The Mary Magdalene Monastery is the only female Orthodox monastery in the Vilnius and Lithuanian dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in Vilnius , Lithuania .
| Monastery | |
| Mary Magdalene Monastery | |
|---|---|
Cathedral Church of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky | |
| A country |  Lithuania |
| City | Vilnius |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Vilna and Lithuanian |
| Type of | sociable |
| First mention | July 22, 1865 |
| Abbot | Seraphim (Ivanova) |
| Site | magdala.lt |
History
In 1864, on the initiative of Governor General M.N. Muravyov , the Catholic Monastery of the Heart of Jesus of the Women Order of Businesswomen was closed in Vilna, and in its place by the decree of the emperor on November 9, 1864, the Orthodox Mary-Magdalene monastery was established from the nun arrived in Vilna in Moscow Alekseevsky Monastery . The official opening of the monastery took place on July 22, 1865.
When the church was rebuilt into an Orthodox church, a tall quadrangular bell tower, decorated with a large gilded bronze heart, was dismantled, details of the external and internal decor were redone, a dome in the middle (above the old dome) was added, and two towers on the west side, canopies were attached to the entrance.
In addition to the main thing, a throne was set up in the church in the chapel in the name of the Protection of the Holy Virgin. The side church was small, with a bell tower. The iconostasis of the main church was three-tier, painted in marble. The altar with large Corinthian columns was decorated with a copy of the famous painting by F. A. Bruni “Prayer for the Chalice”.
At the Mariinsky Monastery there was an icon-painting workshop and a school for girls of orphan clergy and daughters of officials serving in the North-Western Territory . At the monastery school, up to 40 girls studied annually. In 1901, the school was transformed into a diocesan female school. School and monastery funds accounted for% of the capital of the local clergy (3585 rubles) and capital (3991 rubles 50 k.) Abolished in 1874 by the Torokan monastery (in the Kobrin district of the Grodno province near the town of Antopol) and the Borun monastery (in the town of Boruny, Oshmyany district Vilna province ). The Borunsky monastery in 1886 was restored and assigned to the Vilnius Holy Spirit Monastery .
| At the beginning of XX centuries. | Iconostasis |
At the beginning of the 20th century , there were 89 nuns in the monastery. During the First World War, as the German front approached the city, the monastery was prepared for evacuation. July 22 (August 4), 1915, Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania Tikhon (Bellavin) on the feast day of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene performed his last service in the church of the convent, and on September 14 the abbess and 114 nuns, a shelter, and a school for 50 people with all their belongings were evacuated to the city of Minsk . A month later, nuns from Minsk were sent to Petrograd . The sisters of the monastery, according to their wishes, were distributed among the Petrograd monasteries and courtyards, many went to their parents home, and the remaining 30 nuns, led by the abbess Vera (Potapenko), were sent to the Vohonovsky Mary-Magdalinsky convent of the Petrograd diocese, Tsarskoye Selo district.
In 1919, upon their return to Vilnius, the nuns were settled in the former Holy Trinity Monastery , as the former monastery buildings were returned to the Catholic community.
Since 1938, the nuns of the monastery lived at the church of the Holy Right Prince Alexander Nevsky . After the destruction of 1944, the church was restored only by the end of 1951. In the mid-1950s, with the help of subsidies from the Moscow Patriarchate, a two-story stone cell building was built, a house for priests, outbuildings, a fence with holy gates. In 1960, all this was seized by the Soviet state, and the nuns were forced to move to one of the buildings of the Holy Spirit Monastery .
On May 5, 2015, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Journal No. 34), the Mary Magdalene Monastery was reopened [1] .
On May 24, 2015, the sisters of the monastery moved to the premises of the restored church in honor of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky, and the nun Seraphim (Ivanov) was elevated to the rank of hegumen [2] .
Prioresses
- Flaviana (Popova) (1865 - † 1.1.1878), abbess
- Anthony (Zolotareva) (1878-1900, † at rest 07/11/1904), abbess
- Moses (Lyalina) (1900-1912), Mother Superior
- Vera (Potapenko) (1913-1918), Mother Superior
- Nina (Batasheva) (1918-1968), Mother Superior
- Angelina (Batasheva) (1968 -?)
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- Nadezhda (Lomako) (2012 - 2015) [3]
- Seraphim (Ivanova) (from May 24, 2015), Mother Superior
Notes
- ↑ Journals of the meeting of the Holy Synod of May 5, 2015 . Date of treatment January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Opening of the Mariinsky Convent (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 7, 2017. Archived January 16, 2017.
- ↑ VILNIUS NAMED AFTER EQUAL APOSTOLIC MARIA MAGDALINA FEMALE MONASTERY . www.pravenc.ru. Date of treatment February 12, 2019.