Saint Cornelius of Pereyaslavl, in the world Konon, was the
son of a Ryazan merchant. In his youth he left his parental home and
lived for five years as a novice of the Elder Paul in the Lukianov
wilderness near Pereyaslavl. Afterwards the young ascetic transferred to
the Pereyaslavl monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb on the Sands
[Peskakh]. Konon eagerly went to church and unquestioningly did
everything that they commanded him.
The holy novice did not sit
down to eat in the trapeza with the brethren, but contented himself with
whatever remained, accepting food only three times a week. After five
years, he received monastic tonsure with the name Cornelius. From that
time no one saw the monk sleeping on a bed. Several of the brethren
scoffed at Saint Cornelius as foolish, but he quietly endured the
insults and intensified his efforts. Having asked permission of the
igumen to live as a hermit, he secluded himself into his own separately
constructed cell and constantly practiced asceticism in fasting and
prayer.
Once the brethren found him barely alive, and the cell
was locked from within. Three months Saint Cornelius lay ill, and he
could take only water and juice. The monk, having recovered and being
persuaded by the igumen, stayed to live with the brethren. Saint
Cornelius was the sacristan in church, he served in the trapeza, and
also toiled in the garden. As if to bless the saint’s labors, excellent
apples grew in the monastery garden, which he lovingly distributed to
visitors.
The body of Saint Cornelius was withered up from strict
fasting, but he did not cease to toil. With his own hands he built a
well for the brethren. For thirty years Saint Cornelius lived in
complete silence, being considered by the brethren as deaf and dumb.
Before his death on July 22, 1693, Saint Cornelius made his confession
to the monastery priest Father Barlaam, received the Holy Mysteries and
took the schema.
He was buried in the chapel. Nine years later,
during the construction of a new church, his relics were found
incorrupt. In the year 1705, Saint Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov
(October 28), saw the relics of Saint Cornelius, and they were in the
new church in a secluded place. The holy bishop composed a Troparion and
Kontakion to the saint.
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