Saint Matrona of Moscow is one of the most famous and revered saints in Russia. Where to venerate the relics of the wonderworker Matrona? Details in the article!

St. Matrona Moscow. 1885 – 05/02/1952

One of the most famous and revered saints in Russia is Saint Matrona of Moscow. Everyone who visited her at least once, in the Intercession Monastery, will forever remember the extraordinary feeling of closeness, warmth and responsiveness to a request for help that comes during prayerful communication with Mother.

Reliquary with the relics of Saint Matrona

Holy Matrona of Moscow seems to be here, open, stretched out to meet everyone who comes to the temple with faith. Today, what she predicted about herself shortly before her death is being fulfilled: “...few people will go to my grave, only close ones... But after many years, people will find out about me and will come in droves for help in their sorrows and with a request to pray for them. Lord God, and I will help everyone and hear everyone”...

In the Intercession Monastery

Traditional, from the gate, queues, heaps of notes, flowers that she loved, and the joy of knowing that in simplicity and artlessness you will definitely be accepted. You come to her with a bouquet, and sometimes from her you come with a whole bouquet of roses, blessed, caressed, and ahead is the main miracle: help, as simple as if they were talking face to face. This is Mother Matrona of Moscow. No matter how much theologians make fun of this inexhaustible popular adoration, it has its own truth. People yearning for cordiality are consoled by the fact that everything here is “in the Optina way”: “When praying, do not be cunning, but conduct things more simply.” And behind this simplicity and “nationality” is a confessional feat, the story of an obedient, childish devoted love to God.

Blind girl. St. Matrona Moscow

Orphanhood was destined for her even before birth. An ordinary peasant family from a village near Tula, where they barely made ends meet. Before her birth in 1885, her mother, out of poverty and despair, was thinking about how to place the unwanted baby in an orphanage. And the newborn girl, small, weak, turned out to be completely defenseless in front of the world - blind, and the mother suddenly came to her senses, realizing that if not she, no one would take care of this child, no one would need him, and Matronushka was left in the family.

Over time, what seemed like a “burden” became a greater joy for the mother than her older children. The girl grew up affectionate and kind. The little one, herself weak, tried to support her mother, as if she wasn’t the one who needed help. When mother regretted about her, about her future fate, Matrona only answered: “Am I unhappy? You have Vanya, unfortunate, and Misha.” They didn’t understand her words at the time, but they began to notice that this child was unusual. It was clear that she was given vision, although different from ordinary: she made her way to icons, loved to hold images in her hands, distinguished...

...Short, with short arms and legs, Matrona Nikonova from childhood found herself “isolated” from ordinary life. Communication with her peers sometimes brought her suffering: they made fun of her weakness, and she accepted her illness as a fence - an inner life began in constant turning to God, to the saints. Her faith was strong, like that of an adult. Her favorite corner was a secluded place in the Assumption Church, near the house, on the left, behind front door, where she stood motionless for hours in prayer.

One incident revealed its unusual inner life, when Matronushka suddenly said in the middle of the night that the priest who baptized her, Father Vasily, had died, and her words turned out to be true. Then the relatives remembered an important episode: when Fr. Vasily baptized Matrona, during the sacrament a light fragrant cloud rose above the font, and the priest predicted that their child would be holy.

The spiritual vision that the girl was endowed with from God began to manifest itself more and more clearly. She predicted future events, often saving people from danger, she foresaw and natural disasters, for many years predicted revolution and persecution of the Church. Through her prayer, people began to receive healing and help in their sorrows. They learned about the little prayer book: people began to flock to the Nikonovs’ house not only from the surrounding villages, but also from other provinces.

There were also joys in the life of Matrona of Moscow during that period: pilgrimages to Kiev Pechersk Lavra, to Trinity-Sergius. The Lord sent a kind soul: the daughter of a local landowner, Lydia, accepted Matrona as a companion on her travels to holy places, taking care of her. A legend has also been preserved that in Kronstadt, among the crowd, Matronushka himself was singled out and blessed by Fr. John Sergiev. Having previously called a girl he did not know by name, Fr. John added: “Change to me, the eighth pillar of Russia.”

Gift of Saint Matrona of Moscow

In the seventeenth year of her life, Matrona of Moscow “began to lose her legs,” suddenly, as if from a blow. She herself saw this as a test of faith and said that she was also shown a person, a woman, who deliberately caused her harm, out of hatred for those who please God with prayer. Matrona accepted the disease as the Cross of Christ, sent not without the will of God.

In her bodily suffering she was given the opportunity to feel what the Apostle Paul experienced: the abundance of grace in the extreme weakness of the flesh. Her insight was amazing. Matrona of Moscow accused one visitor of a hidden sin - she, in times of famine, sold stale and unclean milk to orphans and the poor, another revealed that the thing she had in mind would not come true - and the materials had been prepared, and there were funds, but the revolution would prevent the construction of a new bell tower, while the third She advised me to quickly sell the estate and go abroad. On the rare occasions when her advice was ignored, events made her regret it. The landowner Yankov hoped that he would “sit out” the unrest in the outback, and did not avoid premature death, leaving his only daughter a homeless orphan.

The sick and relaxed were taken to Matryusha: they would pray, give water, and, it seemed, a terminally ill person, after a long and deep sleep, would get up completely healthy. Matrona herself did not recognize any miraculous power in herself: “What, Matronushka God, or what? God helps in everything.” This elevated her to the rank of an evangelical doctor: not for the sake of self-interest she treated people and helped, being content with only what was necessary, but to glorify the Name of God, and not on her own, but through prayer appeal to the Lord. For this, Matrona was hated by “healers” and sorcerers, sorcerers and occultists, who “competed” with her and were powerless. Matrona of Moscow warned people against deviating towards the path of “easy help”: to help – they will “help”, but only temporarily, but they will set an exorbitant price - a soul created by God, immortal.

From Arbat to Posad

The revolution also created a division in her family: both Matrona’s brothers joined the party. Living under the same roof with the blessed one, to whom people were still coming and traveling from everywhere, was unbearable for them. Both were “activists”, rural agitators. Matronushka could neither retreat from God nor hide the gift received from Him as “not hers,” but given to her for the benefit of her neighbors, and, feeling sorry for her elderly parents, she moved to Moscow. Since 1925, Matrona of Moscow became a homeless wanderer: no permanent corner, no registration.

Before the war, she lived on Ulyanovskaya Street in the house of a priest who sheltered her for a while, and then on Pyatnitskaya, in Sokolniki in a summer house, where in cold times the walls were covered with a film of ice, in the basement of her niece she lived in Vishnyakovsky Lane and at the Nikitsky Gate, in Petrovsko-Razumovsky and Tsaritsyno, and stayed in Sergiev Posad. “Legless,” she knew all of Moscow from basements and nooks.

More than once she, like a bird, took off just before the arrival of the police and sought refuge at the other end of the city. She was accompanied by “cell attendants” who shared her wanderings.

Matrona of Moscow did not seem to notice any inconvenience for herself. There were no complaints, no grumbling, no annoyance. She loved Moscow, called it a “holy city” and, predicting the approach of a long and bloody war, consoled her: “The enemy will not touch Moscow. There is no need to leave Moscow.”

Since 1942, Matrona of Moscow finally had “her own corner” in Starokonyushenny Lane, a woman from the same village as her, where she stayed for five years. Three corners of the room, from the ceiling to the floor, were occupied by icons. A small “island” of the former life behind heavy, pre-revolutionary tailoring curtains. Here they carefully kept the fire in the lamps, remembered the holidays and days of great saints and, as before, prayed.

And the people, as before, came for help, so much so that on some days forty people flocked to her. So life went on according to the established routine: during the day there were visitors, at night for prayer, short breaks for sleep, although she did not sleep deeply, but only dozed, like a monk, with her head on her fist.

The fates of the people who fought at the front were revealed to Mother; she did not refuse to pray for the soldiers and was often present at different places countries. Among her predictions, I remember the one relating to her “small homeland”: “The Germans will not enter Tula.”

It happened that those who came to the Holy Matrona of Moscow in despair, no longer hoping for anything, received help for a simple promise to firmly believe that there is a God and by His power everything will be accomplished and settled, for attention to her words that Christians need, without taking off, wear a cross, read prayers, get married in church. And this was followed by hundreds of testimonies of healings, deliverance from the power of evil spirits, and resolution of confusing, difficult circumstances. She consoled, encouraged, exhorted, promising that the Lord would not abandon Russia, and that disasters were sent for the impoverishment of faith.

And so Saint Matrona of Moscow served God to the end, not thinking highly of herself, always keeping herself simple and modest, not encouraging any external separations or “isolations into spirituality.” “No appearance, no grandeur,” no monastic vestments. She looked like an ordinary woman, only very weak and burdened by illness and disorder, always complacent, with a bright face and a childish smile. However, not only for the laity, but also for the monks of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, she was a “man of God,” a “spiritual mother,” whom many knew and whose prayers they treasured.

In the first years after her death in 1952, only a limited number of people knew about the small grave of Matrona of Moscow at the Danilovsky cemetery, chosen because one of the few functioning churches was located there. Only decades later did her glorification take place, the relics were transferred to the Intercession Monastery, and again people came with candles, with bouquets of flowers, with the singing of the new Moscow and All-Russian saint - to certify the fruits of her earthly feat, humbly accomplished in a simple Russian dress with polka dots.

Sources and literature used and recommended for reading:

1. Matrona of Moscow. The story of life. By blessing His Holiness Patriarch Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 2002. (Internet publication: http://www.wco.ru/biblio/books/matrona1/Main.htm).

2. Blessed Matrona of Moscow // Orthodox calendar. (http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Life/life4629.htm).

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Shortly before giving birth, I had a dream about the peasant woman Natalia prophetic dream. A white bird with a human face appeared to her and eyes closed and sat on her right hand . And on November 22, 1885, she gave birth to a blind girl. The family of Dmitry and Natalia Nikonov lived so poorly that the mother was going to give her unborn child to the orphanage of Prince Golitsyn, he was in a neighboring village. The stove was heated with black straw, three children subsisted from kvass to water... But after a sign in a dream, the mother changed her mind about sending the child to an orphanage. And subsequently she did not regret it; seven years later the girl became the main breadwinner of the family. The girl was christened Matrona (Matrona) in honor of the Venerable Matrona of Constantinople. When the child was baptized, a pillar of light appeared over the font, and an extraordinary fragrance spread throughout the church; the surprised priest predicted that the girl would become a righteous woman. She didn't have an easy life. Little Matrona was teased by children and sometimes even mocked her. The girls could lash her with nettles, knowing that she would not see who did it. Having put Matrona in a hole, they watched her get out of there by touch. Matrona had no eyes at all; the eye sockets were closed with tightly closed eyelids. There was a mark on the chest, a bulge on the chest in the shape of a cross. Blind Matrona knew what was happening around, what would happen, what was going on in the souls of people. One day the mother thought to herself: “You are my unfortunate child!” She answered her: “Am I unhappy? You have Vanya, unfortunate, and Misha.” Many years later, the Matrona brothers would become Bolsheviks and rural activists, and Blessed Matrona, out of pity for them, would leave for Moscow so as not to expose her family to the threat of repression. After Matrona turned seven years old, people from surrounding villages and neighboring provinces began to come to her, they even brought bedridden patients, whom the girl raised to their feet. She healed with prayer, but did not take payment for her help, and people left food or gifts in gratitude. During one of her pilgrimages, she met Saint John of Kronstadt. Once, after a service in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, he, seeing Matrona, asked people to make way for the 14-year-old girl and said: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift – the eighth pillar of Russia.” Matrona was 17 years old when her legs suddenly became paralyzed. From that time until her death, she could no longer walk. “This is the will of God,” she said. And she helped others get back on their feet. One man’s legs couldn’t walk; he lived four kilometers from Sebino. Matrona said: “Let him come to me in the morning, crawl. By three o'clock he will crawl, crawl." The man crawled these four kilometers and left Matrona home on his own feet. She helped even those who did not believe in her. Matrona’s fellow villager brought her brother to her, he did not believe that Matrona was capable of healing people. “Well, your brother said that I can’t do anything, but I myself have become like a fence,” said Matrona, she said prayers, gave him water, and the next morning the man was healthy. “Thank your sister, her faith healed you,” Matrona told him. In 1925, Matrona left her parental home in the village of Sebino, Epifansky district Tula province to Moscow. Her wandering life began. She lived without her own corner, passport or registration. She lived either with those or with others who invited her. Moving to Moscow from her native village, where more than forty years of her life had passed, was a difficult test for Matronushka, but she feared for the fate of her mother and the fate of those close to her. They could get hurt because of her. In the capital, this blind and frail woman wandered around other people's apartments, rejoicing in any corner given to her. Somewhere in Sokolniki, my mother lived in a small plywood house. The conditions there were so terrible that one day, when mother was lying on the bed, her hair froze to the wall from the dampness and cold. But Matryonushka never grumbled; she always brought joy, tranquility and warmth to any home that sheltered her, to any corner. Very soon the rumor about mother spread throughout the capital. A line of people came to her, just as in Sebino; ​​she received up to forty people a day and prayed for everyone who came. Mother read the Our Father and other prayers known to all Orthodox Christians, and soon, through Matryonushka’s pure and bright faith, the Lord sent relief to the mourners. And many came to her for advice or just to chat with this bright and kind man. Matrona predicted a revolution, Civil and Great Patriotic War, Russian victory. There is evidence unusual stories when she helped while alive and after death. They say that it was she who prompted Stalin to serve a prayer service to the Kazan Mother of God, after which the cold came, and the Germans could not stand it and retreated. Matrona urged not to judge anyone: “Why judge other people? Think about yourself more often. Each sheep will be hung by its tail. What do you care about other ponytails? She spoke about treatment like this: “The body is our house, given by God, it needs to be repaired. God created the world, medicinal herbs, this cannot be neglected... You cannot turn to grandmothers. They will cure one thing, but they will harm the soul.” Matrona believed that it was not she who healed, but God. She taught that you need to trust the Almighty: “They carry a child in a sleigh, he has no care. The Lord himself will manage everything!” Saint Matrona passed away on May 2, 1952. The funeral took place on May 5. Her funeral service was held in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe on Donskaya Street. Then the funeral procession moved to the Danilovskoye cemetery. Mother Matryona wanted to be buried here so that she could hear the service from those standing nearby. active temple. On that day, fellow villagers who had known her since childhood and people who had seen her only a few or even once in her life mourned for Matrona. Monks from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra also arrived. In this monastery, mother was well known and revered as a righteous woman. Matronushka prophesied about what would happen after her death: few people will go to my grave, only close ones, and when they die, my grave will be deserted, except occasionally someone will come; but after many years people will find out about me and will come in crowds for help in their sorrows and with requests to pray for them to the Lord God, and I will help everyone and hear everyone. The prophecy of the blessed old woman came true - the veneration of Saint Matryona increased year by year and even people of little faith began to come to her grave to bow to their mother and take sand for healing. On March 13, 1998, the commission to open the burial of Mother Matrona completed its work and soon the sisters of the Holy Intercession Monastery received joyful news that the honest remains of Saint Matrona would be transferred from the Danilovsky cemetery to their monastery. For several years, nuns came to the grave of Matryona Nikonova. They prayed for the repose of her soul. They fed the people who came there. They asked that Saint Matrona be reburied within their walls. And on the first of May of the same year 98, the shrine with the relics was placed here, in the Intercession Cathedral of the monastery. On this day all the bells of the monastery rang. And although the event was not announced anywhere in advance, hundreds of people suddenly flocked to the monastery. It was probably one of those miracles that mother always performs. Matrona continues to help people even after her death. “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see you, and hear you, and help you. I will meet everyone who turns to me for help at their death, everyone,” she said before her death. Memorial Day of Matrona of Moscow - May 2. Matronushka is highly revered in Moscow. In order to venerate her relics and the miraculous icon in Pokrovsky convent, you have to stand in a five-hour queue. It is forbidden to film in the monastery, and no one violates the ban. Here you always see an unprecedented number of people. There's no crowding - thousands and thousands of people, men and women, a lot of them very young. Every single one of them has flowers. These thousands of people spread out into two lines: one to the icon on the street, the second to the church to the relics. They stand calmly and somehow joyfully, in bad weather in the cold and wind, but their faces are not at all gloomy. There is also a holy spring, to which people specially take bottles to get some water. However, this long standing cleanses the soul. And Matrona helps only those who have pure thoughts. shkolazhizni.ru

St. Matrona Moscow - Biography

Blessed Matrona (Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova) was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino, Epifansky district (now Kimovsky district) of the Tula province. This village is located about twenty kilometers from the famous Kulikovo Field.

Her parents - Dimitri and Natalia, peasants - were pious people, worked honestly, and lived poorly. The family had four children: two brothers - Ivan and Mikhail, and two sisters - Maria and Matrona. Matrona was the youngest. When she was born, her parents were no longer young.

Given the need in which the Nikonovs lived, the fourth child could, first of all, become an extra mouth. Therefore, due to poverty, even before the birth of the last child, the mother decided to get rid of him.

There could be no question of killing a baby in the womb of a patriarchal peasant family. But there were many orphanages where illegitimate and disadvantaged children were raised at public expense or at the expense of benefactors.

Matrona’s mother decided to send her unborn child to the orphanage of Prince Golitsin in the neighboring village of Buchalki, but she saw a prophetic dream. The unborn daughter appeared to Natalia in a dream in the form of a white bird with a human face and closed eyes and sat on her right hand. Taking the dream as a sign, the God-fearing woman gave up the idea of ​​sending the child to an orphanage. The daughter was born blind, but the mother loved her “unfortunate child.”

Holy Scripture testifies that the Omniscient God sometimes chooses servants for Himself even before their birth. Thus, the Lord says to the holy prophet Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you” (Jer. 1:5). The Lord, having chosen Matrona for a special service, with from the very beginning he laid a heavy cross on her, which she bore with humility and patience all her life.

At baptism, the girl was named Matrona in honor of the Venerable Matrona of Constantinople, a Greek ascetic of the 5th century, whose memory is celebrated on November 9 (22). The fact that the girl was chosen by God was evidenced by the fact that at baptism, when the priest lowered the child into the font, those present saw a column of fragrant light smoke above the baby.

This was reported by a relative of the blessed Pavel Ivanovich Prokhorov, who was present at the baptism. The priest, Father Vasily, whom the parishioners revered as righteous and blessed, was incredibly surprised: “I baptized a lot, but this is the first time I see this, and this baby will be holy.” Father Vasily also told Natalia: “If the girl asks for something, you must contact me directly, go and tell me directly what is needed.”

He added that Matrona would take his place and even predict his death. This is what happened later. One night Matronushka suddenly told her mother that Father Vasily had died. The surprised and frightened parents ran to the priest's house. When they arrived, it turned out that he had indeed just died.

They also talk about the external, physical sign of the baby’s chosenness by God - on the girl’s chest there was a bulge in the shape of a cross, not made by hands pectoral cross. Later, when she was already six years old, her mother once began to scold her: “Why are you taking off your cross?” “Mommy, I have my own cross on my chest,” the girl answered. “Dear daughter,” Natalia came to her senses, “forgive me! But I keep scolding you...”

Natalia’s friend later said that when Matrona was still a baby, her mother complained: “What should I do? The girl doesn’t breastfeed on Wednesday and Friday, she sleeps for days on these days, it’s impossible to wake her up.”

Matrona was not just blind, she had no eyes at all. The eye sockets were closed with tightly closed eyelids, like those of the white bird her mother had seen in her dream. But the Lord gave her spiritual sight. Even in infancy, at night, when her parents were sleeping, she would sneak into the holy corner, in some incomprehensible way take icons off the shelf, put them on the table and play with them in the silence of the night.

Matronushka was often teased by children, even mocked at her: the girls lashed her with nettles, knowing that she would not see who exactly was offending her. They put her in a hole and watched with curiosity as she groped her way out of there and wandered home. Therefore, she stopped playing with children early and almost always stayed at home. From the age of seven or eight, Matronushka discovered the gift of prediction and healing the sick.

The Nikonovs' house was located near the Church of the Assumption Mother of God. The temple is beautiful, one for seven or eight surrounding villages. Matrona’s parents were distinguished by deep piety and loved to attend divine services together. Matronushka literally grew up in church, going to services first with her mother, then alone, whenever possible.

Not knowing where her daughter was, her mother usually found her in church. She had her usual place - on the left, behind the front door, near the western wall, where she stood motionless during the service. She knew well church hymns and often sang along with the singers. Apparently, even in childhood, Matrona acquired the gift of unceasing prayer.

When her mother, feeling sorry for her, said to Matronushka: “You are my unfortunate child!” - she was surprised: “Am I unhappy? You have Vanya, the unfortunate one, and Misha.” She understood that she was given much more from God than others. Matrona was marked by God from an early age with the gift of spiritual reasoning, insight, miracles and healing.

Those close to her began to notice that she knew not only human sins and crimes, but also thoughts. She felt the approach of danger and foresaw natural and social disasters. Through her prayer, people received healing from illnesses and consolation in sorrows. Visitors began to come and visit her. People were coming to the Nikonovs’ hut, carts and carts with the sick from the surrounding villages and hamlets, from all over the district, from other districts and even provinces.

They brought in bedridden patients, whom the girl raised to their feet. Wanting to thank Matrona, they left food and gifts for her parents. So the girl, instead of becoming a burden to the family, became its main breadwinner. Matrona's parents loved to go to church together. One day on a holiday, Matrona’s mother gets dressed and calls her husband with her. But he refused and did not go.

At home he read prayers, sang, Matrona was also at home. The mother, while in the church, kept thinking about her husband: “Well, he didn’t go.” And she was still worried. The liturgy ended, Natalia came home, and Matrona said to her: “You, mother, were not in the church.” “How could I not be? I just came and now I’m undressing!” And the girl notices: “My father was in the temple, but you weren’t there.” With spiritual vision, she saw that her mother was in the temple only physically.

One autumn Matronushka was sitting on a rubble. Her mother says to her: “Why are you sitting there, it’s cold, go to the hut.” The matron replies: “I can’t sit at home, they put fire on me and stab me with pitchforks.” The mother is perplexed: “There is no one there.” And Matrona explains to her: “You, mother, don’t understand, Satan is tempting me!” One day Matrona says to her mother: “Mom, get ready, I’ll have a wedding soon.”

The mother told the priest, he came and gave the girl communion (he always gave her communion at home at her request). And suddenly, after a few days, carts go and go to the Nikonovs’ house, people come with their troubles and sorrows, they carry the sick, and for some reason everyone asks Matronushka. She read prayers over them and healed many. Her mother asks: “Matryushenka, what is this?” And she replies: “I told you there will be a wedding.”

Ksenia Ivanovna Sifarova, a relative of Blessed Matrona’s brother, told how Matrona once told her mother: “I’ll leave now, and tomorrow there will be a fire, but you won’t burn.” And indeed, in the morning a fire started, almost the entire village burned down, then the wind spread the fire to the other side of the village, and the mother’s house remained intact.

In her adolescence she had the opportunity to travel. The daughter of a local landowner, a pious and kind girl Lydia Yankova, took Matrona with her on pilgrimages: to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, to St. Petersburg, and other cities and holy places of Russia.

A legend has reached us about Matronushka’s meeting with the saint. righteous John Kronstadsky, who, at the end of the service in St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Kronstadt, asked the people to make way for the 14-year-old Matrona, who was approaching the salt, and said publicly: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift - the eighth pillar of Russia.”

Mother did not explain the meaning of these words to anyone, but her loved ones guessed that Father John foresaw a special service for Matronushka to Russia and the Russian people during the times of persecution of the Church. A little time passed, and at the age of seventeen Matrona lost the ability to walk: her legs suddenly became paralyzed.

Mother herself pointed to the spiritual cause of the disease. She walked through the temple after communion and knew that a woman would approach her and take away her ability to walk. And so it happened. “I did not avoid this - such was the will of God.” Until the end of her days she was “sedentary.” And her stay - in different houses and apartments where she found shelter - continued for another fifty years.

She never grumbled because of her illness, but humbly bore this heavy cross given to her by God. Even at an early age, Matrona predicted the revolution, how “they will rob, destroy churches and drive everyone away.” Figuratively, she showed how they would divide the land, grab plots of land greedily, just to grab the excess for themselves, and then everyone would abandon the land and run in all directions Nobody will need the land.

Matrona advised the landowner from their village Sebino Yankov before the revolution to sell everything and go abroad. If he had listened to the blessed one, he would not have seen the plunder of his estate and would have avoided an early, untimely death, and his daughter would have avoided wanderings.

Matrona’s fellow villager, Evgenia Ivanovna Kalachkova, said that just before the revolution, one lady bought a house in Sebino, came to Matrona and said: “I want to build a bell tower.” “What you are planning to do will not come true,” Matrona replies. The lady was surprised: “How can it not come true when I have everything - both money and materials?” So nothing came of the construction of the bell tower.

For the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God, at the insistence of Matrona (who had already gained fame in the area and whose request was perceived as a blessing), the icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was painted. This is how it happened.

One day Matrona asked her mother to tell the priest that in his library, in such and such a row, there was a book with an image of the icon “Recovery of the Lost.” Father was very surprised. They found the icon, and Matronushka said: “Mom, I will write out such an icon.” The mother was saddened - how to pay for her? Then Matrona says to her mother: “Mom, I keep dreaming about the icon “Recovery of the Dead.”

The Mother of God asks to come to our church.” Matronushka blessed the women to collect money for the icon in all villages. Among other donors, one man gave a ruble reluctantly, and his brother gave one kopeck out of laughter. When the money was brought to Matronushka, she sorted through it, found this ruble and a kopeck and said to her mother: “Mom, give it to them, they are ruining all my money.”

When we collected the required amount, we ordered an icon from an artist from Epifani. His name remains unknown. Matrona asked him if he could paint such an icon. He replied that this was a common thing for him.

Matrona ordered him to repent of his sins, confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. Then she asked: “Do you know for sure that you will paint this icon?” The artist answered in the affirmative and began to write. A lot of time passed, and finally he came to Matrona and said that he was not succeeding.

And she answers him: “Go, repent of your sins” (with spiritual vision she saw that there was still a sin that he had not confessed). He was shocked how she knew this.

Then he went to the priest again, repented, took communion again, and asked Matrona for forgiveness. She told him: “Go, now you will paint the icon of the Queen of Heaven” (The icon was painted around 1915. Matrona did not part with it all her life. Now this icon of the Mother of God is in Moscow, in the Intercession Convent).

With the money collected in the villages, with the blessing of Matrona, another icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was commissioned in Bogoroditsk (It is located in the Holy Dormition Monastery of the Tula Diocese, in the city of Novomoskovsk).

When she was ready they carried her procession with banners from Bogoroditsk to the church in Sebino. Matrona went to meet the icon four kilometers away, they led her arm in arm. Suddenly she said: “Don’t go further, now it’s soon, they are already coming, they are close.” The woman who was blind from birth spoke as if she were sighted: “In half an hour they will come and bring the icon.” Indeed, half an hour later a religious procession appeared.

A prayer service was served, and the procession headed to Sebino. Matrona either held on to the icon, or was led by the arms next to it. This image of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” became the main local shrine and became famous for many miracles. When there was a drought, it was taken out to a meadow in the middle of the village and a prayer service was served. After it, people did not have time to reach their homes before it began to rain.

Throughout her life, Blessed Matrona was surrounded by icons. In the room where she subsequently lived for a particularly long time, there were three red corners, and in them there were icons from top to bottom, with lamps burning in front of them. One woman who worked at the Church of the Deposition of the Robe in Moscow often went to Matrona and later recalled how she told her: “I know all the icons in your church, which one is where.”

People were also surprised by the fact that Matrona also had the usual, like sighted people, idea of ​​the world around her. To the sympathetic appeal of a person close to her, Zinaida Vladimirovna Zhdanova: “It’s a pity, mother, that you don’t see the beauty of the world!” - she once answered: “God once opened my eyes and showed me the world and His creation. And I saw the sun, and the stars in the sky, and everything on earth, the beauty of the earth: mountains, rivers, green grass, flowers, birds...”

But there is even more amazing evidence of the blessed one’s foresight. 3. V. Zhdanova recalls: “Mother was completely illiterate, but she knew everything. In 1946, I had to defend my diploma project “Ministry of the Navy” (I was then studying at the architectural institute in Moscow). My boss, for some unknown reason, was following me all the time.

For five months, he never consulted me, deciding to “fail” my diploma. Two weeks before my defense, he announced to me: “Tomorrow a commission will come and confirm the failure of your work!” I came home in tears: my father was in prison, there was no one to help, my mother was dependent on me, my only hope was to protect myself and work.

Mother listened to me and said: “Nothing, nothing, you’ll defend yourself! We’ll drink tea in the evening and we’ll talk!” I could barely wait for the evening, and then my mother said: “You and I will go to Italy, to Florence, to Rome, and see the works of the great masters...” And she began to list the streets and buildings!

She stopped: “Here is Palazzo Pitti, here is another palace with arches, do the same as there - the three lower floors of the building with large masonry and two entrance arches.” I was shocked by her work. In the morning I ran to the institute, put tracing paper on the project and brown I made all the corrections with ink. At ten o’clock the commission arrived. They looked at my project and said: “Well, the project turned out great, it looks great - defend yourself!”

Many people came to Matrona for help. Four kilometers from Sebino lived a man whose legs could not walk. Matrona said: “Let him come to me in the morning, crawl. By three o’clock he will crawl, crawl.” He crawled these four kilometers, and walked away from her on his own feet, healed.

One day, women from the village of Orlovka came to Matrona during Easter week. The matron received while sitting by the window. She gave prosphora to one, water to another, a red egg to the third, and told her to eat this egg when she went outside the gardens to the threshing floor. This woman put the egg in her bosom, and they went. When they left the threshing floor, the woman, as Matrona told her, broke an egg, and there was a mouse. They all got scared and decided to go back.

We went to the window, and Matrona said: “What, is there a nasty mouse?” “Matronushka, how can you eat it?” “But how did you sell milk to people, especially to orphans, widows, the poor who don’t have a cow? The mouse was in the milk, you pulled it out, and gave the milk to the people.” The woman says: “Matronushka, but they didn’t see the mouse- They didn’t even know, I threw her out of there.” - “God knows that you were selling mouse milk!”

Many people came to Matrona with their illnesses and sorrows. Having intercession before God, she helped many. A.F. Vybornova, whose father was baptized together with Matrona, tells the details of one of these healings. “My mother comes from the village of Ustye, and she had a brother there. One day he gets up - neither his arms nor his legs move, they became like whips. But he did not believe in Matrona’s healing abilities.

My brother’s daughter went to the village of Sebino to pick up my mother: “Godmother, let’s go quickly, my father is bad, he’s become like a fool: his hands are down, his eyes are not looking, his tongue is barely moving.” Then my mother harnessed a horse and she and her father went to Ustye. brother, and he looked at mom and barely said “sister.” She gathered her brother and brought him to our village.

She left him at home and went to Matryusha to ask if she could bring him. She comes, and Matryusha says to her: “Well, your brother said that I can’t do anything, but I myself have become like a fence.” But she hasn’t seen him yet! Then she said: “Bring him to me, I’ll help.” She read over him, gave him water, and sleep fell on him. He slept like a log and woke up completely healthy in the morning. “Thank your sister, her faith healed you,” was all Matrona said to her brother.”

The help that Matrona gave to the sick not only had nothing to do with conspiracies, divination, so-called folk healing, extrasensory perception, magic and other witchcraft actions, during which the “healer” comes into contact with dark force, but had a fundamentally different, Christian nature.

That is why the righteous Matrona was so hated by sorcerers and various occultists, as evidenced by people who knew her closely during the Moscow period of her life. First of all, Matrona prayed for people. Being a saint of God, richly endowed with spiritual gifts from above, she asked the Lord for miraculous help for the sick. The history of the Orthodox Church knows many examples when not only clergy or ascetic monks, but also righteous people who lived in the world healed those in need of help through prayer.

Matrona read a prayer over the water and gave it to those who came to her. Those who drank the water and sprinkled it with it got rid of various misfortunes. The content of these prayers is unknown, but, of course, there could be no question of the blessing of water according to the rite established by the Church, to which only clergy have the canonical right.

But it is also known that not only holy water has beneficial healing properties, but also the water of some reservoirs, springs, wells, marked by the presence and prayer life of holy people near them, the appearance miraculous icons. In 1925, Matrona moved to Moscow, where she would live until the end of her days.

In this huge capital city there were many unfortunate, lost, fallen from the faith, spiritually sick people with a poisoned consciousness. Living for about three decades in Moscow, she performed that spiritual and prayerful service that turned many away from death and led to salvation.

The blessed one loved Moscow very much, she said that “this is a holy city, the heart of Russia.”

Both Matrona's brothers, Mikhail and Ivan, joined the party, Mikhail became a rural activist. It is clear that the presence in their home of the blessed one, who received people all day long, taught by deed and example to preserve the Orthodox faith, became unbearable for the brothers.

They feared reprisals. Feeling sorry for them, as well as for her elderly parents (Matrona’s mother died in 1945), Mother moved to Moscow. I began wandering around relatives and friends, in houses, apartments, and basements. Matrona lived almost everywhere without registration, and miraculously escaped arrest several times. Novices - hozhalki - lived with her and looked after her.

This was a new period of her ascetic life. She becomes a homeless wanderer. Sometimes she had to live with people who were hostile to her. Housing in Moscow was difficult; there was no choice.

3.B. Zhdanova told what hardships the blessed one sometimes had to endure: “I arrived in Sokolniki, where mother often lived in a small plywood house, given to her for a while. It was deep autumn.

I entered the house, and in the house there was thick, damp and dank steam, an iron stove-stove was burning. I went up to my mother, and she was lying on the bed facing the wall, she couldn’t turn to me, her hair was frozen to the wall and could barely be pulled off. I said in horror: “Mother, how can this happen?

After all, you know that we live together with my mother, my brother is at the front, my father is in prison and what happened to him is unknown, but we have two rooms in a warm house, forty-eight square meters, a separate entrance; Why didn’t you ask to come to us?” Mother sighed heavily and said: “God did not order so that you would not regret it later.”

Before the war, Matrona lived on Ulyanovskaya Street with priest Vasily, the husband of her novice Pelageya, while he was free. She lived on Pyatnitskaya Street, in Sokolniki (in a summer plywood building), in Vishnyakovsky Lane (in her niece’s basement), she also lived at the Nikitsky Gate, in Petrovsko-Razumovsky, and visited her nephew in Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk), in Tsaritsyno.

She lived the longest (from 1942 to 1949) on Arbat, in Starokonyushenny Lane. Here, in an old wooden mansion, in a 48-meter room, lived Matrona’s fellow villager, E.M. Zhdanova with her daughter Zinaida. It was in this room that three corners were occupied by icons, from top to bottom. Antique lamps hung in front of the icons, and heavy expensive curtains hung on the windows (before the revolution, the house belonged to Zhdanova’s husband, who came from a rich and noble family).

They say that Matrona left some places in a hurry, foreseeing impending troubles in spirit, always on the eve of the police coming to her, since she lived without registration. Times were hard, and people were afraid to register it. In this way she saved not only herself, but also the hosts who sheltered her, from repression.

Many times they wanted to arrest Matrona. Many of her loved ones were arrested and imprisoned (or exiled). Zinaida Zhdanova was convicted as a member of a church-monarchist group. Ksenia Ivanovna Sifarova said that Matrona’s nephew Ivan lived in Zagorsk. And suddenly she mentally calls him to her.

He came to his boss and said: “I want to ask you for time off, I just can’t, I need to go to my aunt.” He arrived without knowing what was going on. And Matrona said to him: “Come on, come on, take me quickly to Zagorsk, to my mother-in-law.” As soon as they left, the police came. It happened many times: they just want to arrest her, but she leaves the day before.

Anna Filippovna Vybornova recalls such an incident. One day a policeman came to take Matrona away, and she said to him: “Go, go quickly, you have misfortune in the house! But the blind woman won’t get away from you, I’m sitting on the bed, I’m not going anywhere.” He obeyed. He went home, and his wife was burned from the kerosene gas.

But he managed to get her to the hospital. He comes to work the next day, and they ask him: “Well, did you take the blind woman?” And he replies: “I will never pick up a blind one. If the blind woman hadn’t told me, I would have lost my wife, but I still managed to take her to the hospital.”

Living in Moscow, Matrona visited her village - either they would call her on some business, or she would miss home, her mother. Outwardly, her life flowed monotonously: during the day - receiving people, at night - prayer. Like the ancient ascetics, she never really went to bed, but dozed, lying on her side, on her fist. Years passed like this.

Somehow in 1939 or 1940, Matrona said: “Now you are all quarreling, dividing, but the war is about to begin. Of course, many people will die, but our Russian people will win.”

At the beginning of 1941, Z. V. Zhdanova’s cousin Olga Noskova asked her mother for advice on whether she should go on vacation (they gave her a ticket, but she didn’t want to go on vacation in the winter). Mother said: “We need to go on vacation now, then there will be no vacations for a long, long time. There will be a war. Victory will be ours, the enemy will not touch Moscow, it will only burn a little. There is no need to leave Moscow.”

When the war began, mother asked everyone who came to her to bring willow branches. She broke them into sticks of equal length, peeled them from the bark and prayed. Her neighbors recalled that her fingers were covered in wounds. Matrona could be spiritually present in various places; for her spiritual gaze, space did not exist. She often said that she was invisible at the fronts, helping our soldiers. She told everyone that the Germans would not enter Tula. Her prophecy came true.

Matronushka received up to forty people a day. People came with their troubles, mental and physical pain. She refused to help anyone, except those who came with crafty intentions. Others saw in mother a folk healer who was able to remove damage or the evil eye, but after communicating with her they understood that in front of them man of God, and turned to the Church, to its saving sacraments. Helping her people was selfless; she did not take anything from anyone.

Mother always read her prayers loudly. Those who knew her closely say that these prayers were well-known, read in church and at home: “Our Father,” “May God rise again,” the ninetieth psalm, “Lord Almighty, God of hosts and all flesh” (from morning prayers). She emphasized that it is not herself who helps, but God through her prayers: “What, Matronushka is God, or what? God helps!” - she answers Ksenia Gavrilovna Potapova when asked to help her.

Healing the sick, mother demanded that they believe in God and correct their sinful lives. So, she asks one visitor if she believes that the Lord is able to heal her. Another, who fell ill with epilepsy, orders not to miss a single Sunday service, to confess at each and receive the Holy Mysteries of Christ. She blesses those living in a civil marriage to be sure to get married in the Church. Everyone is required to wear a cross.

What did people come to mother with? With the usual troubles: incurable illness, disappearance, husband leaving the family, unhappy love, loss of job, persecution from superiors... With everyday needs and questions. Should I get married? Should I change my place of residence or service?

There were no less sick people, obsessed with various ailments: someone suddenly fell ill, someone for no apparent reason began to bark, someone’s arms and legs were cramped, someone was haunted by hallucinations.

Popularly, such people are called “corrupted” sorcerers, healers, sorcerers. These are people who, as people say, “have been done”, who have been subjected to special demonic influence.

One day, four men brought an old woman to Matrona. She waved her arms like a windmill. When her mother scolded her, she weakened and was healed.

Praskovya Sergeevna Anosova, who often visited her brother in a psychiatric hospital, recalls: “Once, when we were going to see him, my husband and his wife were traveling with us to discharge their daughter from the hospital. We were driving back together again. Suddenly this girl (she was 18 years old) started barking.

I say to her mother: “I feel sorry for you, we are driving past Tsaritsyno, let’s take our daughter to Matronushka...” The father of this girl, the general, at first did not want to hear anything, he said that all this was fiction. But his wife insisted, and we went to Matronushka...

And so they began to bring the girl to Matronushka, and she became like a stake, her hands like sticks, then she began to spit on Matronushka and struggled. The matron says: “Leave her, now she won’t do anything.” They let the girl go. She fell, began to thrash and spin around on the floor, and began vomiting blood. And then this girl fell asleep and slept for three days.

They looked after her. When she woke up and saw her mother, she asked: “Mom, where are we?” She answers her: “We, daughter, are with a perspicacious man...” And she told her everything that happened to her. And from that time on, the girl was completely healed.”

Blessed Matrona of Moscow

Brief life of the blessed old lady Matrona of Moscow

At the end of the century before last, the most ordinary event in the peasant environment forever became part of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. The birth of a tiny little man made adjustments to life path many people.

Biography of Matrona Nikonova: years of life

Interesting fact

Where and when was she born

On November 10 (22), 1881 (according to other sources, 1885), in the small village of Sebino not far from Tula, the Nikonov peasant couple once again became parents. The newborn baby was given the name Matrona.

Parents

Matrona's parents - Dimitry and Natalia Nikonov, peasants - were pious people, they worked hard, but lived very poorly. The baby was not welcome. Having learned about the pregnancy, Matronushka’s mother made a difficult decision - to give the baby to a shelter. The couple already had two sons and a daughter growing up. The poor parents were unable to feed another “freeloader”.

One dream changed everything. Natalya dreamed of an amazing bird that landed on her shoulder. winged creature with the face of a man it was blind.

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An unusual dream forced the God-loving peasant woman to change her plans for the child. And then, in late autumn, a child was born into the family. The little girl, like that dove from the dream, had her eyelids closed tightly. The baby had no eyes. At all.

Family, childhood

The fact that Matryushenka was an unusual child became clear immediately. On Wednesdays and Fridays, the baby “fasted”, refusing her mother’s breast. And when the priest performed the Sacrament of Baptism and lowered the baby into the font, steam swirled over the water with an indescribable aroma. “I have baptized many babies, but I have never seen anything like this,” said the priest. “This child will be holy.”

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Little Matrona was not averse to playing with her peers and would happily run around the village with the children. But children are a cruel people. The physically handicapped girl often got it from her young fellow villagers. She could be lashed with nettles, with the requirement to guess who exactly hit her. And one day the boys pushed Matronushka into a hole and watched as the blind baby climbed out of it, peeling her tiny fingers until they bled.

Matronushka's love for the church and icons

From a very tender age, the girl’s favorite “toys” were icons. How a blind little girl, slowly sneaking into the “red corner” at night, took them off the shelf every time, was a mystery to everyone. The holy images were best friends Matryushenki.

Very early the girl fell in love with the temple. I went there first with my parents, and then alone. The girl stood in a corner and quietly stood there throughout the service, listened with all attention, and sang along with the choir.

Gift of Spiritual Insight

Blessed Matrona of Moscow

Deprived of the ability to see, Matrona had spiritual vision. One night she woke up her household with a loud cry: “Hurry, hurry! Father has passed away! The girls' relatives rushed to the priest's house and saw that Fr. Vasily really died.

The relatives of the holy old woman recalled such an incident. One Sunday, Matrona’s father did not go to church - he wanted to pray at home. The wife went to the temple alone, but only thought more about her husband than prayed. And Dmitry carefully read all the prescribed prayers. When the mother returned home, Matryushenka said: “You weren’t in the temple, mom!” “How could you not, daughter? Where was I? “Dad was in the temple,” said the girl. “But you weren’t there.” With her spiritual vision, the girl saw that her father, staying at home, took more part in church-wide prayer than her mother.

Soon people learned about the gift of a blind fellow villager. It turned out that Matryusha has not only the gift of foresight, but also healing. Since then, there was always a line of fellow villagers outside the Nikonovs’ house who came to Matrona for help and advice. Each of the visitors brought food and things as gifts to the girl. So the child, who under ordinary circumstances was doomed to become a big burden for the family, became its breadwinner.

Leg disease

When Matrona was 17 years old, the Lord allowed her a new test - the girl’s legs gave out. This happened at the moment when the girl was walking through the temple from the Holy Chalice. She already knew that a certain woman would approach her, who would become the cause of her sudden paralysis. But she didn’t avoid it. She accepted the will of God with humility and courage. She never rose to her feet again.

Icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost”

Once Matrona sent her father and mother home to the local clergyman: “Go to the priest,” she said. — He has a book in his bookcase on the fourth shelf from the bottom. It contains a picture with the icon “Recovery of the Dead.” There is no such thing in our church. Let the priest bring it!”

A tome with an illustration of the image of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was indeed discovered. The icon copied from this illustration was placed in the temple. And Matronushka carried a smaller copy of it with her everywhere.

Icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost”, painted at the request of Blessed Matrona

Helping people

The seer never felt sorry for herself. She gave all of herself without reserve to the suffering. People came to Matronushka all day long. The blind woman knew in advance the outcome of any matter; through her prayers, troubles, problems and illnesses went away. Taking in demoniac and seriously ill people, Matrona could not eat or sleep for several days. Only prayer gave her strength.

People who lived next to the holy blessed old woman recalled how one day a “knocked” man appeared at the Nikonovs’ house. He crawled 4 kilometers to get to Matrona, and left the house on his own feet.

Matrona helped even in cases where a person did not believe in her gift. One day a village resident came to the saint, whose brother had suddenly become paralyzed. He himself did not believe that the blind woman could help him. Having taken the unfortunate man from a neighboring village, the woman left him at home, and she herself went to Matrona.

Mother took up the treatment. After reading prayers over the sufferer, the blessed one gave him something to drink, and the man fell asleep. And I woke up already healthy. “Thank your sister,” mother said to the amazed “patient.” “Her faith saved you.”

Moving to Moscow

The October Revolution that broke out in 1917 went through people's destinies like a roller. Matrona was no exception. Matryushenka’s older brothers, who once protected her from the boys, were imbued with the ideas of Marxism and, with all their fanaticism, rushed to tell their fellow countrymen “ new life" A younger sister with God's gift was a stain on their reputation, and for the rest of the household she was simply dangerous.

Matrona had to flee. In 1925, the old woman moved to the capital.

Years of wandering

Blind, unable to walk, she wandered from house to house, sometimes living in inhuman conditions. There was a case when Matronushka was found lying on the bed with her hair frozen to the wall. The cold in her home was so unbearable.

Moscow. Starokonyushenny lane no. 30. 1929 Here, in the Zhdanov family, Blessed Matrona lived from 1942 to 1949.

During her 27 years of life in the Mother See, Matrona moved from one home to another more than once. She lived on Nikoloyamskaya and in Sokolniki, on Pyatnitskaya and in Vishnyakovsky Lane, at the Nikitsky Gate and in Petrovsky-Razumovsky, in Starokonyushenny and on Skhodnya... The Bolshevik regime and the police persecuted Matronushka. But each time the woman left her pursuers, knowing in advance about their arrival.

Only once did she not run away. The seer sitting on the bed greeted an internal affairs officer who came to arrest her with the words: “Run quickly to your place! There's trouble in your house! But the blind woman will not leave you.”

Having rushed to his apartment, the law enforcement officer found his wife with severe burns - a fire had started due to an old kerosene stove. The woman was saved. And the man, who believed in Matronushka’s incredible abilities, categorically refused to carry out the order for her arrest.

Prophecies about war

2 years before the harsh hard times, Matrona first spoke about the approaching war. “Now you are all arguing, dividing, but the war is about to begin. Of course, many people will die. But our Russian people will win.”

Another time, one of the seer’s relatives heard the word “war”. The year 1941 had barely begun when she asked whether she should go on vacation in the winter. “You need to go on vacation now, then there will be no vacations for a long, long time. There will be a war. Victory will be ours. The enemy will not touch Moscow, it will only burn a little. There is no need to leave Moscow.”

Mother Matrona, on the left. Photo.

The life of Matrona during the Second World War, prayer for soldiers

With the beginning of the war, people were drawn to Matronushka, concerned about the fate of their loved ones at the front. Matrona conveyed good news to someone - he is alive, he will return, wait. She advised others to perform a funeral service and remember.

Mother ordered each of the visitors to take willow branches with them. Breaking them into sticks of equal length and stripping the bark from them, Matrona offered prayers for the fighters. According to the recollections of contemporaries, her tiny, almost childish fingers were completely covered in abrasions. The righteous woman said that she invisibly visited the front line and supported the defenders as best she could.

Was there a meeting with Stalin?

There is an opinion that Stalin came to Saint Matrona in 1941. But after careful research, historians and the canonization commission came to the conclusion that such an event did not happen. Here is what the pastor and theologian, resident of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, Hieromonk Job (Gumerov), says about this:

“There is a myth that I. Stalin came to the blessed old lady Matrona. This is completely impossible to assume from what we know about the life of this wondrous servant of God. In 1997, the hierarchy instructed me to prepare materials for the canonization of Matrona Nikonova. I had to collect information about her bit by bit.

There is nothing that could confirm Stalin's visit to her. She was persecuted. She was ready to be arrested any day. This situation remained until her death on May 2, 1952. An attempt to present a cruel persecutor of the Church as a believing Christian and benefactor of the Church is dangerous and can only bring spiritual harm. This is how the boundaries of good and evil blur.”

Mother Matrona’s attitude towards people who come to her for help

Matronushka tried to console everyone who turned to her. Many of mother’s visitors came to her not even for a cure, but simply for advice. The blessed old woman could refuse to help only in two cases - if people came solely out of curiosity, in the hope of seeing a “trick,” or if she was dealing with witchcraft.

One day, an elderly man came to Matronushka and begged him to save his sick son. Matronushka put her childish palm on his head, sat as if listening, and then asked: “What did you do to him? To illness or death? “To death,” the man whispered. Mother sighed: “Go. I can't help him..."

Matrona did not demand anything for her help. She even distributed the food that visitors brought to those in need. Mother had only one requirement - to live with God. With prayer. And confess and receive communion as often as possible.

The old woman’s attitude towards her gift: “It’s not I who heal, but God!”

Possessing such a gift, Matrona never took any credit for herself. Once, in response to a request from one of the visitors to heal her, Matronushka replied: “Is Matronushka God or what? It’s not I who heal, but God!”

Matrona gave all her gift to people without reserve. The talent that the Lord gave her, she returned to Him a hundredfold. And until her death, mother continued to help people - no one suspected that the miracle worker herself was already terminally ill.

Is it possible to compare blzh. Matron and Wang

Many people who have little knowledge of Christianity think that the gift of Mother Matrona and the “clairvoyant” Vanga are phenomena of the same order. Actually this is not true.

Elder Matrona prayed for all those suffering and instructed her visitors to turn to the Lord for help. Despite all the difficulties, she not only did not lose heart, but found the strength to help others. For this, the Lord bestowed His grace-filled gifts on mother so much that all the people who came to the old woman felt comfort from her mere presence.

But with Vanga the situation was completely different. In the book “The Truth about Vanga” by Vanga’s niece Kasimira Stoyanova, the Bulgarian “soothsayer” herself spoke about her gift:

“It’s not me, it’s others who are always near me. Some of them I call “small forces”, they were the ones who told you about your day through me, and there are also “ great forces" When they start telling me, or rather through me, I lose a lot of energy, I feel bad, I remain depressed for a long time.”

From these words it becomes completely clear that Vanga had communication with dark, fallen spirits, and at times was possessed by them. Her predictions frightened people, instilling in them human souls anxiety.

What was Matrona like during her lifetime?

In the few surviving photographs, the holy elder appears to us in the form of a small elderly woman with smoothly combed hair and neatly folded arms and legs. Small, simply but neatly dressed, with tiny, almost child-like arms and legs, a constant soft smile and a small dimple on her forehead. It was formed from the sign of the cross.

Matrona taught everyone who came to her to protect themselves from the attacks of the evil one with a cross and she herself followed this rule. She placed the cross on herself so often and so carefully that over time, that same hole formed on her forehead.

But at the same time, Matrona possessed incredible inner strength. When people came to the saint for help, they forgot that in front of them was a blind woman, unable to move independently - she was so strong in spirit. Matrona treated her sorrows and illnesses with the same strength - not running away from them and humbly accepting the Will of God.

Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova. Photo 1930-1940

Instructions

Everything that Matrona taught to the people who came to her fully corresponds to the Orthodox faith. Many of Matronushka’s instructions became simply catchphrases:

• About trusting the Lord: “They carry a child on a sled and there is no care for him. The Lord Himself will arrange everything!”
• On judging your neighbors: “Think about yourself more often. Each sheep will be hung by its tail. What do you care about other ponytails?”
• About dreams: “Don’t pay attention to them; dreams come from the evil one - to upset a person, to confuse a person with thoughts.”

• ABOUT sign of the cross and prayer: “The enemy is approaching - you must definitely pray. Sudden death happens if you live without prayer. The enemy sits on our left shoulder, and on the right is an angel, and each has his own book: our sins are written in one, and our good deeds in the other. Get baptized often! The cross is the same lock as on the door.”
• About “grandmothers” and sorcerers: “For someone who voluntarily entered into an alliance with the power of evil, took up sorcery, there is no way out. You can’t turn to grandmothers, they will cure one thing, but harm your soul.”
• About the “perceptive elders”: “The world lies in evil and delusion, and delusion - the deception of souls - will be obvious, beware.” “If you go to an elder or priest for advice, pray that the Lord will make him wise to give the right advice.”

What did mother say about Russia?

When mother was asked about Russia, she said:

“If a people loses faith in God, then disasters befall them, and if they do not repent, they perish and disappear from the face of the earth. How many peoples have disappeared, but Russia existed and will exist. Pray, ask, repent! The Lord will not leave you and will preserve our land!”

Prediction of one's demise and future veneration

Blessed Matrona. Photo from 1952.

3 days before her death, my mother announced to everyone that she would soon be gone: “Few people will come to my grave, only close ones, and when they die, my grave will be deserted, except occasionally someone will come. But after many years, people will learn about me and will come in droves for help in their sorrows and asking the Lord God to pray for them. And I will help everyone and hear everyone.”

The old lady asked to bury her at the Danilovsky cemetery, not far from the temple “to hear the service.” Matrona was very worried and asked how to “fold the arms in the coffin,” which caused amazement to the priest who received her last confession. “Are you really afraid of death too?” “Very!” Matronushka answered simply and somehow childishly.

Read more about it on our website.

When the blessed one died. Matrona and where she was buried

On May 2, 1952, Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova reposed in the Lord. The funeral service was performed by Fr. Dmitry Golubtsov in the Church of the Robe. On May 4, the second Sunday after Easter, the righteous woman was buried where she had bequeathed. A huge number of people came to say goodbye to the future saint not only from the Mother See, but from her native village of Sebino.

Discovery and transfer of relics to the Intercession Monastery

Everything happened as Matrona predicted. At first, her grave was looked after a little more, and then it fell into complete disrepair. But several decades later, people in an endless line reached out to its fence. The nuns of the Intercession Monastery also began to come there. They looked after the grave, fed people, and performed funeral litias.

On March 8, 1998, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, the grave of the seer and healer was opened. And on May 1, Matronushka’s body was transferred to the Holy Intercession Monastery.

Canonization

Muscovites have long considered the miracle worker their protector. And on May 2, 1999, Matrona was glorified among the saints of the Moscow diocese. In 2004, her church-wide canonization took place.

Helping people after death

At the icon of the blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Intercession Monastery

Shortly before her repose, the seer said: “Everyone, everyone, come to me as if I were alive. And I will hear you and help you!” And the suffering go. The Human River does not become smaller either for the shrine with the relics of Mother in the Pokrovsky Monastery, or for the burial place at the Danilovsky cemetery.

Flow of pilgrims to the relics of Saint Matrona

The hours-long queues of believers do not bother them. Buses with pilgrims line up near the monastery before dawn, and by the time it opens, the queue stretches for many tens of meters. Many go to Matronushka with armfuls of flowers - Mother loved them very much. The sisters of the monastery consecrate them on a shrine with holy relics, break them and give them to the worshipers. Many people keep these “shrines” in the “red corner”.

Veneration of Matrona in her homeland, in the Tula region

The opening of the house-museum of the Blessed Elder Matrona of Moscow took place in the village of Sebino, Kimovsky district.

Currently there is a museum complex, which includes a museum, monuments and the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Due to the growing interest of pilgrims in the motherland, work began in 2018 to create pilgrimage center in honor of the blessed Matrona, which will house a hotel complex, an exhibition hall and a refectory for guests.

What do believers ask Matrona of Moscow for?

Matronushka, so to speak, is a universal saint. People come to her with a variety of requests and problems. But most often they turn to mother:

• if it is impossible to conceive or bear a child;
• for health problems;
• in housing problems;
• in financial difficulties;
• in job search;
• asking for help finding a soul mate or solving family problems.

In a word, in ordinary human troubles and troubles.

Stories about the miraculous help of a saint

Olga and Nikolai came to the Intercession Monastery several times with their troubles. Married for 6 years, but no children... They were shaking on the bus for 6 hours, standing in long lines with only one goal - to ask Matronushka for help, to pray to the Lord for them. At first, it seemed that all requests remained unanswered. But after the 3rd trip, Nikolai suddenly started talking about the need to get married, although before that he didn’t want to hear about getting married. And soon after the Sacrament was performed, the couple had a baby, whose birth they so asked for. The baby was baptized by the same priest who married the couple.

At the age of 30, Marina developed a serious problem with her knee. Meniscus hernia - that’s what the doctor said after examination. According to the doctor, it was too early to operate on her. "Will wait".

But it was unbearable to wait - the knee caused pain with any attempt to bend it, and there was no point in sitting down or standing on this knee - the pain literally burned.

And then Marina remembered the rose she had brought from Matronushka. She was lying in the “red corner”. And every evening, after evening rule and mother, Marina began to smear her knee with “Matronushka” oil, and apply a petal to the bump protruding on her knee. A week later there was no trace of the hernia left. The knee was fine.

In 2016, Alexandra’s beloved grandmother was given a disappointing diagnosis - a case of bleeding. Stage 4. The process was stopped and the disease became chronic. The woman began to go out into the street and get stronger, but suddenly everything collapsed. Aggravation again. The doctors left no chance. Soon, one kidney failed, and the second had difficulty working—renal failure, the doctors said. And then a heart attack.

Then Alexandra turned to Matronushka. I went to church every day and went to the Intercession Monastery. I prayed and asked and a miracle happened. At first both kidneys started working. Then the granny was taken to the oncology center for treatment, where an examination showed that the percentage of cancer cells did not exceed the norm. And the ECG did not even show traces of a heart attack that occurred 1.5 months ago.

How to visit the blzh. Matrona, address and telephone

Pokrovsky Monastery, where the relics of St. Matrona Moskovskaya, located in Moscow, on the street. Taganskaya, 58. Phone number of the monastery: (495) 911 - 49 - 20, (495) 911 - 81 - 66.

Monastery visiting hours:

Monday - Saturday from 7.00 to 20.00

Sunday from 6.00 to 20.00

How can I get to:

From the metro station “Krestyanskaya Zastava” or “Proletarskaya”, then 5 minutes walk to Abelmanovskaya Zastava Square.

From the Marksistskaya metro station, exit to Taganskaya Street, then by any transport to the Bolshaya Andronevskaya stop.

When services take place: liturgy and prayer service with blessing of water

Divine services are held daily.

Weekdays: 7.30 Divine Liturgy

9.00 Water prayer service

16.45 Evening service

Sunday: 6.15 and 9.00 Divine Liturgy

10.30 Blessing of water prayer

16.45 Evening service

When is Matronushka's name day?

Mother Matrona was born on November 22, on the day of memory of the Venerable Matrona of Constantinople (5th century). It was in honor of this saint that the future old woman was named. Therefore, her name day, or name day, coincides with her birthday.

Who is Matrona for believers

If people have favorite saints, then Matrona of Moscow can safely be called one of them. A little less than 20 years ago she was glorified in the host of saints, and she is loved and appreciated in many families along with St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. And her support is not long in coming. There is only one condition - to surrender yourself into the hands of the Lord. Trust him. It was precisely this kind of gift that Matronushka always expected from people who trusted in her intercession.

“Holy Matrona. Come to me as if I were alive.” Documentary (2018)

Prokeimenon of the service of St. blzh. Matrons

AT MORNING:

Prokeimenon, tone 4: Lord, open my eyes, / and I will understand the wonders of Your law.

Poem: Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity, / live me in Your way.

AT THE LITURGY:

Prokeimenon, voice 3: The Lord is my Enlightenment and my Savior, / whom I will fear.

Poem: The Lord is the Protector of my life, whom I will fear.

Prayer

Prayer

First prayer to the righteous old lady Matrona of Moscow

O blessed Mother Matrono, standing in soul in Heaven before the Throne of God, resting in body on earth, and emanating various miracles from the grace given to you from above, look now with your merciful eye on us, sinners, in sorrows, illnesses and sinful temptations, waiting for our days, comfort We, desperate ones, heal our severe ailments, from God to us because of our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, beg our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive us all our sins, iniquities and falls, in the image of us from our youth even to the present day and We have sinned for an hour, so that through your prayers we have received grace and great mercy, let us glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Second prayer to the righteous old lady Matrona of Moscow

Oh, blessed mother Matrono, hear and accept us now, sinners, praying to you, who in all your life has learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn with faith and hope to your intercession and help of those who come running, quick help and miraculous healing giving to everyone, may your mercy not become scarce now for us, unworthy, restless in this busy world and nowhere finding consolation and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses, heal our illnesses, deliver from the temptations and torment of the devil passionately fighting, help to carry our everyday Cross, to endure all the hardships of life and not to lose the image of God in it, to preserve the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to have strong trust and hope in God and unfeigned love for our neighbors, so that after we depart from this life, help us to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven with by all who pleased God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, glorified in the Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, kontakion, magnification

Troparion

Let us praise the blessed old woman Matrona, wise and wise, the prosperity of the land of Tula and the glorious adornment of the city of Moscow, let us praise this day, faithfully. This, having not known the light of day, was enlightened by the light of Christ and enriched with the gift of insight and healing. Having been a sojourner and a wanderer on earth, now in the heavenly chambers she stands before the Throne of God and prays for our souls.

Greatness

We magnify you, holy righteous old lady Matrono, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.

Canon

Canon

Irmos:  Having traversed the water like dry land, and having escaped the evil of Egypt, the Israelite cried out: Let us drink to our Deliverer and our God.

Chorus

All-Merciful God, vouchsafe us, unworthy ones, to sing praises to Your saint Matrona, our great intercessor and prayer book before You.

You were wounded by love for Christ from the swaddling clothes of your baby, and you served Him unslothfully in your life, blessed mother.

You have appeared as the chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit, for you have always diligently warmed the grace of God from the holy font until the end of your days, blessed mother.

Theotokos:  We sing the Arkhangelsk hymn to You, Pure: Rejoice, Delighted Mary, Mother of Christ God, ever praying for our race.

Irmos:  The circle of heaven, the Supreme Creator, Lord, and the Creator of the Church, confirm me in Your love, the edge of desires, true statement, one more humane.

Chorus: Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

By your life pleasing to God and righteously, you have been sanctified, O blessed mother, and so may we, who come to you with faith, be filled with the grace of God.

Christ the Lover of Mankind, whom you have loved from your youth, holy mother, pray that we may be established on the rock of His commandments.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The Creator of the Church, the Lord, made you a light-like child of the church, righteous mother, and established you in His love as a Lover of Mankind.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  Heaven and earth to the Queen, the Virgin Mother of God, and the Church of the Protection of the All-Powerful, establish this monastery unshakably in piety.

Lord, have mercy, three times.

Sedalen, voice 4

By your name, blessed Matrona, your life was quick, your wanderings, reproaches and sorrows were imputed to nothing, your mistress appeared not only in name, but also in spirit. In the same way, you acquired everything that was needed in the Kingdom for the sake of God, and you were enriched by God.

Irmos:  I heard, O Lord, Thy sacrament, I understood Thy works and glorified Thy Divinity.

Chorus: Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

The look of God on you was revealed as an individual, blessed mother, as if you were blind and weak in body, you were enriched with the gift of insight and miracles and you were adorned with an incorruptible crown from the Lord.

Thou hast despised the wisdom of the flesh, O blessed one, thou art greatly enriched by the wisdom by which the Lord makes wise the blind.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Like the alabaster of the world, scenting the borders of Russia, we know you, righteous Matron, for the people of our land flock to you from all ends, asking for your intercession.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  We bless you all, O Most Holy Virgin, who seeks the perishing, heals the weak, and protects the orphaned.

Irmos:  Enlighten us with Your commandments, O Lord, and with Your lofty arm grant us Your peace, O Lover of Mankind.

Chorus:

Christ, the True Light, has enlightened your mind, holy mother, to the understanding of His commandments, and you have diligently endeavored to serve Him in your life.

Illuminated by the light of Christ, in this godless and sin-loving world you appeared like a pillar of fire, shining in the darkness, righteous Matrono.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Like a multi-bright star, you have shone in your life, righteous Matrono, showing the true path to erring people. Sitsa, now established in the Heavenly abodes, pray to enlighten and save our souls.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  Who gave birth to the Divine and Eternal Light, Bride of God, resolve the darkness of our sins.

Irmos:  I will pour out a prayer to the Lord and to Him I will proclaim my sorrows, for my soul is filled with evil and my stomach is approaching hell, and I pray like Jonah: from aphids, O God, lift me up.

Chorus:  Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

Raising your prayers to God, you proclaimed all your needs and sorrows to Him, righteous mother, and like Jonah in the belly of the whale, you cried out in great sorrow: God, bring me up from the depths of evil.

With the help of God, having humbly endured all your needs, righteous Matrono, you defeated the power of the enemy through your prayer. Moreover, having now received the abundant grace of Christ, pray that we may be delivered from the villainy of the devil.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

By many of your deeds, righteous Matrono, have you become against the wiles of the devil, waging war with the ruler of the darkness of this age. In the same way, pray for us now, that we may accept all the weapons of God and be able to resist in the days of fierce spiritual wickedness in high places.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  You who gave birth to hell and death, the Conqueror, Most Pure Virgin, pray to the Lord and Your Son to deliver us from the evildoings of our enemies.

Lord, have mercy, three times. Glory, and now:

Kontakion, tone 7

Pre-chosen to the service of Christ from the womb, the righteous Matrono, walking the path of sorrows and sorrows, having demonstrated firm faith and piety, you pleased God. Moreover, honoring your memory, we pray to you: help us to remain in God’s love, blessed old lady.

Irmos:  The youths came from Judea, in Babylon, sometimes, by the faith of the Trinity, they quenched the fire of the cave, singing: God of the fathers, blessed be ecu.

Chorus:  Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

Iniquity flared up in our land, like the flame of old in the caves of Babylon, trying to burn the faith of the fathers in the people, but you, blessed one, taught those who came to you to chant by faith: God of the fathers, blessed are you.

The tormentors of God's opposition, who apostatized from the law of God, kindled the fire of persecution in our country, but you, righteous Matrono, gave spiritual dew to those who came to you by the power of Christ, so that they would not be burned to the end, but would always sing: God of the fathers, blessed are you.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The angel of God, in the cave of Babylon as a youth of old who extinguished the fiery flame, you became likened to the Russian people in the days of wickedness by your prayers from the evil tongue of evil, you helped to be unharmed, teaching you to cry: God of the fathers, blessed are you.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  We resort to Your protection, Virgin, Burning Bush, our sins, like harmful thorns, fell through Your prayers, yes with a pure heart We cry: Fathers, God, blessed are you.

Irmos:  Praise and exalt the Heavenly King, Whom all the angels sing, to all ages.

Chorus:  Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

You loved the Heavenly King from your youth, and you, blessed one, served Him with diligence until the end of your days. Now eat from the faces of the angels forever: sing to the Lord and exalt Him to all ages.

Diligently observing the commandments of the Lord, you have appeared as a pillar of piety for Russia, blessed mother, just as the righteous man of Kronstadt prophesied about you. With him exalt Christ forever.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Many people of Russia, captivated by godlessness, through your prayers, righteous Matrono, returned to the path of salvation and, strengthened in the right faith, hastened to the Triune God: sing to the Lord and exalt Him to all ages.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  Who gave birth to the Heavenly King, who came into the world to seek us who are perishing, we magnify You, the Mother of God.

Irmos:  Truly we confess Theotokos, saved by You, Pure Virgin, with disembodied faces magnifying You.

Chorus:  Holy blessed Matrono, pray to God for us.

Oh, great miracle, dry bones exude healing and our spirit raises our corruptible nature to the Imperishable God. For this reason, we call Matrona blessed.

Save the city of Moscow and the monastery of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, where your honorable relics rest, righteous Matrono, from all misfortunes and evils and confirm in the right faith and piety of all who revere you.

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Accept our unworthy prayer, blessed Matrona, and, as you promised, intercede before the Lord to grant us something useful, so that with you we will be worthy to glorify the Holy Trinity in the villages of paradise.

And now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Theotokos:  We know Thy true chosen one, the Mother of God, the blessed Matrona: for this, on the day of veneration of Thy icon, the Quick to Hear, was born, in the temple of Thy Assumption she was baptized, Thy image of the Seek for the Lost was written with her diligence, and the body also rests and prays for our souls in the monastery of Thy venerable Protection.

Svetilen

The blessed angels lifted up your holy soul, blessed Matrono, to the Throne of the King of Glory, where you triumph with all the saints and pray for our souls.

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

Theotokos:  O Mother of God, who gave birth to the true light, enlighten us darkened by the darkness of sin and make us partakers of eternal blessings.

Akathist

Akathist

Kontakion 1

Chosen by the Spirit of God from the swaddling clothes of babies, blessed Elder Matrono, who received blindness and bodily weakness for spiritual cleansing from God, you were enriched with the gift of insight and miracles and you were adorned with an incorruptible crown from the Lord. For this reason, we bring you a grateful crown of praise, crying out:

Ikos 1

An angel in the flesh appeared on earth, Blessed Matrona, fulfilling the will of God. More your christmas in bodily blindness, the Lord, who makes the blind wise and loves the righteous, enlightens your spiritual eyes, so that you may serve people and the works of God will appear through you. We cry out to you with love:

Rejoice, chosen by God from infancy.

Rejoice, overshadowed by the grace of the Holy Spirit from the shrouds.

Rejoice, enriched by the gift of miracles from childhood.

Rejoice, filled with wisdom from God above.

Rejoice, you who see the will of God with your mental eyes.

Rejoice, putting to shame the mind-blind sages of this age.

Rejoice, you who lead lost souls to God.

Rejoice, quenching sorrow and sorrow.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 2

Seeing the people and the priest, when they baptized you, blessed one, the wonderful pillar of cloud over your head and smelled the great fragrance, they marveled that this young woman would sing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

Having an enlightened mind, Priest Vasily of God knows that the one baptized from him is a vessel of God’s grace, and you, the righteous Matrono, are called holy girls. From our zeal we offer these praises:

Rejoice, scented in the holy font with the grace of the Holy Spirit.

Rejoice, you who had the cross sealed on your forehead.

Rejoice, prayer book, given to people by God.

Rejoice, unquenchable light, shining before the Lord.

Rejoice, glorified on earth by the gift of miracles from God.

Rejoice, thou crowned in Heaven with an unfading crown from the Lord.

Rejoice, proclaiming the mercy of God to sinners.

Rejoice, you who give water to those who thirst from the source of living water.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 4

Strength God's grace Feeling, even in infancy, the blessed Matrona, you rushed to the icons of the saints, and with a pure heart and infant lips you proclaimed the praise of God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Having from God the gift of insight since childhood, blessed mother, you have guided the hidden hearts of those who come to you, and with it the future, like the present one, you have directed many people on the path of piety. Therefore, glorifying God, who makes the blind wise, we cry to you:

Rejoice, wondrous seer.

Rejoice, accuser of hidden sins.

Rejoice, bright teacher of the darkened souls.

Rejoice, merciful guide to the lost.

Rejoice, star, showing the right path.

Rejoice, O Light, shining in the darkness of this age.

Rejoice, you who served only God.

Rejoice, having trampled down the machinations of the devil by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 4

The storm of bewilderment and confusion about your miracles dissipated among the people, blessed mother, and I taught them to the Lord, wondrous in His saints, glorifying and praising you, and hastening to God with thanksgiving: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Having heard people, Mother Matrono, that you give help in mental and physical ills, I come to you with hope, and, having received favorable advice and received healing, thanking God, I sing to you:

Rejoice, for you accept those who are sick and suffering in soul.

Rejoice, for you grant peace to the sorrowing souls.

Rejoice, you who understand the errors of those who exist.

Rejoice, teacher of piety.

Rejoice, reliever of our sorrows.

Rejoice, comforter in sorrows.

Rejoice, good unmercenary.

Rejoice, free healer of all kinds of ailments.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 5

The God-bearing star shone, O blessed Mother Matrono, in the days of hard times in our Fatherland, like a new confessor, you carried the yoke of Christ boldly and fearlessly through all your life, and you were strengthened by the grace of God, you gave admonition to the perplexed, to the weak, to the sick, to those who gratefully called upon God. : Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Having seen many people in Russia miracles and healings, God’s grace given to you: walking to the lame, healing to those who are weakened and lying on their beds, driving away spirits of evil to those who are raging, rushing to you, mother, as if to an inexhaustible source, having drunk from it abundantly, touched I cry out to you with my heart:

Rejoice, you who were called from infancy to the right path.

Rejoice, righteous woman, given to us by God.

Rejoice, healer, healer of our ailments.

Rejoice, you who quickly help us in our needs.

Rejoice, you who admonish us with helpful advice.

Rejoice, our perplexities are soon resolved.

Rejoice, you who drive away unclean spirits from people.

Rejoice, you who protect us from all evil through your prayer.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 6

The herald of the holiness and righteousness of your life, blessed mother, the holy and righteous father John of Kronstadt appeared, when he saw you in the temple and named you his successor, the same pillar of Russia. All who heard this glorified the Lord, singing a song to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Through your prayers, Mother Matrono, shine the light of God’s grace in hearts that do not lead God and anger Him with many sins. Now, seeing the miracles you perform, I turn to the Lord, pleasing you:

Rejoice, you who glorify God with your exploits.

Rejoice, you who show us the glory of God.

Rejoice, you who guide the unfaithful on the right path.

Rejoice, you who cleanse those defiled by sins with your prayers.

Rejoice, you who call us to repentance.

Rejoice, you who admonish us to give thanks to the Lord for everything.

Rejoice, you who teach us to love the temple of God.

Rejoice, you who gather the scattered sheep into the church fence.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 7

Wanting Holy Lady It is worthy to please our Mother of God, Mother Matrono, you commanded people to paint the all-honorable image of Her, called “Seeking the Lost,” and place your weight in the temple of God, so that everyone, looking at the bright face of the Most Pure One, will praise You with tenderness, and cry out to the Lord: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

The Lord gave you a new intercessor, prayer book and intercessor to God in a difficult time for the people of Russia, for many have fallen away from the Holy Church, but you, mother, have taught those of little faith and who have gone astray in word and deed, revealing the wondrous miracles of God. In the same way we sing to you:

Rejoice, our country, Russia, everlastingly sad.

Rejoice, intercessor for our salvation.

Rejoice, O God, righteous Judge, propitiator.

Rejoice, patroness of the sick and offended.

Rejoice, helper of the weak and hopeless.

Rejoice, constant warrior against the spirits of evil.

Rejoice, for the princes of demons tremble.

Rejoice, as angels and men rejoice over you.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 8

It is strange to those of little faith and unreason, how one born blind can see and lead not only the present, but also the future, not knowing the power of God in the weakness of mankind. But we, blessed mother, the wisdom of God, clearly revealed in you, cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

You have endured all kinds of annoyances and insults, expulsions and reproaches, blessed mother, without complaining about it, but for all thank God. By this you teach us to patiently bear our cross, and give you this blessing:

Rejoice, you who constantly remained in prayer.

Rejoice, you who drove away the spirits of evil through fasting and prayer.

Rejoice, you who have acquired a blessed world.

Rejoice, for with your love you saved many around you.

Rejoice, thou who through thy life has served many people:

Rejoice, and after your death you continually help people.

Rejoice, even now warmly listening to our petition.

Rejoice, you who do not abandon those who trust in your help.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 9

You have endured all sorts of sorrows and illnesses, Mother Matrono, constantly waging war against the forces of darkness, exposing their intrigues and deceits, and casting out demons from the possessed, especially until the end of your days, you helped the suffering, the sick and the mourning, singing to God all the time: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

Multi-broadcast events will not be able to adequately glorify holy life yours and the miracles you perform by the power of God, wonderful to the old woman. But we, who want to psalmically praise God in His saints and strive with heartfelt love, dare to sing to you this:

Rejoice, narrow path and choosing the strait gate.

Rejoice, thou shalt shone with many virtues.

Rejoice, you who have rejected all that is corruptible in your life.

Rejoice, adorned with humility, like a precious crown.

Rejoice, in the Gospel, like a bird of heaven that has lived on earth.

Rejoice, O Son of God, who had no place to lay his head, who followed.

Rejoice, now rejoicing in the abodes of heaven.

Rejoice, and do not forsake us sinners who pray to you by your mercy.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 10

Many people want to be saved from bodily suffering and mental illness, you remained all night, O righteous woman of God, in prayer, asking them for help and strengthening from our Lord Jesus Christ, singing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

You were a wall and a covering during the days of your life, blessed mother, to all who came running to you, and after death you did not cease to intercede before God for the people who flow with faith to your tomb. Likewise, now hear us, sinners, who are overcome by sorrows, illnesses and many sorrows, and strive to help with your prayers, to all who cry out to you:

Rejoice, quick intercessor to the offended.

Rejoice, comforter of those who suffer hardships.

Rejoice, guardianship of an honest marriage.

Rejoice, pacification of all who are in enmity.

Rejoice, those who are brought to justice are not brought to justice by the defender.

Rejoice, and merciful intercessor to God for the guilty before the earthly judgment.

Rejoice, shelter for the homeless.

Rejoice, O all who call upon you, intercessor.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 11

You heard the singing of angels, O honorable mother Matrono, while still living on earth. Teach us, unworthy, how to glorify God, who is revered in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to whom the heavenly hosts continually sing loudly: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

Your life shines with a luminous light, blessed Matrono, illuminating the darkness of this busy world, and attracts our souls to itself, as if we, too, will be illuminated by the rays of God’s grace and we will pass the sorrowful path of our temporary life in a God-pleasing manner and we will achieve the Kingdom of God, where you, mother, have now settled. Hearing our voice calling to you:

Rejoice, brighter of God, ever-burning.

Rejoice, O honorable bead, who illumines us with the brilliance of Thy shrine.

Rejoice, fragrant flower, who scents us with the Holy Spirit.

Rejoice, rock of faith, strengthening the faint-hearted in piety.

Rejoice, bright star, showing us the right path.

Rejoice, good warrior of Christ, terrifying the demonic army with the sword of prayer.

Rejoice, for all your life is holy and immaculate.

Rejoice, for your death is honorable before the Lord.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 12

You have received the grace of God abundantly from the shrouds, O blessed mother, even as I will endure to remain with you all the days of your life. We believe without a doubt that even after your dormition, this grace will richly remain with you. For this reason, we desperately pray: do not deprive us, who are still wandering on earth, of your help and intercession, asking the Lord to have mercy on all who sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing your many and wondrous miracles, Mother Matrono, we praise God, who gave the city of Moscow and our Fatherland in the days of godlessness and persecution, an unshakable pillar of piety and faith. Now, blessed mother, with a grateful heart we sing to you:

Rejoice, thou who hast gained the peace of Christ in thy soul.

Rejoice, for for this reason you brought many people around you to God.

Rejoice, having shown the power of God's grace in a weak body.

Rejoice, you who have shown us God’s mercy in the discovery of your holy relics.

Rejoice, great prosperity has come to the host of Moscow saints.

Rejoice, glorious adornment of the city of Moscow.

Rejoice, dearest sorrower of our Fatherland before God.

Rejoice, calling everyone to repentance and prayer for the Russian lands.

Rejoice, righteous mother Matrono, warm prayer book for us to God.

Kontakion 13

O blessed mother, hear the song of praise now sung to you and ask us from the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins, a Christian peaceful death and a good answer at His Last Judgment, so that you and I will be honored in the villages of paradise to glorify the Holy Trinity, crying out: Alleluia.

This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos “Angel in the flesh...” and the 1st kontakion “Chosen by the Spirit of God...”

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