Saint Anthony of Leokhnov, Novgorod, was from the Tver
lineage of the Veniaminov nobles. The monk lived as a hermit not far
from Novgorod, in the Rublev wilderness at the River Perekhoda. In about
the year 1556 he resettled with the wilderness-dweller Tarasius, who
lived beyond Lake Ilmen at Leokhnov, near Stara Rus, and received
monastic tonsure from him. Thus began the wilderness monastery in honor
of the Transfiguration of the Lord, afterwards called the Leokhnov or
Ivetsk-Antoniev monastery. St Anthony lived to old age, having acquired
the gift of clairvoyance.
In the year 1611, when the Swedes had
laid waste the area around Novgorod, the monk on the invitation of
Metropolitan Isidore moved to Novgorod. He died on September 14, 1611 at
age 85 and was buried near the church of the holy Evangelist Luke, on
the side towards the church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia).
Before his
death, and in the presence of many of the monks, he said that his body
would rest in his wilderness-monastery. A disciple of the monk, named
Gregory, returned to the site of the monastery that had been laid waste
and burned by the Swedes, built a cell and a chapel, and remained there
to live.
St Anthony appeared to him three times in a dream and
said, “Brother Gregory, go to Novgorod, tell Metropolitan Cyprian and
the elders of the city that they should put me in the place of my
monastery.” After Gregory’s report, the Metropolitan led a church
procession to the grave of St Anthony. The incorrupt relics were
transferred to the Leokhnov monastery on July 13, 1620. At the
uncovering of the relics, a blind man named Joseph gained his sight, and
many other miracles occurred.
There is a special order of
commemorations, celebrated by the churches in the name of St Anthony of
Leokhnov, both in the village of Leokhnov and in the Rublev
wilderness-monastery. On the second Friday after the Feast of the
Foremost Apostles Peter and Paul (June 29), we celebrate the Uncovering
and Transfer of the Relics of St Anthony from Novgorod to the Leokhnov
monastery. On the Ascension of the Lord, the coming of St Anthony from
the Rublev wilderness to Leokhnovo is remembered. On October 17 the
Repose of the saint, who died on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy
Cross, in the ninth hour of the evening, is commemorated. At the Rublev
wilderness monastery the memory of the Consecration of the church in
the name of the venerable Anthony on August 30 (1873) is also
celebrated.
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