Procopius Ustyuzh biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Prokopius Ustyuzh memory on July 8 was a German [1], the son of wealthy parents of the Latinians, arrived on a ship loaded with very great wealth, with the aim of trading from the Hanseatic Lush to Veliky Novgorod on behalf of his father. He was captivated by the beauty of the temples and the singing of the Orthodox, accepted baptism, distributed his property to the poor, joined the monks of the Khutinsky monastery and began to jeopardize.

Running away from worldly glory blessed by the abbot to travel to "eastern countries". In winter, without clothes, undergoing different bullying, he reached Ustyug the Great, where he settled in a wretched hut. The life of the blessed Procopius was as follows. The glory of the world of vain and myotomer, he did not put in anything. In the afternoon, insulted and beaten by people was tortured by many insults, and at night he did not give himself any rest, but walked around the city and through all God's churches and prayed to the Lord with abundant tears, standing on his knees, asking God for helping the city and people.

In the morning, again, all day walked along the city streets, staying in foolishness. When the saint wanted to find peace from many of his labors or to fall asleep a little, then he went to bed on the street, in a trash, or in a pile of garbage, or in a dilapidated, non -widespread chapel, not covering his naked body. And winter frost, snow, and summer sun heat, and heat and rain - all this endured the blessed with the joy and gratitude of God for the sake.

As he loved God with his whole soul and body, so God loved him and glorified him in the world from a young age. Blessed accepted the prophetic gift from the Lord, as well as the gift of miracles. Then the blessed lived on the porch near the Cathedral Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He stayed there constantly: in winter and summer, day and night, right there, without entering anyone in the house and not worried about food and clothes, he took a little food from God -fearing parishioners and thereby had his body and not every day; From the rich, he did not take any food.

The saint foresaw his day of death in advance. He naked on July 8 near the Vvedensky monastery, at the saints of the gate at the end of the platform. Three days later, his dead body was found under a huge snowdrift applied by a snowstorm. With great honors, he was buried by the Cathedral Church. The saint was still famous for numerous miracles during his lifetime, the most important of which is the salvation of Ustyug from the destruction of a stone cloud.

In the year, at the site of his burial by Ustyuzhsky warriors, in gratitude for salvation during a campaign in Nizhny Novgorod, the temple was erected. In the year, the church was resumed, and this time was consecrated in the name of the righteous Procopius of Ustyuzhsky. The general church glorification of the saint followed the Moscow Cathedral in the year.

Cancer with relics is right. The Procopius of Ustyuzhsky relics of the saint were acquired and laid in cancer in the Veliko Ustyuzhsky Prokopyevsky Cathedral, where they rest now [2].

On the icons of the holy, Procopius is depicted with three poker, which he wore in his left hand. When the saint's pokes were located directly, this meant that in the summer there would be a plentiful yield of bread and an abundance of other earthly fruits, and when his coachs were not turned upwards, he meant that bread crop failure and poverty of other fruits were expected, and great hunger occurred.

Kondak, voice 1 chosen and wondrous in life and miracles of God's saints, holy blessed Prokopia, praise the chas of spiritual love with songs, the heavenly intercessor and praying diligently: as if you have boldness to the Lord, free you from all kinds of troubles, and we call, we are happy, the blessed is the blessed and high Greetings miraculous. Used materials Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron.