Fulfilled prophecies of the Goloseevskaya oxbow
For such sincere service to God and people, the Lord revealed a lot to Mother Alipia. It is difficult to collect and describe all those cases when her words or actions concerned specific people. But there are also events that influenced the lives of many. Some words still remain a mystery or are waiting for their time.
For example, the nun knew in advance about the Chernobyl disaster. Back in the winter of 1986, she repeated: “Grief is coming!” She said it was burning underground. But she could not describe the entire mechanism of the disaster in words, because she had a meager education - she could read Russian and Church Slavonic.
According to eyewitnesses, on April 25, the nun could not find a place for herself. She walked around the yard and prayed with all her heart: “God, have mercy on the people!” When information about the disaster was still carefully hidden, on April 26 she simply advised people to close their windows tightly.
To protect food from radiation, she advised making the sign of the cross over it and reading “Our Father” and “Virgin Mother of God...”
She pointed out to the sisters of the Florovsky Monastery in Kyiv the revival of another monastic monastery - the Goloseevskaya Hermitage. This was in 1988. And in 1993, the monastery began to be restored. In 2006, the relics of the old woman will be transferred to a chapel on the territory of the Goloseevskaya Hermitage.
God also revealed to Mother Alipia the date of her death. As if by chance, she asked her cell attendant what day it would be October 30, 1988. As it turned out, it was Sunday. During her lifetime, the nun repeatedly focused on this date.
The feat of foolishness and helping people
After three years in the hollow, Mother Alipia was blessed to follow the path of foolishness. Those who acted like fools were also called blessed, people of God, because they surrendered so much into the hands of God that they completely cut off their will.
Mother renounced herself so much that she even spoke about herself in the masculine gender: I was, I saw, I served, I experienced...
She spoke to many people not directly, but in some kind of allegory or even, at first glance, complete illogic. But the one to whom these words were addressed understood the meaning of the reproof.
For example, three guys came to see her. The nun said to one of them: “It is a sin to get married.” The young man shuddered. It turns out that he was tormented by the sin of Sodom.
After the monastery closed in the 1960s, she lived in a lonely house in the Goloseevsky forest and regularly visited the Ascension Church on Demeevka.
To hide her spiritual gifts, she “pretended” to be insane. In winter and summer she wore the same clothes (she always had a fur hat on her head).
But at the same time, she constantly prayed, wore chains, and helped people. In order not to attract unnecessary attention to herself, she did this either during a meal, or gave the patient a special ointment. Although in fact it was the prayer of the pious Mother Alipia that healed.
She paid special attention to almsgiving, hospitality and prayer for the dead. A lot of people gathered in the house where she lived. Whenever possible, she received everyone, fed them, and even helped with money if they needed it. She often went to the temple with bread, which she carried to the funeral service.
The godless government made her an orphan
Mother Alypia was born around 1905 (according to other sources - in 1910) in the Penza province into a pious family. Her name in the world was Agafia Avdeeva.
She remembered little about her parents. She inherited a love of fasting from her father - Tikhon Sergeevich fasted so strictly that he ate only crackers and a decoction of straw. Mom took care of the poor, even sending her daughter to take food to those in need before the holidays.
One day the girl left the house to visit the neighbors, and when she returned, her parents were no longer alive. The Red Guards visited the house. But even while still just a child, she spent the whole night praying over the dead and reading the Psalter. It was a turning point in 1918. From this time her journey of pilgrimage begins. Then little Agathia walked hundreds and thousands of kilometers, visited various holy places, which were especially diligently closed by the Soviet government.
Apostle Peter in the biography of Mother Alipia
In the 1930s, like many believers, she ended up in prison. The people in the cells were not waiting for liberation, but for execution. When there were only three of them left in one room - Agathia and the priest with his son, the priest decided to serve a memorial service. For myself and my son. Agafye said that she would survive.
And indeed, nothing less than a miracle happened. the Apostle Peter opened the door for the girl and led her out to the sea. No one can still say what kind of prison and what kind of sea it was, but from being in prison, Mother Alipia was left with the experience of the special presence of God, the amazing help of the supreme apostle and numerous scars on her elbows, because she had to walk 11 days and nights, without water and food, climbing rocks.
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To this day, the abbot of the Goloseevsky Monastery collects evidence of her miracles. Mostly people write about healing from various diseases after visiting her grave:
- Irina, 43 years old, Izhevsk:
“I was diagnosed with a uterine tumor and was denied surgery due to a bad heart. After visiting the grave, Alipia appeared to me in a dream. A week later, my oncologist said that the tumor had shrunk, and a year later they removed me from disability.” - Olga, 34 years old, Krasnodar
: “My legs hurt, and there were knots in my veins. One day I was doing a bandage and touched a nodule, and blood poured out of it. I sat on the floor and tried to stop the bleeding with a cotton swab and prayed to Blessed Alipia. After the prayer, I removed the tampon from the wound, but there was no more blood. The ambulance rang at the door, and the doctors were surprised that such severe venous bleeding went away on its own.” - Elena, 52 years old, Rostov:
“My husband couldn’t find a job for a long time. Once a friend invited me to go with her to the Forest Cemetery. I asked Svetlana to leave me alone at Alipia’s grave and prayed for my husband and his work. After 3 days he found a job and got promoted almost immediately.”
There are many such evidence described. And even after her death, Blessed Elder Alipia helps those in need and heals them from illnesses. There are always fresh flowers at her grave and it is almost impossible to be there alone. People believe and come here from all over the country.
When the saints are near
Increasingly, among believers one can hear an innocent murmur: “There are no elders now...” In the life of a modern person there is no time and energy left for spiritual achievement and growth.
Stories about saints who went into the desert or spent their lives in small caves and fervent prayer are increasingly told as beautiful true stories, far from modern life.
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Shrines of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
If you are tired of the worldly, go, for example, to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where the relics of more than 120 saints rest. For many of them, these caves replaced luxurious houses and apartments. Prayer, bread and water, a cold and damp cave - what else does a monk need to be saved?
But these saints lived approximately in the 12th-13th centuries. Now everything is different, a modern person will object. And he will be right.
But even in the 20th and 21st centuries one can find examples of true holiness and ascetic life. A special place among them is occupied by Alipia Goloseevskaya , better known as Mother Alipia, an uncanonized saint of the 20th century.
Very little is known about her life, but there are more than one book’s worth of stories about healings through prayers to mother.
She survived the pogroms of the Red Guards, the repressions of the 1930s and prison, World War II, captivity and concentration camps, constant wandering and special spiritual exploits. For such a life, God rewarded her with the gift of clairvoyance. She predicted events in the lives of many people, the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the date of her own death.
