Alexander Svirsky receiving. Saint Alexander - Wonderworker of Svir

“In the year 1641 from the Nativity of Christ, according to the command of the pious Tsar, they dismantled the dilapidated church in the name of our Reverend Father Alexander, where there was also a tomb placed over his body ... When they began to dig a ditch for the front wall, on the eastern side of the temple ... got a coffin. The ground above him stood in the form of a cave, supported by nothing... The abbot was immediately shown the found coffin. Having descended into the ditch with the monks, he removed the top plank from the tomb, and a strong fragrance from the relics of the saint spread everywhere, so that the whole place was filled with incense. There was no incense at that time, and they saw the whole lying body of the Reverend Father Alexander, whole and unharmed, in a mantle and schema, twisted according to the rank, and the analav on it was all intact, part of the beard was visible from under the schema; both legs lay, like those of a recently deceased, the right foot up, and the left foot turned to the side, in order both were shod in sandals. A fragrant myrrh dispersed throughout his body, like some growing flowers, and poured out like water. Seeing this, all those who were there were filled with horror and joy and glorified the Almighty God, Who glorifies His saints ... ”(The legend of the acquisition of the relics of our venerable father Alexander, Abbot of Svir, miracle worker).

Once I read these lines, marveled at the chronicler's story, but I never thought that I myself would see the imperishable body of St. Alexander and I myself would be filled with horror and joy at the sight of the fragrant world. After all, the relics of the Svir miracle worker were considered lost; even their existence was questioned.

The fact is that once it was with the shrine of St. Alexander that the All-Russian campaign to open the relics began, which was supposed to "expose the counter-revolutionary essence of the Orthodox Church and reveal the centuries-old deception of the people by the clergy." A message appeared in the Soviet press at that time that on October 22, 1918, when the property of the Alexander Svirsky Monastery was “registered”, “in a cast cancer weighing more than 20 pounds of silver, instead of the imperishable relics of Alexander Svirsky, a wax doll was found.” (True, Archimandrite Eugene, who was present at the opening of the relics, testified against this conclusion, arguing that the true remains of the saint were found in the shrine, and not a doll at all, as the props said, but a few days later he was shot, and therefore there was no one to refute the official version ).

Be that as it may, the Bolsheviks removed what was found in the shrine from the monastery. (Soon, the "island" of the Gulag began to operate in it).

80 years have passed. Lukian (Kutsenko), the abbot of the resurgent Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, blessed the nun Leonida (Safonova) to work in the archives to search for information about the relics of St. Alexander Svirsky. In the world, nun Leonida, a resident of the Intercession-Tervenichsky Monastery, achieved the degree of candidate of biological sciences, worked as a senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Research Institute. Pasteur. First, she went around all the historical and ethnographic museums of the city, but the search did not give any results. Unexpectedly, a document from the Central Historical Archive helped her. The document testified that the relics of the monk were undergoing a medical examination in a subdivision of the People's Commissariat of Health in February 1919. Then it was decided to start a survey of the medical museums of the city. Pretty soon, the search led to the Military Medical Academy, where an anatomical museum has existed for more than 150 years. As far back as the 1940s, an “example of natural mummification” was demonstrated there at lectures.

Of course, this did not happen by chance: Saint Alexander was known as "the prayer book for the kings." Once Ivan the Terrible prayed to the monk just before the capture of Kazan, and after the victory he declared him a "great and marvelous miracle worker" for all of Russia. Since then, every autocrat either came to venerate the relics, or sent generous gifts to the monastery. All the Romanovs were admirers of the Monk Alexander. The first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich, especially revered the saint. One of the first chapels erected by Peter I in the new capital of Russia was the chapel of Alexander Svirsky. The emperor repeatedly visited the Alexander-Svirsky monastery.

On December 30, 1997, nun Leonida first saw the relics of St. Alexander at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. Examinations have begun. They took place first in the Military Medical Academy itself, then in the forensic medical service of St. Petersburg. During the first prayerful invocation to the saint, the relics exuded myrrh. This happened in the X-ray room of the Forensic Medical Expert Service of St. Petersburg, in front of the workers of the SIEC and the nuns of the Intercession-Tervenichsky Monastery.

“The Saint consoled us especially,” recalled nun Leonida. - After the first prayer call to him, after a prayer service was served before the relics in the forensic service, they began to stream myrrh. The legs were especially myrrh-streaming. Every wrinkle of the body was covered with peace. The saint seemed to answer us: "It's me! I hear you.

The examinations lasted for several months. The main difficulty, the nun recalled, was to overcome the atheistic attitude of some members of the expert commission. They needed to overcome themselves internally all the time in order to understand that they were gaining a shrine, and not "mummified remains." But in the end, the experts decided that the remains found in the Military Medical Academy really belonged to Alexander Svirsky ... The holy relics were transferred to the church of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia. Soon myrrh-streaming became permanent. This miracle was witnessed by thousands of Petersburgers and pilgrims from other cities.

I have been to this temple twice. I can't say enough about my first visit. I remember a strange little church, without a dome, surrounded by typical multi-storey buildings, singing “Our Reverend Father Alexandra, pray to God for us”, the queue to the cancer. What I don't remember is Alexander himself. When the nun, who was wiping the glass of the tomb with a towel, made me a sign with her hand: “Pray,” my heart began to beat, everything floated as if in a fog. A wave of inexplicable trembling threw me to my knees before the coffin. I kissed the cancer and walked away. That's all.

The second time I came to the church two months later. It was the time between prayers, the matushkas were washing the floor. There was almost no one in the temple, and I was able to stay at the shrine for quite a long time. Most of all I was struck by the appearance of the reverend's hand - it looked as if carved from ivory. In front of me under the glass were not remains, not a skeleton, not bones - it was just incorruptible body. Tlo, which spent more than a century in the damp earth (during this time the coffin almost completely rotted), three centuries in the tomb and 80 years in the museum of the Military Medical Academy. I immediately thought that the Bolsheviks, who opened the tomb in 1918, could really imagine that Alexander's body was molded from wax. The saint's hand is the hand of a strong man: strong, knotty fingers, a wide wrist. Such a hand should have known well what an ax, a hoe, a shovel are.

The right foot of the monk rests on the vault of the left (this is what the chronicle draws attention to). Droplets of an oily liquid were clearly visible on Alexander's legs. Leaning towards the cancer, I felt an indescribable aroma. It was the same "fragrant myrrh." Here I was again overtaken by that state of inner trembling that I experienced on my first visit to the temple. Just think, world! I, having difficulty distinguishing smells (the result of several years of smoking), clearly felt an unearthly aroma, despite the fact that there was a strong smell of detergent in the temple, and the lid of the shrine was tightly closed!

The fragrance was felt by everyone who entered the temple. And at times it intensified so much that bees flocked to its smell! At the candlestick, I learned that the nature of myrrh-streaming changes during prayers - sometimes it literally begins to flow down the legs of the reverend. My friend, a schoolmate in the past, applied a newborn daughter to cancer. When, after a couple of hours, he got home with her, his family were amazed - a persistent fragrance emanated from the child.

It was recorded and quite perishing amazing fact. Some pilgrims who came in the summer and autumn of 1998 to venerate the relics of St. Alexander, approaching the reliquary, asked to attach to it an icon of the saint, purchased right there in the temple. Soon these icons began to stream myrrh at home, during home prayers. Some noted a strong fragrance for several days.

Miracles at the relics of Alexander Svirsky:
1533-1998

The Monk Alexander was buried in 1533 in the desert, near the wooden church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, on the right side of the altar. Already 14 years later, the Svir miracle worker was canonized as a saint (in our Church this is a rare case). A small wooden church was built over the body of the saint. During the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich, it completely fell into disrepair, and the abbot of the monastery, hegumen Avraamy, came up with the idea to build a stone church over the body of Alexander. The king donated money for the construction of the church.

In the spring of 1641, the wooden church was dismantled, and soon the monks of the monastery witnessed unusual light phenomena. “On Thursday of Palm Week, there was an unusual thunder and lightning. Lightning fell to the ground and did not disappear suddenly, as it usually happens, but fell to the ground and shone for a long time, ”the chronicler wrote.

Workers were digging a moat for the front wall of the future temple. Suddenly, on the altar site of the old church (that is, in the middle of the altar), they stumbled upon a coffin. The earth above this coffin stood in the form of a cave, not supported by anything. As soon as the abbot removed the top board of the coffin, all those present felt a strong fragrance from the relics. Looking inside, the monks saw the incorruptible body of St. Alexander. Thus, to the surprise of everyone, the coffin was found in another place - to the east of the tomb of the monk.

Healings at the tomb of St. Alexander took place before, starting in 1533, the year of the death of the monk. Here is some of them.

One blind woman named Anna, who was begging for alms in the surrounding villages, came to the monastery on the feast day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. Leaning down to the coffin, she asked for healing for her eyes, and her sight immediately returned to her.

In the vicinity of the monastery on the river Oyati lived a peasant Ivan Iudin. This peasant, as the monastery chronicle narrates, “had a son, named Sozont, from birth weakened by his legs and completely unable to walk or stand on his feet.” Ivan had no other sons. Having heard about the miracles that happened through prayers to St. Alexander (among those healed was his daughter-in-law Matrona, who got rid of a terrible tumor on her head), Ivan took his son to the monastery, where he met with the abbot and asked to serve a prayer service. At the end of the prayer service, Sozont was put to the shrine of the saint and sprinkled with holy water, after which “the lad stood firmly and correctly on his feet, and walked to and fro.”

Not far from the monastery on the Segezha River lived a young man Athanasius, a servant of the boyar Andrei. He had a relaxed right hand with which he could not do anything. Having prayed at the tomb of Alexander and made three bows, this young man, as the chronicler writes, suddenly exclaimed: “Hello seven prayers of father Alexander!” and raised his right hand up. In the monastery, Athanasius and his illness were well known; at the sight of such an obvious healing, "the clergy and all the multitude of the people were filled with horror and joy."

Near the monastery in the village of Chagunitsy lived Tatiana, the wife of Tikhon, who suffered from the relaxation of all members. “For two years she suffered very hard from that illness, dying many times, so that she did not hope to stay alive.” Through prayers to Alexander, she received complete healing and served a thanksgiving service at the shrine.

Nowadays, at the tomb of St. Alexander Svirsky, healings from relaxation (paralysis) also most often occur.

After the uncovering of the relics under the altar of the old church and transferring them first to the church of St. Nicholas, and then to the stone Cathedral of the Transfiguration, amazing healings continued to occur at the tomb, including from such a terrible illness as demonic possession.

Here are a few modern miracles recorded by the clergy of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia and published in the Pravoslavny Petersburg newspaper (No. 10, 1998).

Elena lived to be 50 years old with congenital paralysis of her right hand. Medical procedures did not help. After several prayers at the shrine, she was able to fold her fingers for the sign of the cross without outside help. Fingers are still poorly obeyed, but now a woman can hold light objects in her hand.

Raisa had been suffering from stomach trouble for five years. Having anointed the skin over the sore spot with myrrh from the relics, she received relief from pain.

Alla told about getting rid of pain in the head after praying to the monk, applying to his relics and anointing with oil.

Nina suffered from pain in her spine and joints. She stood for six hours at the prayer services, which continued uninterruptedly at the reverend's shrine. After I returned home, I got relief from pain.

Olga was bedridden with rapidly developing cancer. Friends miraculously managed to put her in a car and take her to the temple to venerate the relics, after which the patient not only got to her feet, but also got a job.

The relics of St. Alexander performed the following miracles: they shone with an extraordinary light; came out from under the bushel; spread fragrance; streamed myrrh; healed the paralyzed, the blind, the demon-possessed, the sick; for five centuries resisted corruption. Who was this man so abundantly glorified by God?

Hegumen Alexander

In the life of Alexander Svirsky, we will find many ascetic feats, miracles, manifestations of grace-filled power. But this saint is famous not only for asceticism and miracles.

Alexander Svirsky was born in 1448, when many of the disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, the great saint, whose labors and prayers established the veneration of the Holy Trinity, were still alive. And in the Novgorod land a man was born who was honored see Trinity. This has not happened to any mortal since the time of Abraham.

Under Sergius of Radonezh, who blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Kulikovo, the beginning of the liberation of Russia from the Tatars was laid.

Under Alexander Svirsky, who prayed for Ivan III, after standing on the Ugra River, the Tatar yoke was finally overthrown.

Sergius restored the monastic community in Russia and founded the Trinity Monastery near Moscow, which later became the famous Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Alexander, by his monastic deeds, strengthened monasticism in the north of Russia and founded the Trinity Monastery, which later became the famous Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Monastery - a place of pilgrimage for the royal Romanov dynasty.

He was born north of Novgorod, in the Olonets region, in a village called Mandera on the Oyat River. The north of Russia was more difficult to accept Christianity, and this region remained pagan for a long time. (However, it also contained such centers of holiness and piety as the ancient Valaam Monastery.) The time of Alexander is the era of Vasily the Dark, Ivan III and Vasily III; Russia, having won on the Kulikovo field, united around Moscow.

The Novgorod region suffered little from the raids of the Tatars. Alexander's parents (according to the holy baptism of Amos), Stefan and Vassa, did not live well, but they did not sit hungry either. Even in the days of Kyiv, Novgorod was famous for its universal literacy; Amos's parents also knew how to read the Scriptures. But he was not given a letter, despite a strong desire to master the wisdom of the book and the efforts of the teacher. The life tells how one day, having come to the monastery, the lad fell to his knees in front of the image of the Virgin. He prayed that the Blessed Virgin would give him reason to understand the Divine Scriptures. Amos' prayer was heard, he soon began to read and overtook his peers in teaching.

Childhood passes quietly and calmly; teaching, work with parents in the field. Amos grows up closed and silent, he hardly plays with his peers. Increasingly, his parents find him with a book, he tries to imitate the great ascetics: he strictly fasts, sleeps little, in winter he goes without a hat, in thin clothes. All this worries Stefan and Vassa. They try to dissuade him, but Amos answers them with the words of the Scripture: "Bashno will not put us before God." Parents, seeing such firmness, humble themselves. However, they hope that, having matured, Amos will change: he will give up these “extremes”, he will be like everyone else. And they start looking for a bride for him. Meanwhile, their son meets two monks from Valaam. They stand on the banks of the river and sing psalms. Amos bows to them to the ground, approaches for a blessing. The surprised elders enter into a conversation with the young man. Amos asks about monastic life, about monastic orders. “What should I do, holy fathers? he exclaims. — How to be worthy of this angelic life? My parents want to marry me; I would run away, but I know my father will find me and bring me home. And it will only be that he has trouble and sadness for me. The wise elders, having listened to the young man, answer him like this: “Child, natural is the love of a father and mother. We can't take you with us; We do not have an order from the abbot to take children away from their parents. But we see that the love of God has already penetrated deep into your soul. And therefore make haste, lest the evil levels touch your heart.” The elders bless him to leave his parental home, tell him how to get to Valaam.

On the same day, the young man tells his parents that he is going to the neighboring village for some reason. Those, not suspecting anything, let him go. Having stolen his parents' blessing, Amos comes to Valaam and takes the tonsure with the name Alexander. His parents know nothing about him and have been looking for him for three years.

Finally Stefan learns from one of the wanderers that his son is in the Savior Monastery. Father immediately goes to Valaam.

Twice the abbot comes to Alexander's cell, persuading him to go to his father, and twice the young monk refuses. Meanwhile, Stefan threatens the abbot to commit suicide right at the gates of the monastery, “if they don’t show their son this very hour.” Finally, the shepherd comes out of the cell. The father rushes to him, hugs him, cries, whispers his dear name: “Amos. Amos. my son, let's go home."

Alexander gently pushes him aside: “My Father, listen to my advice. Come home alone; distribute property and go to the monastery. And he adds: "If you do not do this, you will not see my face."

Stefan walks away in anger. Alexander rises to pray. What was going on at night in the souls of father and son? The next morning, Stefan comes to Alexander with a changed face: “I will do everything as you ordered,” he says to the young man. - You're right. You are not my son, but my father and teacher."

Soon Stefan took the vows at the Ostrovsky Bogoroditsky Monastery with the name Sergius. Alexander's mother Vassa also took on the monastic rank, taking the name of Barbara.

The writer of his life, a student of the Monk Herodium, tells that on Valaam Alexander was sent to a bakery, where “he remained humbly, surpassing everyone in labor; carried water and dragged wood from the forest, tiring his body. At night, he left the cell and, “baring his body to the waist, stood like that until the morning singing; so that his whole body was covered with many mosquitoes and midges. Before anyone else, he appeared in the monastery church, always stood in one place, concentrating on prayer, not even allowing himself to step over his feet. Both in fasting and not in fasting, he used only bread and water, and then in small quantities. He wore such clothes that, in the words of the writer of his life, "barely covered his nakedness."

In the monastery they could not but see these exploits; there was already a rumor about Alexander as a great ascetic. But it was sad for the young monk to see that human glory was beginning to surround him - he was not striving for it. One day, standing at prayer at night, the monk saw in the window of his cell an unusual light shining in the east. Having received the blessing of the abbot for the feat of hermitage, Alexander left the monastery. He went east, to the then uninhabited places on the banks of the Svir River. There, in a beautiful forest, abounding in lakes, he saw a radiance over one of the hillocks. Here he settled. He was then 36 years old.

He sang psalms and worked. Grass was his food. Alexander did not immediately get used to this food: at first he experienced such pain that he lay on the ground for days on end, not having the strength to get up. For many years he had not seen a single human face. But "a city standing on the top of a mountain cannot hide itself, and having lighted a candle, they do not put it under a bushel" (Mt. 5, 14-15). One day, a hunter came out to Alexander's hut, a certain nobleman Andrey Zavalishin. Gradually, the rumor about the great ascetic spread throughout the Novgorod land. Word reached John, another son of Stephen. He had been looking for his brother for many years, and now he came to Alexander. The hermit gladly accepted it. Gradually, the brethren gathered around the monk and the monastery was rebuilt.

But, even after becoming abbot of the monastery, the monk took on more work than anyone else in the monastery. He cut wood and built cells for the brethren, kneaded dough and baked bread, prepared firewood, carried water. At night, when others were sleeping, he went around the monastery. It often happened that in the room where the rye was usually prayed, the abbot would find the monks sleeping. Then he “took the part of the zhit prepared by each for threshing and, after grinding, put it in its original place, and he himself went to his cell.”

The fame of him thundered far beyond the borders of the Olonets region, people went to Alexander from all over Russia. The demon-possessed were brought to him, the sick were brought. He was asked for advice when they did not know what to do, they came for teaching and blessing. The small monastery grew.

Once the monks decided to dig a ditch from one lake, located on a hill, to another, so that a channel would form and a mill could be built. Suddenly, the water rushed into the channel with great force, threatening to flood the monastery itself. The abbot, as the chronicle testifies, made a prayer and, calling on the Name of Jesus Christ, “with his right hand he depicted a cross against the aspiration of water.” And immediately its flow stopped. On that channel, the monks set up a mill.

They said about Alexander that with his prayer he works wondrous miracles, foresees the secret and speaks of the future as of the present. Grand Duke Vasily Ioannovich asked for the blessing of Alexander and his prayers in order to receive "peace, health, salvation and prosperity and childbearing." Meanwhile, Alexander still walked around in an old, patched cassock - all year round, even "when the ground cracked from severe frost."

In 1507, the humble abbot received an amazing vision. One night, when the Monk Alexander, according to his custom, stood at prayer in the wilderness, a light that suddenly appeared brightly illuminated the cell where he prayed. At the same moment, he saw three men come in to him, dressed in white clothes. They were “good-looking and beautiful in appearance, shining brighter than the sun with an inexpressibly glorious bright light, and each of them had a staff in his hand.” Alexander was told that in this place he should lay a church in the name of the Consubstantial Trinity.

The church was built - first of wood, and then of stone. On August 30, 1533, Alexander Svirsky gave his last instructions to the brethren of the monastery. Then he said: “Behold, I depart from you, but I commit you to the almighty God and His Most Pure Mother.” Everyone in the cell wept. One of the monks asked: “Father, where shall we bury you?” Alexander answered this way: “Brothers, tie my sinful body with a rope and pull it into the depths of the swamp; there, having dug up the moss, trample with your feet. “Father, we cannot co-create this,” the monks answered. Then the monk said: "If you do not do this, then let me be buried at the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord." After that, having made a prayer and giving the brothers the last kiss, Alexander went to the Lord, having only time to say: “In Your hands I commit my spirit.”

After death, as the disciple of the hegumen wrote, "the face of the monk did not look like the face of a dead person, but shone, as in life."

The clairvoyance of a saint

Once Alexander met a traveler in the forest. He, not suspecting that the abbot himself was in front of him, asked him if the abbot was healthy and whether it was possible to see him. It was one of the local fishermen. The week before he had caught a large sturgeon; fearing that the master would take the fish and not pay, he sold the catch to merchants. But he found out about the caught sturgeon, and now the fisherman was in trouble.

“Our abbot is a very sinful, deceitful and drunkard, and you will not benefit from him,” Alexander said.

“I don’t know what you are saying, father,” the fisherman was surprised. “I heard that it helps a lot.”

Then the monk, seeing his faith, said this:

“Man, go back to your house, because now you won’t find the abbot in the monastery: he left on some business. When he returns, I will tell him about you. And now, child, go and put your ropes in the river. When you catch a lot of fish, including sturgeon, then take it to the landowner: he will stop being angry.

In great perplexity, the fisherman walked away. He did not succeed in finding the hegumen; whether it will be possible to find him the next day is unknown, and then this strange beggar monk, as if in mockery, advises him to "catch a new sturgeon." Why, over the past three years, only one sturgeon has looked into his network!

But there is nothing to do. The fisherman returned home and put the nets in the river and soon, along with many other fish, pulled a huge sturgeon ashore! Then he realized that the monk who met him in the forest was hegumen Alexander. He went to his master, honestly told about everything and handed over the fish he had caught. And indeed, he, extremely surprised, quickly changed his anger to mercy and paid him well.

The monk was not meek and kind with everyone.

On the day of the consecration of the church of the Holy Trinity, Alexander, lifting the edge of the vestment, collected donations for the construction of the monastery. Everyone considered it a blessing to put something in the phelonion. There was also a certain Grigory in the crowd, a resident of the village of Pidmozero on the Svir River. Many, due to the large gathering of people, approached the abbot from behind. When Gregory, in turn, extended his hand from behind the monk's back, he suddenly rolled up the phelonion. Frustrated, Grigory tried once more to deposit money, but Alexander silently took his hand away. He did not accept the money for the third time, and did not even raise his eyes to the one who gave it.

Gregory was forced to step aside. In the evening, he begged a monk he knew to take him to the cell of the monk.

“Father, you do not know me or my family,” he said. “Why did you accept an offering from everyone, but rejected my gift?”

Alexander looked up at him: “Your hands are defiled. We were commanded to honor our fathers and mothers, but you insulted your mother, beat her ... and never repented of that.

Gregory fell on his knees before the elder.

“Go, child, and beseech the one who gave birth to you,” said the abbot. “Ask her forgiveness and repent.”

Once a wealthy Novgorod merchant Bogdan Semyonovich Koryukov came to the monastery. The merchant grieved that he did not have an heir to whom he could transfer his property.

Here is Alexander's answer: “Give up the rebellion (at these words the merchant trembled all over); forgive the debtors their debts; give to the poor; help widows and orphans; sacrifice for those kept in the dungeons. By these good deeds you will propitiate God, and he will grant you both sons and daughters, and many years of life. In the end, you will also be honored with the monastic rank, and after your repose you will be buried by your children.

The merchant fell to his knees: “I see, Holy Father, the grace has been given to you to see our secret deeds.”

Having made a generous donation to the monastery, the merchant returned to Novgorod and began to lead a charitable life. Soon, as the monk had predicted, several sons and daughters were born to him. Before his death, Bogdan Koryukov took the monastic rank and was honestly buried by his children.

Apparitions of Saint Alexander

Quite a lot is known about the apparitions of Saint Alexander. I will talk about two. Some time after his death, the saint appeared to the monk Herodion, his successor as abbot, the author of his life. “Hegumen Herodion was a disciple of the Monk Alexander,” says the story about the apparition. “To his teacher he had great faith, love and obedience, for which the reverend loved him greatly and revealed to him all the secrets, while still alive, and after death appeared to him, in fulfillment of his will.”

Here is what the pastor himself wrote:

“One night I, humble Herodion, stood in my cell, doing my usual rule, and in my poor prayer I dozed off, lay down on the bed to rest and soon fell asleep. Immediately, suddenly, a shining great light appeared in the window of the cell. I got up and leaned to the window to look: what does this mean? And I saw the Reverend Father Alexander walking around the Church of the Holy Trinity and in the hands of the bearer of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord ... "

In this apparition, Saint Alexander pointed out the place on the gates of the monastery where the monks were to build a church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. “All that night until Matins I spent without sleep, praying to God, and glorifying God and the great in miracles, St. Alexander,” wrote Herodion.

An entry about another phenomenon appeared in the chronicles of the monastery in August 1673. Then the royal warrior Mokiy Lvov, a resident of Gorodetsk (which is near Bezhetsk), came to the Holy Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Monastery to bow to the relics of the saint. From his words, the chronicler of the monastery recorded the following story:

“I was in military service in the regiment of the boyar Vasily Sheremetev. In the campaign against the godless Tatars, we had to be near the city of Konotop, where the godless Tatars unexpectedly attacked us, took many and took them to their land. We, thirteen people, were given to one Murza, who stayed with him for thirteen years. During the day we did all kinds of hard work, and at night we spent in prison, chained in iron chains. One night we cried a lot, praying to God and calling for help from all the saints. And then great fear and bewilderment fell upon us: we saw a great light in the dungeon, shining upon us. When we came to our senses, we saw a handsome man with gray hair and heard his voice:

"Call on the help of the Monk Alexander Svirsky, he will save you from trouble." Having said this, the one who appeared became invisible.

Two days later, Greek merchants came and ransomed us from that Murza, and then they brought us to Tsargrad, from where we arrived safely in the God-protected reigning city of Moscow, and everyone dispersed to their places of residence, with the prayers of the great miracle worker, the Reverend Father Alexander "

Saint Alexander is one of the few Russian saints who was canonized shortly after his righteous death - namely, 14 years later. His disciples and many of his admirers were still alive, so the Life of St. Alexander was written, as they say, "in hot pursuit" and is particularly authentic, there are no "pious schemes" in it, it reflects the unique face of holiness "of all Russia the miracle worker Alexander."

(Through the eyes of a pilgrim)

The Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery is located 260 km from St. Petersburg and 21 km from the district center Lodeynoye Pole. The monastery, founded by the holy reverend Alexander Svirsky at the end of the 15th century in the remote Olonets region in virgin dense forests, among the pagan indigenous population of Korels, Veps, Chuds, very quickly gained fame. The strengthening of the Orthodox faith in this region became possible thanks to the strict, pious ascetic lifestyle of the founder of the monastery. People began to flock here: both monks and those seeking prayer help. Even during the life of St. Alexander Svirsky, the monastery took shape as an amalgamation of two settlements: at the fraternal cells - the Trinity complex, at the monastery cemetery - Preobrazhensky. Both complexes today represent a single monument of architectural structures of the 16th-19th centuries.

The monastery is located in a picturesque place on the high bank of Lake Roshchinsky. Most of the buildings are well preserved, demonstrating the high skill of the architects who built them, but today they all need extensive restoration work.

The most ancient building of the monastery is the stone church of the Intercession of the Mother of God, built by St. Alexander in 1533. Its construction was carried out with donations from Tsar Vasily III. The church with a refectory and a belfry is made in the Novgorod style. Stone Cathedral of the Transfiguration with a chapel of St. Alexander Svirsky (1644). The stone Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity was built in 1791, but earlier there was a wooden church on this site, built by the founder of the monastery himself, and consecrated in 1509. Church of Sts. prophet Zechariah and Elizabeth was built in 1685. The Church of John of Damascus was built in 1718. The stone chapel of the Holy Trinity was built on the spot where, according to legend, the Most Holy Trinity appeared to St. Alexander of Svir. Tsars, grand dukes, Russian emperors, well-born boyars and nobles, merchants made large contributions to the construction of churches and monastic buildings. Information about each of them was entered by the careful hand of the monks in the "Census Books". Most of the monastery archive has been preserved and is housed in the National Public Library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in three historical archives of St. Petersburg.

Over the 500-year period of its existence, the life of the monastery outwardly differed little from the life of other monasteries in Russia: flourishing and falling, invasions of enemies, fires, looting, re-restoration of churches and strict monastic life, vigilant prayers and work. At the best of times, the monastery had 8 churches, a rich sacristy, expensively decorated icons, a rich book depository with ancient manuscripts, scrolls and books. Historians of the 19th century called the monastery the Northern Lavra, 27 monasteries and the desert of this region were subordinate to it. There were years when only the main shrine remained in the monastery after the destruction - the relics of the holy reverend Alexander of Svir, and several monks (beginning and end of the 19th century).

Website of the Holy Trinity Alexander Svir Monastery - http://www.svirskoe.ru/index.html

There was also a very dashing time (1918), when neither the shrine nor the monks became in the monastery. The relics were taken away, the monks were dispersed, some of them were shot, including the rector - Archimandrite Evgeny /Trofimov/. Instead, on the territory of the monastery: prisons, barracks, nursing homes, a state farm, a psychiatric hospital, boarded up churches and black eye sockets of the windows of the former fraternal cells.

The new inhabitants, who settled in the monastery in 1997, had to work hard - they got the monastery ruined. The biggest event in the life of the restored monastery was the acquisition of the relics of the founder of the monastery - St. Alexander Svirsky on July 30, 1998. With his prayers and help, the ancient monastery is being revived. The churches, buildings and territory of the Preobrazhensky complex were put in order, the liturgical life of the monastery was established. A lot of work is still to be done on the territory of the Trinity Complex, where the Svir Psychiatric Hospital is currently located. The Government of the Leningrad Region has already decided to move the psychiatric hospital to the town of Lodeynoye Pole, where the construction of new premises has begun. The Trinity complex will be returned to the monastery.


Icon of St. Alexander Svirsky


	Self-renewing frescoes of the Trinity Cathedral


The enemy of the human race, hanging on a nail. It happened by chance, but local tour guides consider it like a fun attraction.


	Surprised pilgrims

Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery
(photo story by Valery Degtyarev)

On the myrrh-streaming of the relics of Alexander Svirsky

In Russia, many miracle workers, in particular the Kiev-Pechersk ones, are glorified by myrrh-streaming. The fact that this miracle was so vividly manifested in the Monk Alexander of Svir clearly shows the greatness and grace of the saint, as well as the truth of the appearance of his relics, for the myrrh-streaming in the Church has been considered from time immemorial as evidence of holiness. In the Athos and Greek traditions, it is not incorruption, but the myrrh-streaming of the remains that testifies that these are holy relics. And the fact that in the second acquisition of the relics of St. Alexander, abundant myrrh-streaming was revealed, which testifies to their truth, to the identity of the remains found in the Military Medical Academy with the holy relics of the Reverend, which, at their first acquisition, also abundantly streamed myrrh.

In the report to the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Vladimir, it was reported that myrrh-streaming had begun in the X-ray room in the SMES building during a prayer service. After the relics of the saint were brought to the temple of the holy martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, the myrrh flow did not stop, and it was noticed that its intensity changed: it either increased or became less noticeable. Observation of him was carried out by the novice Alexander, standing all the days at the shrine of the Monk. It was noticed that the intensity of the myrrh flow varies depending on who serves, how the people pray, whether the temple is filled with praying or curious people. Especially the relics of St. Alexander streamed myrrh when he was placed in the temple after a long confinement, on the days of the first Divine Liturgies for the saint. The myrrh-streaming and fragrance was so strong that this smell of flower honey attracted bees from nowhere, they swarmed around the feet of the Reverend, crawled along the windowsill, located next to the shrine. This fact caused great surprise among the television operators who filmed this story for the NTV channel. The aroma of the myrrh was in the altar, and three bees even got into the Chalice with Communion - they had to be saved. Myrrh itself flowed down the Reverend's feet in streams, covering them with another shiny oily layer when dried. Myrrh flows from the upper leg to the lower one, while the lower leg itself also abundantly streams myrrh; The photograph clearly shows bright amber-orange streaks frozen on the surface of the Reverend's big toe and one amber drop frozen under the big toe bone.

When the first myrrh-streaming was discovered, its photographic image on the feet of the Reverend had a different appearance: the feet seemed luminous and in a small luminous areola.

It was noted that in the evening hours, after the closing of the temple, when silence was restored there after a large crowd, that grace-filled time came when one could also see a renewed myrrh flow - individual drops of myrrh appeared between the fingers of the Reverend.

(www.svirskoe.ru/ru/hallows/miro/)

Miro (fragrant precious oil) in Holy Scripture and in Holy Tradition is a symbol of Divine mercy, peace and love. Let us recall the words of Psalm 132: “Behold, what is good and what is red, but to live as brothers together. Even on Mount Sinai, God commands Moses to make a special ointment for sacred anointing.
So, myrrh became a symbol of charismatic (blessed) power. Subsequently, the kings were anointed with the world,
prophets and priests. Miro also served for funeral anointing. When Mary Magdalene poured precious ointment on Christ, she prepared His body for burial.

Subsequently, myrrh will become a symbol of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. During the sacrament of chrismation, the priest will anoint the person being baptized with the words: "The seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit." Thus, the power of the Gift of the Holy Spirit is concentrated in the world.

Miro is also a symbol of Divine mercy and grace.

The world appears as a result of a special supernatural phenomenon - myrrh-streaming. It inexplicably flows from the remains of the saint, either from his tomb or from his image. This is an amazing event. And even more surprising it seems after the studies carried out by biochemists. It turns out that the world contains those components that are part of a living organism, in particular, it contains 75 mg of animal protein per 100 ml. This means that the flesh of the saint remains alive, and by the will of God, synthetic processes can begin in it - we are given to see only the result of a miracle being performed - drops of the world.

Myrrh-streaming is not attested in Holy Scripture. However, this miracle has been present in Sacred Tradition almost from the very beginning of the Church. From the tomb of St. John the Evangelist every year on the day of his memory emanated a kind of subtle fragrant myrrh, from which many healings occurred. In the "Acts of the Apostle Philip" (a monument of the II-III centuries) it is said that after the death of the Apostle, fragrant myrrh came from him. The "martyrdom of Theodotos" (III century) also speaks of the flow of peace from the remains of the martyr. Especially famous for this miracle is St. Demetrius of Thessalonica, martyred in 304, whom the Greeks call Mirovlit, that is, myrrh-streaming. The oldest evidence of healing from the supernaturally expired world from the relics of St. Demetrius refers to the sixth century. An inscription from the city of Sangin (VI century) says that one woman was healed, "drawing the holy myrrh from the well in which the body of St. Demetrius lies, exuding it (i.e. myrrh). The relics of St. Demetrius
exuded myrrh constantly and in such quantity that many who came could take a small part of this world for themselves; many bottles of the 6th-10th centuries have been preserved, as a visible evidence of this miracle. According to St. John
Damaskin (against Konstantin Kavalsky, about holy icons) "many bodies of saints exuded myrrh." When in 1087 the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was transferred from the World of Lycian to Bar, his coffin was full of peace.

Rev. Alexander Svirsky is a significant person for believers. For many years, being in hermit solitude, he prayed to God. During his lifetime, the miracle worker helped people. And after death, the saint does not leave us without his paternal support.

Brief biography: the most important milestones of life

Rev. Alexander Svirsky

saint as a child

The saint was born in 1448 in the family of pious people Stephen and Vassa. At baptism, the parents gave the name of the child Amos. The grown son was sent to school by his parents. It was difficult to study, and the young lad prayed to God for help. At the time, the voice promised him that everything he asked for would be fulfilled. And indeed - learning became easy, and soon Amos was the best student in the class. The saint was an obedient and meek child who was not interested in noisy childish amusements. He dressed simply and began fasting early, thereby strengthening his young soul.

Choice of the monastic path

When Amos reached the age of majority, his parents decided to marry him. But by that time the young man had established himself in his desire to serve the Lord. When Amos found out about the Valaam monastery, he decided to go there. He went to the holy place on foot, not even knowing the way. Having crossed the Svir River, he stopped for the night on the shore of the lake and began to pray. And again, as in childhood, the voice told him to go to Valaam, and then, after a few years, return here and found a monastery here. After these words, a bright light appeared at the place that the Lord had chosen for his abode. In the morning, Amos met a man who said that he was on his way to Valaam. They walked together and soon reached the monastery. Then Amos wanted to thank his fellow traveler, but saw that he was nowhere to be found. He guessed it was an angel.

Tongue and hermitage

The Transfiguration Convent became Amos' home. For seven years he was a novice in it. All this time, he meekly carried obedience: he worked hard and humbly and prayed. On August 26, 2474, Amos became a monk and became known as Alexander. He moved to a remote desert island. There he was all alone for seven long years, hiding from the weather in a cave.

Soon he received God's sign - a finger appeared, which pointed in the direction of the Holy Lake. This meant that Alexander needed to return to the indicated place. Here the monk built a cell in which he lived for seven years, eating only forest gifts and grass.

Over the years, the hermit endured a lot of suffering: he was cold from the cold, starving, seriously ill, the devil tormented him with temptations. But God helped the saint, he saw God's support in everything. Once Alexander fell seriously ill, he could not get up from the ground, but, without losing spiritual courage, he sang psalms. An angel appeared to him and healed him with the sign of the cross.

Useful materials

After some time, the hermit had like-minded people. A nobleman Andrei Zavalishin accidentally stumbled upon his cell. He said that he had long wanted to look at the place where he had seen a shining light more than once. The boyar began to visit the hermit frequently, and on his advice he soon became a monk under the name Adrian. Some time later, he founded the Ondrusovo Monastery.

The birth of a new monastery

The news of the hermit and his unparalleled service to God spread everywhere. Soon people began to come to the desert, seeking solitude. They uprooted the forest, and the cleared areas were sown with bread, the surplus of which was given to the laity. Alexander retired from the monks to the Waste Desert.

Here demons took up arms against him: in the form of wild animals and poisonous snakes they tried to force the ascetic to leave this place. But he continued to pray, and the demons, unable to overcome him, retreated. An angel appeared to him and revealed that a monastery in the name of the Holy Trinity would be founded here.

The miraculous appearance of the Holy Trinity

In 1508 the saint witnessed the appearance of the Lord. During prayer, a bright light appeared. In the cell, three in snow-white clothes suddenly appeared before the worshiper. Their faces were like the sun. Alexander fell on his knees before God. But the Lord raised him up and ordered to build a temple and a monastery in the name of the Holy Trinity. So the humble hermit, relying only on God, avoiding people and glorification on their part, considering himself unworthy, was awarded the great Grace of God.

Appearance of the Holy Trinity St. Alexander Svirsky

Elevation to the rank of hegumen

After the construction of the church, the monks began to ask the saint to accept the priestly rank. But he considered himself unworthy. And then the monks wrote to Bishop Serapion in Novgorod. He blessed the saint to become abbot in his own monastery. But his life has not changed. Having received the rank of abbot, the saint continued his monastic feat: he wore rags, slept on the floor, and did all the hard work with all the monks on an equal footing.

The saint was strict not only with himself: he often made rounds of the monastic cells, and if he heard unworthy conversations, he would softly knock on the door. In the morning, he always gave instructions to the monks. The strict monastic life of the inhabitants glorified the Svir monastery and became a role model. Several disciples of Father Alexander then founded their own monasteries.

Church of the Holy Mother of God

At the end of his life's journey, the Saint built another temple - Pokrovsky. The Mother of God appeared to the Reverend after laying the foundation of the church. She showed him his future ascetics who would continue his good work and glorify his name.

The end of the righteous. The appearance of the first life

Interesting fact

Despite the fact that the life of the monk was filled with labors and hardships, he lived a long life and died at a ripe old age, at the age of 85.

His canonization was carried out by the Council in 1547.

A few years after the death of the monk, Alexander Herodion gave a description of his life. He spoke about the miracles performed by the saints for people.

Holy relics of St. Alexander Svirsky

A century later, during the rebuilding of the Church of the Transfiguration, the incorruptible relics of St. Alexander of Svir were found.

His body remained unharmed - the saint looked like he was sleeping.

The relics were transferred to the temple and remained there until the Bolshevik coup d'état. When the Bolsheviks declared war on the Church, the monasteries were plundered and most of the priests were shot. The relics of the saint were ordered to be destroyed by the new authorities.

Where are the incorrupt relics of St. Alexander Svirsky now

But instead of reproach, by the will of God, they were taken away in an unknown direction. When the state began to return the monasteries to the Church, the relics of the saint returned to the people. They were found in the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg.

In 1998, the relics returned home, to. The monastery is located at the address: Russia, Leningrad region, Lodeynopolsky district, Yanega rural settlement, Staraya Sloboda village.

In St. Petersburg there is a courtyard of the Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery - this is the Church of the Nativity.

Holy Trinity Alexander-Svirsky Monastery

In the monastery, prayers for health are read at the relics of the monk, and everyone who wishes submits notes with the names of their loved ones.

When the relics are opened

Holy relics of St. Alexander Svirsky open:

April 30;
12-th of September;
on the day of the Holy Trinity;
to the Transfiguration.

There is evidence that the relics of the saint are warm and keep the temperature the same as that of a living person.

Relics of St. Alexander Svirsky

A particle of relics in Moscow: where is it

In the Church of St. Alexander Svirsky in Moscow, located at 10 Graivoronovskaya Street, there is a particle of the relics of the saint, which is placed in an icon and is available for worship by believers.

Evidence of miracles

Near the relics of St. Alexander, phenomena that are unbelievable for the understanding of an ordinary person often occur.

Once a mother came to church with a little daughter in her arms. The girl from birth could not walk, and the doctors were powerless: the baby's limbs were immobilized forever. The mother placed the girl on the glass of the sacred shrine. For several minutes the child lay. Then the woman left the girl sitting on the floor. Turning around, she did not see her daughter on the spot.

She, as if picked up by someone invisible, was put on her feet and walked on her own, without outside help. There was silence in the church. People parted and formed a corridor for the child and the mother, who ran ahead to catch if the girl suddenly stumbled. Vera, that was the name of the girl, was completely healed. Such a miracle was shown by Saint Alexander Svirsky in front of many people.

A similar incident soon happened to a young man who was in a car accident. The man's legs were paralyzed, and he dragged them behind him, leaning on crutches. Medical treatment did not help, and he went to the monastery to the relics of Alexander Svirsky with the belief that the saint would definitely help him. Four times he came to the monastery with prayers to the Wonderworker.

And they were heard. During the fourth prayer, he felt his legs and was able to walk a few steps without crutches. A month later, the man again came to the miracle worker to thank him. He approached the shrine with the relics without crutches, leaning lightly on a stick.

These miracles took place with a large gathering of worshipers, and were witnessed by the monks of the monastery and hieromonk Adrian. And this is only a small part of the examples of the help of St. Alexander Svirsky to people.

What is asked of the saint

Pilgrims go to the miracle worker with a variety of needs. They pray to the saint for healing from physical illnesses, including those considered incurable by medicine. Infertile couples turn to the Miracle Worker with a request for the birth of a child. It is Alexander Svirsky who is prayed for the appearance of his son. Those who have decided to become a monk and live serving God also turn to him.

Interesting fact

In Petrozavodsk there is an Orthodox educational center in honor of St. Alexander Svirsky, dedicated to the spiritual education of adults and children. The center is located at the address: Petrozavodsk, Pervomaisky microdistrict, st. Krasnoflotskaya, 31.

Temples and icons of St. Alexander Svirsky

More than seventy churches have been built in our country to the glory of the monk. Its iconography is very diverse. they captured the old man at different moments of his life.

The very first image of him appeared in the seventeenth century, decommissioned from the relics, and therefore possessing a portrait resemblance. The saint is depicted lying down. There is another icon painted from the relics of St. Alexandra. This is a “portrait”, where a halo is above the head of the holy elder. Also widely known is the image of a saint in the attire of a schemnik. In one hand he has a scroll, the other is folded for the overshadowing of the people standing in front of the image.

Icon of St. Alexander Svirsky

Unique is the icon of Alexander Svirsky, depicting the appearance of the Triune God to him. On it, Alexander is depicted in a monastic robe, with his hand outstretched to God, where the Lord is represented in the form of three young men. In the 19th century, hagiographic icons of the saint appeared, consisting of various fragments of his life. Most of these icons are myrrh-streaming.

Alexander Svirsky St., the appearance of the Holy Trinity, 17th century.

saint's day of remembrance

Days of veneration of Alexander Svirsky:

September 12 (the day of death);
April 30 (the day of finding the relics).

Believers honor their saint, whose spiritual aspiration and unshakable faith are a moral guide for a Christian. After all, it is not enough not to do evil. It is necessary to drive away sinful, evil thoughts from oneself. By prayer, faith in God, love for him and for everything living on earth, cultivate goodness in your soul.

As our Lord said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

Gospel of Matthew, ch. 5, Art. eight.

An example of such sincerity is the feat of St. Alexander Svirsky, whom the Lord rewarded with his visit on earth for good deeds and a righteous life.

Documentary film “Alexander Svirsky. Protector and protector"

Prayer

Prayer to the Monk Alexander Svirsky

Oh, sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, our reverend and God-bearing Father Alexandra, a fair servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, show many mercy to those living in your holy abode and to everyone who flows to you with faith and love. Ask us everything for this temporary life, useful, and even more necessary for our eternal salvation.

Contribute to your intercession, servant of God, the ruler of our country Russia. And may the holy Orthodox Church of Christ abide in the world. Wake us all, miracle-working saint, in every sorrow and situation, a quick helper. Most of all, at the hour of our death, appear to us, intercessor, merciful, let us not betray the ordeals of the air power of the evil world-keeper, but let us be vouchsafed an unshakable ascent to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Hey, Father, our prayer book is dear! Do not disgrace our hopes, do not despise our humble prayers, but always intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, let us be honored together with you and with all the saints, even if we are not worthy of Esma, in the villages of paradise glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in the Trinity of God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, kontakion, magnification

Troparion

voice 4th

From youth, God-wise, having moved into the desert with a spiritual desire, you wished for the one Christ, diligently walking in the footsteps of the footsteps. At the same time, the angels repaired thee, wondering how with the flesh to an invisible wiles, wiser, you defeated the regiments of passions with abstinence, and you appeared equal to the angels on earth, Alexandra, reverend. Pray to Christ God, may our souls be saved.

Kontakion

voice 8:

Like a many-light star today in the Russian countries, thou hast shone, father, having settled in the desert, thou hast zealously desired to follow Christ's feet, and that holy yoke on thy frame is an honest cross, thou hast slain, thy labors, bodily jumping. The same cry to you: save your flock, if you gathered it wiser, let us call you: rejoice, reverend Alexander, our father.

magnificence

We bless you, reverend Father Alexandra, and honor your holy memory, mentor of monks and interlocutor of angels.

Canon

Canon

Canto 1

Irmos: In the depths of the bed, sometimes the Pharaoh's army is an armed force; the incarnate Word, all-evil sin, consumed food, glorified Lord, gloriously glorified.

Reverend Father Alexandra, pray to God for us *).

Thy divine memory, O God-wise Father, faithfully celebrating, we glorify the Lord of all kinds, Who glorified thee with many miracles.

Passionlessness with a warm desire, father, obsessed, materially withered the passions of the wave, Alexandra, and reached you, with love, the eternal radiance, most blessedly, the Divine.

Reverend Father Alexandra, pray to God for us.

Virtuously from the beginning, the reception of life, get rich, bath, father, life, a spiritual gift from infancy is divine, your soul is splendor, Alexandra, showed you, the brightest sun.

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokion: Younger Otrocha gave birth to more than a word, you, the Ancient of Days, showing a new path of virtues on earth. That saint is Your eternal Alexander, Otrokovitsa, devoured by love, this temple has been created for You.

*) This refrain is read before all the troparia of each song, except for the Theotokos, before which “Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen".

Canto 3

Irmos: Having established me on the rock of faith, you have expanded my mouth to my enemies, rejoiced my spirit, when I sing: there is no saint, like our God, and there is no righteous, more than You, Lord.

Then you extinguished the flame of passions of your abstinence and exhaled streams of miracles with the prayers of prayers, extinguishing the flame with illnesses, blessed Alexandra.

Even to your honest race flowing, wise, from sowing we will draw a treasure of healing, and miracles of the abyss, and an unenviable gift, Alexandra. The same, singing, we praise you.

Spiritual feelings from a terrible, reverend father, enlightening visions, as if the mind of the good has acquired a wonderful mind, monastic life to those who have it, Alexandra, you have shown life without blasphemy.

Theotokion: Even before the age, be born from the Father indescribably, finally, from Your womb, pass and adore our nature, Mati Virgo, Even the reverend faces of reality plague.

Sedalen, tone 8:

From youth, leave everything worldly, red and dainty, and moved into the desert, diligently followed the one who called you, reverend, in labor and fasting, father, you exhausted your body. From this need, the all-rich Lord arranges well for His sheep, blessed Alexandra. Pray to Christ the God of sins forsaking to grant those who honor your love with your holy memory.

Glory, and now, the Theotokos:

Like the Virgin and one in wives, You, who without a seed gave birth to God flesh, we all appease, give birth to humanity: the fire was indwelled in Thee by the Deities, and like the Infant nourished the Creator and the Lord with milk. Thus, angelic and human race, we worthily glorify Thy Most Holy Nativity and, according to the cry of Thy: pray to Christ the God of sins, grant forgiveness to those who worship by faith Thy most holy Nativity.

Canto 4

Irmos: You came from the Virgin, not an intercessor, not an Angel, but Himself, Lord, incarnated, and saved all of me, a man. Thus I call to Thee: glory to Thy power, Lord.

Your life, God-Blessed Alexandra, the rule is known to monastics, now we are jealous, we are saved, and by your subsequent, Father, Divine teaching.

Reception of the Holy Spirit at dawn, most bright star, Father Alexandra, shining with grace, you were everything, and you instructed them to save the shelter of your teachings.

You wanted to stay inside no peace, O wise Father Alexandra, having the strength of the Spirit of God instructing you, living in impenetrable deserts and walking with animals without fear, young man, and fed on bodily diseases.

Theotokion: We wear scary cherubic splashes, Vladyka, as if on a throne of fire, into Yours, Pure, dwell in the womb and flesh with the acceptance of a human being, as teaches a fair amount in the Monks Alexander, the one All-Permanent.

Canto 5

Irmos: Thou art an intercessor to God and man, O Christ God: by Thee, Master, to the Chief of Light, Thy Father, from the night of ignorance bring the imam.

Having desired your mind to keep the observance of the commandments, Alexandra, and carnal leaping with your abstinence withered you, and the shepherd appeared to your God-loving copulation.

Following the Divine law, wise Alexandra, and obeying the command of the Creator, the legislator appeared to the monks and the most famous rule, the punisher of the insane, and the mentor of the erring, and the lamp in the darkness of ignorance, glorious.

The fire of temptations and passions, the cave with your tears, father, currents and spiritual dew richly quenched thou, unburnt observed: we are scorched by the love of all the King, the real withered desires.

Theotokion: The lips of life cannot sing according to the property of Thee, O All-Permanent One, the exalted being Cherubim and all creatures. The same with the Divine Alexander Vladyka begged for all of us.

Canto 6

Irmos: Lying in the sinful abyss, I call upon the abyss that is not traced by Your mercy: from aphids, O God, raise me up.

Meaningfully, having judged temporarily, blessed Alexandra, you have reached the eternal illnesses of abstinence, father, being a builder of souls, reverend.

As I endure the great sweat of your labors, reverend Alexander, comfort with abstinence, wonderful father, appear, Lord Christ gives you divine power and commands these ailments to heal.

Having been a monastic mentor, the wise Alexander, who exist these uniform laurels, and the image and mark of virtuous deeds, adorned everything, even in the monastery of conjugal stay.

Theotokion: New, like Moses, appeared, arranged thou, like a tabernacle, a fence, all-honorably, south, and exalted thou with thy illnesses and sweats, all entrusted to the Most Holy Mother of God.

Kontakion, tone 8:

Like a bright star, today in the Russian countries you have risen, father, having settled in the desert, you have zealously desired to follow Christ's feet and, that holy yoke on your frame, an honest cross, you have killed the labors of your bodily jumping. The same cry to you: save your flock, hedgehog gathered thou, wiser, let us call to you: rejoice, reverend Alexander, our father.

Ikos:

How can I praise your deeds and struggles, Reverend Alexandra? As if the mind was immaterial, having acquired humility, your life was passed on by the green abstinence of your labors. Even if man was a natural being, but you were a citizen of the Most High Jerusalem: you lived on earth with the flesh, but you passed the angelic stay and were a pillar, unshakable by passions. Thus, the whole Russian land, having enriched itself with you, praises you and magnifies with faith, calling you like this: Rejoice, praise to your fatherland, but to the great Novugrad and the whole country of Russia, the most bright lamp. Rejoice, even a pious father is a glorious branch and a reverent mother is a branch of many fruits. Rejoice, unyielding pillar of chastity and blessed glory of the monks. Rejoice, shepherd of Christ's fences of verbal sheep, leading them to God's mind. Rejoice, for thou hast cultivated the many-family wilderness with the height of thy humility. Rejoice, monastics of all the image of virtue and uniform laurels of salvation. Rejoice, red repository of virtues and consolation to all who are desponding in sorrow. Rejoice, for having despised the whole world of this wisdom, you have mortified the passions of the flesh. Rejoice, for thou hast been honored as an angel to be an interlocutor, and thou hast confounded all the demonic regiments. Rejoice, for you were glorified in all countries, for in Christ you performed many miracles. Rejoice, for you have truly found the grace of God and from the Angels you have been honored with the sight of the Holy Trinity face to face. Rejoice, as the second sun, shining miracles, grant the grace of healing to everyone. Rejoice, reverend Alexandra, our Father.

Canto 7

Irmos: The ungodly decree of the lawless tormentor has lifted the flame high. Christ, as a godly youth, spread the spiritual dew, He is blessed and glorified.

Dressed in a fortress, Alexandra, the Lady, and, like dust, trampled the voluptuousness of life, you conquer the imperishable life with love, even now you have communed, with the faces of an angel, father, combined.

Cross-stretching your hands, Alexandra the Wise, and sending up your prayers to the Most High, like Christ, the King of glory, from the Angels, with the eyes of the God-bearer, you saw, and, in the impenetrable deserts, settled down, seek the Lord, observing thee with divine grace.

Like the star of thee, Alexandra, the world, the monks shone unstoppable, an assistant in troubles and a sinner, a great refuge led, I offer you an intercessor and a prayer book to the Lord Christ, all-honestly.

Theotokos: Wishing Your saint of Your Son and God to see unspeakable glory, Mother of God, This honest cross on the frame, follow His life-giving footsteps.

Canto 8

Irmos: Sometimes a fiery furnace in Babylon divides the action, scorching the Chaldeans by God's command, but watering the faithful, singing: bless, all the works of the Lord, the Lord.

Like lightning with great brilliance, life shining to all the ascension of your abstinence, Alexander the Wise, piously calling the Creator: bless, all the works of the Lord, the Lord.

On earth, like a man walking, Father Alexander, you truly acquired your life in Heaven, you were an Angel interlocutor, and you made life and life oneh. With them now you sing: bless, all the works of the Lord, the Lord.

Thee, more than the mind from the Unborn Father, before the age the Son was born, the glorious preaching of Alexander, and the Most Holy Spirit, the One Trinity by the nature of the Divine.

Theotokion: Just as Elijah first settled in Carmel, so you, in the impenetrable deserts, practiced, wished you an individual with God to live and, illumined by the vision of God, the saint appeared to the Mother of God, crying out to Her: rejoice, rejoiced.

Canto 9

Irmos: Beginningless Parent Son, God and Lord, incarnated from the Virgin, appear to us, darkened enlighten, collect wasted. We magnify the All-Singing Mother of God.

Following the footsteps of the reverend and Bogonos, the Lord of Christ, having lived piously on earth, meek, gentle, Thou appeared, merciful and humble, Alexandra, and full of Divine love, for this sake we truly praise.

Weave a crown for you, like a winner, Alexander, a life-giving and all-powerful right hand, father, and now vouchsafe your memory, blessed, improve the remission of sins, most glorious.

Thou hast merged with the Bodiless hosts, and thou hast been considered a reverend person, and rejoices with all the elect, pretending to be true deification and immortal, father, life, with them unceasingly beseech your Lord for us.

Theotokion: Consecrated temple, together with the One from the Trinity, Thy temple, Lady, Thy saint Alexander is honest erected to Thy glory and honor, do not stop praying in it, give us help with Thy prayers.

Svetilen:

The grace of God is overflowing in your soul, wise Alexander, and, as if incorporeal, you lived on earth. Deliver the dark clouds to those who honor you with passions, leading to a quiet haven and driving away the militias of the demonic Divine power.

Glory, and now, the Theotokos:

Truly create greatness with you, the Son of the Eternal Father with the advice: You gave birth to an incorruptible life without passion and remained, as if before Christmas, Virgin, avoiding motherly illnesses and after the birth of the Virgin.

Stichera, tone 4:

Reverend and God-bearing, your life has not been bad, but patience, and meekness, and love is not hypocritical, abstinence is immeasurable, all-night standing, divine tenderness, faith and hope of truth with mercy, father, having acquired, like an angel, you lived on earth with a body, Blessed Alexandra, prayer book for our souls.

Like an earthly angel and a heavenly man, you were, wise, a source of tenderness and generosity, an unenviable stream appeared to you, an abyss of miracles, a sinner, a lieutenant, an olive tree of God is truly fruitful, the oil of your labors, Alexandra is wonderful, anointing the hearts of those who faithfully praise thee.

Reverend and God-blessed, thou mortified the mind of the flesh with Divine understanding, bodily above the passions was thou, and was mixed with the valleys, bearing the mark, depicting Divine goodness in itself, and seemed to be all light-seeing by the action of the Holy Spirit, Alexandra, our father, monastic adornment.

The source of the miracles of the show and the river of gifts to the cancer of your relics, the Lord, Alexandra the Wise: to the blind to see this granted, to lepers, purification, obsessed with unclean spirits from those powers, delivering and doing chastity, healing is not scarce.

Tone 6:

Rejoice, many-lighted fasting, a star that never sets, a shepherd praise, Father Alexandra, reverend fellow-villager. Rejoice, bright home of the Trinity. Rejoice, source of love and mercy. Rejoice, bright lamp of reasoning. Rejoice, true rule of virtues. Rejoice, animated pillar. Rejoice, praise and affirmation to the great Novugrad.

Akathist

Akathist

Kondak 1

Ikos 1

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 2 4]

Seeing the Lord your soul, like a well-cultivated field for spiritual fruitfulness, direct your thoughts from youth to the search for the one thing for the need, Reverend, the same love for the sake of Christ, your parents and your father’s house, having freed yourself from all addictions of vanity, you flowed into the desert monastery of Valaam on feats of monasticism, calling to God who saves you: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

With a divinely enlightened mind, thou hast comprehended the vanity of this world and inconstancy, in which joy is replaced by sorrow, well-being is slandered by unexpected troubles. The same eternal incorruptible blessings you desired, reverend father, and this exaction was sought by you by the renunciation of worldly goods and free poverty, moving us to call you:

Rejoice, lover of desert silence; Rejoice, zealous humility and non-possession.

Rejoice, perfect image of true self-denial; Rejoice, monastic life equal to the angels is an all-encompassing phenomenon.

Rejoice, rule of faith and piety; Rejoice, mirror of patient obedience.

Rejoice, beloved monastic silence; Rejoice, acquiring spiritual tears.

Rejoice, weeping temporary bliss won eternal; Rejoice, crushing the adversaries of the enemy with unceasing prayers.

Rejoice, vigilance and labor subduing your flesh spirit; Rejoice, you who tame passions by fasting and abstinence.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 3

By the power of the Almighty, overshadowed and strengthened, in monastic tonsure of the hair of your head, you laid aside all carnal wisdom, reverend, and like a well-skilled warrior, having acquired the monastic schema into the armor of salvation and armed yourself with the invincible weapon of the Cross of Christ, you strongly fought against the enemy of the invisible devil, defeating him with deep humility uplifted pride and crying out to the Lord: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having an abundant source of tears, God's servant, and great tenderness of grace, you watered your bread with tears and dissolved your drink with tears, from an excess of divine desire and love for the Lord. In the same way, we bless you with this title:

Rejoice, nameless ascetic of strength and courage; rejoice, angelic human.

Rejoice, victorious warrior of the King of Heaven; Rejoice, good fruit of the Valaam monastery.

Rejoice, favorable desert dweller; Rejoice, unsleeping prayer book.

Rejoice, fasting fair; rejoice, silent wondrous one.

Rejoice, follower of the feat of the ancient god-bearing fathers; rejoice, imitator of their patience and labor.

Rejoice, dug up your grave in good time; Rejoice, contemplating the hour of death unceasingly.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 4

The storm of temptations and aspirations of the devil is not possible to shake the temple of your soul, reverend father, it is based on the solid stone of faith in Christ and is kept by sobriety and unceasing prayers, you fought against the enemy of human salvation and stubbornly ascended along the path of virtues to spiritual perfection in measure the age of Christ, singing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Hearing praise from a man, you were afraid of the exaltation of vanity, Father God-wise, and as a true image of humility, you intended to run away into the unknown desert, to the Svir River, to the place indicated above to you in a wonderful vision, but there you will work unrestrictedly to the One God, where we we meet thee with this blessing:

Rejoice, good follower who has humbled himself to the slave of the image of Christ the Lord; Rejoice, zealous performer of His holy commandments.

Rejoice, virgin soul and body; Rejoice, industrious unfeigned.

Rejoice, despising human vain glory; rejoice, crushing the nets of vanity and pride.

Rejoice, straightening arrogance soulful charm; Rejoice, having acquired the holy humility of Christ.

Rejoice, fulfilling all the vows of monasticism; Rejoice, adorned with the gifts of the grace of God.

Rejoice, thou who through grace received power over unclean spirits; Rejoice, thou who didst not account for those fears and ghosts.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 5

A luminous ray illuminate a deserted place in the darkness of the night, you came to settle in it, reverend, signifying the lightness of your soul and your heart burning with love for the Lord, even if it is favorable for the Creator to work for Him in reverence and holiness and sing to Him there a laudatory song: Alleluia .

Ikos 5

Seeing the angels of the rank of your equal-angelic life, God-blessed Father, your depth of humility, perseverance in prayer, firmness of abstinence and great zeal of your spirit for purity, being surprised and glorifying the philanthropist of God, strengthening the weak human nature. We please thee and call:

Rejoice, desert lamp, enlightening the Karelian country with the radiance of your virtues; Rejoice, marvelous adornment of monks.

Rejoice, fragrant krine of the desert vegetation; Rejoice, fruitful tree of heavenly planting.

Rejoice, lover of the splendor of the house of God; Rejoice, having prepared in yourself a temple to the Trinitarian Divinity.

Rejoice, clothed in righteousness and righteousness; Rejoice, fertilized by the union of virtues.

Rejoice, anointing received from the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, sanctified vessel of the grace of God.

Rejoice, good and faithful servant of Christ; Rejoice, true servant of the Lord.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 6

The preacher of your exploits in the wilderness of the Svirstey appeared the catcher of wild beasts, and having chased the deer in the impenetrable oak forest, by the look of God you found your temple, reverend father: seeing you in the flesh of an angel, a sign of grace-filled illumination on your face, filled with fear and joy and fell to to your honest feet, in the tenderness of your heart, cry out to the Creator God: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Thou hast shone in the deserts of the Swirl, the divinely radiant luminary, and thou hast instructed the path of salvation for many human souls: for Christ, the mentor and teacher, is a desert-loving monk, who flocks to you, like sheep to a shepherd, who can fall them on life-giving pastures. The same, as if he created and taught, we honor you with these laudable words:

Rejoice, source of inspired teachings; Rejoice, storehouse of abundant tenderness.

Rejoice, animated tablets of the law of the Lord; Rejoice, silent preacher of the Gospel of Christ.

Rejoice, fulfilling the commandments of the Lord and teaching your disciples about it; Rejoice, instigating the lazy to correct your Christ-imitating morals.

Rejoice, strengthening the weak with the grace given to you by the Lord; Rejoice, comforting those who mourn with the sweetness of your words.

Rejoice, directing sinners to repentance; Rejoice, young chaste one.

Rejoice, full of compassion; rejoice, rich in mercy.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 7

Although the Lord of mankind glorify the place of your deeds, Father, sent His angel to announce to you, as if there would be a monastery for salvation in that place, and in it a temple in the name of the Holy Trinity. But you, enlightened by the appearance of the incorporeal, with joyful trembling listened to the gospel of heaven, calling in humility of spirit to the Lord of angels and men: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

A new sign of God's favor was granted to you, reverend, when you were always silent in the chosen desert, at night the light of the great oblates you, and three men in bright clothes appeared before you, granting and commanding peace to you, but build a monastic abode there and in it a temple in the name Holy Trinity. Marveling at this wondrous Trinity appearance in three angelic faces, we call you:

Rejoice, mystic of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity; Rejoice, self-seeing of the inexpressible manifestation of God.

Rejoice, companion of the luminous angelic forces; Rejoice, contemplator of the radiant Divine vision.

Rejoice, partaker of the fiery three-solar radiance; Rejoice, worshiper of the Trinitarian Deity.

Rejoice, enlightened dawn in the mortal body of immortality; Rejoice, worthy of heavenly visitation on earth.

Rejoice, high acquiring with humility; Rejoice, thou who didst improve the rich mercy of the Lord through poverty.

Rejoice, sowing eternal joy with tears; Rejoice, receiving the fulfillment of the immutable promises.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 8

Strangely appearing to you in the air, the angel of the Lord in a mantle and cockles in monasticism, pointing out the place, on it the temple in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity had you create in the desert Svirst, reverend father, having made and sanctified it with God’s haste, with your disciples, you sent unceasing praises to the Lord in it , calling: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

Having betrayed everything to yourself to the will of the Lord, having been implored by your disciples, you did not evade the grace of accepting the priesthood, father, if your spirit is even harder, horrified by the heights of sowing, but you showed obedience to your spiritual child, striving them according to your call:

Rejoice, bloodless sacrifice worthy of the performer; Rejoice, reverent servant of the altar of the Lord.

Rejoice, thou who didst raise thy holy hands with much boldness to the Lord; Rejoice, warmest prayer from the heart is pure to the throne of the Almighty.

Rejoice, the image of piety that was your disciple; Rejoice, head anointed with the oil of the priesthood.

Rejoice, well-skilled leader of spiritual warriors; Rejoice, wise father of the monastic community.

Rejoice, candle, kindled in prayer to God; Rejoice, star, showing the right path to salvation.

Rejoice, olive tree, which has exuded the oil of God's mercy; Rejoice, cup, thirsty for the teachings of salvation to drink.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 9

All the monks of your monastery came to joyful awe, when the aspiration of the stream of water, moving to your holy monastery, tamed you with your prayer and invoking the all-powerful name of Jesus Christ harmlessly placed you on the good needs of monastics to the stormy stream of your mother-in-law; having seen your spiritual child, all mercifully exclaim to God together with you: Hallelujah.

Ikos 9

Human vitiation does not suffice to utter an abundance of spiritual joy, you were already filled with it, O God-bearing Father, when during your prayer at night appear to you the Most Holy Theotokos with the face of angelic ranks and immutable promises rejoice your soul, as the eternal intercessor of your monastery will be, supplying and covering you throughout days. The same and we bring you this joyful verbs:

Rejoice, overshadowed by the grace of the Mother of God; Rejoice, comforted by the visit of the Queen of Heaven and earth.

Rejoice, hearing the merciful words from Her mouth; Rejoice, you who received the promise of Her strong abode of intercession.

Rejoice, beloved of Her most sincere; Rejoice, chosen one of Her Son and God.

Rejoice, blessed with the gift of miracles; Rejoice, future one, like a real one, seer.

Rejoice, thou who miraculously multiplied the fisherman's catch; Rejoice, barren parent gifted childbearing.

Rejoice, thou who didst restore the sick to health; Rejoice, revealing the secret of human sin.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 10

At least save your souls, your disciple, paternally edified them, God-wise, ovogo word, ovogo example of your life, with meekness reproving, with love admonishing them to succeed in piety and purity: especially before your death, all for the salvation of the soul, commanded and taught them Thou shalt keep them awake in prayers and sing unceasingly to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

The wall of intercession was your prayer, miracle-working saint, to all with faith flowing to you in all sorrow, for for the sake of purity for the sake of your heart spiritual strength from God has been given to you, heal the sick, help the needy, the future prophesy, as if to glorify the near and distant majesty of God, in you revealed, and call you sitse:

Rejoice, unacceptable physician of human ailments; Rejoice, healer of not only bodily, but also mental illnesses.

Rejoice, granter of insight to the blind; Rejoice, thou who didst create healthy and crippled ones.

Rejoice, freed from the devil's oppression; Rejoice, returning a sound mind to a frenzied one.

Rejoice, healer of those covered with scabs; Rejoice, consoler of the sad.

Rejoice, hastening to help those in need; Rejoice, for those who are captive and sitting in prison, I will be weakened and granted freedom by your appearance.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 11

Thou brought all tender singing to the Most Holy Trinity at the time of thy death, reverend, and in the prayer that is on thy lips, thou betrayed thy holy soul in the hand of the Living God, whom thou didst love from thy youth, and thou didst work unhypocritically until old age, and with good hope joyfully passed thou to the abode of heaven, with angelic faces to sing to the Trinitarian God: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

Seeing your peaceful death, your disciples, great servant of God, dissolve the sorrow of separation from you with grace-filled consolation, in the hope of your all-powerful intercession of grief at the Throne of God, where you hear with love calling you:

Rejoice, crown of immortal life received from the hand of the Almighty; Rejoice, rejoice in the devil of the Heavenly House Lord.

Rejoice, contemplating with a frank face the glory of the Trisyan Divinity; Rejoice, worship the Creator with the Belarusian elders.

Rejoice, heir of the all-bright Kingdom of Christ; Rejoice, citizen of Jerusalem on high.

Rejoice, inhabitant of heavenly Zion; Rejoice, inhabitant of the heavenly tabernacles not made by hands.

Rejoice, having received eternal rest through the labors of temporary life; Rejoice, bliss prepared from the ages for the righteous, righteously perceiving.

Rejoice, illumined from above with rays of non-evening light; Rejoice, shining down with the greatness of miracles.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 12

Holy cancer, containing your multi-healing relics, is a miracle-working saint, after many years the Lord reveals them in the bowels of the earth incorruptible, healing abundantly exuding and healing every ailment by the power of God, wondrous in His saints, wondrously glorifying you in heaven and on earth, He sing: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing a joyful song of praise and thanksgiving to the God of mankind, who glorified you in the country of Russia, the wondrous and merciful miracle worker, we pray to you, our reverend father: be an intercessor to Him and a prayer book for us, calling for you:

Rejoice, intercessor of the Christian race; Rejoice, treasury of many different gifts.

Rejoice, protection, created by God; Rejoice, having received the grace of healing from God.

Rejoice, flower of incorruption, fragrant Holy Church; Rejoice, dawn of immortality, gloriously shining from the grave.

Rejoice, inexhaustible flow of bounty and mercy; Rejoice, inexhaustible source of goodness.

Rejoice, wonderful manifestation of love and compassion; Rejoice, God-given healing of our bodies.

Rejoice, favorable intercession for our souls.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 13

O great and glorious miracle worker, our reverend father Alexandra. Graciously accept this small prayer of ours, and with your prayers save us from mental and bodily ailments in this life and deliver us from future eternal torments, and make us worthy, together with you in the Kingdom of Heaven, to sing to God: Alleluia.

(This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos and the 1st kontakion)

Ikos 1

You had an angelic disposition, reverend father, and as if a fleshless, immaculate life you made on earth, leaving a wondrous image of spiritual perfection to us, let us imitate your virtue and call you:

Rejoice, God-given fruit of pious parents; Rejoice, unfruitfulness of those who gave birth to you, resolving.

Rejoice, thou who didst turn their lamentations to joy; Rejoice, chosen from the swaddling clothes by God.

Rejoice, from the womb of the mother to serve Him; Rejoice, from the youth of His One, loving with all your heart.

Rejoice, all the red of this world is sane; Rejoice, depressing flesh of yours with fasting and prayerful vigil.

Rejoice, immaculate vessel of God's grace; Rejoice, home of the Holy Spirit, adorned with purity.

Rejoice, husband of spiritual desires; Rejoice, head, sanctified by the right hand of the Most High.

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

Kondak 1

Chosen saint of Christ and miracle worker, Reverend Father Alexander, shining like a star of God's light, your life with kindness and many miracles, we praise you with love in spiritual songs: you, as if you have boldness to the Lord, with your prayers from all troubles of us, let us call ti:

Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, Wonderworker of Svir.

^sss^Reverend Alexander of Svirsky^sss^

Saint Alexander Svirsky is part of the canon of saints of the Russian Orthodox Church and is highly revered by Orthodox Christians. During his lifetime, the saint already had fame as a sympathetic person and a miracle worker - people who needed prayer and help repeatedly came to his monastery, Saint Alexander of Svirsky did not refuse anyone, and his fame spread throughout Russia.

Who is Saint Alexander Svirsky

The birth of his son Amos was accepted by his family as a miracle - the parents prayed for a long time to give them a son, and the Lord answered their prayers. Already at an advanced age, the mother gave birth to a son, although there were already two daughters in the family. The father of the family dreamed of a successor to the family, an heir, but the Lord determined a different fate for the born baby. From childhood, Amos was a shy, quiet and calm boy. He was sent to study at school, but science was difficult for him, but he liked the services in the Vvedenskaya Church, and he repeatedly attended them. After completing his studies, against the will of his parents, who were waiting for the birth of their grandchildren, Amos was tonsured a monk at the Valaam Monastery and received a new name at baptism - Alexander.

Icon of St. Alexander Svirsky

After taking tonsure, the monk served for seven years in the same monastery and served in the courtyard. Miracles happened to him even before he was tonsured a monk - once he got lost in the forest and went to a wonderful lake. In a dream, someone appeared to Alexander Svirsky and said that the monk should establish his monastery on this site. Returning to the monastery, the monk forgot about sleep for a while, but later, during the night prayer, the image of the Virgin was revealed to him, who repeated the prophecy.

The monk went to the lake, built a cell there and lived alone for 7 years, eating berries and spending all his time in prayer. After this period, pilgrims began to come to him, and later novices - this is how the monastery was founded, which later became known in honor of its founder. Already at the end of his life, Alexander Svirsky was offered to take the place of hegumen in the cathedral built on that lake.

The relics of the saint: location and miracles

The monk died at the age of 86 in 1533, quietly departing to the Lord in his sleep. And only 14 years later he was recognized as a saint. Miracles took place at the site of his grave, numerous records of miraculous healings and deliverances from demons at that place have been preserved.

But only after 100 years it was decided to transfer the relics of the monk to the monastery. When the novices opened the coffin, Saint Alexander lay in it, as soon as he had died - there were no signs of decay on him. The relics were moved to the Svir Monastery and began to attract the attention of pilgrims - people came to bow and pray for healing, release and help.

Relics of St. Alexander Svirsky.

With the advent of Soviet power, many churches suffered, and the holy monastery of Svir did not bypass the repressions - by order, the relics of St. Alexander were seized, and the monastery itself was plundered in 1918. When the Red Army soldiers opened the coffin of the saint, they were amazed - the relics were imperishable. Since the Soviet authorities could not allow this information to spread, they decided to hide the monk's body by placing a wax doll in its place.

In the late 90s, the relics were discovered and returned to their rightful place - in the Svir Monastery. The monastery itself has existed for more than 500 years, its age is slightly less than the age of Alexander Svirsky.

Important! After almost 600 years, the relics of the saint are available to any pilgrim, and the monk himself is ready to hear and answer the prayers of those who ask.

What to ask a saint

Many people come to the monastery to bow to the holy relics, because Father Alexander was responsive to infirmities even during his lifetime - he prayed and asked for the people who came to him, performed many miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit and prayer.

Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery

Especially often, through his prayers, couples became parents, since then it is believed that childless couples (especially those suffering from infertility) should definitely go and read a prayer at the relics of the saint:

Our Reverend and God-bearing Father Alexandra! Humbly falling to the race of your honest relics, we pray diligently, raise up your hands for us sinners to our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, as if she would remember His ancient mercy, the image promised to be persistent from your monastery; and will give us strength and strength against the enemies of the soul, leading us away from the path of salvation, but having appeared victorious, on the day of the Last Judgment we will hear from you this laudable voice: Behold and the children I have given me, O God! and we will receive the crown of victory from the conqueror of the enemies of Christ, the Son of God, and we will receive the inheritance of eternal blessings with you; singing the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your gracious intercession and intercession, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

In addition to requests for the gift of a child, other petitions are also addressed to the saint about:

spiritual and physical healing;
gaining faith;
giving strength in trials;
seek blessings when they are tonsured monks.

Many miracles are known that are recorded by monks and serve to strengthen faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Especially famous is the story about a girl with damage to the central nervous system. Her mother, with the permission of the rector of the monastery, placed her daughter on top of the glass lid of the shrine. The girl could not walk, but after a short stay on top of the relics, she got up and began to walk on her own. The people around them were amazed at what they saw and immediately glorified the Lord for the miracle. Miracles of healing from cancer and blindness are known, there are many testimonies of healings from infertility of men and women.

Many miracles also happened during the transfer of the shrine to the Church of Faith, Hope and Love in St. Petersburg. Then many people came to honor the memory of the saint, who died more than 500 years ago, and offer up a prayer to the Lord. At that time, many miracles happened and people told their testimonies to the abbots of the temple for a long time, confirming the miraculous nature of the ashes of the saint. The pilgrimage movement does not cease to actively visit the Svir Monastery, hoping to get answers to their questions.

How to get there

The Orthodox Church honors the memory of the deceased Saint Alexander twice a year:

death day - August 30;
the day of finding the relics - April 30.

To venerate the relics of the monk, you can visit the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, which is located in the Leningrad Region, 20 km from the city of Lodeynoye Pole and 200 km from St. Petersburg. You can get there by train from St. Petersburg to Lodeynoye Pole, and then by minibus to the monastery.

On a note! The monks are always sincerely happy to receive new visitors, they will conduct a tour of the monastery and tell about the life of the saint and the miracles that occur today at his relics.

The relics of St. Alexander Svirsky wonderworker

In the pious popular consciousness, the Monk Alexander of Svir is revered as the "New Testament Abraham", for he was honored with the appearance of the Holy Trinity in the form of the Three Angels. He was canonized already 14 years after his righteous death, and his life was written, as they say, “in hot pursuit” and is particularly reliable.

The Monk Alexander of Svirsky was born on June 15, 1448, into a family of poor peasants in the Ladoga village of Mandera on the Oyat River (a tributary of the Svir River), Stefan and Vasilissa (Vassa). Elderly parents already had two adult children, but they prayed for the gift of another child, since their childbearing stopped for a long time. One night, a heavenly voice announced to them the birth of a son. The saint's birthday coincided with the memorial day of the prophet Amos, whose name was given to the boy at baptism.

When the boy grew up, he was sent to study, but he studied "stiffly and not soon." Hardly experiencing this, Amos often prayed to God for help. Once, during a prayer in front of the icon of the Mother of God, the youth heard a voice: “Arise, do not be afraid; but if you asked, you imashi perceive. Since then, Amos began to excel in learning and soon outstripped his peers. After that, he began to visit the temple every day, ate only bread, and even then not enough, he slept little.

When Amos matured, his parents wanted to marry him, but his ascetic inclinations became so strong that he decided to leave the world altogether. The young man aspired to the Valaam monastery, stories about which he had heard. Once he met the monks who arrived from Valaam in his native village on monastic business. He told one of them - already an old man - about his desire to reach Valaam and received advice not to delay in fulfilling his spiritual need, "until the evil sower sowed a weed in his heart ...".

Secretly leaving the parental home, he went on a long journey. Having crossed the Svir River, on the shore of Lake Roshchinsky, the Monk heard a mysterious voice, announcing to him that he would create a monastery in this place. And a great light overshadowed him. Thanking God, the young man was about to move on, but he did not know the way to the monastery, and the Lord sent him an angel in the form of a random traveler to the very monastery gates.

Amos spent seven years as a novice in the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, astonishing the strictest Valaam monks with the severity of his life. During the day he carried water and firewood from the forest, worked in a bakery, and at night he prayed, betraying his body to mosquitoes. In the morning I was the first to go to church. He ate bread and water. His clothes, thin and dilapidated, hardly protected from the winter and autumn cold. When the parents found out about the whereabouts of their son, the father came to the monastery. Amos did not want to go out to him, saying that he had died to the world. And only at the request of the abbot, he talked with his father, who wanted to persuade his son to return home, but after the refusal of his son, he left the monastery in anger. Secluded in his cell, Amos began to fervently pray for his parents, and through his prayer the grace of God descended on Stephen. Returning home, he took the vows at the Vvedensky Monastery with the name Sergius, and Amos's mother took the vows with the name Varvara.

On August 26, 1474, Amos took monastic vows with the name Alexander and retired to a secluded island, later called Saint, and spent 10 years there. On the Holy Island there is now the Alexander-Svirsky Skete of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery, where they show a damp cave, in which only one person can hardly fit, and his own grave dug by the hands of the saint. The fame of his deeds spread far and wide. Wanting to avoid people's rumors, the Monk Alexander decided to retire to unknown forests, but at the request of the hegumen he remained. Once, during a night prayer, the blessed one heard a heavenly voice commanding him to go to the place that had been indicated before. Opening the window, Alexander saw a great light pouring from the southeast near the banks of the Svir River. Having learned about the vision, the hegumen blessed the Monk Alexander on his way.

Alexander came to Lake Roshchinskoye and settled in the desert, not far from the Svir River. In the depths of an impenetrable forest, he set up a small hut and indulged in solitary exploits. He lived here for seven years, not seeing a human face, not eating bread and eating only the fruits of the forest, undergoing many hardships from cold, hunger, disease and devilish temptations. But the Lord did not leave the ascetic. Once, when the monk was seriously ill and could not even raise his head from the ground, he hummed psalms lying down. Suddenly, a “glorious husband” appeared before him, put his hand on the sore spot, overshadowed him with the sign of the cross, and healed the righteous man. On another occasion, when the monk was going to fetch water and loudly singing prayers, he heard a voice predicting the coming to him of many people who were to be received and instructed.

In 1493, the boyar Andrey Zavalishin came across the hermit's dwelling while hunting a deer. He was very happy about this meeting, as he had long wanted to visit the place over which he had repeatedly seen a pillar of light. From that time on, Andrei Zavalishin began to visit the holy hermit frequently, and then, on his advice, he took monastic vows on Valaam with the name Adrian. Subsequently, he founded the Ondrusovsky Monastery on the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga and became famous for the conversion of many robbers to the path of repentance. From the robbers, the Monk Adrian Ondrusovsky accepted a martyr's death.

The rumor about the hermit spread in the vicinity and reached the brother of Alexander - John. With joy he ran to the desert to share the hardships of hermitage. Having resigned himself, the blessed one received his dear guest, remembering that at the beginning of his solitary life there was a suggestion from above to him: not to shy away from those who yearn for salvation and to lead them. John, however, did not learn humility and brought much grief to his brother, now boldly teaching, now refusing to build cells for those who came.

With tearful nightly prayers, Alexander overcame irritation and annoyance in himself, and finally acquired an all-conquering love for his neighbor and great peace in his soul. Soon, John died, and his brother buried him in the desert, but Alexander began to gather thirsty to dwell under the shadow of his prayer. The monks cleared the forest, landscaped the arable land, sowed bread, which they fed themselves and served to those who asked. The Monk Alexander, out of love for silence, secluded himself from the brethren and arranged for himself a "waste desert" 130 sazhens from his former place, by Lake Roschinsky. There he met many temptations. The demons took on animal form, whistling like a snake, forcing the monk to flee. But the prayer of the saint, like a fiery flame, burned and dispersed the demons.

In 1508, in the 23rd year of the monk's sojourn in the commanded place, he had a divine manifestation of such power that it could not be compared with any other rapture of his spirit — the manifestation of the Life-Giving Trinity.

The monk prayed at night in the wilderness. Suddenly a strong light shone, and the monk saw the Three Men, dressed in light, white clothes, come in to him. Sanctified by Heavenly glory, They shone with purity, brighter than the sun. Each of them held a rod in His hand. The monk fell in fear, and, having come to his senses, he bowed to the ground. Lifting him by the hand, the men said: "Trust, blessed one, and fear not." The monk received a command to build a church and arrange a monastery. He again fell on his knees, crying out about his unworthiness, but the Lord raised him up and commanded him to do what was indicated. The reverend asked in whose name the church should be. The Lord said: “Beloved, as you see Him speaking to you in Three Persons, so build a church in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Consubstantial Trinity. I leave you peace and My peace will give you." And immediately the Monk Alexander saw the Lord with outstretched wings, as if walking on the earth, and He became invisible. In the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, this Divine descent is known as the only one. A chapel was later built on the site of the appearance of God the Trinity, and to this day the human soul shudders at this place, thinking about the closeness of God to His people.

After the appearance of the Holy Trinity, the monk began to think about where to build the church. An Angel of God appeared to him in a mantle and a doll and pointed out the place. In the same year, a wooden church of the Life-Giving Trinity was built (in 1526 a stone church was erected in its place).

Soon the brethren implored the monk to accept the priesthood, and then the abbess. Having become igumen, the monk became even more humble than before. His clothes were covered in patches, he slept on the bare floor. He cooked his own food, kneaded the dough, baked bread. Once there was not enough firewood and the steward asked the abbot to send those who are idle from the monks to get firewood. "I'm idle"- said the monk and began to chop wood. Another time he also began to carry water. And at night, when everyone was asleep, the monk often ground bread for others with hand millstones. At night, the monk went around the cells and, if he heard vain conversations somewhere, lightly knocked on the door and left, and in the morning he instructed the brethren, imposing penance on the guilty.

Many people flocked to him for spiritual advice, and in communication he showed extraordinary insight: he did not accept gifts from a certain Gregory, accusing him of insulting his mother; he gave important advice to the rich villager Simeon, who did not follow it, he died on a certain day; boyar Timofey Aprelev instructed, for the sake of the birth of his son, to imitate the hospitality of Abraham and Sarah, and a year later Timofey received what he asked for. For his spiritual children, Blessed Alexander was a true healer of souls and healer of ailments. Through the prayer of the monk, the fisherman multiplied his catch, and the merchant multiplied his estate.

Visitors made donations to feed the brethren and build the monastery. Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich knew about the monk and sent skilled craftsmen and a lot of material to build cells for the brothers and the stone Trinity Church.

Kelia Rev. Alexander Svirsky in the Intercession Church. 1909

At the end of his life, the monk wished to build a stone church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, again not without royal participation and Heavenly help. Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich again provided effective assistance, sent an architect, craftsmen and the necessary materials, which could not be obtained in the Olonets region. When the foundation of the temple was laid, the Mother of God appeared to the monk in the place of the altar with the Infant, surrounded by many Angels. The Queen of Heaven promised to fulfill the prayers of the righteous for the disciples and the monastery. The monk fell prostrate before Her and heard a comforting promise that Her protection over the created monastery would not fail even after his repose. At the same time, the monk saw many monks, who later labored in his monastery. At the same time, the disciple Athanasius lay as if dead from a wonderful vision.

In extreme old age, when Alexander had already approached the Lord along the spiritual ladder of his virtues, the monk gathered the brethren, entrusted them to the intercession of the Mother of God, and appointed four hieromonks, so that Saint Macarius would choose an abbot from among them. Until the very moment of his departure, he incessantly instructed the brethren to keep humility and poverty.

Before his death, the Monk Alexander of Svir said to the brethren: “Tie my sinful body at the feet with a rope and drag it into the swampy jungle and, burying it in moss, trample it with your feet.” But the brethren did not agree. Then he asked that his body be buried not in the monastery, but in the "waste desert" near the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Saint Alexander reposed August 30, 1533 An 85 year old man.

In 1545, his disciple Herodion (Kochnev), at the direction of the Archbishop of Novgorod Theodosius, compiled the life of St. Alexander.

All-Russian veneration of the saint began shortly after his death, in 1547, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, probably on the initiative of Metropolitan Macarius, who personally knew him. At the direction of the king, one of the chapels of the Church of the Intercession-on-the-Ditch (St. Basil's Cathedral) was dedicated to the memory of the saint. This is explained by the fact that on the day of memory of St. Alexander Svirsky, Russian troops won an important victory over the Kazan prince Epancha in 1552. His image on the famous miraculous icon with 128 stamps telling about his life, and painted at the behest of the Moscow Metropolitan Macarius in connection with the canonization of the saint, is located in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin.

Locally, his memory is celebrated on the day of the discovery of the relics, and on the feast of Pentecost, in remembrance of the "Three-sunshine" - the Holy Trinity.

Up to 15 students of Rev. Alexander Svirsky, glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery

The Alexander-Svirsky Monastery became one of the most significant monasteries in the north of Russia along with the Valaam and Solovetsky monasteries. The monastery was of great help in 1703 at the foundation of St. Petersburg. The monastery, founded by the Monk Alexander Svirsky, was of exceptional importance for preserving the integrity of the Russian state and the inviolability of its borders in the north. During the invasion of Lithuania, during the Northern War with the Swedes, during the Patriotic War of 1812, the monastery contributed huge amounts of money and food supplies "for military people" and in general "for the sovereign's business." At the best of times, the monastery had 8 churches, a rich sacristy, expensively decorated icons, a rich book depository with ancient manuscripts, scrolls and books. Historians of the 19th century called the monastery the Northern Lavra, 27 monasteries and the desert of this region were subordinate to it.

History of finding relics

The weak human nature of St. Alexander Svirsky was strengthened by the power of God, and, as his disciple, hegumen Herodion wrote in his life, “his body was tempered so that it was not afraid even of a stone impact.” This is the flesh of the holy chosen one of God preserved in an unprecedented imperishable form.The relics of the saint were uncovered on April 17, 1641 . They were placed in a gilded silver reliquary in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, where they rested until 1918, giving many healings to all who "flow with faith" to them. The further fate of St. relics is so unusual that it is worth a detailed narration.

Raka Rev. Alexander Svirsky. Gift from Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich

With the fall of tsarist power in Russia, a terrible turmoil began. The relics of St. Alexander Svirsky were the first in the sad chain of shrines desecrated by the Bolsheviks. It is no coincidence that after the seizure of power in the north (January 5, 1918), the atheists the very next day (January 6) were at the relics of the saint. However, six (!) times the Bolsheviks approached St. relics and could not endure the shrine - apparently, they were fettered by fear of it.

As Soviet propaganda reported, on October 22, 1918, during the registration (i.e., confiscation) of the property of the Alexander Svirsky Monastery, “a wax doll was found in a cast cancer weighing more than 20 pounds of silver instead of the imperishable relics of Alexander Svirsky ". The abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Eugene, who was present during the opening of the shrine, courageously testified against the official version of the authorities, arguing that the true remains of the saint were in the shrine. It was worth about. Eugene of life - a few days later he was shot by the Bolsheviks. All the brethren of the monastery also accepted martyrdom.

On December 21, 1918, they were still able to take out the relics: they were seized and were under the close supervision of Zinoviev himself. It was at his suggestion that a special commission was created, which established that the relics are not a “wax doll” and not a “skeleton in slippers”, but genuine imperishable holy flesh. Then the Bolsheviks began a campaign to hide the relics of the saint and secretly sent them to the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg, where they were kept under the tag of an “unnamed exhibit”, not registered in the meticulously compiled catalogs of the anatomical museum. Everything was done to hide the relics. There were more than 10,000 anatomical preparations in it, so the relics would have flowed in there without attracting anyone's attention. Probably, not only the evil will of the Center, but also the good will of the head. the chair of Vladimir Nikolaevich Tonkov, who, according to his convictions, was not a "militant atheist", and he could try to make sure that they simply forgot about the relics. And surprisingly, not a single employee was arrested at this department, while arrests were commonplace at that time.

In 1997, the search for the relics of the saint began. After a thorough study of all kinds of archives, the organizer of the search, nun Leonida, went to the Military Medical Academy, the museum at the Department of Normal Anatomy - the oldest of the medical museums (it is about 150 years old). Amazing details have come to light. By chance, it became known that Chekists from the NKVD came to the VMA more than once to pick up the relics, and then they hid the “exhibit” between the closet and the wall so that the Chekists would not take it. They were hidden by Vladimir Nikolayevich Tonkov himself with a nurse who also knew who needed to be hidden.

On August 19, 1997, they were officially handed over to the monastic brotherhood of the Alexander-Svir monastery. Historical, archival and forensic research, which ended in St. Petersburg, established that the “mummified remains of an unknown person” that had been in the anatomical museum of the Military Medical Academy since 1919 belonged to the founder of the Alexander Svirsky Monastery. The remains were identified by specialists of the Forensic Medical Expert Service of St. Petersburg, while it was noted that "the natural mummification of such a high state of preservation is inexplicable by modern science."

Immediately after receiving the conclusion, a moleben to the saint was served in the X-ray room. Those present "became witnesses of the beginning of the myrrh-streaming of relics, accompanied by a strong fragrance." Especially the relics of St. Alexander streamed myrrh when he was placed in the temple after a long confinement, on the days of the first Divine Liturgies for the saint. The myrrh-streaming and fragrance was so strong that this smell of flower honey attracted bees from nowhere, they swarmed around the feet of the Reverend, crawled along the windowsill, located next to the shrine. This fact caused great surprise among the television operators who filmed this story for the NTV channel. The aroma of the myrrh was in the altar, and three bees even got into the Chalice with Communion - they had to be saved.

The relics of St. Alexander Svirsky are unique: the body is completely undecayed (!), which happens extremely rarely. And, perhaps, this is the only case when even those parts of the face that ordinary people undergo decay in the first place are not touched by smoldering - the soft tissues of the lips, nose and ears. The researchers were able to conclude: “The similarity of the person under study with the early iconographic images of St. Alexandra". “Not only life-time modeling has been preserved, but also the skin of the face - not wrinkled and dried up, but very smooth and elastic; skin color is light, with a yellowish-amber tinge. Thus did the Lord honor the relics of His witness and seer.

Troparion, tone 4
From youth, God-wise, having moved into the desert with a spiritual desire, you wished for the one Christ, diligently walking in the footsteps of the footprint. At the same time, repair the angels who see you, wondering how with the flesh to the invisible wiles, having struggled with wisdom, you defeated the regiments of passions with abstinence, and you appeared equal to the angels on earth, Reverend Alexandra. Pray to Christ God, may our souls be saved.

Kontakion, tone 8
Like a many-light star today in the Russian countries, thou father shone, having settled in the wilderness, follow the steps of Christ zealously desired, and that holy yoke on your Ramo, take up an honest cross, mortified the labors of your bodily leaps. The same cry to you: save your flock, if you gathered it wiser, let us call you: rejoice, reverend Alexandra, our father.

"Alexander Svirsky" (2006)

Twice in the entire history of mankind the Trinity God was revealed to the bodily human gaze - the first time to Saint Abraham at the oak of Mamre, signifying the great mercy of God to the human race; the second time - on Russian soil to the holy reverend Alexander Svirsky ... What this phenomenon meant to the New Testament saint - we will not dare to answer. We will only strive to honor this land, that monastery that was erected in the north of the Russian land at the behest of God the Trinity and the most “New Testament Abraham” - our reverend father and miracle worker Alexander. Saint Alexander is one of the few Russian saints who was canonized shortly after his righteous death - namely, 14 years later. His disciples and many of his admirers were still alive, so the Life of St. Alexander was written, as they say, “in hot pursuit” and is particularly reliable, there are no “pious schemes” in it, it reflects the unique face of holiness “of all Russia the miracle worker Alexander”. At the holy relics of St. Alexander of Svir, many miracles and healings take place. His body is fragrant, myrrh emanates from the foot of the monk, the smell of which is always present in the temple.

Documentary film "Alexander Svirsky"
Year: 2006
Production: Karelian TV company Nika
Producer: Ilona Rumyantseva, Leonid Shilovsky
Text read by: Vladimir Moikovsky