COMMEMORATED ON JULY 24
Saint Polycarp the Archimandrite entered the Kiev Caves Monastery, everywhere he expected monastic tonsure and struggled for the liberator of his living.At full tilt Polycarp (whose name income "much fruit") began to haul fruits of compunction and blamelessness. His family member St Simon (May 10), who became Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, planted the seeds which St Polycarp manufacturing. As the holy bishop skilled Polycarp the morals of the spiritual life, the two became endlessly attached in spirit, agree as they were joined by blood.
Such as St Simon moved out the Monastery of the Caves to weigh up his hierarchal responsibilities in Vladimir, he took Polycarp with him. St Polycarp wrote down the stories that St Simeon told him of the God-pleasing ascetics of the Kiev Caves so that others weight equally expenditure from them. Subsequently, he is equally known as St Polycarp the Hagiologist. Although St Polycarp returned to the monastery, he eternally tried to breathing according to St Simeon's guidelines.
After the repose of Igumen Akindynus, the brethren chose Polycarp to manufacture him as the Benefit of the Lavra. He proved to be a proficient guide for the brethren in their put on trial for liberator, and equally for persons isolated the monastery.
The Infinite Prince Rostislav was one of plentiful who profited from the teaching of St Polycarp, and asked that he be spokesperson to become a holy woman. The saint told him, "God has suitable you to stand for the truth, to distinguish with honesty, and to stand sharp into the future the Hide."
Rostislav answered, "Devout Set out, one cannot be a prince in this world not including falling here sin. I am previous to worn-out and powerless by dissertation cares and labors. Now in my old age I would go for to minister to God and replicate persons who persist followed the sheer and mournful path and expected the Terrestrial of Paradise. I persist heard of how Constantine (May 21), great linking kings, appeared to a usual Older and whispered, 'If I had known what good name the monks assert in paradise... I would persist full off my lid and confusion outraged, and replaced them with the monastic kit."
St Polycarp told him, "If you like this from your aspect, later may it be God's specter."
Excluding, as the prince was abruptly along Smolensk, he fashion ill and asked to be full home to Kiev. Seeing how undersized he was, his sister Rogneda urged him to endure in Smolensk and be unseen in the church they had built give.
Rostislav would not show consideration for this sanction. He whispered, "If I do not make it back to Kiev, later let me be placed in the church my begin built in the Monastery of St Theodore. If God delivers me from this come to nothing and grants me health, later I vow to become a holy woman at the Monastery of the Caves under Polycarp."
As he lay at death's utter, Rostislav whispered to the priest Simeon, "You must install into the future God like you obstructed me from such as tonsured by the holy one in the Caves Monastery, for I accurately looked-for that. May the Member of the aristocracy not generation it as a sin that I did not finished this."
St Polycarp went to the Member of the aristocracy on July 24, 1182. After this, no beneficiary was future for a hope time. Although give were plentiful noble Elders in the Lavra, they all declined the offshoot of igumen out of reserve. The brethren realized that they could not endure for hope not including a lead. They assembled in the church and prayed to Sts Anthony and Theodosius and St Polycarp to help them find someone noble to tie his place.
Moreover a involvement was heard saying, "Let us go to the priest Parsley in Schekovitsa. Let him be our Benefit and theory the monastery in the monastic clamor."
The monks went to the widowed priest Parsley and asked him to be their Benefit, but he refused for a hope time. After plentiful entreaties, he utterly ready and went with them to the monastery. He was tonsured as a holy woman and installed as igumen by Conurbation Nicephorus of Kiev, Bishops Laurence of Turov and Nicholas of Polotsk. Igumen Parsley proved to be a figure of intrinsic worth and a noble beneficiary to St Polycarp.
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