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Well-known icon, which is depicted as St. Sergius commits a memorial service at the grave of his parents. It is known that the blessed son often visited the resting place of St. Cyril and Mary: house painter, created this image, expressed the essence of relations Sergei Radonezhsky with their parents. Such an image is symbolic. Using symbols, conventional - one of the distinctive qualities of the icon, which seeks to show us not how specifically committed a certain fact, but conveys the essence of the event. Execution of the fifth commandment of honoring father and mother had for abbot of the Russian land one of the principal of the rules. Becoming a monk and then abbot of his monastery, he never forgot the tombs, dear to his heart, until his death Khotko visited the monastery to pray for them. Moreover, all respected him, he also commanded to pray for the repose of Cyril and Mary. And this covenant to perform many pilgrims on their way to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra on a pilgrimage to St. Sergius.
Chronicle Hotkovskogo Pokrovsky Monastery refers to evidence of how a prayerful appeal to the St. Sergius and his parents saved people from serious ailments. For example, in 1848, during a cholera epidemic, the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret blessed the procession of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Khotko monastery and the village of Ancient Faith Radio. You can imagine how hot were the prayers of Orthodox Russian people for protection from the deadly disease. And those prayers are heard. The area was spared from the epidemic, and no one sister, despite the large concourse of pilgrims, among whom were sick, had not been exposed to contagion. Church Chronicle Pokrovsky Monastery causes cures of various ailments, many of which were considered incurable by doctors. This book is a modern miracles in Vysotsky monastery of Serpukhov. In the monastery as the most sacred ark with particles of the relics of the holy parents of St. Sergius - gift Hotkovskoy monastery. Many of the miracles performed by the prayers of the faithful in front of this shrine and monastery in Serpukhov.
Author - Archpriest Alexander Butrin, a clergyman of the Church of Transfiguration of Balashikha
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