On the memorial day of the blessed Varvara of Skvorchikhinskaya

On the memorial day of the blessed Varvara of Skvorchikhinskaya, the bishops of the Bashkortostan metropolis consecrated a temple in her honor В день памяти блаженной Варвары Скворчихинской архиереи Башкортостанской митрополии освятили храм в ее честь print version February 28, 2019 16:44 On February 27, on the day of blessing, blessed Barbara, hermitage of the Ufim in s. Skorchikha (Ishimbay district of the Republic of Bashkortostan). Then the archpastors celebrated the Liturgy in the newly consecrated church. The ruling bishops of the Dioceses of the Bashkortostan Metropolis were served by the vicar of the Pokrovo-Ennatsky Monastery of the Men s. Dedovo Archimandrite Nikolai (Chernyshev), secretary of the Salavat eparchy, priest Vyacheslav Smolnikov, secretary of the Birsk diocese, archpriest Serge Ryzhakov, dean of the ecclesiastical district of the city of Ufa archpriest Romil Gareev, other clerics of the Ufa , Birsk and Salavat eparchies. Mother Superior of the Martha-Mariinsky Convent of the Monastery p. Ira schiigumeniya Seraphim (Mishura), Abbess Eutropia (Moskalets), Abbess of the Annunciation Convent of Sterlitamak Abbess Marionilla (Yarmoshyna), elder sister of the Varvarinsky skete with. Starling nun Vera (Moskalets), sister of the monasteries. The liturgical chants were performed by the male choir of the Bashkortostan metropolis (choir director - deacon Dionysius Korzh). Petitions for the unity of the Orthodox Church and for peace in Ukraine were lifted. After the end of the Liturgy, Metropolitan Nikon led a prayer service with the akathist to the blessed Varvara and addressed the pilgrims with a sermon. As a gift to the newly consecrated church, Metropolitan Nikon presented an icon with relics of St. Daniel and Cornelius of Pereyaslavl. On the same day, the first Bishops' Council of the Bashkortostan Metropolis in 2019 was held. The participants discussed the work of Sunday schools and the pastoral care of convicts. Dates of joint episcopal services in the current year are scheduled, the diocesan website reports. *** Blessed Varvara Skvorchikhinskaya (Arkhangelskaya Varvara Vasilyevna) is a holy local in the Ufa diocese (commemorated 14 February). She came from a priest's family, lost her parents in early childhood, was brought up by her grandmother, who served as a malice at the temple. She worked as a teacher, despite the decree of the Soviet government “On separation of the church from the state and the school from the church” and the prohibition of teaching Orthodox schools in schools, she taught children to the Law of God at all places of ministry. Around 1928-1929 stopped working at school and took on the feat of foolishness. I began to lead a reclusive life: I curtained the windows of my house, I rarely went out into the street, only at dusk or at night, I tried not to show myself to people. To her came hundreds of people, blissful to the visitors did not go out, talked through the door. She handed out almost everything that was brought to her: she helped children, supported families whose breadwinners fought on the front. In the 20-30s. she was briefly arrested several times. In the fall of 1962, the blissful house burnt down. The ascetic settled in a dilapidated barn, where they used to hold cattle, lived there for three years without heat and light, and slept on the ground in summer, in the winter in snow on straw, or sitting on a chest, leaning back against the wall of the barn. February 26, 1966 in the barn where she lived, there was a fire, the old man was pulled out of the fire. Despite the fact that the burns were not strong, the next day Barbara died, was buried in the cemetery in Skvorchiha. The popular worship of the blessed over the years has not weakened. In December 2000, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , the relics of Barbara Skorchikhinsky were found, and now they are located in the Mother of God Kazan Cathedral in Meleuz (the metochion of Enatsky in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God of the monastery). In 2001, Patriarch Alexy II blessed to glorify the ascetic in the face of the locally honored saints of the Ufa diocese, the rank of glorification was made by the archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak Nikon.