Tikhon Zadonsky biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Tikhon Zadonsky memory on August 13 is an extent, the second acquisition of relics per year; May 14 local.

His father soon died. The family remained in such poverty that once the mother decided to give the youngest son to the rich coachman who wanted to adopt him. Her eldest son, Peter, who took her father’s place of the accountant, begged her not to do this. In the year, a seminary was accepted for state -owned content in Novgorod. Timothy studied well, even at night.

And his playful peers teased a serious boy, sang his grandeur and cashed him with bast shoes. Due to the lack of teachers, years of training were 14 years. He graduated from the course of 30 years. At the end of the seminary, Timothy was left in it as a teacher, first Greek, then rhetoric and philosophy. In the city of Parfenia Sopkovsky and appointed to the post of prefect of the seminary.

There he was appointed Archimandrite of Zheltikov Monastery. In the year, the abbot was put to the abbess of the monastery, with the definition of being the rector of the Tver seminary and theology by the teacher. He gave lectures on moral theology, for the first time in Russian instead of the generally accepted Latin language that was generally accepted at that time, and at the same time so exciting that many outsiders were going to listen to him.

On May 13, Bishop of Khutynsky was Hirotonisan at the bishop of Kexxholm and Ladoga so that, managing the Khutynsky monastery, to be the Vicar of the Novgorod bishop. The initiation was craft. The young Archimandrite was supposed to be transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, but in St. Petersburg, when the Novgorod Vicar, at Easter, out of 8 lots, his name was taken out of 8 lots.

In great excitement, the Grace Tikhon entered Novgorod, the city in which his youth passed. Among the clergy who met him were his former peers, and he jokingly reminded them of their children's pranks. In Novgorod, he found his older sister, who lived in great poverty. He accepted her with fraternal love, wanted to take care of her, but she soon died. The saint buried her, and in the coffin the sister smiled at him.

In Novgorod, her grave was honored. Bishop of Voronezh is not unknown. Here, as the Savior said, there was a “many harvesting, and there are few Matthews. The diocese was huge: from the eagle to the Black Sea, and it was launched. The clergy were few, the population, very scattered, was wild and was ignorant and superstitious. Among the upper class there were many unbelievers.

The young bishop he got hotly. He traveled around a huge diocese, almost all covered with dense forests or steppe, often just on top. He started schools and preaching, which was not before him. He taught the people to honor God's temple and priests, and from the rich and noble demanded mercy to the poor. And the customs began to soften. Once in Voronezh, they celebrated in the square to the pagan god Yaril.

Suddenly, the lord is and with his fiery word ceases to rash. And the next day, the whole people came to him with repentance. Since then, the holiday of Yaril has been stopped forever. Having accepted the Office of the Voronezh flock, Saint Tikhon directed his attention to improving the moral state of the clergy. He printed for distributing his composition to priests, called the "priestly position of the seventh holy secrets", and in addition to publish "adding priestly about the secret of holy repentance." In the year of his arrival at the Voronezh department, St.

Tikhon recreates the Voronezh seminary. He personally managed the seminaria, constantly talked with students and attended classes, made special rules for seminarians, spent large funds, including his personal on the maintenance and promotion of students, invited to teach the best graduates of theological academies and seminaries, and began to create a library. By the work of prayers, St.

Tikhona Voronezh Seminary has firmly on its feet. For the lack of teachers in the seminary, he took care of the formation of spiritual youth. For the teaching of the people, he established St. Tikhon in Voronezh is an open teaching of the Law of God on Sundays, before the liturgy, in the cathedral church. For those who could not listen to these teachings personally for any reason, the saint wrote Christian instructions, wrote an essay for reading "Flesh and Spirit." For this, he wrote thoughts on some sayings of the Holy Scriptures.

Preaching the rules of Christian life, Saint Tikhon was simultaneously a strict exposer of the vices of contemporary to him. The destruction of the folk holiday of "Yarila" and the atrocious oily fun in Voronezh serve as a monument to the hot and pious jealousy of the shepherd of Voronezh. For people poor and poor to St. Tikhon has always been free access. He called the beggars according to the Chrysostom by Christ and his fraternity.

Only four years and seven months was ruled by Saint Tikhon Voronezh flock. Monastic feats, pastoral works, concerns and grief, which were the result of various obstacles to the fulfillment of his good intentions, upset his health. He was attracted by solitude and prayer: he filed a petition for his dismissal to rest. At rest St. Tikhon Zadonsky. Icon 2nd floor.

XIX century.Donetsk Regional Art Museum. Wood, butter, 18.5x14.2 in the year he was set aside from managing the flock with the appointment of a pension in the amount of rubles. For his stay at rest, the Saint of the Zavodnoye Preobrazhensky Monastery was chosen first, but, in view of the area unfavorable for his health, he moved to the Bogoroditsky monastery in Tephevka from the year - Zadonsk.

Here, first of all, he distributed all his things, leaving himself only the most necessary. He also handed out his pension. During his very modest dinner, he always lamented about those who did not have this either. Often he went out under the guise of a simple monk to the market square to ask visiting peasants about their needs and send help. He loved to collect poor children for his own, teach them to prayers and dress them with bread and small money: he always remembered his bitter childhood.

He strictly kept the charters of the church, zealously attended the temples of God almost daily, often sang and read it on Church, and over time, in humility, completely left part in the performance of the services and stood in the altar, reverently protecting himself with a godmother. His favorite cell occupation was the reading of the lives of saints and patristic creations.

He knew the psalter by heart and usually read or sang psalms on the way. The saint underwent a lot of temptations, crushing about the forced abandonment of the flock. Having adjusted his health, he was going to return to the Novgorod diocese, where he was invited by Metropolitan Gabriel to the place of rector in the Iversky Valdai monastery. When the cell announced that old man Aaron, he said: "Why are you raging?

The Mother of God does not tell him to leave here." Kelenik handed this to the Grace. Sometimes he left for the village of Lipovka, where in the house of the Bechteevs he himself performed a worship [6]. The saint also traveled to the Tolshevsky Preobrazhensky monastery, which he loved for solitude. For a secluded prayer, he locked himself in his cell, and from there to the cells, his prayer sighs flew; "Lord Jesus, have mercy on me!

Once he was given the phenomena of the crucified Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Tikhon worked, blessed, built an almshouse in the city of Livna of the Oryol province, at the Church of St. George. He took all the suffering and baked about the appeal of schismatics in Orthodoxy and, at the same time, did not stop exposing his thoughts. I always wrote, after lunch, I listened to the reading of the Old Testament and after a brief rest I read the lives of the saints and the creations of John Zlatoust, and after the Vespers, the new Testament was interrupted by the affairs of mercy, the reception of visitors and the work in the garden, which he loved the poor.

Proceedings: “Treasure is spiritual, collected from the world”, “True Christianity”, “Cellenna letters” and others. He dictated them to the cells, usually walking around the room. Until recently, his creations were a favorite reading of the pious Russian people and had a huge influence on Russian religious literature and preaching. The saint lived in the simplest setting: he slept on a straw, covered with a sheepskin sheepskin coat.

His humility came to the point that the ridges that were often poured after him, the saint did not pay attention, pretending that they did not hear them, and said after: "God so pleases that the ministers laugh - I worthy of my sins." He often said in such cases: "Forgiveness is better than revenge." Once the holy fool Kamenev hit the saint on the cheek with the words "not high -wise" - and the saint, taking it with gratitude, fed the holy fool daily.

But not everyone understood the ascetic Christ, and he had many cases to show his humility. He loved everyone, but he had especially close friends. Such was especially the scimon Mitrofan Goloshchapov [7], the elder of a high spiritual life, to whom the saint entrusted his spiritual children, beginner ascetics, and he only discovered his visions. He also loved the monk of Theophan for his pure children's soul and called him "Theophanes - My Consolation" for the fact that he knew how to console him in mournful minutes.

The saint did not like to talk about worldly affairs and only during the war he watched the newspapers of military operations.