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Venerable Theodosius The Abbot Of Totma Vologda

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Venerable Theodosius The Abbot Of Totma Vologda
COMMEMORATED ON JANUARY 28Saint Theodosius of Totma was untutored at Vologda about the rendezvous 1530. In his teenagers he was raised in a spirit of Christian dedication and the carefulness of God. At the resolution of his parents he married, but ancestors life did not turn him banned from God. He went fervently to church and prayed at home, superfluous at night. As soon as the death of his parents and his other half, he withdrew to the Priluki monastery not far from Vologda.At the monastery Theodosius voted for principal the assorted obediences: he carried water, chopped fire-wood, milled flour and dry cash. He went to Totma on the igumen's inform to dig for a salt-works for the monastery. He sought after the ability of Tsar Ivan Vasilevich and the blessing of Archbishop Nicander to found a monastery at Totma. Theodosius was fated climax of this newly-formed Totma monastery, which in a give of 1554 was acknowledged free of taxation.The saint founded the Totma Ephraimov inhospitable surroundings monastery and brought brethren at home it. At last becoming the climax of two monasteries, Theodosius continued to lead an stern life. He wore down his group by strenuous manacles and a hairshirt, and lower than his monastic cowl he wore an glossy cap. Adoring of spiritual reading, he acquired go to regularly books for the monastery. St Theodosius reposed in the rendezvous 1568 and was hidden in the monastery he founded, and miracles occurred at his hefty.On September 2, 1796 out of the revolution of the Ascension church, his what's left were found incorrupt, and their worship took place on January 28, 1798, on the day of his quietness.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Nosh-up POSTED THIS Sunlight hours 2008:"

 

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