lavra is such a special orthodox monastery, which is the center of spiritual life for an orthodox country in general on the territory of belarus , ukraine and russia, there are only five lavras, of course, the most ancient kiev-pechora lavra itself, then the pochaev trinity sergius lavra near moscow alexander nevsky lavra in st. petersburg and as the right world is called the youngest svyatogorsk lavra in the donbass and the holy mountains 18 years ago, we shot a film about the svyatogorsk lavra, we called it a monastery. then we didn't know. what will be the future of this

legendary monastery? watch a snippet of our film. in the eighth century of byzantium, a struggle began with the veneration of orthodox icons, and many monks fled from the persecution of the authorities of caesar to the north. they began to dig caves. in these chalk mountains, over time, it turned out that the entire mountain was riddled with passages of the underground cell and the temples occupied five tiers. this is clearly visible on the layout.

the svyatogorsk monastery stood on the border of the possession of first kievan and then muscovite russia, as they used to say beyond the line on it repeatedly monks from these towers raided the steppes. they carefully watched the surroundings, the enemy could appear at any moment, therefore the charter of the monastery was similar to the military very often monks became soldiers who defended not only their abode but also the borders of the fatherland, these traditions have been preserved and now the charter of the monastery is still strict. there is almost military discipline here; the monk is forbidden to show his face without blessing, communicate with strangers, nothing worldly should distract them, pray and spiritual the caves were dug by the monks who were looking for a place for greater solitude to indulge in. at the same time

only prayer there reigns silence and nothing responds. in one of these caves he spent 17 years in seclusion, father john in a dark cave among the chalk svyatogorsk rock and ereshka, monks john courageously fought against all temptations, slept, he was in the vegas on the straw in the coffin, fasting was an image, and prayer to god was the meaning of his life. for such a feat , the lord sent him with such a special gift about the insight about the fate of those people who came to to him, in order to receive advice in their lives, many who received a prayer for the healing of the disease, such as received health through the prayers of the reverend to the recluse. after 150 years, in the

svyatogorsk lavra, they honor and glorify st. john the recluse; his power is here in a wooden reliquary. in honor of him, on august 24, a great church holiday was established. thousands of people from russia and ukraine come here specifically to celebrate the spiritual feat of john the recluse with a procession of the cross. today, you see, is probably also a holiday. how many people for several probably a dozen dozen, well, 10-12 thousand people gathered for me. today, despite the fact that it was raining and the weather was not very good. uh, auspicious, but today we see this people coming. e here in order to emphasize how the life-giving source emphasizes these spiritual forces for further their human

exploits under it to the christian ones. before the feast of st. john the recluse, we spent the night. in the courtyard of the lavra, ordinary people told us amazing things. what time will it be at 6:00 am in the morning? i've been coming here for four years now. so 1 2 in a month, when the soul needs to be nourished by grace, peace, love, patience from here, when you leave , it arrives, here in the world. uh, no one can piss you off, no matter what happens around you, you don't get annoyed. you love everyone all pitifully, thank god that they accept us here and how

they make people out of monsters. uh, at least as they say, that a person, when a face is born to him , then a face, and then it becomes a birth so that at least from the face, so that the face becomes far away when grow this uh level of spirituality is very large. well , at least find your own face, that is. e your human self, your dignity and the correct concept of yourself about people and about the world in which we live. early in the morning pilgrims pray in the courtyard of the monastery before the start of the service, and the children are asleep, it is necessary to gain strength before the holiday.

to this and every country, from the smoothness of the destructive coward, the flood of fire of the sword of the invasion, and on the tribes and internecine wars, the merciful ones favored in the good loss of man and our beloved god. turn away every wrathmony move. we and

delivered from the present. and of his righteous coming and by mercy there is a shrine in the monastery of the miraculous icon of the mother of god of svyatogorsk, written by a different person from the holy mount athos, it was preserved in the time of terrible persecution of the church and on october 4, 1992, the icon was placed in the assumption cathedral, decorated with many precious pendants of coins and crosses. everything. this

was brought as a gift by the queen of heaven as a sign of love and thanksgiving for the healing and grace-filled help received by many people, but there were other times when the monastery was a rest home back in 1903 before the catastrophe of the seventeenth year, monks from athogorsk approached one elder and asked if we could build a church on that mountain. to which the old man replied. i don't see the temple, but i see iron man. and indeed, in 1927, the soviet sculptor ivan kavaleridze erected a monument to the bolshevik artyom on the mountain. it was the 154th monument to the iron

man, the locals called him the terminator. under soviet rule, these places were given the official names of the red mountains of mount artyom, but nothing took root. people knew these places like the holy mountains, of course, the desecration of this place was like such a blasphemous temple - yes. the domes were also disfigured, crosses were demolished on them, of course, the assumption cathedral itself was removed, it was rebuilt as a cinema for orchestras. this scene was arranged lavatories in the toilets. dressing rooms are located. laughter was located, that is, precisely, as much as possible to uproot the sacred places itself. temples were dropped church bells sawn molten metals. from them went to the production of bearings and cardan shafts for machines and tractors of the first soviet five-year plans. today, of all the bells in the monastery

, only one ancient bell has been preserved. and in the church of the intercession, on the most holy place in the altar , a mud bath was set up. two bathtubs were placed here and filled with mud, people were lowered there, trying to treat their body, not their soul. during the persecution, by some miracle, the shrines that once filled the monastery were preserved. the monastery was closed the iconostasis was destroyed, and the image of the saint disappeared from the entire iconostasis. only one icon of the archangel gabriel remained; it was saved by a miracle. this

icon is the only one preserved from the legislation of the assumption cathedral at the time when the monastery was closed, wooden things from temples are signs. here are the icons of the parquet floors, that's all, it was taken out. she was a stoker for heating and an ark, when she saw that a whole icon had been brought. they are broken, he wished to keep it and hid a bunch of coal, and the partner does not know what the hidden icon is there. scooping up. he says he drew a shovel under the very icon. and when he took out this icon, he saw that it was an icon. he saw that he was shoveling the image of beauty only around the clothes and around the forest of the archangel, but at the same time did not affect the images themselves, not the face, and not the clothes of the archangel, and he saw in this such a special sign god, i am a miracle god's and this icon has already kept all his later life and passed it on to his descendants. cinema clubs

were in the holy place. this is horror. it's just that we are suffering a terrible punishment for this now why everything in life is not going well for us, in general the politics of our country, because i have gone through all this lawlessness. russia is holy in heaven, and russia, ukraine and belarus, remained indivisible, they are not separate in heaven. that is why the procession of the cross will begin from all corners of our holy motherland and will end on the feast of the assumption of the mother of god , the holy trinity of the moscow lavria. well, this will be a repentant procession, in which all orthodox must bring repentance for the murder of the royal family and return to our orthodox native origins. there is nothing worse than when external forces. two orthodox nations are colliding, and on the line of confrontation are the shrines of our

orthodox world. so it happened with the svyatogorsk lavra. bishop olympiy became the first rector after the revival of the monastery in the early nineties. today he accepted the scheme and retired from the affairs of the kalibei scheme. a descendant of a guards officer who once served in st. petersburg under the last russian emperor since childhood. he was destined to carry the monastic cross in 1953 an eight year old boy. he learned that he would restore svyatogorsk, the monastery. svyatogorsky, who were the heir to the monastery , survived the repressions, two penal servitudes, here the tyrant

died and such a priest was turning to me, even so with his finger. and you will each do at the time that comes. only the time that i, as the ruling khikhirey, will sign the first documents for acceptance. this is the assumption cathedral. although we heard the first warning about the upcoming trials during an interview 18 years ago, we didn’t attach much importance to it. values. schema-monk-lipe told us that it is impossible to split a single faith, to divide blood peoples and destroy traditions. here you go, these customs borders humiliate, uh, and human dignity, the religious feeling of a person, that we are brothers, that nationalists often say that they told me that the spring needs all these russian hatsaps from everyone to throw them out of the calendar. eh, from whom do you want

ions from the first of these moscow hierarchs peter alekseev, there i say, then you don’t know history. and who is peter himself, of course, yes, saint alexei from the boyarch, lenigovsky ate. yes, these are our native kievan rus. god, thank god, the pressure on the orthodox was stronger and stronger, this did not escape the brothers of the svyatogorsk lavra, the accusation was absurd for the current government in svyatogorsk in kiev. lavra is a nest of separatism and agents of moscow, the proof is that the monks walk in cowhide boots. this is a sign of belonging to the fsb of the cowhide boots, then 5 years ago, the maidan authorities, together with the american curators, wanted all the laurels on ukraine to reformat and make them obedient to the nazi regime attacked the kiev-pechersk lavra. the soul to jump, lord, lord

, we will ask the pochaev lavra before god for the help of the mother of god's cyst in the year 675. they have everything so that she and the tempr sour both us and you and our children and our grandchildren can. come to us, these our saints and such a member of the savior of your soul. we approached svyatogorskaya but the lavra did not succumb to pressure. on the days of big holidays, the monastery feeds thousands of pilgrims; delicious and simple food is prepared here. after a late service. people come here to the courtyard of the monastery and share a meal together, no one remains hungry. today the monastery is a

well-organized economy. there is a garden in which 600 fruit trees have their own apiary. there are 60 beehives in it, vegetable gardens, where the brothers grow tomatoes, cabbage, peppers and cucumbers. this year, a field was transferred to the monastery. from a neighboring collective farm. flowering cereals will be planted on it so that the apiary flourishes a cowshed is being built so the monastery can feed 116 monks and 400 workers who restore the monastery buildings, as well as all the pilgrims. a man who becomes a monk, he walks from the world. he is not interested. political events of the war are crises, he prays for all people for us for you to god but unfortunately, the events of the war battles also apply to such

holy monasteries. during the battle clashes in the area of ​​the monastery, archimandrite galaktion died, he was the dean, laurel monk aristocles nun, varvara wounded the monks asaf anfilohi and very seriously wounded and radiacon olympius, a high price. but thank god it has been released today and the refugee who hid within its walls can, probably, freely leave it already. retreating, the nazis blew up a pedestrian bridge that

adjoined the seversky donets and connected the lavra itself and the city of svyatogorsk. well, i think we will restore it soon. the crime of the nazis destroyed the wooden church church, which was located in the ladoga monastery. amazing in its beauty, the wooden skid of all the saints of the russian land is everything. this is the assumption svyatogorsk lavra, it has always attracted the attention of pilgrims, tourists and guests of the monasteries, perhaps this is the most unusual building of the holy mountain. skit is unusually beautiful and even unexpected for these places, its temple was assembled in places by carpenters from massive pine events and decorated with carvings in the traditions of ancient russian wooden architecture of the 16-17 centuries. and this temple of all saints of the russian land was shot from a large-caliber machine gun with incendiary bullets,

the retreating nationalists drove up an armored car goat to the armed forces of ukraine and fired a burst into the middle of the dome of the temples. he burned. she is a nakida fled in the direction of slavyansk, but this whole place, there are never empty many burned temples on this earth, but their people always restored and came to pray. and continued to live. then we filmed an amazing oak grove near the monastery. and we are witnesses of the dramatic history of these places - a grove of 500-year-old oaks by some miracle. these trees were preserved during the war, devastation and the revolution. perhaps, because the earth is considered fertile from this grove, the svyatogorsky monastery is clearly visible. he became the fifth lavra in the slavic

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