The memory of St. John the Evangelist, the miracle worker from Ustyug

Blessed John was born to pious parents, his father named Savva, and his mother Natalia, in the vicinity of the great city of Ustyug, in a village named Puchovo and

It is located on the other side of the river, called the Sukhona, where the ancient city of Ustyug was located.

From an early age he displayed an unusual abstinence; on Wednesdays and Fridays he ate nothing, and on the other days he ate only bread and water, and he spent the nights always sleepless in prayer, and always walked with a sad and pitiful countenance, so that those who saw him thought he was not at all sane.

The blessed boy always did this, and his mother repeatedly urged him to change his lifestyle, saying: "My son, do not exhaust your body by not eating food; such severe abstinence may cause you illness.

And he said unto her, My child, where is thy sin, that thou art so young? The grace of God is in thee, and we see no sin in thee. And she said unto her, My mother.

Food and drink will not bring us near to God. And what we eat or drink will not bring us near to God.

(Ps. 70:15-16) The apostle Paul wrote: "I will meditate on the power of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah; I will make mention of your righteousness, your alone".

After this, the father of the blessed from the village of Puchov moved to the city of Orlec, which was also in the vicinity of Ustyug, on the South river and died here.

Then his mother went to the former Monastery of the Living Trinity, took a monastic shave and was soon elected abbot of this monastery.

She had a son with her all the time, but the blessed boy, knowing the vanity of this world, took on the form of a Yuri [Yuri literally means stupid, crazy].

This is the name given to Christian pilgrims who presented themselves as foolish or strange out of humility and for the sake of their eternal salvation.] , and the mother, seeing that he behaved thus, handed him over to the will of God.

After this, St. John left the monastery and, having come to the city of Ustyug, settled near the cathedral church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Holy Assumption in the church watchtower.

And he used to lie down and walk about in the streets, and he used to lie down and walk about naked, and he used to wear only a piece of cloth around his waist.

And he put on his shirt, and it was worn out, and he washed it not, and he was despised, and mocked, and beaten, and hungered, and thirsted, and took nothing of any man.

One day, in the cold of winter, he went into a hot furnace, lay on the hot coals as if on a bed, and was not hurt at all.

He also cured the fever of the wife of a prince named Feodor, nicknamed the Red, and of a princess named Maria.

When Blessed John learned of his departure to the Lord, he prayed for the whole world, surrounded himself with the sign of the cross and, laying on the ground, delivered his holy soul into the hands of God.

The monk was buried near the cathedral church and works miracles for those who turn to him with faith [The inhabitants of the city of Ustyug prayed to the blessed John during the tribulations of the interregnum and prescribed him the victory of the royal army over Sapega in 1610, and in 1613 the prayers of the ustyugans

Not only did the miracle workers (Prokofiev and Ioannis) defend their city from the Poles, but they also destroyed them.

In Ustyug, a church was built in the name of the blessed John.] . Trooper, voice 5: Naked in the flesh, and with patience exposed the enemies of his cunning, exposing his unlikeable deed, the green suffers the sun's heat, and the needy great cold, frost and fire did not hear, with God's help we cover, John the Wise.

For the faith of those who remember you honestly and diligently who come to the river of your power, pray to be delivered from trouble and fall to avoid.

Desiring high beauty, desiring low sweetness, carnal food, carefully abandoned you, unburdened by the vanity of the world, loved you the angelic life, passed away to John the Beatitude: with them pray Christ God unceasingly for all of us.