Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Great Perm, was chosen and
consecrated to the See of Perm after the suffering and death of St
Gerasimus of Perm (January 24). Before becoming bishop, Archimandrite
Pitirim was head of the Chudov monastery. He later became known as the
composer of the Canon to St Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (February
12), and also wrote his Life.
As bishop, St Pitirim first
occupied himself with establishing friendly relations between the
Zyryani and Voguli peoples. He circulated admonitory letters and
messages, seeking to defend the Zyryani from pillage. The Voguli leader
Asyka however, taking advantage of princely dissention and the
remoteness of the bishop from the capital, plundered Christian
settlements and killed defenseless people.
Novgorod landowners
held lands at the Rivers Vyg and Dvina, suffering death from the
constant pillaging. In the year 1445, they marched out against the
Voguli and took Asyka captive. The crafty pagan swore friendship to Perm
and vowed to harass Christians no longer. Set free, Asyka waited for a
convenient moment to attack Ust’-Vym with the aim of killing St Pitirim,
to whom he attributed his defeat by the Novgorodians.
During this
time St Pitirim was twice in Moscow: in 1447 to address an encyclical
to Prince Demetrius Shemyaka, having broken a treaty (it is supposed
that the writer was St Pitirim); and again in the year 1448 for the
consecration of St Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow (March 31). Taking
advantage of St Pitirim’s absence, Asyka again made an attack on a
Zyryani settlement near the Pechora, robbing and killing the
inhabitants. Not only the Zyryani, but also the Voguli living their
nomadic life near the Pechora tributary, had become convinced of the
truth of the preachings of St Pitirim, and they had begun to accept
Baptism.
Embittered by this, Asyka committed a new crime. On
August 19, 1456 he murdered St Pitirim, when he was out blessing the
waters at the point of land formed by the confluence of the Rivers Vaga
and Vychegda. The body of the saint remained for 40 days in a grave at
the place of his death (since they awaited an answer to the sad news of
his death). In spite of the hot weather, decay did not touch him. The
saint was buried in the Ust’-Vym cathedral church of the Annunciation
next to his predecessor St Gerasimus. The memory of his repose was
already entered into a typikon in the year 1522. In the year 1607 the
joint commemoration of the three Great Perm holy Hierarchs: Gerasimus,
Pitirim and Jonah, was established (January 29). They succeeded one
another at the Ust’-Vym cathedral.
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