The portrayal of the holy and righteous St. Basil the Blessed, the miracle worker of Moscow

This blessed Vasiliy lived during the reign of the good-hearted king and great prince John Vasilievich [Blessed Vasiliy was born in the first years of the principality of the great prince of Moscow John Vasilievich III (1462-1505 years) in the then Moscow village of Elahov, where now are Elahovskaya and Basmannaya streets.

At the age of 16, he took on the feat of juvenile justice and continued to do so for 72 years.

He gained fame during the reign of John IV Vasilyevich the Terrible, who became known to him through the highly venerated Metropolitan Makarios (1543-1564), and during the reign of the most holy Makarios, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.

He was answered by their prayers, and their faith was granted.

Leaving, then, the father's house and his relatives, blessed Basil in the hope of future good changed the perishable wealth to spiritual, because instead of the father he had the severance of the burden of sins, instead of the mother <unk> purity, instead of the brothers <unk> desire to strive to the upper Jerusalem, and instead of children <unk> heartfelt

I'm going to say a few sighs.

And in order that he might have all these things, he wearied himself with hard labor, and was poor, and had not a little cave to himself, and had no clothing on his body, and was always without a place to dwell, and went about naked both summer and winter, in the cold of the winter, and in the heat of the summer.

And when he was in the midst of the noise and the shouting, and his soul was free from passion, he did not speak, and did not show himself to be a man of words, and would hide his virtues from men, and be known only to God.

But "a city cannot be hid when situated upon a mountain". - Matt. 5:14.

Due to the purity of the life of the blessed and his unbreakable patience, the fame of him reached the ears of the good-hearted king and great prince Ioann Vasilyevich, the autocrat of all Russia, to whom the most exalted metropolitan Makarios told about his life.

And they both marveled at his patience, and glorified God that he had given them such a holy man.

Finally, he fell ill and went to bed.

The good-hearted king and great prince John Vasilievich, the autocrat of all Russia, hearing of the near departure of the saint to God, came to him with his pious queen and great princess Anastasia and with his noble princes, John and Feodor, to visit him and receive from him

It's a blessing.

The blessed one, as he drew near to death and was about to take his last breath, said prophetically to the king's son Theodorus: "All that belongs to your ancestors will be yours, and you will be their heir".

The whole city was filled with the smell of his body, and a large crowd from the city came to his burial.

The king and the princes carried the body of the blessed on their shoulders to the holy temple, and the bishops and priests with all their might, praising him, sang psalms and church hymns, and the people wept and exclaimed:

Blessed Basil! pray earnestly to Christ our God for the city of Moscow and for all Russian cities and villages, for our Christ-loving king, his pious queen and for their noble children, and help his army in victory and defeat of the supporters.

While attending the funeral of the blessed, the king and the queen shed tears of joy and tears of sorrow, happy because they had seen in this death of the saint the proof of his perfection and of counting him among the saints, and sad because they had lost such a valiant hero.

And even as many touched the holy remains of the blessed one, they were healed.

Metropolitan Makarios with the holy cathedral, singing over the body of the saint a psalm and funeral canticles, buried him with honors on the 2nd day of the month of August 1552 [Blessed Vasily's body was buried near the church of St.

Trinity on the Rhine, where in 1554 John the Terrible ordered to build in memory of the conquest of Kazan the Pokrovsky Cathedral, better known as the church of St. Basil the Blessed.

In 1586, the relics of the blessed Vasily began to shed many healings and in the same year by order of the king Feodor Ioannovich over the place of burial of the blessed was built a temple in his name (the current Basilian priory of the Pokrovsky Cathedral), built silver, reclaimed, decorated with pearls and

It's been designated a cancer memorial on August 2nd.

The relics of the blessed are still in this temple below.] . All his life he was 88 years old, of which he spent 72 years in a monastery. The Lord glorified the blessed with miracles even after his death in 1588.

Thy life, Vassily, is pure and undefiled, for Christ's sake thy flesh is wearied with fasting and watchfulness, and cold and heat, and heat and rain, and clouds of rain, and thy face shines as the sun. And now the riches of the nations, and kings and princes, and all people, come unto thee, glorifying thy holy name.

I'm going to sleep.

Pray to Christ, that he may deliver us from the bondage of barbarians, and from the strife between us, and give peace to the world, and great grace to our souls.

By the Spirit of God, O blessed Basil, thou didst shake off the rebellion of the world, and the life of anxiety didst thou abhor, and didst put off the garments of corruption, and didst put on the robe of passions, and didst flee from the snares of the flattering pacifist, and didst thou be strange in thy tongue, and having chosen the treasures of heaven rather than the riches of the earth,

Eat the crowns of patience.

And now, blessed Basil, pray to Christ God for those who make your holy memory, let us call you: rejoice, blessed Basil.

On the same day, the memory of the holy martyr Stephen, the Pope of Rome, martyred in 257 on August 2 during the reign of Valerian.