ni Tro-its-ko-go ygu-me-on. From ra-to-sti, the brother hurriedly returned to his monastery in order to comfort the rest.
After that, as about-on-ru-zhi-elk, a new place in-a-hundred-mov-gov of av-you Ser-gius, to him began to-quite-hon-ku re-re- walk his teacher-ni-ki. Vna-cha-le under-go-vi-li cells for housing, then the time came for the construction of my own church. There is no doubt that one of the faithful in the relics of pre-good Ser-gius in the dispensation of the Kirzhach obi-te there was a humble mo-nah Ro-man, who became her next yoke-man, regardless of whether he came along with the teacher -te-lem li-bo left after him.
The creation of a new temple-ma tre-bo-va-lo blah-go-word-ve-tion of moscow-sky-hierar-ha. Having received it from the mit-ro-po-li-ta Alexy, the reverend Ser-gius took up the construction of the church. Particularly ben-noe im-chat-le-tion about-from-in-dit mo-lit-va pre-be-good-no-go, he spilled something then to God , Eternally-no-mu So-de-te-lu of heaven and earth: “God-by-di my God, in antiquity, he assured-shiy Yo-i-la many-gi- mi ve-li-ki-mi chu-de-sa-mi, and for-ko-but-giving-tsa His-e-go Mo-and-sei from-ve-steve-shii many-gi-mi and ve -do-ki-mi-know-me-ni-i-mi, in-ca-manager Ge-deo-well, ro-nom-time in-be-dy, Himself now, Vla-da-ko All- de-tel, hear me, sin-no-th-ra-ba of His-e-go, mo-la-she-go-you! Give-and-mi pray to my and b-go-word-vi-this place, some-swar-go-of-lil to create in Thy glory, in praise and honor Pre-chi-stand Your Ma-te-ri, Honest Her Blessings. And here, too, Your Name is always glorified, the Father and the Son and the Snya of that Spirit! Calling on God's blessings, for-cha-whether to beat the church.
Not much, not a little, about four years ago, the Bo-go-ro-dits-kaya monastery was built. Many brethren immediately, at the behest of the heart, went to her from the Tri-its-th monastery. Leave-shi-e-sya soon-be-whether, de-shiv-shis wise-ro-go spirit-hov-no-go ru-ko-vod-stvo, and so-bor-but re-shi-li on -one-I-tel-but ask the holy-te-la Alexy to return the yoke-me-on Ser-gius to the monastery on Makov-tse. From the West, but that the old man-mit-ro-po-lit deep-bo-ko honored pre-do-b-no-go. Regretting the ra-zo-re-nii of the Ser-gi-ev-sky ob-te-li, he is happy to click-null-sya on the mo-on-hov. A whole in-salt of two ar-hi-mand-ri-tov saint-ti-tel from-pra-vil to the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky mo-to-shtir for return -nia in the monastery of the Holy Trinity her first-to-first-no-ka. Instead of myself, mit-ro-po-lit Alexy pro-forced pre-add-but-go to leave in Kir-zhach-sky mo-on-sta-re sa-mo-go is -kus-no-go and ver-no-go of his students, someone-eye became blessed Roman.
Obediently, but fulfilling the will of the holy old man, hegu-men Ser-giy vna-cha-le offered-lo-lived on-the-st-I-tel-stvo in ob- te-whether on Kir-zha-che near-to him Isa-a-kiya. But Isa-a-kii more than anything else loved the silent life - the incessant prayerful communion with God and the mind poured his-e-teach-te-la-bla-go-word-to twist him to a more akin to him feat of silence. Seeing the roar in the aspiration of Isa-a-kiya in the name of God, the reverend Ser-gius blessed the yoke-men-stvo and management Kir-zhach-skim mo-na-sta-rem Ro-ma-na, with someone he came to this place. Meekly from-ve-til lu-bi-mo-mu av-ve co-gla-si-em to the great and difficult listening to this chosen student and from-pra-vil-sya to Moscow for approval in it. Saint Alexis ru-ko-po-lo-lived Ro-ma-na in hiero-mo-na-ha and gave him a san igu-me-na Bla-go-ve-shchen -sko-go-Kir-zhach-go-mo-on-stay. The year-house of os-no-va-niya obi-the-whether at-nya count the 1358th. Just as in Tro-its-coy ob-the-li, in the Kir-zhach-sky mo-on-sta-re, a general charter was soon established. Blessed-ve-shchen-sky mo-on-stay from the sa-mo-th of its own os-no-va-nia until the abolition in 1764 remained akin to nym Tro-and-tse-Ser-gi-e-howl ob-te-whether. In accordance with the voice of the church-kov-nyh is-to-ri-kov, the pre-excellent Roman-man entered the chronicle of the Kir-zhach-sko-go-on -sta-rya as his first igu-men.
Rise-pi-tan-ny ve-li-kim av-how Ser-gi-em on your-re-ni-yah of the holy fathers of the Church-vi, re-beautiful Roman-man especially for he encouraged the book-taking of his brethren, some-rye-ry-whether it was to the highest knowledge-ni-yas of the spiritual wow. There are a lot of chi-ta-li in obi-te-li, carefully-but pe-re-pi-sy-wa-whether bo-go-service books-gi and holy-tho-che- skye works. This is evidenced by the hand-written books of the Kir-zhach-go mo-na-stay of the XIV century that have come down to us: Zhi-tiya saints, Le-stvi-tsa pre-do-no-go, Apo-ka-lip-sis with the interpretation of the saint and Treb-nick with the next do-va-ni-em in a stri-zhe-niya in the mo-na-she-sky rank.
The Kir-zhach-igu-man went through the experience, but the school of desert-but-life, where the external feat of a strict-th-hundred-th and you-you-with- che-tal-Xia with a deep inner mo-lit-howl and a fiery faith in the help of God. Once upon a time he had a precious opportunity to see how his spiritual father, reverend Ser-gius, in his own life in-flated eternal for-ve-you. In-motion-nick of life was trying in everything to re-press to-ro-go-mu old-tsu, usva-and-vaya his rare heart-deep meekness, udi -ve-tel-noe smi-re-tion, mo-lit-vein-ness, endless-cha-e-my patience of other people's infirmities. You-so-kaya inner life of the teacher-no-av-you Ser-giy made-la-la his spirit-ho-nos-teacher, to whom in-tech - whether people are for co-ve-th and prayer-ven-noy for help, deeply believing that the Lord will soon hear His pronouncements -their faithful servants, crying to Him.
Yes-le-ko from the noisy Moscow-you stood quiet Bla-go-ve-schen-sky mo-on-stir, but even in it it was impossible from the country-thread -sya from events, someone excited-but-wa-whether Russia. In 1378, Moscow with a cry about the pro-vo-di-la on the last path of the holy-ti-te-la and mi-to-creator Alexis. Two years later, a dark tu-cha hung over the Russian land: Khan Ma-mai with a huge half of us-mi-chi-scha-mi you-stepped-drank about- tiv Mos-kov-th prince-same-stvo. Great Prince Dimitriy Ioan-no-vich, hastily, but having gathered an army, before the terrible in-ho-house is-pro-strength of the bla-go-word-ve -nie to the battle at the cross-father of his children, pre-be-good-no-go yoke-me-on Ser-gius. On September 8, 1380, I co-created the blood-va-vaya se-cha on the Ku-li-ko-vom field. Together with the fathers of the Trinity, obi-there, with tears, prayed for the be-de-Russian-go chri-hundred-lu-bi-vo th in-in-stva and brethren Bla-go-ve-shchen-sko-go Kir-zhach-sko-go mo-na-stay-rya. In 1389, after a heavy pain, as a result of exorbitant loads, the blessed prince Di-mitriy Ioan ended his life -no-vich, nicknamed after the ve-li-koy in the be-dy of the Don. Pre-excellent Ser-giy with many mo-lit-va-mi pro-stil-sya with him in Ar-khan-gel so-bo-re Mos-kov-sko-go Cream la. This te-rya deep-bo-ko op-cha-li-la of all Russian people, led by their spirits-us-mi on-becoming-no-ka-mi.
On-sel-ni-ki Bla-go-ve-shchen-sko-go-Kir-zhach-sko-go mo-na-stay-rya for mo-lit-you-y-yig-me-on- step-pen-but pro-ho-di-whether it’s not easy stu-pe-no mo-on-she-sko-go is-ku-sa. Ter-pe-nie, love and the gift of dis-judgment-de-niya in-mo-ha-whether pre-do-b-no-mu Ro-ma-well protect-give students from superfluous hotness and wake them up from the cold race-se-yan-no-sti. The sa-ma appearance is pre-beautiful from-ra-zha-la deep-bo-cue spiritual world of his inner life.
Many sad and joyful events pro-tek-lo before the gaze of humble-ren-no-go yoke-me-na Ro-ma-na. His clear soul is pro-si-la of the world and upo-ko-e-niya in God. On the day of the Blessing of the Pre-Holy Bo-go-ro-di-tsy ve-li-ki Tro-it-ki igu-men Ser-giy was a miracle-des-but from-ve -shchen Sa-my Tsar-tsey of Heaven about his imminent death. It’s like bu-di-lo it will soon re-give in the management of your mo-on-stash pre-good-no-mu No-ko-well, so that in silence Vii to stand before the very Lord's house. Undoubtedly, but, pre-dob-no-mu Ro-ma-well became-lo from-west-but about this wondrous event from his-e-old-tsa-ygu- me-on. But he himself died in the world before his teacher-te-la, for the memory of the holy mu-che-no-ka Kal-li-ni-ka, July 29, 1392.
Brothers of the Blessed Veschensky obi-te-li with many-gi-mi mo-lit-va-mi and tears after rowing the old man under the dia-con-ni -com mo-on-styr-th-church-ma, you-stro-en-no-go work-yes-mi its ve-do-ko-av-you, pre-on-do-but-go Ser-giya, with his-and-mi pre-given-us-mi-tutors-no-ka-mi.
A century passed, but the chi-ta-nie Kir-zhach-sko-go yoke-me-na did not fade away with his end-chi-noy. Above the place of his grave-be-niya ino-ki in a hundred-vi-li-ra-ku, and then a carved canopy above it. Na-pi-sa-li iko-well pre-do-b-no-go Ro-ma-na. Before the ra-koy pre-do-but-go-re-whether the neuga-si-my lam-pa-dy. On its b-to-th walls you-che-ka-ni-whether tro-par and kontakion in his honor. Che-red-hiero-mo-na-hi and priests-no-ki-neo-sti-tel-but serve on the coffin-no-tse in a move-no-pa-no-hi -dy, according to zealous requests, bam in-chi-ta-te-lei pre-do-do-no-go Ro-ma-na. On the day of his pa-my-ti co-ver-sha-li according to chi-well for-upo-koi-nuyu li-tur-gy. In the pre-tvo-re mustache-fingers-ni-tsy per-in-ig-u-me-na mo-on-stay-rya hundred-I-la-cha-sha with water from the well, according to pre-yes-ny, is-ko-pan-no-go sa-mim pre-better Ser-gi-em Ra-do-nezh-skim with os-no-va-nii obi-te- whether.
On the Holy Gates, at the entrance to the monastery, for a long time, pa-lom-nik-kov from-ve-scha-la inscription that “Kir-zhach-sky Bla -go-ve-shchen-sky monastery was founded in the 14th century, from 1354 to 1358, pre-excellent Ser-gius, abbot of the Holy Tro-its-ko-go mo-na-sta-rya, by the blessing of mit-ro-po-li-ta Alexia, mos-kov-go mi-do-creation -tsa, on the basis of the os-no-va-nii of this pa-ki, he returned to the Holy Trinity mo-on-stir, by admonishment and exhortation -niyu two ar-khi-mand-ri-tov, sent by saints-ti-te-lem Aleksi-em; instead of myself, I left myself in the Kir-zhach-sky mo-on-sta-re on-a-hundred-I-te-lem of the first student of my own, pre- in-dob-no-go hiero-mo-na-ha Ro-ma-na, someone-ro-go mo-shchi is here under the spo-house. In pa-knead him by diligence on-ro-yes from-right-la-e-we would-va-yut pa-no-hi-dy, and on the coffin-no-tse you-che-ka-not -we give him a tro-par and a kontakion.
It is noteworthy that in the hand-written saints of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the first Kir-zhach-igu-men is named after good and miraculous creator. In the heat of mo-on-stay, uni-living-shie most of the ar-khi-wa, could it be-gu-beat and for-pi-si about chu-de-sakh pre-do-do-no-go Ro-ma-na, some-rye yes-whether in-water to call him yes-to-the-do-creator.
Priest Alexander Lyan-nov, who serves in the city of Mstera of the Vla-di-mir region, re-re-gave a story to his ba-bush- ki, Yaku-she-howl of An-na Ivanov-na, heard by him from her in the middle of the 1980s. At the end of the 1920s, An-na Ivanov-na lived in the village of Rat-ko-vo Kir-zhach-sko-go-rai-o-na. One of the inhabitants of Rat-ko-vo, a little lazy daughter, was seriously ill and could not walk from birth. Around 1928, not long before closing -go Ro-ma-na (July 29) mother, as usual, re-shi-la, go with her daughter to the church, deep-bo-ko in-chi-taya pre-po -add-but-go. She in-sa-di-la hurt-no-go re-ben-ka on her shoulders and on foot from-great-went to the city. Afraid of being late for the Divine Liturgy, the woman went out early and came a long time before the cha-la bo-go- service. Drowning from the do-ro-gi, a mother with a sick girl in her arms came-se-la from-breathe on the steps Bla-go-ve-shchen- some temple. From the river, under-not-small, go-lu-boy tu-man and softly oku-you-val mo-on-styr-sky churches. Tired re-be-nok in-pro-strength with ma-te-ri to drink. Unexpectedly, given, but a b-go-ob-raz-ny old man came to them in mo-na-sh-cloth-de and pre-lo-lived de-voch-ke krin-ku with mo-lo-com. Ma-lysh-ka took a few sips and, b-bla-go-da-riv, ver-well-la under-pi-toe mo-lo-ko good-ro-mu de- shower-ke. After a few minutes, re-be-nok again turned to ma-te-ri: “Ma-ma, I felt so good-ro-sho, I would still like to drink !" Leaving her daughter on the steps of the temple, the wife-schi-on bro-si-las to-get the old-ren-ko-mo-na-ha, but couldn’t anywhere -La find him.
Returning, mother took de-voch-ku pa ru-ki and went up to the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky cathedral. She prayed with tears, used-ve-da-las and joined. Ma-lysh-ka si-de-la under-le on the ska-me-ech-ke and with curiosity races-smat-ri-va-la church. On the wall, she for-me-ti-la-knows-my image of the good-old old man, on-of-your-she-go her mo-lo-com, and ka-za-la his ma-te-ri. They were blessed with a pre-beautiful Roman, Kir-zhach-sky igu-men. After the end of the god-service, the sick ma-lut-ka is so much better-feeling-va-la that I could-la the whole way back from Kir-zha-cha to Rat-ko-vo, go through your-and-my knife-ka-mi. After a miracle-des-no-go is-tse-le-niya de-voch-ka always from early spring to late autumn-no change-men-but ho-di-la bo -si-com, you-za-vaya jokes and laughs around.
In 1928, the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky council for-the-roofs. In the years of the Great Patriotic War, in the basement of the temple, there were ra-po-la-ga-las ke-ro-si-no-vaya shop, where all-gda you-stra-and-va-lis big eyes-re-di. One day, people, standing behind the ke-ro-si-n, see de-whether on the roof of the co-bo-ra of the old-ro-go mo-na-ha, dress then into the mantle. With a ka-dil in the hands of an old man, he walked around the roof and from all sides ka-dil the city of Kir-zhach. According to mo-lit-ven-no-mu for-step-no-th-stvo-th-th-th-in-cro-vi-te-la of the city of Kir-zhach remained aloof from the military -ny actions.
In 1990-1991, the former Kir-zhach-sky monastery came to life again: Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky so-bor from the roof for divine service as a parish church, and the parish took the first steps to restore mo-na-styr-sky temples.
In 1992, in the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky at-ho-de-ho-de-we-we-we-were for the solemn celebration of the 600th anniversary of of the day of the end of the pre-beautiful Ser-gius Ra-to-nezh-sko-go, os-no-va-te-la Kir-zhach-sko-go-mo-on-stay- row. On the eve of the celebrations, the Bishop of Vla-di-Mir-sky and Suz-Dal-sky Ev-logiy sat down the temple to see how pro-ho-di- la under-go-to-ka for the holiday-no-ku. Passing along the ter-ri-to-rii of the former mo-on-stay-rya, vla-dy-ka ob-ra-til pay attention to the neak-ku-rat-nuyu on - a rash from pebbles near the ghul-bi-shcha Bla-go-ve-shchen-so-bo-ra and tried to break it down. Two days later, you called a truck-to-ri-hundred. Having removed the top layer of pebbles, he stumbled upon a splintered-loch-but-fu-gas-thing mi-well. You-call b-ha-doo sa-pe-ditch for-a-sen-ny with-ho-zhan. Mi-on-the-eye-was-for-fighting-spo-of-its-own, and with an explosion, it would break-ru-shi-la so-boron, could people suffer. So the builder of the Kir-zhach-sko-go mo-on-stay-rya, pre-excellent Ser-gius, and his first igu-man, pre-excellent Ro- man, mi-des-but save your abode and prevent misfortune.
By the blessing of ar-hi-episco-pa Vla-di-mir-sko-go and Suz-dal-sko-go Eu-logia ra-zo-ren-nye khod-sky temples in the name of All-my-lo-sti-vo-go Spa-sa and Bla-go-ve-shche-niya Pre-holy Bo-go-ro-di-tsy in 1995 do again about-ra-shchen-us in the monastery, but this time already in the women's room. Surprisingly, that the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky mo-on-stay was opened on July 4, before the all-night vigil on ka-nun pa-me -ty pre-be-good-no-go Ser-giya Ra-to-nezh-sko-go, with someone-eye it’s all together . The first on-the-village-ni-tsy in-stu-pi-li here from Alek-san-drov-s-th of the Holy Assumption-of-the-women-of-mo-at-the-stand- row. Ahead of them, expect great difficulties in restoring the ancient mo-on-stay: the buildings are not heated wa-lis, in them, mi-mo-ho-lo-yes, king-ri-la dampness. For mo-lit-you-ho-ho-o-kro-vi-te-la, pre-do-no-go Ro-ma-na, not one of the se-sters is for-bo-le -la.
In May 1997, to the Bla-go-ve-schen-sky nunnery in a stu-pi-la in-listening to People-mi-la Tru-be-na. On the second day, after arriving in mo-na-stay at mo-lo-day, co-ver-shen-but health-ro-howl de-vush-ki swelled up to ko -flax and na-cha-whether bo-fly no-gi. She had to change her shoes. People-mi-la could not stand and with difficulty moved. The pain in the legs would be so much so mu-chi-tel-na that, in a listen, I could not restrain myself from tears, despondently. Hearing about the use of de-voch-ki from Rat-ko-vo, ve-che-rum she re-shi-la pro-honor aka-fist pre-do-no-mu Ro -ma-well over the place of his grave-be-niya. The next day, the pain suddenly subsided. Ob-ra-do-van-naya de-vush-ka once again pro-chla aka-fist per-vo-ig-u-me-nu Kir-zhach-sko-go mo-na-sta-rya, bla- go-da-rya him for making it easier in b-les-ni, after something, in-lu-chi-la, perfect-shen-noe-use.
In 1996, from the West is-to-re-com S.A. Would-be-la-e-you-would-you-be-cha-you big ar-heo-lo-gi-che-works-you-in-a-mustache-finger-ne-tse pre-beautiful-but- go Ro-ma-na. In the center of the clock, at a depth of about two meters from the ancient one, were there holy relics of pre-po -add-no-go Ro-ma-na, miraculously co-storing-niv-shi-e-sya, despite all the pe-ri-pet-tii is-that- rii, and not-tre-women-ny all-possible-we-mi-ra-bo-ta-mi at this place. This event took place on November 12, 1996, the day of the celebration of the icon of God of God Ma-te-ri Mi-lo-sti-howl and pa-my-ti holy-ti-te-la John-on Mi-lo-sti-vo-go.
The question of how-to-chi-ta-nii pre-do-do-no-go Ro-ma-na is closely connected with the is-it-ri-it’s establishment-nov-le-niya pa-mya- ty So-bo-ra Ra-do-nezh-sky saints, someone-paradise rises to the middle of the 17th century, when it would be especially-know-but-know -che-pre-be-good-no-go-Ser-gius as all-Russian-this-ho-ho-th-th and sad-no-no-ka of the Russian land. Namely-but then-whether the first lists-of-the-scholars-of-the-be-good-no-go Ser-gius Ra-before-nezh-sko-go would have been compiled.
By the blessing of the holy pat-ri-ar-ha of Mos-kov-go and all Rus-si Pi-men-on in 1981, there was a mouth -new-le-but feast-but-va-nie So-bo-ra of Ra-to-nezh-sky saints on the next day after the feast in honor of ob-re -te-niya of the relics of the pre-dob-no-go Ser-giya, July 6; in 1982, on the day of the celebration of the Vla-di-mir-sky icon of Bo-go-ma-te-ri, June 23, mouth-but-wee-whether pa-meat So- bo-ra of the Vla-di-mir-sky saints. Among the saints, in the land of the Vla-di-mir-sky and Ra-do-nezh-sky pro-si-yav-shih, there was a pro-slav-len and a disciple of the reverend -no-go Ser-gia, pre-excellent Roman, Igu-man Kir-zhach-sky.
Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky Kir-zhach-sky cloister, manager-la-e-May after the pre-be-ad-no-go Ro-ma-for many-number-len- we-mi on-hundred-I-te-la-mi and stro-and-te-la-mi, on-ho-di-las in the ve-de-nii Tro-and-tse-Ser-gi-e- in the th mo-on-stay-rya.
From reading to pa-my-ti os-no-va-te-la obi-te-li, pre-dob-no-go Ser-giya Ra-to-nezh-sko-go, his near-to-the-scholar-no-ka and spo-movement-no-ka, pre-better-but-ro-ma-on Kir-zhach-sko-go, many princes and gods yare vno-si-whether major contributions to the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky mo-on-stay. The mo-na-styr-sky peasants were freed from the duties, they were allowed to fish, they were ok, they were and other benefits. Sovereign princes, Russian-si-go-su-da-ri, having-no-thye bo-yar-sky fa-mi-lii eyes-zy-va-li pay attention-ma-nie mo -on-stand-ryu, but the most-big-neck about him had the bo-yar Mi-lo-slav-skie, f-mile mustache-fal-ni-tsa ko- then-ryh would-la arrange-e-on under the church-to-view All-my-lo-sti-vo-go Spa-sa. From the well-known royal iso-count Si-mon Fe-do-rov Usha-kov in 1659 on-pi-sal for mo-on-stay an image of the Lord-yes Jesus- sa Christ-hundred with the pre-hundred-I-shchi-mi pre-do-b-us-mi Ser-gi-em and Ni-ko-nom.
At all times, its own existence, the Kirzhach monastery had up to a hundred accurate means, but in a way it could provide significant help to the sick and the poor.
Among the many Russian mo-na-sta-rei in 1764, the Blago-ve-shchen-sky monastery was abolished-no-whether and about-ra-ti-whether in the walk-sky church. The property was re-re-yes-whether in Tro-and-tse-Ser-gi-e-vu Lav-ru, and the brotherhood would have been raz-sla-but in other mo-on- shame.
In the middle of the 19th century, the family of So-lo-vie-vy, zhi-te-lei of the city-da Kir-zha-cha, took-nya-la on himself especially -ne-che-nie about the former mo-na-styr-sky temples, from-re-mon-ti-ro-vav them and re-viving on the wall painting.
The main temple of the obi-te-li in the name of Bla-go-ve-shche-niya of the Blessed Bo-go-ro-di-tsy was built at the end of the 15th - at the cha-le of the 16th century -ka on-before-beating Tro-its-ko-go-so-bo-ra mo-on-stay-rya pre-be-before-no-go Ser-giya. In its basement, there was once a side-case in honor of the equal-noap-o-so-kings of Kon-stan-ti-na and Elena. The second church of the 16th century in-holy-to-be-better-to Ser-giu Ra-to-nezh-sko-mu, arrange-and-te-lyu of the holy obi -they are on Kir-zha-che. The temple in the name of the Pro-is-ho-de-niya of the Honest Trees of the Cre-hundred of the Lord-under-nya and All-mi-lo-sti-vo-go Spa-sa you-built in 1656 by John -nom An-dre-evy-than Mi-lo-slav-sky, as a result of his under-cage became a ro-do-howl mustache-finger-ni-tsey of Mi-lo-slav-skikh. The next church would have been arranged on the ter-ri-to-rii mo-on-stay brother-tya-mi So-lo-vie-you-mi on the spot -greeting their ro-di-te-lei in the 19th century and sacredly to All Saints.
After the October Revolution, around 1928, for a long time, the once glorious life was interrupted of the ancient obi-they, we closed the temples. In 1932-34, the temple was blown up and completely destroyed in the name of St. Ser-gius. Seven de-sya-ti-year-old tsa-ri-lo for-pu-ste-nie on the holy land, but by the grace of God, after 605 years after bless-women-noy end-chi-ny humble-ren-no-go-tutor-no-ka av-you Ser-giy, pre-dob-no-go Ro-ma-na Kir-zhach-sko-go , in the Bla-go-ve-shchen-sky mo-on-sta-re now it’s the same-same-but pro-glory-la-yut pa-myatize his light-lo-name.
About St. Roman Kirzhachsky, Russian saint, disciple and successor of Sergius of RadonezhAbout the Monk Roman Kirzhachsky, revered by the Russian Orthodox Church saints, even less documented information has been preserved than about Sergius of Radonezh. In the archives of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, on which the Kirzhach Monastery has always been in complete dependence, only two dates are recorded in relation to Roman: in 1358 he was ordained a hieromonk by St. Alexy and received the rank of abbot of the Kirzhach Annunciation Monastery; On July 29, 1392, he died. Much more extensive is the information preserved in folk legends and traditions, in a very unsteady and capricious system of transmitting information data from generation to generation. In the "Life of St. Roman of Kirzhach", in which many legends about the first abbot of the Kirzhach monastery are concentrated, it is said that Roman (this is his monastic name, his surname is not mentioned) was born in the first quarter of the 14th century. Those information about a person that the usual philistine opinion considers fundamental, folk tales are often passed over in complete silence as utterly unimportant. So, from numerous legends, from the "Life of Roman Kirzhachsky", we do not know anything in which family Roman was born and raised, who he is according to his social status - a boyar, an artisan, a peasant, what and where he received his education, 
How many and what kind of churches, cells, monastic outbuildings he built. The intrinsic value of the life of the spirit was put at the forefront by the authors of traditions and legends about both Sergius of Radonezh and Roman Kirzhachsky. The main, essential thing is that Roman, following the example of Sergius of Radonezh, engaged in the processing of wood for monastic buildings in the deep forest, tirelessly cared about the building of the spirit of the people. The most pleasant thing for Roman, as well as for Sergius, was the “pure carpentry of the spirit”, “the aroma of spiritual shavings”. It is not easy to understand how, secluded in the wild forests, moving away from everyday worldly worries and fuss, they served the most urgent needs of the nation, it is not easy. However, only by understanding this, one can understand the great feat of selfless hermits. In order to free themselves from the heavy foreign yoke, the Russian people, many times cruelly beaten by the Tatar-Mongol hordes, at the first whistle of a whip, tried to lie low so that it would not get worse, had to gather their courage, neglect self-interest and realize themselves as a mighty force. By the example of his life, Sergius tempered himself and devoted his life to the moral education of the people. And next to him, in complete unanimity, was always Roman, Sergius was the first in Russia to introduce hermitage. As the legend says, next to him, Roman also endured all the hardships of solitude. He ardently, with all his heart, supported Sergius's desire to replace in the monasteries his own, special charter with the Kenovian charter in Greek, the cenobitic charter in Old Church Slavonic, and the communist charter in Latin. Ideally, the Kenovian charter revived the structure of the ancient Christian church, where "the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul, and none of the estate called his own, but they had everything in common." (Acts of the Apostles, ch. 4, 32).
Sergius made his first attempt to introduce the Kenovian charter at the Trinity Lavra, but some of the monks, apparently the most wealthy, met the innovation with a murmur of discontent, to which was added the elder brother's claim to supremacy in the monastery. There is no reason to doubt that, by founding a new monastery on the river. Kirzhach, Sergius, together with his students and like-minded people, immediately introduced the Kenovian rule in the new monastery. In the "Life of Roman Kirzhachsky" it is noted that a cenobitic charter was soon established in the Kirzhachsky monastery. "From its very foundation until its abolition in 1764, the Annunciation Monastery remained akin to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. According to church historians, St. Roman entered the annals of the Kirzhachsky Monastery as its first abbot."
The Kirzhach Monastery was the first built by the followers of Sergius of Radonezh and the first to master the Kenovian Rule, but by no means the last. If during the first century of the Tatar-Mongol yoke (1240 - 1340) about three dozen monasteries were built in Russia, in which the monks lived according to their own charter, then in the next century - 150, the founders of which were mainly followers of Sergius, then there are adherents of the full monastic brotherhood. The influence of these monasteries on the Russian people can hardly be overestimated. One of the most respected researchers 
national history Professor V.O. Klyuchevsky, writes that, stealthily sinking into the masses, this influence caused fermentation and imperceptibly changed the direction of minds, rebuilt the entire moral structure of the soul of a Russian person of the XIV century ... And the people, accustomed to trembling at the mere name of a Tatar, finally gathered their courage, stood up against the enslavers and not only found the courage to stand up, but also went to look for the Tatar hordes in the open steppe. “His work itself, from a historical fact, has become a practical commandment, a testament to what we call an ideal. Thus, for future generations, people become not just great dead, but their eternal companions, even guides, and for whole centuries reverently repeat their dear names, not so much for that to gratefully honor their memory, so as not to forget the rules they bequeathed"...
Centuries have passed since the death of quiet "workers of the spirit", centuries full of social cataclysms, storms and upheavals. Thousands, millions of names, deeds, ideas and buildings in the centuries-old whirlwind have sunk into the river of oblivion Leta, the names of Sergius of Radonezh and Roman Kirzhachsky, like pure gold among rags and dust, shine in the memory of the people - their time does not take.
Through the efforts of the nuns of the newly created Annunciation Convent in the 1990s and the archaeologist S.A. Belyaev, in the basement ruins of the Annunciation Cathedral, the burial place of Roman Kirzhachsky was found. In the basement of the temple, a chapel was recreated in honor of the holy equal-to-the-apostles kings Constantine and Elena, and a shrine with the relics of St. Roman of Kirzhach was installed in it. In November 1997, the monastery held a solemn service on the occasion of the uncovering of the relics of Roman Kirzhachsky. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II took part in the crowded events. November 25 was declared the day of memory of Roman Kirzhachsky. The crowd, flowing like a river along the central street of the city in the direction of Zabolotye, clearly showed that the memory of the Russian saints had not died out and had not faded. She is like a fairy living water, wakes up those who have fallen into a stupor and a heavy sleep, calls for a feat for the good of the country, for the good of the long-suffering people.
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