Danilovsky New Martyrs and Confessors who suffered for Christ during the years of persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century. Vyacheslav Marchenko

It was a difficult time for Rus' - “for the multiplication of our sins, God allowed the filthy people to fall upon us, not having mercy on them, but punishing us.” — This is what it says in the life of Prince Daniel about the Horde yoke. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, a new yoke swept over Holy Rus', uncontrollably, irrevocably, allowed by God for new sins. And the storms of heresies broke out over the Russian Church, and the apostasy of the faint-hearted occurred.

But in the monastery of the holy, blessed and reverend Prince Daniel of Moscow, a new prince Daniel appeared - the prince of the Church, Bishop Theodore (in the future schema Daniel), similar to his glorious predecessor and Heavenly patron, who laid the foundation for the exaltation of Moscow and the great cause of uniting the Russian Land and Autocracy around it. His Grace Theodore is “the pillar of Orthodoxy” and “of the bishops, the bishop,” as the Moscow elder, holy righteous Alexy (Mechev) called him.

And now the time has come to say something that no one has said yet. We testify to the existence of the marvelous among saints Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Moscow St. Daniel Monastery, headed by the Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeevsky).

Content.

Foreword.

Part I. The Council of the New Martyrs of the Moscow St. Daniel's Monastery.

1. Daniel's monastery until the time of modern turmoil.

2. From oblivion.

3. Holy members of the monastic brotherhood of Prince Daniel.

4. New Martyrs of the Danilov Brotherhood in the Tsarist Years of Russia.

5. Kazan Theological Academy.

6. Moscow Theological Academy.

7. Danilov Synod. Fight against apostasy.

8. The beginning of the way of the cross. First arrests.

9. Without the Patriarch, but with Christ.

10. In the Solovetsky concentration camp.

11. Declaration of Metropolitan Sergiy of 1927. The firm confession of the Danilov bishops.

12. All-Russian Danilov Brotherhood.

13. Cross of suffering.

14. Subsequent years. Bishop Athanasiy.

15. Holy relics of the Danilovites.

16. Councils.

17. Council of the New Martyrs and Confessors Danilovsky.

Part II. Danilovsky New Martyrs and Confessors.

Life dates.

1. Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg.

2. Holy Confessor Dimitriy (Lubimov), Archbishop of Gdov.

3. Hieromartyr Nikolay (Dobronravov), Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal.

4. Hieromartyr Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsy.

5. Hieromartyr Sergiy (Druzhinin), Bishop of Narva.

6. Martyr Michael (Novoselov). Mark, Bishop of Sergiev.

7. Saint Tikhon (Belavin), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

8. Reverend Confessor Archimandrite George (Lavrov).

9. Holy Confessor Pavel (Kratirov), Bishop of Starobelsky.

10. Holy Confessor Stephen (Beh), Bishop of Izhevsk.

11. Hieromartyr Faddey (Uspensky), Archbishop of Tver.

12. Hieromartyr Priest John (Smirnov).

13. Martyr Archimandrite Simeon (Kholmogorov), in schema Daniel.

14. Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeevsky), Archbishop of Volokolamsk, in schema Daniel.

15. Hieromartyr Pachomiy (Kedrov), Schema-Archbishop of Chernigov.

16. Hieromartyr Procopiy (Titov), ​​Archbishop of Odessa.

17. Monk Martyr Archimandrite Seraphim (Schelokov).

18. Hieromartyr Damaskin (Tsedrik), Bishop of Starodub.

19. Hieromartyr Gregoriy (Lebedev), Bishop of Shlisselburg.

20. Holy Confessor Ambrosiy (Polyansky), Bishop of Kamenetz-Podolsky.

21. Reverend Martyr Abbot Sergiy (Chernukhin).

22. Hieromartyr Averkiy (Kedrov), Archbishop of Volhynia.

23. Hieromartyr Nikolay (Parfenov), Bishop of Atkar.

24. Hieromartyr Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich.

25. Hieromartyr Guriy (Stepanov), Archbishop of Suzdal.

26. Hieromartyr Uar (Shmarin), Bishop of Lipetsk.

27. Hieromartyr Priest Alexiy (Nikonov).

28. Hieromartyr Partheniy (Bryanskyh), Bishop of Ananyevsky.

29. Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinsky), Bishop of Dmitrovsky.

30. Martyr Peter (Tsarapkin).

31. Hieromartyr Herman (Ryashentsev), Bishop of Vyaznikovsky.

32. Hieromartyr Amfilohiy (Skvortsov), Bishop of Krasnoyarsk.

33. Hieromartyr Priest Vasiliy (Gorbachev).

34. Hieromartyr Joasaph (Udalov), Bishop of Chistopol

35. Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereya.

36. Hieromartyr Eusebiy (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of Shadrinsky.

37. Holy Confessor Athanasiy (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov.

38. Hieromartyr Ignatiy (Sadkovsky), Bishop of Skopinsky.

39. Hieromartyr Arkadiy (Ostalsky), Bishop of Bezhetsk.

40. Hieromartyr Archpriest Sergiy (Mechev).

41. Hieromartyr priest Vladimir (Ambartsumov).

Applications.

1. Message of Patriarch Tikhon. Anathematization of the Bolsheviks. January 19, 1918.

2. Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR on the separation of the Church from the state and the school from the Church (On freedom of conscience, church and religious societies) of January 20, 1918.

3. Resolution of the Holy Council regarding the decree on the separation of Church and state. January 25, 1918.

4. Appeal of the Holy Council to the Orthodox people regarding the decree of the Council of People's Commissars on freedom of conscience. January 27, 1918.

5. Secret letter from V.I. Lenin to members of the Politburo. March 19, 1922.

6. Recognition of the Temporary Church Administration of the Living Church by the leading hierarchs, including the future Patriarch Sergiy (Stragorodsky). June 16, 1922.

7. Patriarch Tikhon's anathematization of the "Living Church". December 19, 1922.

8. "Solovetsky message". Appeal of Orthodox bishops to the government of the USSR. May 1926.

9. Declaration of Metropolitan Sergiy (Stragorodsky) on his recognition of Soviet power. July 29, 1927.

10. Response of the Orthodox bishops imprisoned in Solovki to the declaration of the Deputy Patriarchal Locum Tenens and the Provisional Patriarchal Synod of July 16 (29), 1927. September 27, 1927.

11. From a letter from Bishop Damaskin (Tsedrik) to Archbishop Nikolay (Dobronravov). May 7, 1929.

12. Letter from Bishop Damaskin (Cedric) to the legalized. 1929.

13. Metropolitan Sergiy (Stragorodsky). Interview about the situation of the Church in the USSR in the 30s. News of the Central Election Commission. No. 46 (3893). 16.2.1930.

14. His Holiness Patriarch Alexiy II: I accept responsibility for everything that happened. 1991.

15. Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Collegium for Scientific and Theological Review and Expert Evaluation of the Publishing Council of the Moscow Patriarchate: refusal of permission for this book (without which it is prohibited to sell books in the shops of the Patriarchate churches); and the book's author's comments on this decision and on the expert's comments.

16. The heirs of St. Joseph of Volotsk – Danilovsky bishops-confessors and martyrs.

Report by V.I. Marchenko at the conference “Reverend Joseph of Volotsky and his monastery” in the Joseph-Volotsky stauropegial monastery on March 13, 2013.