July: Day 3: Teaching 1:
Translation of the Sacred Relics of the Holy Metropolitan Philip from Solovetsky Monastery to Moscow
(On the Reasons for the Incorruptibility of Holy Relics)
By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko
Translation of the Sacred Relics of the Holy Metropolitan Philip from Solovetsky Monastery to Moscow
(On the Reasons for the Incorruptibility of Holy Relics)
By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko
I. Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow, the translation of whose much-healing relics is now celebrated, ended his life as a martyr in the Otroch Monastery in Tver, where he was exiled for the truth after an accusation by Ivan the Terrible, and where he was strangled by the chief of the Tsar's oprichniks, Malyuta Skuratov. Several years after the death of the Saint, the abbot of the Solovetsky Monastery, Jacob, and his brethren asked Tsar Feodor Ivanovich for permission to transfer the body of the deceased to the Solovetsky Monastery, where Philip had taken monastic vows and was abbot. There the relics of the martyred Saint rested peacefully under the protection of the church and the prayers of the brethren of the monastery who reverently honored him; there miracles began to be observed at the tomb of Philip over those who prayed before them with faith and reverence.
