18 ноября. Житие - Иона, святитель, архиепископ Новгородский - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Before the death of his (March 1461), the great Moscow saint Ion wanted to see in Moscow a blissful archbishop for the Council of his successor and with the thought of appointing him to this department. The humble archbishop replied: “I am already old, my legs are weak, I cannot fulfill your desires, holy father; See you in that life. ” He sent only the ordinary consent to the election of the one who was recognized as worthy of the cathedral. The new Metropolitan Theodosius sent the Novgorod archbishop to protect the flock from relations with Uniat Gregory. Without leaving the concerns of his flock, St. John turned his caring love to the traffic. In 1462, he built in it a stone temple in honor of St. The forerunner and in the same temple - the chapel in honor of St. Onufry. Next year, a warm stone temple of SVT was built there. Nicholas with a fraternal meal. Making deserts with the zeal of the saint became a rich monastery. The Archbishop of Ion on the vow, given by him on one of the trips to Moscow, built in Novgorod the first temple in the north of Rus' in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1463). Caring for the revival of the traditions of the Novgorod church antiquity, he called to Novgorod the famous compiler of the lives of the Holy Hieromonk Pakhomiya Logofet, who, on the basis of local sources, wrote the services and lives of the most famous Novgorod saints and canon to Saint Iona, Metropolitan of Moscow, according to his glorification. The beginning of the founding of the Solovetsky monastery dates back to that time. Saint Jonah provided great assistance and assistance to the construction of the monastery. He issued the Monk Zosima a special blessed letter, according to which he gave (together with the worldly authorities of Novgorod) to possess the new monastery of the whole Solovetsky Island. After many works, the saint, feeling the approach of his death, wrote a spiritual one, bequeathed to bury his body in the Kneena monastery. On November 5, 1470, taking communion of the holy mysteries, the saint went to the Lord. The Saint's Epistle to Metropolitan Theodosius, written in 1464, has reached this day. The life of the saint is also available in the great mini-County Metropolitan Makarii on November 5. In 1453 after the opening of the relics of the archbishop