in the same year 1612 , the brotherhood turned to the archimandrite of the vilna holy spirit monasterykarpovich, with a request to send to minsk the necessary number of monks to organize monastic life and supervise the construction work, the request was immediately fulfilled and in minsk were sent several monks under the guidance of experienced in the administrative and spiritual life. boomin. pavel domasheva. but in the midst of the jealousy of the newly arrived vilin monks, not everyone was happy to accept more than one attempt. stop building a new church. and now we can pay attention to the icon of the vilna martyrs and anna antonia istafa, who are the patrons of the cathedral, and who from that time connect us with the vilna holy spirit cathedral and the holy spirit monastery at the beginning of the 17th century here for construction peter and paul monastery was sent by archimandrite leonti, karpovich whose task was not only to build, but also to improve the life of the monastery. that is, he was the one thanks to which monastic life was established here in the peter and paul monas

i was tonsured a monk in the holy spirit monastery in vilna, and in the diocese of lithuania. was ordained both a san diacan and a priest and uh, this is a small hierarchy, there are, uh, several dozen clergymen. and of course, uh, nothing until recently foreshadowed such a development of events, but i must say that the political situation. of course, it greatly influenced what is happening now in lithuania, and several clergymen took advantage of this political situation in order to oppose the ruling archdiocese against the metropolitan of vilnius, the lithuanian monk. they turned to the patriarchate of constantinople for help and were supported by the lithuanian leadership, turning to also, for its part, to the patriarchate of constantinople, but i think that the patriarch of constantinople, of course, we will see, of course, how he will react to these appeals, but usually, recently, the patriarchate of constantinople does not miss the opportunity to inflict damage on the russian orthodox church, where such an opportunity arises from its side. i think it is an attempt to spl