Vyasa Vladimir-Bogoroditsky monastery (or Vyasa Vladimir-Bogoroditsky desert ) is a monastery of the Kuznetsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church , located near the village of Big Vyas in the Luninsky district of the Penza region of Russia .
| Monastery | |
| Vyasa Vladimir-Bogoroditsky monastery | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Village | Big Vyas |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Kuznetsk |
History
The legendary version relates the foundation of a monastic dormitory dating to the turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries (possibly in 1691), when the elders John and Tikhon settled on the right bank of the Vyas river at the source, having built a wooden chapel and transferred to it the Icon of the Mother of God [1] .
In 1713, with the assistance of Count Gavriil Golovkin, the chapel was replaced by the wooden church of the Mother of God of Vladimir. He donated to the monastery land, as well as forest and fish lands. The church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity was built in 1740.
In 1830, the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was brought to Penza during the cholera epidemic as miraculous. According to legend, it was this event that stopped the disease.
After the foundation, the desert was attributed to various monasteries, and became independent again only in 1860 (according to another version - in 1851). In 1764, it was abolished and assigned to the parish church of the village of Big Vyas, and its main temple became the temple of a rural cemetery. In 1801, the desert was rediscovered, and in different years it was assigned to the Saransk Peter and Paul Monastery and the Penza Bishop's House, existing independently only from 1823 to 1832.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the monastery had four churches, two stone (one of them is a cathedral, in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God), and two wooden:
- The Life-Giving Trinity (1855, wooden)
- in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Life-giving Source" (1857, wooden, rebuilt in 1903)
- in the name of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (1853-1862 or 1863, stone, five-domed, with a stone bell tower) - the icons for her were painted by the artist Stepan Perelogin . It replaced the dilapidated wooden temple.
- in memory of the Beheading of John the Baptist (1898-1903)
In 1914, in the desert were 7 hieromonks, 5 hierodeacon, 6 monks, 12 ordained novices and 20 novices in trial (total 51 inhabitants) [2] . In the monastery, in addition to temples, there were four stone and three wooden buildings. Hieromonk Gerontius became his last rector in 1913 (Titov, 1877-1937) [2] .
The cathedral church was built around the source at which the monastery was founded; water from it was considered healing.
After the monasteries of the Penza province were closed in 1918, the rector of the monastery, Gerontiy, who became archimandrite, transformed the monastery into an agricultural partnership for its preservation. However, in 1925 or 1926, the deserts were finally closed by the Soviet government. Subsequently, the buildings of the partially ruined monastery were occupied by collective farm tractor workshops and a school of peasant youth [1] .
The patronal holidays of the monastery were the days of the Holy Trinity on May 21, June 23 and September 14 ( old style ) [3] .
In 1996, the source of the monastery was restored. In 2002, on the day of the celebration of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, the first Divine Liturgy in the 21st century was served in the monastery. After this, the desert was for some time female, but was again transformed into male.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Vyasa Vladimir-Bogoroditsky Monastery | . kuzneparhia.ru. Date of treatment February 1, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Eugene Belokhvostikov. Church without crosses. Persecution of Orthodoxy in the Luninsky district. - Penza, 2004.
- ↑ Popovitsky E.A. Orthodox Russian cloisters: A full illustrated description of all Orthodox Russian monasteries in the Russian Empire and Mount Athos. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House Soykina P.P., 1909. - 712 p.