Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov)
Item: 16996Format(mm): 130*22*207Number of pages: 416The year of publishing: 2017ISBN: 978-5-9968-0555-6Publisher: Good newsCover type: hardPaper: whiteWeight, gr: 440 Bishop of the Caucasus and Black Sea of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the world Dmitry Alexandrovich Bryanchaninov, was born in the...
Item: 16996
Format(mm): 130*22*207
Number of pages: 416
The year of publishing: 2017
ISBN: 978-5-9968-0555-6
Publisher: Good news
Cover type: hard
Paper: white
Weight, gr: 440
Bishop of the Caucasus and Black Sea of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the world Dmitry Alexandrovich Bryanchaninov, was born in the Vologda region in the village of Pokrovskoye on February 5, 1807, in an old noble family of the Bryanchaninov family. From childhood, the boy was drawn to solitude, prayer and humility.
At the insistence of his parents, fifteen-year-old Dmitry entered and successfully graduated from the Military Engineering School, but the noble career did not appeal to him, and a year after graduation, he retires. At the behest of his own heart, he became a novice of the Alexander-Svirsky monastery under the hieromonk Father Leonid.
The beginning of the thirties, Dmitry Bryanchaninov spent the Assumption Desert, where he wrote the well-known among Orthodox Christians "Lament of the Monk", was tonsured a monk and received the name Ignatius. In October 1857, in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg, Archimandrite Ignatius received the rank of Bishop of the Caucasus and the Black Sea.
In Stavropol, he continues to write church literature. Here the “Library for Reading”, “Valaam Monastery”, Ascetic Experiences”, “A Word on Death”, “The Patericon” are published. Ignatius Brianchaninov died on April 30, 1867. On June 6, 1988, he was canonized as a saint.
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