Prayer service and prayer to St. Alexander of Svirsky

The Monk Alexander of Svirsky is a saint who labored in the Russian North in the 15th-16th centuries, the successor of the first Russian hermits. He is called “The Seer of the Holy Trinity” and “Alexander the Wonderworker of All Russia.”

A prayer service to St. Alexander of Svirsky is ordered in the following cases:

• about health;
• about healing from diseases, including cancer, the consequences of a stroke, demonic possession;
• about the gift of a child to parents who do not have children, as well as about the birth of a son;
• about the child’s educational success;
• about help with everyday needs (finding a job, housing, financial problems);
• about strengthening faith and returning those who have fallen away to the Church;
• about victims of magicians, sorcerers, psychics, about protection from demonic forces;
• about protection from enemies, offenders;
• about the Fatherland;
• about strengthening on the path of monasticism.

First prayer

O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Alexandra, great servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, show many mercies to those living in your holy monastery and to everyone who flows to you with faith and love! Ask us everything that is useful for this temporary life, and necessary for our eternal salvation. Help with your intercession, servant of God, before the Lord against enemies visible and invisible. May His faithful servants, who cry out to Him day and night in grief and sorrow, hear the much-painful cry and may our belly be delivered from destruction. May the holy Orthodox Church of Christ abide in peace, and may our fatherland be founded in prosperity, indestructible in all piety. Be to all of us, miracle-working saint, a quick helper in every sorrow and situation. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not betray the power of the evil ruler of the world during the ordeals of the air, but may we be honored with a stumbling-free ascension into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our dear prayer book! Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayer, and intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that, together with you and with all the saints, we are unworthy, in the villages of paradise to glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in the Trinity of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

The meaning of Saint Alexander of Svirsky in Orthodoxy

The saint was born in the village of Mandera, on the banks of the Oyati River.
The parents of the future ascetic were simple peasants. They really wanted God to give them a son. After long and earnest prayers, we heard the voice of God: “Rejoice, good marriage, you will give birth to a son, in whose birth God will give consolation to His Churches.” In 1448, a boy was born, named Amos. A quiet and meek child from childhood, he was distinguished by his good disposition and spiritual zeal.
The boy observed the fast so strictly that his mother was worried about his health. In adolescence he showed interest in monasticism. At the age of 19, the young man went to the Valaam Monastery. At first he was a novice, and soon became a monk with the name Alexander. From the very beginning of his spiritual life, the monk strove for solitude, prayer and righteous work. Humbling his flesh and spirit, he went to a remote island and lived in a cave, where he dug a grave for himself. This place has remained in its original form to this day. The monk lived in the cave for seven years.

The abbot of the Valaam monastery blessed the saint for hermitage. Alexander went to a remote lake, on the banks of the Svir River, where he settled among the rocks. The ascetic fasted, prayed, and adhered to strict rules of serving God. Over time, many people learned about the righteous man and flocked to him. In place of the secluded refuge, a new monastery arose - the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery.

Due to his spiritual exploits, the monk was honored with a special Divine mercy - the appearance of the Holy Trinity. The ascetic strove for solitude and prayer, but God in a vision ordered the saint to build a church and take over the management of the new monastery. The monk did not dare to disobey the Heavenly Father and became the head of the brethren. Although he still continued to humble his body and spirit: he worked on an equal basis with other monks, humbly served the monastery, and instructed his flock in the Orthodox faith. The abbot introduced himself in 1533, surrounded by faithful disciples.

What do they pray to Alexander Svirsky for?

The monk was canonized in 1547. Saint's memorial days: April 17 and August 30. The relics of Alexander Svirsky were found incorrupt. The saint became famous for his miracles during his lifetime. However, even after his death, he gave his help to Orthodox Christians.

The traditions of the monastery record many stories about miracles that occurred through the heavenly intercession of the elder. Thus, many times people who came to the relics found healing from serious illnesses. Such a case happened with the nobleman Andrei Antonov. The young man fell ill with insanity and body relaxation. His parents took him to the relics of St. Alexander, and soon the sick man became well.

People pray to Alexander Svirsky for healing of infertility. Even in the old days, a certain peasant Afanasy and his wife Evdokia could not give birth to a son for a long time. Then the family went to the monastery, to the relics of the saint. Soon after fervent prayer, the couple had a boy.

Saint Alexander of Svirsky helps those suffering from obsession. Ioann Susov, a resident of a local settlement, who traveled abroad, led an idle life, was struck by a demon. Returning home, the unfortunate man fell into unconsciousness and delirium. The relatives decided to take the suffering man to the monastery of the monk. As soon as John touched the sacred shrine, he immediately regained his sanity.

People in prison can count on the help of an ascetic. St. Alexander delivered Russian soldiers from captivity. They were captured by the Tatars and kept in prison. When the soldiers were praying at night, an old man appeared to them in a miraculous radiance and ordered them to seek the help of the Monk Alexander of Svirsky. Through the prayers of the soldiers, the Greeks soon ransomed them from captivity, and the captives ended up in their homeland.

Second prayer

O venerable and God-bearing Father Alexander! Ask us everything that is useful for this temporary life, and even more necessary for our eternal salvation. Be to us, servants of God ( names

), a miracle-working saint, a quick helper in every sorrow and situation. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not be betrayed in the ordeals of the air to the power of the evil world ruler, but may we be honored with a stumbling-free ascension into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our dear prayer book! Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayers, but always intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that we may be worthy, together with you and with all the saints, even if we are unworthy, in the villages of paradise to glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One God in the Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Life

The Monk Alexander was born into a poor family of Novgorod peasants. His parents remained childless for a long time, but did not give up prayer for the gift of a son.

They gave the long-awaited child a Christian upbringing. However, science was not given to the youth and he begged for understanding with persistent prayer.

The pious young man was secretly thinking about monastic life when his parents decided to marry him. Fearing his parents' wrath, he headed to the Valaam Monastery.

When the future monk crossed the Svir River, a mysterious voice announced - this is the place of his future ministry, a monastery is to be built here.

Having taken monastic vows, the Monk Alexander surprised the brethren with his asceticism and exactingness towards himself. Soon monastic life became not strict enough for him, and the Monk Alexander went into seclusion on a remote stone island. There he spent 10 years in complete silence. The monk's cell was a narrow, damp cave. Not far away, mindful of his hour of death, he prepared a grave for himself.

In 1485, obeying God's instructions, Alexander Svirsky moved to the bank of the Svir, to the place that was indicated to him before. He lived for several more years in silence and prayer, then God revealed his saint to people.

Monks thirsty for spiritual guidance flocked to the place where the righteous man settled. Having learned about his insight, the gift of healing diseases and spiritual ailments, the laity came for help.

After 23 years of life in Svir, the Monk Alexander was awarded a vision - the Life-Giving Trinity appeared to his bodily eyes in the form of three angels. Just like the once righteous Abraham under the Mamre oak. At this place, the monks erected the Trinity Cathedral - the center of the historical part of the Trinity Monastery.

Having become abbot, the Monk Alexander showed even more humility before the brethren - he chopped wood himself, cooked food, wore old clothes, slept on the bare floor and often reproached himself for idleness.

The Lord allowed his saint 85 years of life. Saint Alexander ordered that after his death the brethren trample his body underfoot and throw it into the swamp. But the monks reverently buried the abbot near the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

More than 100 years later, the body of the first abbot of the monastery was found incorrupt, transferred to the temple and exhibited for worship.

After the revolution, the monastery was plundered, the relics of the saint were taken away accompanied by the Cheka, as stated in the directive - “for the purpose of mercilessly fighting the enemies of the communist idea.” For 80 years, their fate was unknown; in search of the slightest clue, Orthodox Christians painstakingly studied state archives and museum collections.

The relics were discovered by the nuns of the Tervenichesky Monastery. As it turned out, the reverend’s incorruptible body was kept as an unknown exhibit in the museum of the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg. Since the monk often opened his eyes and thereby frightened the laboratory assistant, she gouged them out and filled the eye sockets with wax.

The authenticity of the relics was confirmed by several independent examinations. Since 1999, they were exhibited in the Church of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia in St. Petersburg, then returned to the chapel of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

The relics of St. Alexander are compared to the white vestments of the Transfiguration. Hundreds of skeptical people turn to faith, having attached themselves to them - intact, like those of a person who has just fallen asleep.

What to pray for

What requests should be made to St. Alexander of Svirsky? Usually the saint is asked about:

• restoration of health;
• blessings with children;
• conception;
• the birth of a healthy baby;
• safe birth;
• maintaining pregnancy.

• Icon of Saint Alexander of Svirsky
• Prayers for the gift of children

Advice! Requests are usually made on Sundays, during morning and evening services. The saint was merciful to those who asked during his life, and did not reject them even after death.

Temple of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God

Twice in the entire history of mankind the Trinity God was revealed to the bodily human gaze - the first time to Saint Abraham at the Oak of Mamre, signifying the great mercy of God towards the human race; the second time - on Russian soil to the holy Venerable Alexander of Svirsky. What this appearance meant to the New Testament saint - we will not dare to answer. Let us only strive to honor this land, that monastery that was erected in the north of the Russian land at the behest of God the Trinity and the “New Testament Abraham” himself - our venerable father and wonderworker Alexander.

The Monk Alexander is one of the few Russian saints who was canonized shortly after his righteous death - namely, 14 years later. His disciples and many of his admirers were still alive, so the Life of St. Alexander was written, as they say, “hot on the heels” and is particularly authentic; it contains no “pious schemes,” it reflects the unique face of the holiness of “all Russia, the wonderworker Alexander.”

Rev. was born. Alexander on June 15, 1448 in the village of Mandera on the Oyat River on Novgorod land, opposite the Ostrovsky Vvedensky Monastery. They named him Amos. His parents Stefan and Vassa were poor, pious peasants; they gave their children a Christian education. When Amos came of age, his parents wanted to marry him, but he only thought about leaving the world for the sake of saving his soul. He learned early about the Valaam monastery and often remembered it and, finally, by the will of God, he met the Valaam monks. Their conversation lasted for a long time about the holy monastery, about its rules, about the three kinds of life of monastics. And so, inspired by this conversation, he decided to go to “northern Athos.” Having crossed the Svir River, on the shore of Lake Roshchinskoye, the Reverend heard a mysterious voice, announcing to him that he would create a monastery in this place. And a great light dawned on him. When he came to Valaam, the abbot received him and tonsured him with the name Alexander in 1474. He was then 26 years old. The novice monk zealously began to strive in labor, obedience, fasting and prayer. Then his father came to Valaam looking for him; The monk managed not only to calm the irritated father, but also to convince him to become a monk along with his mother. And the parents obeyed their son. Stefan took his hair with the name Sergius, and his mother with the name Varvara. Their graves are still venerated in the functioning Vvedeno-Oyatsky Monastery.

Alexander continued to asceticize in Valaam, amazing the strictest Valaam monks with the severity of his life. At first he labored in a hostel, then in silence on the island, now called the Holy Island, and spent 10 years there. On the Holy Island there is still a narrow and damp cave, in which only one person can hardly fit. The grave that the Monk Alexander dug for himself has also been preserved. One day, while standing in prayer, Saint Alexander heard a divine voice: “Alexander, get out of here and go to the place shown before, where you can be saved.” The Great Light showed him a place in the southeast, on the banks of the Svir River. This was in 1485. There he found “the forest was very red, this place was full of forests and a lake, and red everywhere, and no one there had ever lived before.” The monk placed his hut on the shore of Lake Roshchinskoye. Half a mile away from it there is Lake Svyatoe, separated from it by Stremnina Mountain. Here he spent several years in complete solitude, eating not bread, “but the potion growing here.” God revealed his lamp to boyar Andrei Zavalishin, and through him later to many people. The monastery began to grow, and the fame of the gift of insight and healing of physical and spiritual ailments given to its abbot soon spread throughout all the surrounding lands. During his lifetime, the Orthodox people blessed Alexander of Svirsky as a saint.

In the 23rd year of the Venerable’s settlement, in 1507, in the desert near the Svir River, on the shores of Lake Roshchinskoye, a great light appeared in his temple and he saw three men entering him. They were dressed in light clothes and illuminated by the glory of heaven “more than the sun.” From their lips the saint heard the command: Beloved, as you see Him speaking with you in Three Persons, build a church in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Consubstantial Trinity... I leave you My peace, and I will give you My peace.”

Hearing this, the monk fell again to the ground and, shedding tears, confessed his unworthiness.

The Lord again raised him up, saying: “Stand on your foot, strengthen yourself, and strengthen yourself, and do everything that you commanded.”

The saint asked in whose honor the temple should be erected. The Lord answered: “Beloved, as you see speaking to you in Three Persons, build a church in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Consubstantial Trinity. But I leave you My peace and give you My peace.”

After this, Saint Alexander saw the Lord, with outstretched wings, as if with feet, moving along the earth, and becoming invisible.

The Lord Himself honored the saint with a Trinity visitation, and in remembrance of the appearance of the Holy Trinity to him, the memory of the saint was celebrated locally before the revolution on the Feast of Pentecost.

At the site of the appearance of God the Trinity, a chapel was subsequently built, and to this day the human soul trembles at this place, thinking about the closeness of God to His people. What is striking in the Life of St. Alexander is that despite the great abundance of divine visits given to him, he always remained a humble monk, wanting to serve the brethren and simple villagers who came to the monastery in everything.

Several years before the death of the Reverend, God put into his heart the good idea of ​​creating a stone church in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos with a meal. And then one night, when the laying was already completed, at the end of the usual prayer rule, the Reverend saw an extraordinary light that illuminated the entire monastery, and at the foundation of the Church of the Intercession, on the altar, in royal glory, the Most Pure Mother of God sat on the throne with the Eternal Child, surrounded by a host of ethereal forces heavenly. The monk fell face down on the ground before the majesty of Her Glory, since he could not contemplate the radiance of this inexpressible light. Then the Most Pure Lady commanded him to stand up and consoled him with the promise to remain constant with the Monastery and to help those living in it in all their needs, both during the life of the Reverend and after his death.

“A year before his death, the Reverend, calling all the brethren to him and announcing to them that the time would soon come for his repose from this temporary, sad and sorrowful life into another eternal, painless and always joyful life, appointed after him four priestly monks: Isaiah, Nicodemus, Leontius and Herodion for the election of one of them as abbot. Then, until his death, he did not stop teaching his brethren to live a godly life. The Monk Alexander died on August 30, 1533, at the age of 85, and, according to his dying will, was buried in the waste hermitage, near the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, on the right side of the altar. In 1547 he was canonized.

Everyone who had various ailments, coming to his honest tomb and falling with faith before him, received abundant healing: the blind received their sight, the paralytic were strengthened in their limbs, those suffering from other diseases received a complete recovery, demons were driven away from the possessed, childbearing was given to the childless.

Our All-Good God, wondrous in His Saints, glorifying His Saint in this temporary life, creating with his hand signs and wonders, deigned to place his incorruptible, honest and holy body after death, like a great luminary, in His Church, so that it would shine there with its glorious miracles.

“Alexander Svirsky,” noted Archimandrite of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra Macarius (Veretennikov), “perhaps the only Orthodox saint to whom, just like the forefather Abraham, the Holy Trinity appeared”... And the truly great mystical meaning is hidden in the fact that it was from the autopsy The shrine of St. Alexander of Svirsky began in 1918, a satanic campaign launched by the Bolsheviks to liquidate, falsify and discredit Russian Orthodox shrines, during which 63 crayfish with holy relics were opened and removed from the monasteries. All of them, by the grace of God, have now been acquired by the Russian Orthodox Church. And the last - and this also has a mystical meaning - were found the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky, lost by our Church exactly 80 years ago.

For the first time, the incorruptible relics of the saint were discovered in April 1641, when, according to the order of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, the monks of the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery dismantled the dilapidated church over the tomb of the saint in order to erect a new one made of stone. And this discovery was a true triumph of Orthodoxy, since in a completely intact coffin lay a body, not at all damaged by decay, in intact and incorruptible clothes. Life testifies that when they removed the top board from the coffin, “a strong fragrance from the relics of the monk spread everywhere, so that the whole place was filled with incense, but there was no incense at that time, and they saw the entire body of our venerable father Alexander lying, safe and unharmed. , wearing a mantle and a schema according to the rank, and his anal was completely intact, part of his beard was visible from under the schema; both legs lay like those of someone who had recently died, the right foot up, and the left foot turned to the side, both shod in sandals. The fragrant myrrh spread throughout his body, like some growing flowers, and poured out like water. Seeing this, all those who were there were filled with horror and joy and glorified Almighty God, who glorifies His saints.”

In 1918, a detachment of security officers sent to the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery to carry out the order to liquidate the relics shot the monks who tried to counteract the desecration of the shrine, the monastery was robbed, and the shrine containing the relics of the monk was opened. This was the first opening of holy relics by the Bolsheviks...

The preservation of the body of the saint, who completed his journey four centuries ago, in 1533, so amazed the commander of the detachment, August Wagner, that he could not come up with anything better than to call the holy relics a “wax doll.” And although this contradicted the evidence, this is what Wagner called the relics in his report.

The holy relics were transported in the strictest secrecy to Lodeynoye Pole and hidden in the hospital chapel, and in January 1919 they were taken to Petrograd and placed in the closed anatomical museum of the Military Medical Academy, where they remained as an undocumented “exhibit” until the abbot of the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, revived in 1997, Lucian did not bless the nun Leonida to begin the search for the relics of the great elder monk. The history of the search undertaken deserves a separate narration, but we will only say that the main part of the documents was destroyed and the search for the relics of the saint, according to Mother Leonida, “could only be based on the belief that the relics of the saint who saw the Holy Trinity could not be destroyed by any hellish forces... on the belief that these relics are under the special protection of the Lord...".

Based on archival research, anthropological, iconographic and x-ray studies, it was concluded that the mysterious “exhibit” of the museum is a fully preserved mummy of a man, which, in terms of age, ethnicity, and external features, fully corresponds to the description made during the first discovery of the relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky in 1641. The identity of the “exhibit” as a canonized saint was also confirmed by the damage to the right, blessing hand: their nature left no doubt that these damages were caused by the removal of pieces of flesh for reliquaries.

On July 28, 1998, a significant event in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church took place in St. Petersburg. Here the relics of the great Russian saint, St. Alexander of Svir, were rediscovered.

According to ITAR-TASS (August 10, 1998) about the discovery of the greatest shrine, the remains were “identified by specialists of the Forensic Medical Expert Service (SMES) of St. Petersburg. ...At the same time, Fr. ...Immediately after receiving the conclusion, a prayer service to the saint was served in the X-ray room of the SMES. Those present “witnessed the beginning of the myrrh-streaming of the relics, accompanied by a strong fragrance.” In this regard, the head of the academy, Colonel General of the Medical Service Yuri Shevchenko, decided to immediately transfer the shrine to the Russian Orthodox Church."

The body of St. Alexander of Svirsky has not been subject to decay for five centuries. And great miracles were performed at his tomb - even cancer patients were healed!

The relics of Alexander Svirsky look like a living body. And they secrete a fragrant liquid that appears on the skin like tiny beads of sweat. In the Holy Trinity Monastery in the village of Staraya Sloboda, Leningrad Region, where the shrine is kept, they are convinced that the flow of myrrh portends great joy for Russia.

On September 12, on the 473rd anniversary of the saint’s death, the relics were so fragrant that a wonderful aroma filled the entire Transfiguration Church.

Pilgrims from all over the world come to see the incorrupt, myrrh-streaming flesh of St. Alexander. Before our eyes, despite the pouring rain, a delegation of Greek monks from Athos arrived by helicopter, followed by the Americans.

Archimandrite Lucian, rector of the Holy Trinity Alexander Svir Monastery, welcomes pilgrims:

— Christians from all over the world are attracted by the Svir miracles!

The wife of the President of Russia, Lyudmila Putina, came to venerate the holy relics three years ago. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Lyubov Sliska has also been here.

Hand

I bend over to the carved coffin and touch with my lips the thin mica that covers the hand of St. Alexander of Svirsky; only a piece of amber skin is visible. I inhale the sweet honey aroma, which makes my heart tremble with joy.

“This is myrrh,” says the monk standing at the tomb. - Heavenly smell...

The relics of Alexander Svirsky are incorruptible and bring healing.

St. Petersburg. Scientists who examined the body concluded that it had never been embalmed. They could not explain the reasons for such amazing preservation - the fabrics did not shrink, but retained their color and volume! It was on the day of research that the relics were myrrhized, and a special act was drawn up on this occasion. Since then, the flow of myrrh has not stopped, and on the eve of church holidays it intensifies.

Now the myrrh is stronger,” says monk Ignatius. — The myrrh on the feet of St. Alexander of Svirsky looks like tiny diamonds

Miracles

Believers are convinced that miracles with the body of St. Alexander of Svirsky occur because the Holy Trinity appeared to him during his lifetime.

Now there is a chapel in that place, it is fenced and strewn with sand, which pilgrims take with them in handfuls, like a shrine.

“On my birthday I had a mini-stroke,” said Olga Lodkina from St. Petersburg. “I didn’t call an ambulance, but simply put a bag of sand from that holy place on my head. The pain went away and the condition improved.

Miracles happen constantly in the Holy Trinity Monastery. In some incredible way, the frescoes on the walls of the temple are being renewed.

On the facade, the image of the Holy Trinity shines more clearly than others.

“Many people think that we restored the frescoes, but they themselves were updated, became more contrasting,” says the head of the icon painting

oh workshop Arkady Kholopov.

One of the most amazing wonderful stories recorded here is about a cancer patient from Rostov-on-Don. His wife and sister flew to St. Petersburg by plane; they were in a hurry, afraid of losing a loved one. Alexander Petrov was in critical condition after his third operation for pancreatic cancer. Doctors discharged him to die at home. But the relatives did not want to put up with this. On Sunday morning, the women fell in front of the shrine with holy relics. And the Saint helped!

By the way, a very interesting icon of St. Alexander of Svirsky and the Holy Trinity is located in the parish of the Church of the Icon of the Smolensk Mother of God in the city of Kamyzyak, Astrakhan region.

PRAYER PREP. ALEXANDER SVIRSKY

O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, reverend and God-bearing Father Alexandra, great servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, show many mercies to those living in your holy monastery and to all who flow to you with faith and love!

Ask us everything that is useful for this temporary life, and even more necessary for our eternal salvation.

Help with your intercession, servant of God, the ruler of our country, Russia. And may the holy Orthodox Church of Christ abide deeply in the world.

Be to all of us, miracle-working saint, a quick helper in all sorrows and circumstances. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not be betrayed in the ordeals of the air to the power of the evil world ruler, but may we be honored with a stumbling-free ascension into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Hey, Father, our dear prayer book! Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayers, but always intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that we may be worthy, together with you and with all the saints, even if we are unworthy, in the villages of paradise to glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One God in the Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

TROPARION, TONE 4

From your youth, O God-Wise One, having moved into the desert with spiritual desire, you desired to follow the sole steps of Christ diligently. In the same way, repair the angels, seeing you, marveling at how you struggled with the invisible machinations of the flesh, you wisely conquered the armies of passions with abstinence and you appeared equal to the angels on earth, Reverend Alexander, pray to Christ God to save our souls.

KONDAC, VOICE 8

Like a multi-bright star, today you have shone in the Russian countries, Father, having settled in the desert, you have zealously desired to follow Christ’s footsteps, and the Holy Cross has put the holy yoke on your frame, the Honest Cross, and put to death your labors and the feat of your bodily leaps. In the same way, we cry to you: save your flock, you gathered the hedgehog, wise, so we call to you: Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, our father.