What a religious holiday October 21st. Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka

Published on 21.10.18 00:25

Today, October 21, 2018, they also celebrate the Day of Road Workers, the Day of Food Industry Workers and other events.

What holiday is today: on October 21, 2018, the Orthodox holiday of Tryphon and Pelageya is celebrated

October 21, 2018 is the national holiday of Tryphon and Pelageya. The Church today remembers St. Pelagia of Antioch and St. Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka.

According to legend, Pelagia lived in the 5th century in the large and rich city of Atiochia. She was an actress and master of circus dancers. Having a beautiful appearance, she was famous for her debauchery and fornication.

Once in the city passed church cathedral which was attended by all the bishops of the earth idhumkz Syrian. One day they were in the courtyard of the temple, when Pelagia walked next to them, surrounded by worshipers. All the bishops averted their eyes, and only one of them - Nonn looked at her intently. He devoted the whole night to prayers for the salvation of the soul of a sinful harlot. In the morning, Pelagia, not understanding what was happening to her, came to the temple and was present at the divine service and sermon.

The words she heard made a great impression on her and, repenting of her deed, she distributed all her property and wealth to the afflicted, dressed in simple clothes, left the city and secretly came to Jerusalem, where she began to live in a cave on the Mount of Olives. After spending the rest of her life in prayers and sermons, she became a saint and after death ascended to a heavenly abode.

Trifon lived with his parents in the Arkhangelsk province from birth. When the time came to get married, he secretly left the house, as he felt drawn to monastic life. In the city of Ustyug, he found shelter with a local priest and devoted his life to prayers. Later he moved to the Pyskor monastery, where he was tonsured a monk. Here he continued to attend church services and began working in a bakery. One day he became seriously ill. Near death, Saint Nicholas appeared to him. He healed him and rewarded him with the gift of a miracle worker.

Not wanting fame, Tryphon began to seek solitude and settled at the mouth of the Mulyanka River, where he converted many pagans to the Christian faith. Then he moved to the Chusovaya River, where he built a monastery. Later he erected the Assumption Monastery in the town of Khlynov. It was there that he was ordained archimandrite.

It is believed that a cold snap begins with Tryphon and Pelagia.

If on this day the clouds are low, then the cold will come soon, and if the mice dig their hole in the warm side, then the winter will be harsh.

Day of Road Workers in Russia

The Day of Road Workers is celebrated in Russia annually on the third Sunday of October. In 2018, the holiday falls on October 21st.

The event was established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin dated October 14, 1996 No. 1435. For four years, road workers celebrated their professional holiday on the last Sunday of October together with road transport workers. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin dated March 23, 2000 No. 556 divided the celebrations and changed the date of the holiday. Road workers began to be honored on the third Sunday in October.

Day of Food Industry Workers

The Day of Food Industry Workers is celebrated in Russia annually on the third Sunday of October. In 2018, the holiday falls on October 21st.

The holiday was established in 1966 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The Soviet tradition of honoring food industry workers has been preserved in Russia to this day.

labyrinth day

The word "labyrinth" has traditional Latin roots and came to us from ancient Greece.

In ancient times, such buildings (with complex passages) existed in Egypt, Greece, Rome and other countries. In the XIII-XIX centuries, garden labyrinths were very popular all over the world and especially in England.

Who celebrates name day 21October 2018?

Vasily, Victor, Vladimir, Dmitry, Elizabeth, Ivan, Nadezhda, Nikolai, Pavel, Pelageya, Peter, Taisiya, Tatyana.

• 1520 - Magellan opened the strait, later called Magellan.
• 1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar took place.
• 1994 - The Academy of Russian Television established the annual TEFI award.
• 1997 - The Literary Prize of Alexander Solzhenitsyn was established.

• Samuel Coleridge 1772 - English Romantic poet.
• Alfred Nobel 1833 - Swedish chemist.
• Yevgeny Schwartz 1896 - Soviet writer.
• Mikhail Shura-Bura 1918 - Russian scientist.
• Nikita Mikhalkov 1945 - Russian actor.
• Benjamin Netanyahu 1949 - Israeli statesman.
• Andrei Geim 1958 - Soviet, British physicist.

On October 21, 3 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of veneration of the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

Church Orthodox holidays October 21

Venerable Pelagia of Antioch

It is the feast day of Saint Pelagia, originally from Syrian Antioch. Before Baptism, she was a frivolous and dissolute woman. labored under male name in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.

Saint Pelagia was born in the Syrian city of Antioch. Before her conversion to the faith of Christ, she was a licentious and frivolous girl. Being very attractive in appearance, she adorned herself with luxurious clothes, precious stones and gold.

Once in Antioch, bishops from neighboring dioceses gathered for a council. Among them was Nonn, Bishop of Iliopol. He was known for his righteous life and wisdom. When the bishops left the temple where they were sitting, they saw before them a noisy crowd of young men. Especially among them, one immodestly dressed girl, Pelagia, stood out with her beauty. The girl laughed loudly and joked, and the young men curled around her.

The bishops, embarrassed by such a spectacle, lowered their gazes, only Saint Nonnus, on the contrary, began to carefully examine Pelagia. After the noisy crowd had passed, Nonn began to ask the bishops if they did not like the beauty of this woman and her outfit, to which the bishops were silent. Nonn continued:

“And I learned a lot from her. She made it her goal to please people and, what do you think, how many hours did she spend on decorating herself, on caring, in order to appear more beautiful than other women in the eyes of her admirers! At the terrible judgment God will condemn us with it, for we, having an immortal Bridegroom in Heaven, neglect the state of our souls. With what shall we stand before Him?"

Saint Nonn, arriving at the inn, began earnestly praying to the Lord for the salvation of foolish Pelagia. On the following Sunday, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy by Nonn, Pelagia, drawn by an unknown force, crossed the threshold of the temple for the first time. The Divine Liturgy itself, and especially the sermon of Saint Nonnus about the Last Judgment, struck Pelagia so strongly that she, looking at her sinful life, was horrified. When she came to Nonnu, she wished to be baptized, but she doubted whether God would have mercy on her:

“My sins are more numerous than the sand of the sea, and there is no water in the sea to wash away my bad deeds.”

Saint Nonn comforted Pelagia with the hope that the Lord was merciful and baptized her.

Saint Pelagia, having become a Christian, brought all her property to Nonna. He ordered to distribute it to the poor, saying: "Let the ill-collected be wisely spent." After a few days, Pelagia changed into men's clothes and went to Jerusalem. Here the saint took monastic vows and was mistaken for a young man. On the Mount of Olives, Pelagia arranged a cell for herself and, shutting herself in it, spent her harsh monastic life in prayer, fasting and repentance. People living in the vicinity considered the saint to be the monk Pelagius. After several years, Monk Pelagius achieved high spiritual gifts. He died about 457. When Pelagius was buried, it became known that the deceased monk was not a man, but a woman. They wanted to hide the secret of the saint from the people, but this did not work out: for the Lord was pleased not to hide, but to declare and glorify His servant.

Such was the life of the former harlot, such was the conversion of the lost sinner, such were her labors and deeds, with which she pleased the Lord. May the Lord, through the prayers and intercession of St. Pelagia, grant us sinners mercy on the day of judgment.

Reverend Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, Pskov, hegumen

Dedicated to St. Dositheus, the founder and then abbot of the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov.

Rev. Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, of Pskov - a disciple of the Monk Euphrosynus of the Savior of Pskov (Comm. 15 May). In 1470 he founded the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov, where he was abbot.

Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka, Archimandrite

Honoring the memory of the founder of the Assumption Monastery on the Chusovaya River and the Vyatka Monastery. Archimandrite Tryphon was a native of the Arkhangelsk province. He had the gift of miracles.

The Monk Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka, descended from pious parents who lived in the Arkhangelsk province. When his parents wanted to marry Tryphon, he, feeling a call to monastic life from a young age, secretly left home for the city of Ustyug, where he settled with the parish priest, all the time staying in strict fasting and prayer. Then he lived in the town of Orlets near the church, enduring cold and hunger, and from there he moved to the Pyskor monastery on the Kama River. Here the Monk Tryphon joined the monastic life and received tonsure from hegumen Varlaam. The 22-year-old monk did not miss a single church service and carried out a difficult obedience in the bakery. When he fell seriously ill, Saint Nicholas appeared to him and, having healed him, strengthened him in the feat.

In search of solitude, the monk went to the mouth of the Mulyanka River and settled in the place where the city of Perm is now located. Here he converted the pagans - Ostyaks and Voguls - to Christianity. Then the Monk Tryphon withdrew to the Chusovaya River and founded a monastery there in honor of the Dormition. Holy Mother of God. In 1580, he came to the city of Khlynov in the Vyatka province, also founded the Assumption Monastery there, and was appointed archimandrite. Being a strict ascetic, he wore a sackcloth and heavy chains on his body. The soul of the elder longed for the enlightenment of the lost by the light of the faith of Christ. He devoted all his strength to this holy cause.

Before his death, the Monk Tryphon wrote a testament to the brethren, which says:

“The flock gathered in Christ, fathers and brethren! Listen to me, sinner. Although I am rude and worse than anyone, but God and His Most Pure Mother allowed me, thin, to manage His house. I beg you, for God and His Most Pure Mother, have spiritual love among yourselves. Without it, no virtue is complete before God. The mouth of Christ spoke to the disciples: "Love one another" (John 13:34). In the words of the Apostle Paul, “carry one another's burdens” (Gal. 6:2). Do not condemn one another before God, whether in the temple or in the cell, whether alone or in fellowship with the brethren. Perform cell prayers with fear. And do not skip church singing; even if there was a case, run to the church of God for spiritual singing. First give God's things to God, and then do other things.

The Monk Tryphon reposed in the Lord at a ripe old age in 1612. He was buried in the Vyatka monastery founded by him.

Celebrated on the third Sunday in October (Photo: Kzenon, Shutterstock)

It was established in the era of the existence of the USSR, in 1966, and since then it has been traditionally celebrated on the third Sunday of October.

Food and processing industry enterprises play a leading role in providing the population with food products throughout the world, since taking care of daily bread has always been one of the main concerns of mankind. Workers in the food industry are constantly improving the quality of their products, expanding its range.

Thanks to the professionalism and tireless work of food industry workers, this industry is one of the leaders in the development of new methods and forms of market management, in the technical and technological renewal of production.

In recent years around the world, the question of the formation of food security is more acute than ever. It is food industry workers who are among the first to solve this problem.

It is food workers who ensure food security. Russian regions making a significant contribution to the development of the Russian economy.

Today, along with Russia, this holiday is celebrated in Ukraine.

This is a celebration of those who build highways and bridges (Photo: Krivosheev Vitaly, Shutterstock)

Professional holiday of road workers, which is currently celebrated in our country on the third Sunday of October, appeared in 1996.

Initially, on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 14, 1996, it was called the Day of Road Transport and Road Workers and was celebrated annually on the last Sunday of October. But in accordance with Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 556 of March 23, 2000 “On the Day of Road Workers”, this professional holiday was renamed and began to be celebrated annually. on the third Sunday of October.

The road sector is one of the largest segments of the Russian public domain. The road sector includes over 3,000 institutions and enterprises of various forms of ownership. The number of employees in the road sector and related industries is about 750 thousand people.

The Day of Road Workers is a holiday for those who build highways and bridges, who all year round ensure the maintenance and operation of a complex road infrastructure, reliable and safe road communication between the regions of our country. Roads are one of the most important elements of the state's infrastructure.

Articles of the Constitution cannot be implemented without a road network Russian Federation, which guarantee the rights to freedom of movement of citizens, to the free movement of goods and services, the unity of the economic space. Highways play an important role in solving social problems and implementing priority national projects. The degree of development of the road network directly affects the economic prosperity and defense capability of the country.

In recent years, the revival of production and the increase in incomes of the population have led to a sharp increase in the fleet of vehicles, the volume of freight and passenger traffic by road. According to the provisions of the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation, the development of the road network should correspond to the pace of the country's socio-economic development and meet the needs for transportation in accordance with the growth in motorization.

Due to the harsh climate and the presence of a large number of various natural obstacles (forests, mountains, wetlands), the construction of roads in Russia has always been associated with significant difficulties. But thanks to the selfless work of road workers, a powerful road network has been created in our country. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers of roads, from local to main, provide stable communication in many directions and transport accessibility of remote Russian territories. Every year, new highways and artificial structures are built that make the lives of our fellow citizens more comfortable and safer.

Trafalgar Square is always crowded on the day of the holiday (Photo: kmiragaya, Shutterstock)

(Trafalgar Day) is a celebration of the victory of the Royal Navy under the command of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805) over the combined fleet of France and Spain in the Battle of Trafalgar, which took place on October 21, 1805.

The 47-year-old Nelson's fleet gave a decisive rebuff to the French-Spanish fleet, preventing the French invasion of Britain. Lord Nelson himself laid down his head in battle.

The formation of the Naval League in 1894 greatly stimulated the movement to recognize Nelson's merit and legacy, and in this regard, on October 21, 1896, the first grand celebration of the victory at Trafalgar was held in Trafalgar Square. Then, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the event was widely celebrated with parades, dinner parties and other ceremonial events throughout much of the British Empire and in the navies of the British Commonwealth.

Public celebration of the Day began to decline after the end of the First World War in 1918. Massive losses in people and equipment, indignations and riots radically changed public opinion about the war as a source of glorious victories. Society began to view the war in darker colors - it began to look at the war as a tragedy. However, Trafalgar Day is still a prominent public holiday every year.

Today, Trafalgar Day celebrations include mainly the Navy parade, a procession from London's Mall to Trafalgar Square. In the square, after a short ceremony, wreaths are laid at the foot of Nelson's Column.

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On October 21, 3 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of honoring the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

It is the feast day of Saint Pelagia, originally from Syrian Antioch. Before Baptism, she was a frivolous and dissolute woman. She labored under a male name in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.

Saint Pelagia was born in the Syrian city of Antioch. Before her conversion to the faith of Christ, she was a licentious and frivolous girl. Being very attractive in appearance, she adorned herself with luxurious clothes, precious stones and gold.

Once in Antioch, bishops from neighboring dioceses gathered for a council. Among them was Nonn, Bishop of Iliopol. He was known for his righteous life and wisdom. When the bishops left the temple where they were sitting, they saw before them a noisy crowd of young men. Especially among them, one immodestly dressed girl, Pelagia, stood out with her beauty. The girl laughed loudly and joked, and the young men curled around her.

The bishops, embarrassed by such a spectacle, lowered their gazes, only Saint Nonnus, on the contrary, began to carefully examine Pelagia. After the noisy crowd had passed, Nonn began to ask the bishops if they did not like the beauty of this woman and her outfit, to which the bishops were silent. Nonn continued:

“And I learned a lot from her. She made it her goal to please people and, what do you think, how many hours did she spend on decorating herself, on caring, in order to appear more beautiful than other women in the eyes of her admirers! At the terrible judgment God will condemn us with it, for we, having an immortal Bridegroom in Heaven, neglect the state of our souls. With what shall we stand before Him?"

Saint Nonn, arriving at the inn, began earnestly praying to the Lord for the salvation of foolish Pelagia. On the following Sunday, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy by Nonn, Pelagia, drawn by an unknown force, crossed the threshold of the temple for the first time. The Divine Liturgy itself, and especially the sermon of Saint Nonnus about the Last Judgment, struck Pelagia so strongly that she, looking at her sinful life, was horrified. When she came to Nonnu, she wished to be baptized, but she doubted whether God would have mercy on her:

“My sins are more numerous than the sand of the sea, and there is no water in the sea to wash away my bad deeds.”

Saint Nonn comforted Pelagia with the hope that the Lord was merciful and baptized her.

Saint Pelagia, having become a Christian, brought all her property to Nonna. He ordered to distribute it to the poor, saying: "Let the ill-collected be wisely spent." After a few days, Pelagia changed into men's clothes and went to Jerusalem. Here the saint took monastic vows and was mistaken for a young man. On the Mount of Olives, Pelagia arranged a cell for herself and, shutting herself in it, spent her harsh monastic life in prayer, fasting and repentance. People living in the vicinity considered the saint to be the monk Pelagius. After several years, Monk Pelagius achieved high spiritual gifts. He died about 457. When Pelagius was buried, it became known that the deceased monk was not a man, but a woman. They wanted to hide the secret of the saint from the people, but this did not work out: for the Lord was pleased not to hide, but to declare and glorify His servant.

Such was the life of the former harlot, such was the conversion of the lost sinner, such were her labors and deeds, with which she pleased the Lord. May the Lord, through the prayers and intercession of St. Pelagia, grant us sinners mercy on the day of judgment.

Dedicated to St. Dositheus, the founder and then abbot of the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov.

Rev. Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, of Pskov - a disciple of the Monk Euphrosynus of the Savior of Pskov (Comm. 15 May). In 1470 he founded the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov, where he was abbot.

Honoring the memory of the founder of the Assumption Monastery on the Chusovaya River and the Vyatka Monastery. Archimandrite Tryphon was a native of the Arkhangelsk province. He had the gift of miracles.

The Monk Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka, descended from pious parents who lived in the Arkhangelsk province. When his parents wanted to marry Tryphon, he, feeling a call to monastic life from a young age, secretly left home for the city of Ustyug, where he settled with the parish priest, all the time staying in strict fasting and prayer. Then he lived in the town of Orlets near the church, enduring cold and hunger, and from there he moved to the Pyskor monastery on the Kama River. Here the Monk Tryphon joined the monastic life and received tonsure from hegumen Varlaam. The 22-year-old monk did not miss a single church service and carried out a difficult obedience in the bakery. When he fell seriously ill, Saint Nicholas appeared to him and, having healed him, strengthened him in the feat.

In search of solitude, the monk went to the mouth of the Mulyanka River and settled in the place where the city of Perm is now located. Here he converted the pagans - Ostyaks and Voguls - to Christianity. Then the Monk Tryphon withdrew to the Chusovaya River and founded a monastery there in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 1580, he came to the city of Khlynov in the Vyatka province, also founded the Assumption Monastery there, and was appointed archimandrite. Being a strict ascetic, he wore a sackcloth and heavy chains on his body. The soul of the elder longed for the enlightenment of the lost by the light of the faith of Christ. He devoted all his strength to this holy cause.

Before his death, the Monk Tryphon wrote a testament to the brethren, which says:

“The flock gathered in Christ, fathers and brethren! Listen to me, sinner. Although I am rude and worse than anyone, but God and His Most Pure Mother allowed me, thin, to manage His house. I beg you, for God and His Most Pure Mother, have spiritual love among yourselves. Without it, no virtue is complete before God. The mouth of Christ spoke to the disciples: "Love one another" (John 13:34). In the words of the Apostle Paul, “carry one another's burdens” (Gal. 6:2). Do not condemn one another before God, whether in the temple or in the cell, whether alone or in fellowship with the brethren. Perform cell prayers with fear. And do not skip church singing; even if there was a case, run to the church of God for spiritual singing. First give God's things to God, and then do other things.

The Monk Tryphon reposed in the Lord at a ripe old age in 1612. He was buried in the Vyatka monastery founded by him.

Iconoclasm, against which the XVII Ecumenical Council was convened in the city of Nicaea in 787, arose 60 years earlier under the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian, who forbade the veneration of icons, and reached its apogee in the reign of Constantine V. Thousands of icons, mosaics, frescoes, statues of saints, altar paintings, icon worshipers were repressed, regardless of status - Patriarchs Herman I and Nicephorus suffered this way, the theologian John of Damascus was anathematized, someone was scourged and exiled, someone was executed, like St. Andrew of Crete.

But why in a Christian country were Christians so cruelly persecuted just because they honor their shrines? The reasons here are not so much ecclesiastical as political.

Under Justinian II, the clergy in Byzantium occupied the highest government positions up to the Minister of Finance, and this inevitably reduced him to the position of a political party, and, moreover, far from being the most popular. Naturally, political opponents put forward an anti-clerical program, insisting on the observance of the principle of "secularism" of the state and, if possible, the "secularization" of the church itself. And the monks became the main enemies of this new direction - as a force capable of providing the most stubborn resistance.

In those days, an ordinary Byzantine inhabitant was pious and strictly observed church rites. The iconoclasts flaunted their indifference to them. The one who spent the night in the temple in prayer was already considered unreliable among them. And to participate in carousing, to swear and swear, to shave your beard - it was a good form. Breaking with tradition and fighting iconoclasm, the iconoclast emperors wanted, without seeming to renounce Christianity, to reduce its visible presence in the life of society to a minimum.

In fact, the rude pagan veneration of images was alien to the church fathers. When Constantia, the half-sister of Emperor Constantine the Great, asked Eusebius of Caesarea where to find an image of Christ depicting his bodily image, he replied that every Christian should carry His true image in his heart. And Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles, in 598, seeing that his flock was already literally deifying the icons, tore them off and threw them out of the church, which caused a great temptation among the people. But when the news of this reached Pope Gregory the Great, he sent Serena a message in which ... he praised him for his jealousy, although not out of reason, but demanded to "calm down the temptation" produced in the flock: to return to the temple the icons that were given to illiterate people instead of a book, and explain to the people how they should be properly honored.

Of course, there were reasons for concern, although often the warm children's faith was the cause. Saint Theodore the Studite did not condemn, but even praised for jealousy one nobleman who chose the icon of the Great Martyr Demetrius as godfather to his son. But most often there was a gross distortion of the church rite, when the honoring of icons really approached idolatry. Therefore, in the East, there were bishops like Seren of Marseilles, who believed that neither faith nor the veneration of saints would suffer from the abolition of icons, but the church rite would approach the ideal of worshiping God in spirit and in truth.

But after them, politicians took up arms against icon worshipers, who blamed the “clerical” regime for the ignorance of the people. It was already not enough for them to "cancel" icons - they started talking about the secularization of all church property.

In the 60s of the VIII century, the persecution of monks and monasteries began, as supposedly hotbeds of icon veneration, and at the same time forges for the cadres of "churchmen". It was almost a matter of complete abolition of monasticism. The iconoclasts behaved harshly: the monks were forced to dress in bright clothes and marry, and those who refused were blinded and exiled, sometimes even executed. Monasteries were confiscated, arranged in them as barracks for soldiers, or simply destroyed.

In the provinces, the authorities were the initiators of the persecution, while in the capital, the crowd, incited by them, rioted.

In 787 XVII Ecumenical Council restored icon veneration, but for another 56 years iconoclasm flourished. Defeated on ecclesiastical grounds, it remained in force on political grounds. Some hierarchs perceived the restoration of icon veneration as a simultaneous restoration of their social influence. The “conflicts of interest” began again, and under Emperor Leo V, who was crowned king in 813, the iconoclast party again prevailed.

And yet she had far fewer supporters. Yes, and in the elite moods changed.

In 842, through the efforts of Empress Theodora, a council was convened in Constantinople, which finally restored the veneration of icons throughout the empire, in memory of which we celebrate the Triumph of Orthodoxy every year on the first Sunday of Great Lent.

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On October 21, 3 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of honoring the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

Church Orthodox holidays October 21

Venerable Pelagia of Antioch

It is the feast day of Saint Pelagia, originally from Syrian Antioch. Before Baptism, she was a frivolous and dissolute woman. She labored under a male name in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives.

Saint Pelagia was born in the Syrian city of Antioch. Before her conversion to the faith of Christ, she was a licentious and frivolous girl. Being very attractive in appearance, she adorned herself with luxurious clothes, precious stones and gold.

Once in Antioch, bishops from neighboring dioceses gathered for a council. Among them was Nonn, Bishop of Iliopol. He was known for his righteous life and wisdom. When the bishops left the temple where they were sitting, they saw before them a noisy crowd of young men. Especially among them, one immodestly dressed girl, Pelagia, stood out with her beauty. The girl laughed loudly and joked, and the young men curled around her.

The bishops, embarrassed by such a spectacle, lowered their gazes, only Saint Nonnus, on the contrary, began to carefully examine Pelagia. After the noisy crowd had passed, Nonn began to ask the bishops if they did not like the beauty of this woman and her outfit, to which the bishops were silent. Nonn continued:

“And I learned a lot from her. She made it her goal to please people and, what do you think, how many hours did she spend on decorating herself, on caring, in order to appear more beautiful than other women in the eyes of her admirers! At the terrible judgment God will condemn us with it, for we, having an immortal Bridegroom in Heaven, neglect the state of our souls. With what shall we stand before Him?"

Saint Nonn, arriving at the inn, began earnestly praying to the Lord for the salvation of foolish Pelagia. On the following Sunday, during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy by Nonn, Pelagia, drawn by an unknown force, crossed the threshold of the temple for the first time. The Divine Liturgy itself, and especially the sermon of Saint Nonnus about the Last Judgment, struck Pelagia so strongly that she, looking at her sinful life, was horrified. When she came to Nonnu, she wished to be baptized, but she doubted whether God would have mercy on her:

“My sins are more numerous than the sand of the sea, and there is no water in the sea to wash away my bad deeds.”

Saint Nonn comforted Pelagia with the hope that the Lord was merciful and baptized her.

Saint Pelagia, having become a Christian, brought all her property to Nonna. He ordered to distribute it to the poor, saying: "Let the ill-collected be wisely spent." After a few days, Pelagia changed into men's clothes and went to Jerusalem. Here the saint took monastic vows and was mistaken for a young man. On the Mount of Olives, Pelagia arranged a cell for herself and, shutting herself in it, spent her harsh monastic life in prayer, fasting and repentance. People living in the vicinity considered the saint to be the monk Pelagius. After several years, Monk Pelagius achieved high spiritual gifts. He died about 457. When Pelagius was buried, it became known that the deceased monk was not a man, but a woman. They wanted to hide the secret of the saint from the people, but this did not work out: for the Lord was pleased not to hide, but to declare and glorify His servant.

Such was the life of the former harlot, such was the conversion of the lost sinner, such were her labors and deeds, with which she pleased the Lord. May the Lord, through the prayers and intercession of St. Pelagia, grant us sinners mercy on the day of judgment.

Reverend Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, Pskov, hegumen

Dedicated to St. Dositheus, the founder and then abbot of the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov.

Rev. Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, of Pskov - a disciple of the Monk Euphrosynus of the Savior of Pskov (Comm. 15 May). In 1470 he founded the Peter and Paul Upper Island Monastery on Lake Pskov, where he was abbot.

Venerable Tryphon of Vyatka, Archimandrite

Honoring the memory of the founder of the Assumption Monastery on the Chusovaya River and the Vyatka Monastery. Archimandrite Tryphon was a native of the Arkhangelsk province. He had the gift of miracles.

The Monk Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka, descended from pious parents who lived in the Arkhangelsk province. When his parents wanted to marry Tryphon, he, feeling a call to monastic life from a young age, secretly left home for the city of Ustyug, where he settled with the parish priest, all the time staying in strict fasting and prayer. Then he lived in the town of Orlets near the church, enduring cold and hunger, and from there he moved to the Pyskor monastery on the Kama River. Here the Monk Tryphon joined the monastic life and received tonsure from hegumen Varlaam. The 22-year-old monk did not miss a single church service and carried out a difficult obedience in the bakery. When he fell seriously ill, Saint Nicholas appeared to him and, having healed him, strengthened him in the feat.

In search of solitude, the monk went to the mouth of the Mulyanka River and settled in the place where the city of Perm is now located. Here he converted the pagans, Ostyaks and Voguls, to Christianity. Then the Monk Tryphon withdrew to the Chusovaya River and founded a monastery there in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 1580, he came to the city of Khlynov in the Vyatka province, also founded the Assumption Monastery there, and was appointed archimandrite. Being a strict ascetic, he wore a sackcloth and heavy chains on his body. The soul of the elder longed for the enlightenment of the lost by the light of the faith of Christ. He devoted all his strength to this holy cause.

Before his death, the Monk Tryphon wrote a testament to the brethren, which says:

“The flock gathered in Christ, fathers and brethren! Listen to me, sinner. Although I am rude and worse than anyone, but God and His Most Pure Mother allowed me, thin, to manage His house. I beg you, for God and His Most Pure Mother, have spiritual love among yourselves. Without it, no virtue is complete before God. The mouth of Christ spoke to the disciples: "Love one another" (John 13:34). In the words of the Apostle Paul, “carry one another's burdens” (Gal. 6:2). Do not condemn one another before God, whether in the temple or in the cell, whether alone or in fellowship with the brethren. Perform cell prayers with fear. And do not skip church singing; even if there was a case, run to the church of God for spiritual singing. First give God's things to God, and then do other things.

The Monk Tryphon reposed in the Lord at a ripe old age in 1612. He was buried in the Vyatka monastery founded by him.

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The national holiday "Sergius the Winter" is celebrated on October 20 (according to the old style - October 7). IN church calendar this is the date of veneration of two St. Sergius (Pechersky and Nuromsky) and two martyrs (Sergius and Bacchus). They lived in different centuries, but it was on the day of their memory that the people determined the weather for the coming winter.

Reverend Sergius Pechersky, lived in the thirteenth century. His main feat is called the complete renunciation of his own will and perfect obedience to the abbot. For this, Sergius received the nickname Obedient. The Monk Sergius of Nuromsky lived in the fifteenth century and was a native of the Greeks. Becoming a student of S. Radonezh, he received a blessing and went to the Nurma River. There he began to live in solitude and prayers. He was subjected to many temptations and attacks by robbers, but prayer protected him everywhere. Having learned about the dwelling place of the monk, pilgrims began to come to him, and soon the Nurom monastery was created there. Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus were military leaders under the emperor Maximian (third-fourth centuries). They were martyred for their faith in Christ.

Orthodox calendar for October 2018: Tryphon and Pelageya is celebrated on October 21

In the church calendar, this is the date of veneration of St. Tryphon, Archimandrite of Vyatka and St. Pelagia of Antioch. In his youth, the Monk Tryphon secretly left parental home, went to the Perm province and took tonsure in the Pyskorsky monastery.

One day St. Nicholas appeared to him, accompanied by an angel. They rewarded Tryphon with the gift of miracles. The news of Tryphon's new abilities quickly spread throughout the surrounding lands. In order not to arouse envy among the brothers for his glory, the saint withdrew to deserted places on the Mulyanka River, and later crossed over to the Chusovaya River, where he built a monastery. Another monastery, bearing the name of the Dormition Trifonov Monastery, was founded by the monk in Vyatka.

Pelagia of Antioch, who lived in the 3rd century, is also venerated on this day. The girl was distinguished by extraordinary beauty and led a dissolute lifestyle. One day Bishop Nonn saw her and, struck by her shamelessness, prayed all night for the salvation of her soul. The next morning, an unknown force brought Pelagia to the temple. The service and sermon impressed the girl so much that she was horrified by how sinful her life was, and turned to the bishop with a request to baptize her. Becoming a Christian, Pelagia distributed all her property to the poor and, under the guise of a young man, took monastic vows.

21st week after Pentecost, no fasting. The following memorable dates have been established:

• Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
• Memorial Day of St. Pelagia of Antioch;
• Memorial Day of the Monk Dositheus of Verkhneostrovsky, Pskov, hegumen;
• Memorial Day of St. Tryphon of Vyatka, archimandrite;
• Commemoration of the Vyatka Saints Cathedral;
• Memorial Day of St. Taisia ​​of Egypt;
• Memorial Day of the Martyr Pelagia the Virgin of Antioch;
• Memorial Day of Hieromartyrs Demetrius (Dobroserdov), Archbishop of Mozhaisk, and with him John Khrenov, deacon, Martyrs Ambrose (Astakhov), Archimandrite and Pachomius (Turkevich), Abbot, Martyr Tatiana (Besfamilnaya), nun, Martyr Nicholas Rein, Martyrs Maria Volnukhina and Nadezhda Azhgerevich;
• Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Jonah (Lazarev), Bishop of Velizh, Martyr Seraphim (Shchelokov), Archimandrite, Hieromartyrs Peter Nicotin, Vasily Ozeretskovsky, Pavel Preobrazhensky, Peter Ozeretskovsky, Vladimir Speransky, Presbyters, Martyrs Viktor Frolov, John Rybin, Nikolai Kuzmin and Martyr Elisaveta Kuranova ;
• Memorial Day of the Monk Martyr Varlaam (Efimov), a monk.

Orthodox calendar for October 2018: Folk holiday "Yakov Drovopilec"

"Yakov Drovopilets" is celebrated on October 22 (according to the old style - October 9). In the church calendar, this is the date of reverence for Jacob Alfeev, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ. Other names of the holiday: "Tree sawer", "Jacob", "Jacob", "Jacob the icy".

On this day, it was customary to bake pies and treat them to their relatives and friends. It was believed that this will ensure well-being and good health for the coming year. Very little is known about Jacob Alfeev. The biblical writings do not mention him, but only give his name in the list of 12 apostles. It is known for certain that he was a simple publican and preached the Christian faith in Judea. Later, becoming one of the apostles, he preached in the city of Edessa, then on his own in Gaza and South Palestine. Due to confusion with other Jacobs, it is rather difficult to trace his path in the Christian tradition.

• Memorial Day of the Apostle Jacob Alfeev;
• Memorial Day of St. Andronicus and his wife Afanasia;
• Memorial Day of the righteous Abraham, the forefather and his nephew Lot;
• Memorial Day of the Martyrs Juventin and Maxim the Warriors;
• Memorial Day of Saint Poplia the Confessor, Deaconess of Antioch;
• Memorial Day of St. Peter of Galatia;
• Memorial Day of Hieromartyrs Konstantin Sukhov and Peter Vyatkin, presbyters;
• Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Konstantin Aksyonov, presbyter;
• Uncovering the relics of the Confessor Sevastian of Karaganda (Fomin), Archimandrite;
• Korsunskaya; "Korsunskaya Transparent" ("Shpilevskaya") - icons of the Mother of God.

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