Ignatius Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Ignatius Bryanchaninov Memory on April 30, in the cathedrals of the Bryansk, Valaam, Vologda, Kostroma, Rostovo-Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg saints in the world of Bryanchaninov Dmitry Alexandrovich, was born on February 5 [1] in the village of Pokrovsky district of the Vologda province, and belonged to the old nobility Bryanchaninov.

The annals report that Mikhail Brenko was the very warrior who, in the clothes of the Grand Duke and under the princely banner, heroically died in the battle with the Tatars on the Kulikovo field. The father of the future saint Alexander Semenovich Bryanchaninov in his family retained good old customs. He was the faithful son of the Orthodox Church and a zealous parishioner of the temple he built in the village of Pokrovsky.

The mother of Bishop Ignatius was an educated intelligent woman. Having married very early, she completely devoted her life to the family. Studying all Bryanchaninov children received excellent homemade education and education. The teachers and mentors of Demetrius were surprised at his brilliant and versatile abilities, who found at the very early age. When the young man was 15 years old, his father took him to distant St.

Petersburg, and sent him to the military engineering school. The future outlined by parents did not correspond to Dimitry's moods; He even then told his father that he wanted to "go to monks", but his father dismissed this unexpected and unpleasant desire for his son, as from an inappropriate joke. The excellent preparation and exceptional abilities of the young Bryanchaninov already affected during the entrance exams at the school: he was adopted the first to the competition from the examined for 30 vacancies and was immediately defined in the second grade.

The name of the talented young man became famous in the royal palace. During the entire stay at the school, the future saint continued to hit his mentors with brilliant successes in the sciences and the first on the list he graduated from the full course of sciences in the year. At the Bryanchaninov school, he became the head of the circle of admirers of "holiness and honor." Rare mental abilities and moral qualities attracted professors and teachers of school, fellow practitioners to him.

He became known throughout St. Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas I treated him with special paternal attention and love; Taking the most active part in the life of the future saint, he repeatedly talked with a young man in the presence of the empress and children. The origin, upbringing and family ties opened the doors of the most aristocratic houses of the capital in front of him. During the teachings, Demetrius Bryanchaninov was a welcome guest in many Velicarous Soviet houses; He was considered one of the best decking readers in the house of the President of the Academy of Arts of A.

Olenin his literary evenings visited, among others, A. Pushkin, I. Krylov, K. Batyushkov, N. Already at that time the extraordinary poetic talents of St. Ignatius were discovered, who later found their expression in his ascetic works and informed many of them with a special lying color. The literary form of many of his works indicates that their author studied Russian literature in the era of Karamzin and Zhukovsky and subsequently expressed his thoughts with an excellent literary Russian language.

In the year, Dimitri graduated from the military engineering school. A brilliant secular career opened in front of the young man, but he gives a petition for a resignation, wanting to accept monasticism. The petition was not satisfied, and Dmitry Alexandrovich went to the service in the Dinburg fortress, where he was seriously ill and was soon freed from worldly works.

Monasticism on June 28 was tonsured into monasticism by Bishop of Vologda Stefan Romanovsky in the Voskresensky Cathedral of Vologda, with a naming of the Holy Martyr Ignatius of the Bogonis. Soon he was appointed rector -builder of the Pelsh Lopov monastery. Soon he becomes known thanks to his administrative successes. Being appointed hegumen of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery, without taking office, he was called to St.

Petersburg, where he was instructed by the highest order to become the archimandrite of the Trinity-Sergius desert near St. Petersburg [2]. Sergiev Deserts by the time the rector of Archimandrite Ignatius Trinity-Sergius Desert, located on the banks of the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg, was strongly desolate. The temple and cells came into extreme dilapidation. A few brethren of 15 people did not differ in strict behavior.

The twenty -seven -year -old archimandrite had to rebuild everything again. The monastery was built up and charged. The worship committed here became exemplary. The monastery tunes were the subject of special care of Archimandrite Ignatius; He took care of the preservation of old church melodies and their harmonization. Famous church composer Fr. Pyotr Turchaninov, who lived from a year in Strelna, near the Trinity-Sergius Desert, spent, at the request of Fr.

Ignatius, classes with the monastery choir and wrote for him some of his best works.Glinka, with enthusiasm, who studied ancient church melodies in the last years of his life, also wrote several chants for this choir. During his stay in the desert, he personally communicated and corresponded with many figures of Russian spiritual and secular culture. Archimandrite Ignatius corresponded and with his spiritual children now knows about such letters of the saint at the Caucasian department, he was elected Bishop of Caucasus and Black Sea.

He insisted on the construction of Archimandrite Ignatius to the cavalry at the Caucasus Department of Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, Grigory Postnikov, who took a friendly and sincere participation in it, based on the unity of spiritual [3]. Hirotony took place on October 27 in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg. The path to the Caucasus ran through Moscow, Kursk and Kharkov railway communication then only between St.

Petersburg and Moscow, then it was necessary to go on horses. Bishop Ignatius arrived in the Cathedral City of Stavropol on January 4 of the year. Civil Governor P. Bryanchaninov, the saint's brother, together with the mayor, clergy and people solemnly met the new archpastor at the entrance to the city.

The first words spoken by the lord on the Stavropol land were: "The world of a degree of this." The external conditions of religious life in this recently established huge diocese were extremely different from everything that he had to deal with before his appointment to the Caucasus. The Caucasian war continued. The multinational and varied composition of the local population was the reason for the emergence of many such issues of a church-administrative nature, similar to which, even in thoughts, were not represented by the bishops who managed landscaped dioceses in the center of the state.

The saint saw his most important task in the apostolic service of the flock, in the deceive of the world in the fire -breathing Caucasus, in the strengthening and expansion of Holy Orthodoxy here. He zealously cared about the arrangement of worship, about the normal relations of the clergy and laity, about the improvement of the life of the clergy, and the increase in its educational level.

Soon, diocesan affairs were brought into a prosperous state. At St. Ignatius founded in the year, the Stavropol Theological Seminary survived the period of stormy heyday, for the Vladyka invested in the construction of the spiritual school all his forces. He personally watched the spiritual growth of pupils, transferred the seminary into a new spacious building. Ignatius made detours of the diocese, the limits of which were the shores of the Black, Azov and Caspian Seas, snowy peaks of the main Caucasian ridge and distant dry Kalmyk steppes.

There was a Caucasian war, and the bishop on the road constantly had a gift -bearing for, perhaps, the last communion. Grace Ignatius attached great importance to the construction of the temples of God in the diocese. His worries in the year founded by the first bishop of the Caucasian Jeremiah of the Ioan-Mariinsky community was transformed into a monastery. In the same monastery in the year, Bishop Ignatius laid a new Pokrovsky temple.

Vladyka, together with the provincial architect Voskresensky, himself compiled a temple project in the village of Novo-Grigoryevsky, which became a decoration of the diocese. In the year, Vladyka Ignatius issued a temple letter for the construction of a new temple in Mozdok in honor of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God in the Caucasus who was in this city and deeply revered in the Caucasus.

With the blessing of the saint in two years, the unique bell tower of the Stavropol Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built according to the project of P. Voskresensky. Not long - less than four years - managed by Bishop Ignatius of the Caucasian diocese, but this time was provincingly coincided with many important events in the life of the Caucasus. In August, Imam Shamil was captured.

In the year, the Caucasian line was divided into the Kuban and Terek regions. In the year, the settlement of the Zakuban Territory began. Despite the military operations, the real danger of getting hostages or to be killed, the saint visited many parishes from Taman to Kizlyar, put the organs of the diocesan administration in order, achieved salaries to the clergy of the diocese, introduced a solemn worship, arranged a wonderful bishop's choir, built the bishop's house.

In addition, he tirelessly preached. Strict to himself, he was condescending to the weaknesses of his neighbors. Dismissal to peace for a serious illness forced Bishop Ignatius in the summer of the year to submit a petition for dismissal to rest. By the definition of St., in October, he arrived in the Nikolo-Babaevsky monastery along with several devoted students.

Here he led a secluded prayer life, created many well -known writings “The Provision of Modern Monastery”, “Fatherland”, etc. He died on April 30. About five thousand people were attended by his funeral service, whose sadness was "dissolved by some incomprehensible rejection." Memory and veneration of the b. Nicodemus Kazantsev -: I know about. Ignatius: a monk without flattery and hypocrisy [5].

How grateful I am to him for his scriptures! Do not understand and not to evaluate it - it means that you do not understand anything in spiritual life. I dare to say that the works of Bishop Feofan Govorov will forgive me St.That's what the most expensive would like to wish you if you asked me: constantly delve into Ignatius Bryanchaninov and go the path indicated by him.

This is the path of all ancient fathers, the path traveled by Ignatius himself, tested by him, as a man of our time, development, a man of our shortcomings and weaknesses, our almost environment. This is what his scriptures are especially valuable. Add to this the power of the grace of God, clearly in them is tangible, for they were not written by arbitrariness, but by special suggestion [6].

Saint Ignatius Bryanchaninov St. Ignatius knew and appreciated the primary member of the Holiness Synod Metropolitan Metropolitan Filaret Drozdov. Dating with Archimandrite Ignatius, his advice and instructions were searched for by many prominent people of Russia. Among them N. Gogol, F.