Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Diveyvo monastery




On November 25 / December 8, 1825, on the day of remembrance of the holy martyrs Clement, Pope of Rome, and Peter of Alexandria, the Monk Seraphim, having received permission from the Mother of God in a dream to leave the seclusion, was blessed by the hegumen Niphont and went through the thicket of the forest along the banks of the Sarovka River to his distant wilderness.
Near the bank of the Sarovka River, where its source was later, he saw the Mother of God, and behind Her, on a hillock, two apostles - Peter and John. The Mother of God struck the ground with a rod so that a source boiled out of the ground with a fountain of light water, and showed Father Seraphim a new place in the village of Diveyevo for the construction of Her promised monastery, Her fourth lot on earth. And she named eight sisters by their names, whom he should have taken for the new monastery from the community of Ksenia Mikhailovna.
She pointed out the place in the east, opposite the altar of the Kazan church, and told how to surround this place with a ditch and a rampart, and ordered to cut down a windmill and the first cells from the Sarov forest. She gave a commandment as an indispensable rule that only virgins should be accepted into this monastery. And She herself gave a charter for the new monastery, which had not existed before that time.

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