The image of Saint Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdalsky - solemnly will meet in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in front of the Divine Liturgy at 09:00 on February 17, on the day of the memory of the holy prince Georgy Vsevolodovich - the founder of Nizhny Novgorod, the press service of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese reports.
Vladyka Simon was a mentor of Prince Georgy Vsevolodovich, it was he who blessed the ruler to lay the city on the merger of Oka and Volga.
The divine service will be headed by Metropolitan Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy.
The icon of the Saint is written by the monks of the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on the blessing of the Blessed Onufry, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, and the governor of the monastery of Metropolitan Vyshgorod and Chernobyl Paul (Lebedev) specifically for the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod. The image is consecrated on the honest relics of the Bishop of Simon, which are in the near (anthony) caves.
Icon will be located in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral until consecrated in the Nizhny Novgorod of the Temple in honor of the founders of the city of St. George St. George Vsevolodovich and St. Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal. Then the image of the saint Simon will be transferred to a new temple for permanent stay.
referenceSaint Simon was a tonsil to the Kiev-Pechersk monastery and became known as one of the descriptors of the life of the reverend fathers of Kiev-Pechersk. In 1206, he was appointed by the Igumen of the Vladimir Christmas-Bogoroditsky Monastery, and in 1214, at the request of Prince Georgy Vsevolodovich, was supplied by the first Bishop of Vladimir-on-Klyazemma and Suzdal. In 1218, Vladyka Simon consecrated the temple in the Christmas monastery, and in 1225 - the Cathedral Church in Suzdal.
Grand Duke Georgy Vsevolodovich deeply read his spiritual mentor. In the period of reference in the city from 1216 to 1218, the saint voluntarily divided the fate of the Operal Ruler. According to legend, it was at that time that the idea of the founding of Nova Hoody was born on the Dyatlovy Mountains: this area reminded the prince of George's neighborhood of Kiev.
On the eve of the prespiration in 1226, Bishop Simon accepted Schima. Initially, his body was buried in Vladimir, and in a few years, according to the will, transferred to Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.