Since ancient times, tales have been told in Rus' about the strength and wisdom of the elders. For many centuries, people from all over Russia have been coming to the elders for advice and blessings. The Orthodox Church calls highly spiritual clergymen elders.
According to legend, our Lord Jesus Christ rewards the elders with wisdom and the gift of foresight.
Father Naum is one of the most famous elders of the late 20th - early 21st centuries. The archimandrite received his recognition thanks to his gift of foresight and willingness to help all those who suffer. The spiritual children of Father Naum became inhabitants of most existing monasteries.
The queue to the elder’s cell on visiting days (the elder received from Monday to Sunday) reached 500 people. And Father Naum gave each of those who asked what was necessary.
The father gave biblical cards to an archaeologist, he predicted a big win in the lottery to a woman who was in financial need (the prophecy came true on the same day), a blessing for a wedding to young couples (in the USSR it was extremely difficult to get a blessing for a wedding).
In addition to receptions, the elder actively conducted correspondence, where he helped with advice and guidance to people who did not have the opportunity to get to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius has long been famous for its elders
The Trinity-Sergius Lavra is the largest monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church with a long history.
The monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra has long been famous for its clergy, including elders.
Pilgrims from all over Russia, Ukraine and Belarus come to the sages of the Lavra for advice. The elders of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra hold a daily reception for those who need their advice.
See also the article Father German from Sergiev Posad
The most famous elders of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra of the late 20th - early 21st centuries:
- Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon (Agrikov);
- Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov);
- Archimandrite Pimen (Izvekov);
- Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin);
- Archimandrite Sergius (Petin);
- Archimandrite Matthew (Mormyl);
- Archimandrite German (Chesnokov);
- Archimandrite Dorimedont (Chemonadov);
- Archimandrite Venedikt (Penkov);
- Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Badaev);
- Archimandrite Venedikt (Postnikov).
A few words from Naum on the centenary of the revolution
Archimandrite Naum of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra was an intelligent and perspicacious man, capable of conveying information to every (or almost every) person. About the events of a hundred years ago (about the revolution), he said: “According to the preaching of one prophet Jonah, all the inhabitants of Nineveh repented and were saved, but their city had to perish. Before the revolution, there were a lot of saints in our country! These are John of Kronstadt, and blessed Pasha and Pelageya of Diveyevo and many others. After all, everyone had the opportunity to pray to the Lord God to prevent revolution. At that time, there were many seminaries and church schools operating in the country. But…. The country was no longer led by Orthodox Christians, but by Satanists. Orthodox believers were fired from leadership positions and removed from teaching positions. Previously, they taught the Laws of God.” According to Naum, his mother went to school in 1908 and after several days said that there was no point in going to such a school. The teachers of that time said: “We will now build a happy life without priests and without kings!” Naum is very indignant that visionary people did not take care of the people, why they allowed a revolution (a coup in the state). And, as practice has shown, there were traitors very often in the army.
According to Naum, the current government worships the devil, the same people allowed a revolution 100 years ago, and people like them have already tried to organize coups d'etat more than once in the current 21st century. But the country's president was able to take measures to prevent civil war. Fortunately, there was no shooting.
In order to defeat the Satanists, it is necessary to preserve the unity of the people. For Europeans, it still remains a mystery how the Soviet Union survived and won the most terrible war of the 20th century. Despite everything, the Soviet people quickly established the production of tanks and aircraft, so necessary for the front line, and in this difficult time for the country, science did not stand still, but was actively developing. The authorities, faced with miracles at the fronts, ordered the restoration of the Patriarchate in the country, as well as the opening of temples and churches. Churches and chapels were very actively opened in the occupied territories.
On September 4, 1943, a meeting took place in the Kremlin between Stalin and Sergius (Stragorodsky), Leningrad and Novgorod Alexy and Nikolai (Yarushevich). And at that moment it was decided to open the Lavra and resume theological courses.
Archimandrite Naum believes that our state needs good rulers. With whom you can consult and not blaspheme the name of God, then people will become kinder. And every Christian must necessarily keep the commandments, since they are given for everyone. Observance of the Laws of God must begin with the study of these very laws, you need to read the Bible, the Gospel, go to church, pray, take communion and confess.
The more often a person confesses, the more sins he sees behind him. And those who go to church from time to time or do not go at all do not notice their sins. And how can such people live happily...?
And the recognition of same-sex marriage is generally unacceptable for humanity, as is gender reassignment. Naum opposes the sale of lands of the Russian state, against the murder of children, including unborn ones, against sodomy and fornication. If such phenomena occur on Russian soil, then the end of the world is not far away.
Nahum was positive about the changes taking place in Africa. On this continent, many people accept Orthodoxy, renounce Islam and preach Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Before the revolution under the Tsar, people believed in God, the church was one with the state. The schools were church schools, and people there were taught the commandments of Christ. They taught how to raise a moral generation, value and preserve the family. Abortion was prohibited at that time, and the Russian nation was preserved and multiplied. During the twenty years of the reign of Nicholas II, the nation increased by 50 million, and after the revolution it began to shrink very quickly. Abortion in our time is not prohibited, unborn babies are killed and killed, but the country so needs people (and warriors, and scientists, and teachers).
Brief biography of Elder Nahum
Elder Naum (secular name Nikolai Alexandrovich Bayborodin) was born on December 19, 1927 in the village of Shubinka, Novosibirsk Region.
On December 25, 1927, Nicholas was baptized in the Sergius Church.
December 19, 1927
Elder Naum's birthday
In October 1944, Nikolai was drafted into the Red Army to serve in aviation technical units.
In 1952, Nikolai was transferred to the reserve with the rank of senior sergeant.
In 1957, Nikolai entered the Moscow Theological Seminary.
And already on October 14, 1957 he became a member of the brethren of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
In the photo is the elder, archimandrite, confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and senior sergeant Naum Baiborodin. Years of life: 12/19/1927 - 10/13/2017
On August 14, 1958, Nikolai took monastic vows with the name Naum. On October 8, 1959, Naum Bayborodin received the rank of hieromonk.
In 1979, Archbishop Filaret of Dmitrov elevated Naum to the dignity of archimandrite.
In 1996, Archimandrite Naum Baiborodin helped in the construction of the Archangel Michael Convent. In 2001, he became a trustee of the Lavra orphanage in Toporkovo.
Since 2000, Elder Naum joined the council of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
On October 13, 2021, Archimandrite Naum Baiborodin died in the hospital due to cerebral edema. The funeral service for the elder was held on October 15 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
Helping people
Archimandrite Naum from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in 1996 actively contributed to the construction of the Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Construction took place in Naum’s native village of Shubenka. The monastery was built on the site of a destroyed temple.
In 2000, Naum became a member of the Spiritual Council of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
The year 2001 was significant for Naum because from that moment on he was given the honor of becoming a trustee of the Lavra boarding school for children in the Moscow region (the city of Toporkovo). The boarding school is designed for 250 people.
This is a person about whom many believers speak with warmth - both ordinary parishioners and celebrities, in particular the artist Nadezhda Babkina. In reviews of Archimandrite Naum from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, she describes him as a man with deep eyes in which you drown. After a sincere conversation between the elder and the singer, the latter’s soul felt warm and light, many problems were solved and new opportunities opened up.
In addition to his cell, Archimandrite Naum had a separate room for receiving and talking with visitors - those who needed help. People in need of advice came to him from all over Russia and beyond. Naum, overcoming pain and poor health, always found words of help and consolation. And his prayerful work always served as an example for the entire church brethren.
During the elder’s life, many wanted to meet him, but not everyone knew how to get to Archimandrite Naum from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. To do this, it was necessary to come to the Lavra, and then the Lord himself would arrange everything. In general, he devoted time to parishioners every day after the prayer service (except for the Twelfth holidays) until 13:00, but the schedule often changed. The elder first of all received monks, priests, abbots, and then - ordinary people. And if you stood and waited a little, you could meet and talk, ask for Nahum’s blessing, and if you were really lucky, you could also pass a note with a prayer. There were cases when the archimandrite responded in writing.
Reviews about Archimandrite Naum of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra are mostly positive. He helped many, saw a lot. The story of one woman is a vivid example of this. She came to Father Naum in the winter, there were a lot of people, and she stood and thought: “I won’t get to my father, there are a lot of people, and my question is not very serious...”. But still she stood, prayed and looked with lust at the door, behind which was the elder himself. And suddenly Lefty entered the cell, dressed unkemptly, one might say, the dregs of society. Then the door opened and Naum came out. Seeing Lefty, he said: “Well, Lefty, you don’t go to church, but you like to sleep, and what have you sunk to – you’re already collecting cigarette butts...” And left. And the whole line froze. And Lefty approached this woman and said: “But father is right. I arrived this morning, everything was closed. There is nowhere to buy cigarettes. Well, I shot a bull at a passerby. You see what Father Naum is like, he sees such a small thing...” And that woman was literally scalded with boiling water - God has no small details. And Lefty shamed her. Like, this is not the first time you’ve gone to the Lavra and still can’t understand basic things, like a woodpecker.
Of course, it is impossible to be good to everyone, even if you are a righteous person or a Saint. There will definitely be dissatisfied people. For example, some say that Nahum destroyed several human souls. It seemed like he was dissuading them from the treatment they needed. But how true this is is difficult to judge. Perhaps in those cases there was nothing to help, all that was left was to pray and repent before one’s death.
Sermons of Elder Nahum
The video shows the sermon of Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin) on the day of remembrance of St. Cyril and Mary, the parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
Father Naum's sermons did not leave parishioners, pilgrims and monks indifferent. Love for our Lord and humility before him were the basis of all the elder’s speeches.
“A person does not live here, but prepares for life, for him here is a school of piety,
The Church for him is his own mother, who gave birth to him for eternal life.
Here we receive the Sacraments of Christ, here we show our sonship before God...
Let us seek holiness - and then the Lord will send us adoption, His protection, and then nothing will be scary.
And after the General Resurrection, the Lord will place us on the right side.
Our nature will change, and we will be there like the angels, eternally blissful and joyful. Amen".
Naum (Bayborodin)
archimandrite
- Father Naum said in his sermons.
“Here we receive the Sacraments of Christ, here we show our sonship before God
Preface
Dear brothers and sisters!
I most respectfully bring to your attention my memories of my spiritual father, the ever-memorable Archimandrite Naum (Baiborodin). This work is the smallest gift that I can offer in gratitude to the shepherd who raised, nurtured and formed me (12/06/1927–10/13/2017).
In my youth, I happened to be at one service in the Lavra, when the priest’s sermon was scheduled. For some reason, there was some rather long delay when the elder left the altar. My heart sank with fear - had something happened to the priest? After all, he had health problems even then, he just endured everything courageously and never complained. It was scary to even imagine that Father would one day leave us. What are we going to do without him?
But the elder taught everyone spiritual independence. He said that he put us on the rails, and we must continue to move independently towards eternal life with Christ. It seemed that it would never be possible to master this, that it would never be possible to break away from the elder. After all, no matter what happened, we immediately rushed to our spiritual father, wrote or called him, we knew that there would be an answer. But the older we got, the more the priest demanded awareness of our individual standing before God.
Once, turning to the elder with one question, I exclaimed: “I will still ask you for this, father!” The elder shook his head: “Not so! You will beg God!”
He rejoiced at our consciousness, he wanted us to be real warriors of Christ.
It should be noted: the priest really wanted to see his children not scattered, but unanimous in the work of salvation. After all, he truly was both father and mother to all of us, and what mother, what father does not want to see his children friendly, walking the righteous path through life? And now the moment has come when it is no longer possible to write and call, and now you can only come to the grave. And no matter how old each of us is now, at some point we felt bitter, sad, lonely.
But may the All-Conquering Lord not allow any of us to grieve! After all, our father is the military leader of the spiritual front, according to Schema-Archimandrite Elijah (Nozdrin)[1]. Should we mourn? We have found a prayer book and intercessor in Heaven, in the Church Triumphant, and this is our father! He will not leave any of us orphans. He has now left a whole host of archpastors alone—his spiritual children—in the Church Militant. And I recently overheard a conversation between two bishops about the priest, that he is here now, next to us, although invisibly, but very noticeably.
Brothers and sisters! Believe and know: if we all together continue the work that the elder taught us, if we ourselves live piously and teach this to others, if we try with all our might to live according to the will of God and for the glory of God and work to save our souls and our neighbors, then our dear father He will be happy to watch us and help us in everything. After all, he never left us.
Father Fyodor about Father Naum: “He sits in a corner in his free time and reads the Jesus Prayer”
Father Fedor (cell attendant of Naum Baiborodin) recalled:
Father Naum arrives. He made himself a bench, sits in a corner in his free time and reads the Jesus Prayer.
Once I came, I looked, there was an alarm clock outside the window, and he was sitting, reading a prayer, so that the ticking of the clock would not distract him.
And so, run to all obediences, run to school, everything is on time, everything is fine!
Well, I think: “What will come of this?
He came out as a servant of God, and I’m no good for anything”...
Abbess Ksenia recalls: “Father Naum helped me get out of all the rubbish and untruth.”
Abbess Ksenia remembers Elder Naum:
“Father, the elder of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Father Naum, helped me get out of all the rubbish and untruth. Having walked through all the dark and secret corners of my heart, not reproaching, but helping to see, the priest returned the fulcrum, which had been shaken by all the winds of sins.
And it’s so difficult for us, unbalanced, to keep it,
that every time I come to the priest for confession,
you are waiting for this rooting, this Easter joy of renewal.
The following surgical action of the elder:
“cut off all the tails” so that no attachment to the world prevents one from being born and being born in the Spirit.
And how painful it was to tear it away, and how difficult it is still to get to the truth about yourself, everyone knows this.
Descending with us into this “abyss,” Father helps us get out of it,
will say a kind word, encourage and build a new path,
forever remaining the dearest “builder of the soul.”
Ksenia
abbess
“You need help from him: it means that God has entrusted you to him at the moment.”
The line of clergy and laity to see the elder never dried up.
Reviews of Father Naum spread on both sides of the Urals. Parishioners of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra remember the elder with gratitude. The reviews of the majority of laity about the elder are positive. Olga Vetrova says:
“I came to O Naum several times. He helped me a lot and gave me very good advice. One day I came to him and asked - Father, the Gospel says - do not throw pearls before swine. But I say I don’t see pigs - it seems to me that they are all people.
Besides, maybe I’m already swording with all my might and don’t even know it? Who is the pig Father? So you are the first of them. He answered. And it's time to go back to your shit or change your life. Repentance began, thank God, and my whole life changed for the better. God save him!”
Another parishioner Elena Ksinoshkevich writes about her father:
“I got an appointment with him. He started asking me about my problems. And then, having learned that I was a philologist by training, I asked what my favorite epigraph was from F.M. Dostoevsky.
I answered, they say, the one where it says that “God fights with the devil, and the battlefield is the human heart…” He says that here is the answer to your problems. When he let me go, he gave me books of spiritual content. I keep them and re-read them from time to time.”
Olga Durova adds:
“Don’t doubt it at all. You need help from him:
it means God has entrusted you to him at this moment.
I took his blessing twice.
So such an inexplicable feeling, just from contemplating this person, joy, trembling in the soul, a good mood, and his eyes, what kind of eyes do he have?
But this is the mirror of the soul. People strove for him, their flow did not diminish.”
Warrior of Christ
The young warrior in this photo is the future Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin) - my deceased spiritual father. It was no coincidence that I took this particular photo. Firstly, I want those who did not know the priest at all and cannot imagine his face to see him young. After all, people are not born monks, much less elders, but consciously and gradually become soldiers of Christ.
The second reason why I want to start my story about my spiritual father with this photograph: the fact that the priest was a warrior all his life, a faithful son of the earthly Motherland and the Heavenly Fatherland.
Nikolai Bayborodin was one of the recruits of the last military draft[2]. A million and a quarter of young, seventeen-year-old boys were drafted by the Motherland, then drained of blood in a difficult war, into the ranks of the Red Army and Navy. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief decided to save this last reserve for the time being, did not throw it into the heat of battle, foreseeing that even after the Victory the future world would be far from calm. The last military call did not have time to fight the enemy on the battlefield. But when the trains with the winners returned to their homeland, this conscription resulted in another six or seven years (and for some even longer) to carry out military service in the army and navy, becoming no longer a reserve, but the core of the country’s Armed Forces.
Sergeant Nikolai Bayborodin, in the 1950s
Our father also served in the army for more than eight years. I always remembered this period as very important in my life, as a time that shaped him as a person, laying down fundamental qualities in his character: discipline, endurance, dedication, a sense of brotherhood and mutual assistance, a sober attitude to life, responsibility, nobility and patriotism.
To us, the youth of the 80s, who surrounded the elder in huge numbers, the priest often cited examples from his military life. He said that we are also soldiers and should always be fit, ready for action. He told me about himself that in the army he played a lot of sports, was strong and resilient. It was sport that saved the young man from many temptations. In the evening, young people gathered, for example, for dancing, and Nikolai came from training so tired that he simply had no time for parties. The girls used to persuade one of their colleagues to invite Kolya to the company, but it turned out that the daytime sports activities did not leave any energy for festivities. Father said that his peers did not have time, or even just the conditions for despondency or any thoughts. They led a healthy lifestyle and had a stable psyche. There was not even such a thing as, for example, insomnia. “The planes were taking off and landing above us, and we were sleeping very soundly, as soon as my head touched the pillow, I was already asleep!”
Next to their military unit there was some unit where girls served (I don’t remember, anti-aircraft gunners or signalmen). Father always cited these girls as an example: in the morning, when there was a line-up (they, like the boys, were given very little time to get up and dress), they somehow incomprehensibly lined up on time, were very neatly dressed and combed their hair (at the same time everyone had long hair braided). The girls had one senior in rank, it seems, a sergeant major. Father said that she was like a dean in the monastery, making sure that everything was done on time and properly.
Father loved and understood young people very much. This is surprising, because he is a virgin, he never had not only his own children, but even nephews. And I don’t know any other relatives whom he ever raised. Nevertheless, he saw youth problems much better than his parents or anyone else. And he told about himself how after the army, as a student, he went to church in Frunze. There I studied church reading. The priest who served in the Frunze Cathedral gave him “The Apostle” to read. This caused great displeasure in the psalmist. She argued that Nikolai makes a lot of mistakes, so the Apostle should not be read to him. But the priest defended Kolya and explained that he would still learn everything and would know everything better than she herself.
Prophecies of Elder Nahum
For many years, Father Naum helped monks and laity with his advice and gift of insight.
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One of the elder’s most famous first predictions was the collapse of the Soviet Union ten years before this event.
You can read about this prophecy in detail in the book by V.A. Gubanova: “Father Naum predicts the collapse of the USSR in 10 (more than) years.” There are also many cases of predictions made to monks and laymen.
The elder gave the man a Bible on time and told the woman where to get the money
Rector of the International Institute of Social Ecology Vyacheslav Gubanov recalls:
“Once, when I was in his cell, he gave me a Bible.
And I was just looking for where to buy it. (There were almost no Bibles for sale at that time.)
I wanted to give it to my friends.
As if he had guessed my desire, he took out a Bible from a cardboard box in which he had many books.
Then he pulled out from somewhere geographical maps for the Bible and images of icons.
I was glad to see the images of icons, because at that time I was engaged in icon painting and restoration.
But why do I need these cards? Why did he give them to me?
And he also convinced me to take them.
Leaving the priest, I sat down on a bench to collect my thoughts before returning and pack the gifts.
A man was sitting nearby - it was clear that he was a visitor from afar.
He looked at me keenly and then began to cast questioning glances.
It turned out that he really needed the maps to the Bible.
I willingly gave it to him, thanking God for helping an unknown person.”
“Another time, one woman came to Father Naum to take a blessing:
“I want to join the geological party, we’ll collect minerals,” she said.
“Why do you need to join the party?” he asked.
— I need money, I have a debt of several hundred rubles.
- No, I don’t bless you, there is no way for you to join the geological party.
She almost cried. There was nowhere to get money.
“No, no,” repeated the priest.
- It won't help you. Perhaps lottery money won’t help you either,” he said, looking thoughtfully into the distance. - God help you, go home.
“Why did he tell me about lottery money,” she thought, returning home.
- “Oh, yes, I have lottery tickets!” They gave me change,” she recalled.
The most amazing thing is that there was already a lottery draw, a newspaper was found with the lucky numbers drawn, she checked and gasped: a win!
That's it, Father Naum! But... the lottery money was not enough to cover the debt!
The joy darkened. But not for long.
Suddenly the bell rang: a guest came and took out money to pay off an old debt.
It was already a miracle. She forgot about this debt.
And now it all comes together.”
Vyacheslav Gubanov
Rector of MICE
Student years
From a young sergeant to an old archimandrite is a journey of a lifetime. Nikolai Bayborodin did not remain in the regular army and after demobilization he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Polytechnic Institute in the city of Frunze. He studied willingly, enthusiastically, with great interest, and in the future showed great promise as a future young scientist.
Magazines of the Moscow Patriarchate issued in 1947
As mentioned above, Nikolai regularly went to the Frunze church. Subsequently, the elder always paid attention to the importance of printed spiritual publications. At that time, the only printed organ of the Russian Orthodox Church in the country was the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate (ZhMP), which was revived in 1943 after an eight-year closure[3]. Its circulation was only 6,000 copies throughout the Soviet Union. It was intended only for clergy (and even then there wasn’t enough for everyone!), and, of course, the magazine was practically inaccessible to ordinary citizens. And although the content of the ZhMP was strictly controlled by the atheistic rulers, it was still a printed word about God, moreover, published in modern conditions, and this was the greatest information deficit and was very much valued by readers. It so happened that it was through the ZhMP that Nikolai discovered for himself that, it turns out, there are Theological Seminaries in the USSR and you can go there to study.
This thought completely took possession of the young man’s consciousness, and Nikolai turned to his mother for advice. In the future, the priest always drew attention to the need and importance of parental blessing, especially at key moments in life. After all, at first glance, the idea of entering the seminary was strange and wrong, since Nikolai had completed his fourth year at the institute and, it seemed, was soon to become a successful physicist and mathematician.
But Nikolai’s mother, being a woman of deep faith, without even thinking about it, blessed her son on the spiritual path. Everything was decided. The institute has been abandoned, with the seminary ahead (only a seminary for now!). Nikolai was valued at the institute. When the rector learned about such an incredible act of his student, he raced in his car after the train that was taking Nikolai to Moscow, at the next station he entered the carriage and began to persuade the young man to come to his senses and not ruin his fate, not ruin his career. I don’t know what kind of conversation they had there, but I have no doubt about one thing: although the priest was always respectful to his elders, nevertheless, without hesitation or doubt, he still stood by his decision and continued on his way to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Subsequently, he spoke with great love and respect about many of his teachers, maintained contact with some of them, and passed on spiritual literature to them.
A scientist who became a monk. Seer
The perspicacious old man helped everyone in need.
The confessor’s predictions turned the lives of many people upside down and set them on the right path. Archpriest Sergius Tkachenko says:
“In 1977, I returned from the army, I had to decide how to continue living. This is how I ended up with Father Naum. He was still abbot then. Not many people came to see him. Although even then it was clear that he was an amazing person. A scientist who became a monk. Seer. When he first saw me, he immediately gave me the Gospel. I leave him with this Gospel in my hands, and there is some nun sitting on a bench at the entrance and says: “If you become a seminarian, you will become a priest.” - Why? - I ask. — But Father gives the Gospel only to those who are ordained. “I’m not going to become a priest,” I shrugged and moved on... But my path in life was already open to Father Naum’s gaze.”
Sergey Tkachenko
archpriest
Prediction about the end of the world
In 2012, Elder Naum, at the age of 85, predicted the end of the world:
“There is a dark force operating in the world that worships the devil, hates the Gospel, the Church, Orthodoxy. Even at the beginning of the last century, Masonic Satanists said that when there are 3 million of us, everything will be in our hands. And now there are already 5 million of them - 38 thousand lodges. The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Committee of 300, the Bilderberg Club - these four organizations rule the whole world.
Apparently the end is near. If evil continues to spread in Russia, then the end of the world will be approaching. There could be a big war. The Bible describes these patterns of the historical process.
If you take a large rope, 300 meters long, one end will be pulled by some, and the other by others. Now, if modern Sadducees and Pharisees, fornicators, murderers, thieves and debauchees win, the prayer of believers will no longer stop disasters.”
Naum (Bayborodin)
archimandrite
The elder roughly predicted the end of the world for August 2018. The elder’s prophecy did not come true, although it brought certain fruits: many monasteries were filled with new novices.
Death of an Elder
On October 13, 2021, at the age of 90, the oldest confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin), died.
On October 15, the funeral service for the elder was held in the Assumption Cathedral of the Lavra.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the funeral service in the Assumption Cathedral of the monastery was led by Metropolitan Arseny of Istra, vicar of His Holiness the Patriarch.
On October 13, 2017, at the age of 90, the oldest confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Naum (Bayborodin) died.
Father Naum was buried behind the altar of the Spiritual Church of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra next to the grave of Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov).
Archbishop Nikon (Rozhdestvensky) and Archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin) were buried there at the altar of the Spiritual Cathedral.
Archimandrite Naum honorably shared his last refuge with such great clergy as Archbishop Nikon (Rozhdestvensky), Archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin), Elder Kirill (Pavlov)
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Father Naum, guide me to mind
After the early Liturgy, a requiem service was celebrated at the Assumption Cathedral at the grave of Archimandrite Naum. Crosses decorated with roses - and the priest is buried next to Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov) - surrounded thousands of pilgrims who arrived from different parts of our country. Through the prayers of St. Sergius, that morning turned out to be warm and sunny. “Rest with the saints...” rose to the sky along with the remnants of the fog, illuminated by the delicate gold of the domes of the Trinity Cathedral.
In the refectory chambers, tables were set for everyone who wanted to take part in the funeral dinner. Over the meal, strangers talked to each other about the role Elder Naum played in their lives. I was lucky enough to meet nurses Elena and Maria from the Central Clinical Hospital - they cared for Father Naum for the entire 10 months while he was in a coma. Even being in such a helpless state, the priest managed to lead people to God who had not previously thought about His existence.
“It was so strange to see,” says Elena, “how respectable people, despite the fact that he was in a coma, came to the priest and told him about their problems, asked for advice and prayers. What was even more surprising was that these same people later came to thank Father Naum for his help. It turns out that even while in a coma, he received people and prayed to God for them.”
On this day, the spiritual child of Father Naum, Abbess of the Ascension Orsha Monastery, Eupraxia (Inber), distributed to some lucky people her just published book of stories about life next to Elder Naum, “We Give You Breath.” I didn’t get a gift, so I had to buy a book at a bookstore. Having read it in two days, I did not regret the time spent at all. There is disappointingly little information in the media about Elder Naum; we have to collect it bit by bit. On the Internet, every article is a short biography, written in dry, official language. But judging by the stories of eyewitnesses, the priest simply radiated love, mercy and patience. Imitating Christ, he served people without sparing his belly.
The book of Abbess Eupraxia partly fills this gap, although at the very beginning the author warns that no matter how hard she tried to write differently, she still managed to talk about the elder only through the prism of her own life. But it is precisely the authenticity and frankness of the abbess’s stories that are valuable.
More than 40 monasteries opened in Russia thanks to Father Naum! He educated and trained dozens of bishops, hundreds of priests and monks. With the blessing and prayers of the elder, the glorification of the parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh, Cyril and Mary, the Holy Blessed Mother Matrona, took place. Archimandrite Naum found and published the life of Elder Rachel from Borodino and the forgotten book “Frank stories of a wanderer to his spiritual father.” Thanks to Father Naum, the veneration of the icon of the Mother of God “Different of Loaves” was revived in the Optina Hermitage, and finally, by obedience to the elder, Noah’s Ark was found on Mount Ararat.
“There should be a Gospel in every home! Work with people, open theological courses, work with children. The wing of a fly influences the destinies of the world,” Father Superior Eupraxia quotes the words.
During his lifetime, people were not always able to appreciate the elder’s invaluable advice, they did not always find the strength to obey, they could not comprehend his words, but he prayed not only for us, but for the whole world. In confirmation of this, Abbess Eupraxia cites at the conclusion of her book a story entitled “Our Crimea” about how, through the prayers of the priest and the blessed elder Matrona, the third world war was prevented.
On March 17, 2015, then US President Barack Obama dismissed and arrested US Navy Captain Heather E. Cowell, commander of strategic communications responsible for communications with submarines, who did not want to hand over nuclear missile launch codes authorizing a nuclear strike on Russia to Great Britain. This communication is carried out using a relay aircraft that transmits orders to nuclear submarines.
A day earlier, on March 16, Captain Cowell received an order from the Pentagon to launch nuclear missiles. It was not possible to carry out a “limited” nuclear strike on Russia due to the fact that the protective system to prevent unauthorized launches was activated. Captain Cowell's code blocking was introduced shortly before all these events on the orders of former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Haigl. Chuck Heigl was fired from his post a month before the planned and failed nuclear attack on Russia because he refused to take part in its preparation. Heigl did not inform his successor that he had entered the blocking codes.
On March 15, 2015, the documentary film “Crimea. The Way Home,” in which our president, who has obviously long been aware of the nuclear attack being prepared for the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, declares in an uncharacteristic manner of direct threat that if necessary, we too can press the button. And on March 16, sudden military exercises begin and bring the troops of the Western Military District and the Northern Fleet to the highest level of combat readiness.
Some time before these events, Saint Matrona appeared to Elder Naum in a subtle vision and ordered him to urgently go around Moscow three times with the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God. Father Naum asked several people to do this, but they did not heed the elder’s requests, were lazy or did not attach any importance. Then he literally ordered a certain Mikhail, an acquaintance of Abbess Eupraxia, to do this. And he and his friend drove around Moscow three times along the Moscow Ring Road at night with the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, constantly reading the Akathist to Her. Mikhail was driving, the icon was nearby, and the reader was in the back seat.
Grave of Archimandrite Naum. Photo: Lyudmila Lis
Mikhail was not the only one who, with the blessing of Father Naum, traveled around Moscow these days with the Vladimir Icon. His spiritual daughter Nina Moiseeva came to him on March 15, 2015. Raising his voice, the priest asked her: “And you take Vladimirskaya and go in a religious procession around Moscow! Here, they say, Matrona appeared and gave only three days, otherwise there will be trouble! Nina asked if it was possible by car. “You can go by plane! But today is the last day. And ask the Mother of God to take away the trouble!” Nina bought the Vladimir icon in a shop. So they drove from 11 am to 11 pm with the icon around Moscow and baptized Moscow with this icon.
It is this Vladimir icon that now lies on the analogue in the Church of All Saints, which is under the Assumption Cathedral, occupying a modest place among other shrines of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
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