People who are far from the church are often sure that the majority of Orthodox saints revered in Russia are associated with Byzantium and the Roman Empire, for example, the early Christian martyrs. Meanwhile, in the Slavic lands there are not so few of their "native" heavenly intercessors. One of them is Tryphon - the Vyatka miracle worker and the founder of the monastic monastery in this city.
Who was this man?
People are not born holy, they become holy throughout their lives, setting an example for others, tirelessly serving the Lord and doing good deeds with meekness and humility, not seeking worldly recognition and rewards for them.
Tryphon Vyatsky was such a person. His biography, on the one hand, is full of ambiguities related to the periods of wandering, on the other hand, quite a lot is known about the saint.
By origin, Tryphon was a peasant, and by vocation - a servant of God. This man decided to devote his life to the Lord in his early youth. However, he acted in a very peculiar way. Instead ofIn order to come as a novice to the nearest monastery monastery, the future saint set off on his first journey. There were many such trips in his life, so it can be argued that he was a wanderer of God.
During one of these trips, a miracle occurred, which is considered the first, since it was recorded. Through the prayer of Tryphon, the child was healed. It is likely that this case was not the first, but there are no references to earlier miracles. Accordingly, in his life, Tryphon was not only a wanderer of God, an ascetic or a blessed one, but also a miracle worker.
When was he born? When did he die?
The future saint was born in 1546, there is no mention of the day and month. His parents belonged to the peasant class and were very we althy and very pious. Trifon's father was called Dmitry Podvizaev, he was a man of meek disposition, distinguished by God-fearing and poor he alth. Information about the mother has not been preserved, which is not surprising, because in the 16th century the way of life was regulated by Domostroy.
The future saint was the youngest child in the family. They baptized him with the name Trofim. He was called Tryphon when he was tonsured. This man accepted monasticism at the age of twenty-two.
The wonderworker Vyatka Tryphon died in 1612, in October, in the city of Khlynov, in the Assumption Monastery founded by him.
Asceticism and the first miracles
Tryphon began his wanderings in his early youth. He walked between villages, cities and villages on foot. The future saint met his first confessor, his mentor, in Veliky Ustyug. Of course, this man was a priest, and his name was Father John. No other information about him has been preserved. Having been blessed by Father John, Tryphon stayed for some time in Shomoks, a small volost near Veliky Ustyug. Here he works and leads a simple peasant life.
After staying in Shomox for some time, the future saint sets off again. During his travels, he visits Perm, and then comes to a small town on the banks of the Kama. It was called at that time - Orlov-gorodok. Now this is the village of Orel, located, of course, in the Perm Territory, in the Usolsky district. Here, the future saint lives on the church porch and spends most of his time walking the streets.
During one of these walks, a significant event happens to Tryphon. The yard people of the Stroganovs are joking over him. The joke is that the future saint is thrown off a cliff into the snowdrifts. However, repentance quickly comes to the courtyard people, they dig out the wanderer from the snow and are amazed at the absence of even a shadow of annoyance or anger in him. Of course, the pranksters tell the household about the incident that impressed them so much, and the owner, Yakov Stroganov, becomes aware of the event.
He was a superstitious and God-fearing man. Having learned about the behavior of his servants, Stroganov the next day came to the church porch, found Tryphon and asked his forgiveness. He also told about the serious illness of his only son. The future saint and wonderworker of Vyatka Tryphon prayed for a child, and the Lord granted healing to Stroganov's heir. This was the first miracle, information about which has come down to the present.time.
Going on to wander, Tryphon comes to the village of Nikolskoye, located on the banks of the Viled river. This is where the second miracle of healing takes place. Ulyana, the wife of the clerk Maxim Fedorov, addresses the future saint with a request to beg the Lord to heal her two-year-old son. The miracle worker of Vyatka Tryphon prayed all night and a miracle happened. The baby, who was on the verge of death, woke up he althy.
After this miracle, the future saint leaves asceticism, because worldly glory burdens him. He comes to the village of Pyskor, located in the same Perm region, and turns to the rector of the local monastery, Varlaam. Father Varlaam, of course, does not refuse the ascetic and tonsures him as a monk, calling him Tryphon.
Life in the Pyskor monastery and miraculous phenomena
In the Pyskor monastery, the future saint and patron of the Vyatka Tryphon works hard, stays awake at night, spending them in prayer, and surprises the brethren with meekness and the greatest humility of soul. He performed all the work of the monastery with joy, without laziness and grumbling.
Besides caring for the welfare of the monastery, the future saint tirelessly tortured his flesh. He slept little and on bare ground. He fasted tirelessly, never violated the cell rule, and on summer days he went out undressed in the courtyard and gave his flesh to midges, gadflies and mosquitoes. For whole nights Tryphon stood among the clouds of insects, praying to the Lord.
Soon, the future saint fell seriously ill. He lay for forty days, after which Tryphon was shown two visions - an angel sent by the Lord, and St. NicholasMiracle Worker. Nicholas the Pleasant, having appeared to the monk, healed him.
After the recovery, granted by God through the Great Wonderworker Nicholas of Myra, Tryphon's ministry became even more diligent. And so it happened that people began to come to the monastery, exhausted from diseases. Many healings occurred through the prayer of Tryphon, both children and adults who are demon-possessed.
The worldly glory of Tryphon was extremely great. Of course, this circumstance aroused envy and other, dark qualities among the rest of the monks. This weighed heavily on the future saint. One day, having prayed to the Lord, he left the monastery, having nothing with him.
Reclusion and the conversion of pagans to the faith of Christ
Walking along the Kama, Tryphon found an old abandoned boat. Sat in it and swam with the flow. Not far from the mouth of the Mulyanka River, Trifon Glas heard him point out a place on the bank. There was an ancient Ostyak temple in that clearing, a pagan sanctuary in which sacrifices were made to idols. Tryphon settled as a hermit near him.
The elder of the Ostyak community, whose name was Zevenduk, sent about seventy armed men to the hermit. Tryphon preached to them the faith of Christ and explained about their idols. People left the hermit in confusion and, of course, told the local prince, whose name was Kingpin, about everything. He expressed a desire to see the hermit with his own eyes and listen to him.
However, events did not develop peacefully. The hermit was visited by the merchant Sukhoyatin, who did business with the local pagans.tribes. He left Tryphon an ax and, probably, some other things necessary for life. The hermit decided to use them to destroy the temple and all the gifts to pagan idols, in which he succeeded. Upon learning of this, Kingpin and his people came to Tryphon and were amazed at how this man could destroy their ancient sanctuary without suffering.
Although Ambal himself did not revile the saint and was not angry with him, many Ostyaks were burning with a thirst for revenge. Just at that time, the Cheremis tribes went to war on their lands. The Ostyaks were very afraid of them, and their fear was especially great because of the certainty that the hermit would point out to the enemies the location of dwellings. But when they went to kill Tryphon, they could not find his cell hut. The saint himself at that time prayed in it, not hiding from his fate.
This miracle was the impetus for the fact that the Ostyaks accepted the faith of Christ. New converts often came to the hermit, listened to his sermons and brought him gifts - honey, food, furs and much more. Worldly glory overtook Tryphon again. After some time, he left his cell and returned to the Pyra monastery.
Foundation of the Dormition Monastery and canonization of Tryphon
Returning to the Pyrsky Monastery, the future Saint Tryphon Vyatka led a simple life. Although the rumor spread the news of the return of the miracle worker to the walls of the monastery, Tryphon did not leave his cell, except for those moments when it was necessary, he spent days and nights in prayers and comprehension of the Holy Scriptures.
Soon, Tryphon again left the monastery and retired to the landsStroganovs, on a mountain near the Chusovaya River. However, people came here in an endless stream, and not all of them really needed help. The future saint lived in these lands for nine years, and left them at the request of Grigory Stroganov.
Leaving the possessions of the Stroganovs, Tryphon went to his spiritual mentor, Father Varlaam. I shared with him my thoughts that there is not a single monastery in the Vyatka lands. Having received a blessing from Varlaam on the foundation of the monastery, the future saint set off on a long journey, in which he had a vision of the place where the monastery should be built.
On March 24, 1580, the Metropolitan blessed the foundation of the monastery and ordained Tryphon as a priest. And on June 12 of the same year, Tsar John Vasilyevich gave a special letter for the arrangement of the monastery, adding bells and liturgical books to it.
The construction itself went on with significant obstacles until one of the local peasants had a vision of the Mother of God in a dream, indicating the place for the temple. Thus, the Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos was founded, and the arrangements for the new monastery immediately went smoothly. Soon the small monastery became cramped and it was expanded, laying a large church of the Assumption of the Mother of God. Nowadays, this church is the Assumption Cathedral of the Trifonov Monastery and the relics of the Vyatka saint are buried in it.
The miracle worker Vyatka was canonized by the decision of the Holy Synod only in 1903, in thereverend. His feast day is 21 October Gregorian. We honor the Monk Tryphon of Vyatka throughout Russia. But this saint enjoys special love and respect among the inhabitants of the Vyatka and Perm regions.
