COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 17
The Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus, was natural in Kazan on the order of 1530), and was descended from the Don Cossacks. According to the Patriarch's own profile, he served as priest in Kazan in a church passionate to St Nicholas (December 6 and May 9), nigh on the Kazan market. Later on he became a parson, and from 1582 was archimandrite of the Savior-Transfiguration monastery at Kazan. On May 13, 1589 he was consecrated bishop and became the initial Civic of Kazan.Because he was the priest at St Nicholas, the wonderworking Kazan Image of the Close relative of God (July 8) was bare in Kazan in 1579. With the blessing of Archbishop Jeremiah of Kazan, he carried the newly-appeared icon from the place of its decision to the Place of worship of St Nicholas. Having considerable instructor profession, the saint in 1594 compiled an subsidize voice-over the achieve of the wonderworking icon and the miracles high-quality plain-spoken it. In 1591 the saint gathered newly-baptized Tatars within the cathedral church and for distinct days he instructed them in the Accept.
The relics of St Germanus, the minute archbishop of Kazan (September 25, November 6, and June 23), who died at Moscow on November 6, 1567 by means of a pandemic, were transfered and implied in St Nicholas Place of worship in 1592. With the blessing of Patriarch Job (1589-1605), St Hermogenes reburied the relics at the Sviyazhsk Dormition monastery.
On January 9, 1592 St Hermogenes addressed a insignia to Patriarch Job, in which he asked for appropriate to stain in his See of Kazan relations In a straight line territorial army who gave their lives for the Accept and the nation in a people in opposition to the Tatars. In the further than, it was usual to explanation within the diptychs the names of all In a straight line warriors who had fallen in people, and to stain them.
At the incredibly time he mentioned three martyrs who had suffered at Kazan for their confide in in Christ, one of whom was a Russian named John (January 24) natural at Nizhny Novgorod and captured by the Tatars. The other two, Stephen and Peter (Gait 24), were newly-converted Tatars.
The saint spoken pretense of a that these martyrs were not inserted within the diptychs read on the Sunday of Traditional values, and that "Defense Untreatable" was not sung for them. In rig to St Hermogenes, the Patriarch issued a administration on February 25, which said: " to celebrate at Kazan and something like all the Kazan metropolitanate a panikhida for all the In a straight line territorial army killed at Kazan and the bounds of Kazan, on the Saturday staff the Banquet of the Fear of the Limit Consecrated Theotokos (October 1), and to drop a line to them in the just what the doctor ordered Synodikon read on the Sunday of Traditional values," and as well as conventional that the three Kazan martyrs be decorated in the Synodikon, dying it to St Hermogenes to set the day of their bumper. St Hermogenes strewn the Patriarchal administration something like his district, and obligated all the churches and monasteries to bring Liturgies, Panikhidas and Lityas for the three Kazan martyrs on January 24.
St Hermogenes displayed zeal in the confide in and precision in the agreement of Place of worship traditions, and he bar himself to the details of Kazan Tatars with the confide in of Christ.
In 1595, with the booming connivance of the St Hermogenes, the relics of the Kazan Wonderworkers St Gurias, the initial archbishop of Kazan (October 4, December 5, June 20), and St Barsanuphius bishop of Tver (October 4, April 11) were bare and stripped. Tsar Theodore Ioannovich (1584-1598) had definite directions to body at the Kazan Savior-Transfiguration monastery a new stone church on the site of the initial one, wherever the saints were implied.
Once upon a time the graves of the saints were bare, St Hermogenes came with a resolution of clergy. He commanded the graves to be opened and, because he saw the incorrupt relics and clothing of the saints, he notified the Patriarch and the Tsar. With the blessing of Patriarch Job and by order of the Tsar, the relics of the newly-appeared wonderworkers were placed in the new church. St Hermogenes himself compiled the lives of hierarchs Gurias and Barsanuphius.
Having been found worthy of the patriarchal throne, Civic Hermogenes was equal to the primatial See, and on July 3, 1606 he was installed as Patriarch by the rally of the holy hierarchs at Moscow's Dormition cathedral. Civic Isidore handed the Patriarch the staff of the holy hierarch Peter, Moscow Wonderworker (October 5, December 21, Noble 24), and the Tsar gave as a gift to the new Patriarch a panagia, overstated with dear stones, a white klobuk and staff. In the ancient flair, Patriarch Hermogenes through his entrance riding upon a donkey.
The task of Patriarch Hermogenes coincided with a difficult lead to for the Russian state: the achieve of the dishonest Tsarevich Demetrius and the Favor king Sigismund III. The initial hierarch bar all his powers to the service of the Place of worship and the nation.
Patriarch Hermogenes was not by yourself in this exploit: his courtier fellow-countrymen followed his cut and assisted him. With special sketch His Inviolability the Patriarch stood up in opposition to the traitors and enemies of the nation, who hail to multiplication Uniatism and Western Catholicism something like Russia and to boring out Traditional values, since enslaving the Russian nation.
Once upon a time the not genuine indoors at Moscow and peopled himself at Tushino, Patriarch Hermogenes sent two dispatch to the Russian traitors. In one of them he wrote: "...You feature over and done the vows of our In a straight line Accept, in which we are natural, baptized, nourished and raised. You feature debased your swear and the kissing of the Pilot to stand to the death for the apartment of the Limit Consecrated Theotokos and for the Moscow realm, but feature fallen for your dishonest latent Tsarevich... My get-up-and-go aches, my center is sickened, all within me agonizes, and all my frame shudders; I blubber and with sniveling I lament: Hang on easygoingness, feature easygoingness, brethren and children, on your own souls and your parents moved out and living... Sense of balance, how our nation is grief-stricken and plundered by foreigners, who make available maltreatment to the holy icons and churches, and how naive blood is spilled, weeping out to God. Think! In opposition to whom do you post up arms: is it not in opposition to God, Who has produced you? Is it not in opposition to your own brothers? Do you not finish your own country?... I adjure you in the name of God, present up your have potential, present-day is yet time, so that you do not wane in the end." In the minute document the saint appeals: "For the sake of God, come to your cause and turn on the order of, inspire your parents, your wives and children; and we stand to pray God for you..."
Later on the clearly rationality of God K.O. upon the "Reproduce of Tushino: he was killed by his own fasten allies on December 11, 1610. But Moscow continued to recline in threaten, having the status of the Poles and traitors, for sure to Sigismund III remained in the town. The documents sent by Patriarch Hermogenes something like the cities and villages, exhorted the Russian nation to furnish with Moscow from the enemies and to crave a equitable Russian Tsar.
The Muscovites rose up in rebellion, and the Poles burned the town, shutting themselves up in the Kremlin. Fixed with Russian traitors they powerfully detained Patriarch Hermogenes from the patriarchal throne and caged him in the Chudov monastery.
On Subtle Monday in 1611, the Russian territorial army approached Moscow and began the seige of the Kremlin, which continued for distinct months. Under attack within the Kremlin, the Poles smoothly sent messengers to the Patriarch with the entitlement that he order the Russian territorial army to toss the town, ominous him with opinion if he refused.
The saint solidly replied, "In the function of are your terrorization to me? I fear definite God. If all our enemies toss Moscow, I shall bless the Russian territorial army to pull out from Moscow; but if you recline contemporary, I shall bless all to stand in opposition to you and to die for the In a straight line Accept."
Because still in prison, the hieromartyr Hermogenes sent a ultimate letter to the Russian nation, blessing the healing army to argument the invaders. The Russian commanders may possibly not come to an appreciation upper a way to post the Kremlin and free the Patriarch. He languished outstanding than nine months in serious limit, and on February 17, 1612 he died a martyr's death from in advance.
The leave go of of Russia, for which St Hermogenes stood with such armored courage, was elatedly achieved. The personality of the hieromartyr Hermogenes was implied in the Chudov monastery, but in 1654 was transferred to the Moscow Dormition cathedral. The respect of Patriarch Hermogenes as a saint occurred on May 12, 1913.
