John of Pechensky (in the world of John ; c. 1500 - December 15, 1589 ) - hieromonks of the Pechenga Trinity Monastery , student of the Monk Tryphon of Pechenga .
| Jonah Pechenga | |
|---|---|
| Name in the world | Ivan |
| Birth | OK. 1500 Varzuga (?) |
| Death | December 2 (15), 1589 Trifonov Desert Pechenga Monastery |
| Is revered | in the Russian Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 2003 |
| In the face | Holy martyrs |
| Day of Remembrance | December 2 (15) |
Canonized in 2003 in the guise of a holy martyr . Revered in the Cathedrals of Kola and Novgorod Saints.
Information about Jonah of Pechenga is known from the monastery tradition and the life of his teacher Tryphon of Pechenga.
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Biography
The origin and date of birth of Jonah Pechenga is unknown. Regarding the place of birth, there is an assumption that this is the Pomeranian village of Varzuga on the Tersky coast of the Kola Peninsula . This assumption is based on the recording of the ancient Synodik of the Solovetsky Monastery , where hegumen Gury , monk German and “the holy priest from Varzuga Ion” are mentioned together. Apparently, these are the names of the monks of the Pechenga monastery who died during the attack of the "Svej Germans" in 1589 [1] .
The first message about the saint dates back to 1533 , when he became a priest in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the city of Kola : "The first and only priest in Kola began to be December 6 [2], 1533." This church was rebuilt from a chapel once erected by the monks of the St. Nicholas Korelsky Monastery , and Priest John became its first rector.
Further information about Father John is mixed. Most sources report the death of the wife and daughter of a Kola priest and that after this John went to the monastery of St. Tryphon and was tonsured there with the name of Jonah [3] . However, the manuscript of the Pechenga monastery reports: “My wife give birth to a daughter for him. By birth, this unenlightened infant was accustomed to sickly, and, by common advice with her husband, her baptism and that for the sake of guilt, leave the wife and daughter in the house and leave for the saint’s abode and be a disciple to him. ” In other words, Father John was forced to baptize his daughter with his wife and, thus, combined with her spiritual kinship, could no longer remain in a marital relationship with her. This situation falls under the 53rd rule of the Sixth Ecumenical Council : “Surely kinship in spirit is more important than union in the body ... let them depart from this illegal marriage” [4] .
So, Father John went to the monastery of St. Tryphon and became his closest disciple there. Since Tryphon himself, guilty of shedding blood, could not take the priesthood, his new disciple, now hieromonk Jonah, became a priest in the monastery.
There is no reliable information as Jonah did after the Monk Tryphon was forced to leave his monastery in 1548. Most likely he left with his elder and shared his wanderings with him [6] . With him and Abbot Guriy, he returned to the new Pechenga monastery in 1556 .
The holy martyr Jonah died in December 1589 during the attack of the Swedish detachment on the monastery [7] . As is known from the monastery tradition, the saint was killed during the Liturgy , which he performed in the Assumption Church in the desert near the Trifonov stream. The death of a 90-year-old hieromonk when he and the Holy Gifts went out into the salt . Together with him, a fellow monk German died. Both martyrs were buried next to the grave of St. Tryphon.
Honor
For general church veneration, he was canonized in 2003 along with other 116 martyrs who died during the Finnish raid. Before that, it was revered locally.
Notes
- ↑ Mother Superior Mitrofan (Badanin). Rev. Varlaam of Keret. Historical Materials for the Writing of a Life c. 31.
- ↑ That is, on Nicholas the Winter
- ↑ The source of such a judgment is the book of Archimandrite Nicodemus (Kononov) “Archangel Patericon”. As the abbot Mitrofan (Badanin) suggests, proofreading was caused by the desire of Archimandrite Nicodemus to remove “seductive” places from life. See Rev. Varlaam of Keret. Historical Materials for the Writing of a Life c. 31.
- ↑ See Mother Superior Mitrofan (Badanin). Rev. Varlaam of Keret. Historical Materials for the Writing of a Life c. 33.
- ↑ See Mother Superior Mitrofan (Badanin). Rev. Varlaam of Keret. Historical Materials for the Writing of a Life c. 137.
- ↑ This plausible assumption belongs to Hegumen Mitrofan.
- ↑ This attack preceded the Russo-Swedish war , which officially began in January 1590. The raid on the Pechenga monastery in December 1589 is the third campaign of the “Swedish” Finns Pekka Vesainen, committed by them on the eve of the fighting since May of this year.