VISION OF PONOMAR TARACIA

In the "Tale" speaks of the ponomar of the Khutyn Monastery. By myself.
The office of a modest priest is a church servant of a lower rank, in duty.
Who entered the Church in the performance of various Churches
Requirement: He lit candles, cooked a cadilla, called a bell. That's what they said.
“Phonomaries are close to holiness, but there are no saints.”
Tarasius prepared candles for morning worship in the Khutyn temple
Transfigurations, near the relics of St. Barbara. Suddenly, candles over the Holy Sepulchre
They lit themselves, they cut off the lampads from the Icon, and even began to smoke,
Spreading a wonderful blessing. St. Barlaam rose from his tomb,
He went to the middle of the temple and began to pray. Afraid Tarasius fell before the Holy One
Knees. "Dear, do not be afraid" - said the Varlaam and sent him to the church roof to see,
What's happening in New York.
Arriving at the church, Tarasius stupefyed: the waves of Ilmen lifted the wall and groaned.
Drink the new city. Tarasius told about the vision of the saint and he tattered three hours.
Prayer to save the city from flooding. After this, Tarasius rose twice more.
On the temple, watching terrible prophetic scenes. He explained everything to him:
The city was waiting for the sea belief, and in three years after it will be a deadly fire on
Trade side. After such a restless night, the saint returned to his tomb, and candles and candles.
The lampads killed themselves. This story became the basis for many icons. One of them.
It is in the exhibition of the Novgorod Museum, touching us with a very live transmission of the Holy
The terror of the Novgorod people in the year of fire, plague and thousands of deaths.
In 1506-1508 in the city really virulently savage urine. That's what it says.
Novgorodsky chronicler: "Under the Grand Duke Vasilye Ivanovich of all Russia and under the Archbishop"
Novgorodtskogo, the lord of Serapion was in the new city the sea of Velmi is great with iron, as well as with men,
Male and great, male and female, 15,000 souls and 400 without four heads.
In the same 1508 year in Novgorod there was a fire, about which the chronicler writes that
There has never been a terrible fire. Named the number of burnt - 2314, the chronicler adds:
“The same drowned and burnt in ashes, God’s number is the news, and the day was on fire before noon.”