Дивеевские святые - Святая блаженная Мария Ивановна - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Maria Zakharovna Fedina was from the Tambov province. She was born around 1870. Subsequently, she called herself Ivanovna, and when they asked her why, she answered: “We are all blessed, Ivanovna according to John the Baptist.”

At the age of thirteen she was orphaned. One day, Maria and her fellow travelers went to Sarov, and remained wandering between Sarov, Diveevo and Ardatov. In any weather, she walked barefoot, in everything torn and dirty, bitten by dogs. Because she, as if cursing, accused people of secret sins, many did not like her and beat her more than once. At the same time, no one ever heard her complain about her life or about human injustice, and already in her youth they began to notice the gift of insight in her.

Maria Ivanovna came to consult with the blessed Praskovya Ivanovna of Diveyevo, who, before her death, said: “I am still sitting behind the camp, and the other is already scurrying around, she is still walking, and then she will sit down.” And Maria Ivanovna, having blessed her to stay in the monastery, said: “Just don’t sit in my chair.”

On the day of Praskovya Ivanovna’s death, September 22/October 5, 1915, the nuns drove Maria Ivanovna out of the monastery for her oddities. She left silently, and soon a peasant arrived and said: “What a servant of God you drove out of the monastery! She now told me my whole life and all my sins. Return her to the monastery, otherwise you will lose her forever.” They immediately sent for Maria Ivanovna, and from then on she finally settled in Diveyevo. The blessed one endured many serious illnesses with amazing patience. Due to severe rheumatism, she soon stopped walking.

After 1917, the blessed one often swore, and very rudely at that. The sisters could not stand it and asked: “Maria Ivanovna, why are you swearing so much? Mama (Praskovya Ivanovna) didn’t swear like that.” She answered: “It was good for her to enjoy herself with Nicholas. And you can indulge yourself under Soviet rule!” Blessed Maria Ivanovna carried out her spiritual feat during the terrible years of revolutionary upheavals, war, famine and collectivization. In the 1920s, people from all over Russia reached out to her for advice and spiritual support. Representatives of the Soviet government saw the danger of “propaganda” and threatened the abbess with the arrest of both of them if even one person appeared at the blessed one. Maria Ivanovna was transferred to an almshouse near Saint Kanavka, where she lived under lock and key until the monastery was closed; it was possible to contact her only secretly through notes.

There are many known cases of healing through the prayers of the blessed one, and her insight has extended to this day. She predicted camps and exile for many Diveyevo sisters, and when one of the sisters once said: “There will be no monastery!” - "Will! Will! Will!" - and the blessed one banged on the table with all her might. After the monastery was closed, Maria Ivanovna was transported from one village to another. In 1931 she was arrested, but was soon released. She died during a terrible thunderstorm on August 26/September 8, 1931 and was buried in the cemetery in the village of Bolshoye Cherevatovo. In the days of her memory, the clergy and sisters of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery served requiem services at her grave and invariably received spiritual consolation and gracious help. On July 31, 2004, Blessed Elder Maria Diveevskaya was glorified among the locally revered saints of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese.