In Moscow there is a temple that contains the relics of the Matrona of Moscow. The water that flows in this temple has healing powers.

By nature, people are inclined to believe. There are many different periods in history when the authorities sought to eradicate faith from hearts and limited faith, but it was revived like a spring.

Each direction of religion has its own holy faces, who taught by their example how people should live according to God’s law. Matrona of Moscow is one of them. The flow of people to her did not stop during her lifetime and does not stop to this day. Each person has his own questions, mental disorders, illnesses and troubles. And only she will give everyone a hint on what to do in a given situation.

In this article we will talk in detail about where exactly the temple with the relics of St. Matrona is located and about the healing properties of water.

The relics of Blessed Matrona are located in the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is located on the territory of the Intercession Women's Monastery. They were moved here in March 1998.

Before this period, the relics rested in the Danilovsky cemetery. Here, all year round, the grave of Saint Matrona was decorated with fresh flowers and there was always a line of people who came from different parts of the world for instructions and spiritual help.

To strengthen the Orthodox faith, the holy fathers organized the travel and storage of various parts of holy relics in churches throughout the country and Moscow. It is because of this that many people can seek help, pray and venerate the relics.

How to get to the temple

The temple, which houses the relics of Matrona of Moscow, is located in Moscow at 58 Taganskaya Street.

The following metro stations are located nearby:

1. Taganskaya.
2. Marxist.
3. Peasant outpost.
4. Proletarskaya.

The most convenient form of transport in every city is the metro. Therefore, feel free to take the metro in Moscow and go to any station that is located near the monastery.

From Taganskaya metro station your route should look like this:

1. Exit the station doors to the right.
2. Make a point of reference to McDonald's and walk along pedestrian crossings so that it is always on your left.
3. Walk straight along Taganskaya Street to the stone fence of the Pokrovsky Convent.

From Marksistskaya metro station:

1. When you exit the metro, you enter an underground passage.
2. Turn left at the passage and go up.
3. You will come out to McDonald's, and on your right will be Tagansky Passage.
4. Turn right and the passage will be on the left side of the direction you are traveling.
5. Take public transport and go three stops to the convent. You can take a taxi or walk. When you travel by public transport, you need to get off at the stop called “Bolshaya Andronevskaya”. She is the third one in a row.
6. After about 15 minutes of walking you will see the walls of the monastery. They will be on your right side.
7. You will need to turn into the first gate of the monastery. There you will see a sign with the address: Taganskaya, 58.

From Proletarskaya or Krestyanskaya Zastava metro stations:

1. You need to go out to Peasant Outpost Square and go straight to the big intersection.
2. After crossing the roads, continue straight ahead.
3. When you find yourself on Abelmanovskaya Street, the red brick walls of the monastery will soon be visible to your left.
4. Walking time from the metro station is approximately 10-15 minutes.

You can visit the temple where the relics of Blessed Matrona are kept at the same hours as the Intercession Monastery. On weekdays, as well as on Saturday, it is open from 7.00 to 20.00, but on Sunday you can visit the temple and monastery from 6.00 to 20.00.

Worship in the temple, where the relics of Saint Matrona are located, are held daily. Their schedule is as follows:

1. Weekdays and Saturday - from 9.00 am.
2. Sunday - from 10.30 am.

Liturgy precedes the service.

Properties of water from the temple

During her lifetime, Matrona of Moscow said that consecrated water, like Communion, benefits the body and soul and has enormous power.

If we take into account the fact that the Intercession Monastery is a place of prayer, where prayers of parishioners and divine services are held to this day, then the water in it acquires the power of Epiphany.

Here are the properties it has:

1. After regular morning ablutions, it charges you with strength for the whole day.
2. Relieves the consequences of unpleasant glances from others, stress and unpleasant communication.
3. Increases the effect of medications.
4. When mixed with ordinary water, it changes its composition and transmits its power.
5. It illuminates animals, cars, people, clothes, and housing if sprinkled with it.
6. Cleanses the spirit and body from the influence of dark forces.
7. Heals mental disorders, pain and physical ailments.

In order for this water to retain its qualities, it must be stored behind the icons in the house and used regularly, turning in prayer to Matrona and God.

Relevance of prophecies

Everything that Saint Matrona of Moscow prophesied came true. Even as a teenager, she predicted the Civil War and Revolution. Relatives brought her to Moscow during the years of famine.

It was during this troubled period that her gift of foresight and ability to heal were needed. She was constantly crowded with people who wanted to find out about the fate of their loved ones, restore strength to life, or be healed of an illness. At the same time, the prophetess performed miracles.

Already from early childhood, she showed God's gift. Her father and mother took her to monasteries and holy places, wanting to help their blind daughter. At the age of 14, Matrona had a meeting with Saint John of Kronstadt. He blessed Matrona to serve people and God, placing his hands on her.

She healed people thanks to constant prayers to God. She constantly asked people not to turn to fortune tellers and grandmothers, but to take care of their souls.

There is information that even the intelligence services listened to her prophecies. People say that she gave advice to Stalin himself. In connection with this event, a picture was even painted depicting the meeting of Stalin and Matrona. And people also say that, on her advice, during the most difficult periods of the war, a plane containing shrines flew over the city.

In all temples and churches before the decisive battle for the capital, liturgies were held, priests and monasticism did not stop fasting and praying day and night. Thanks to their efforts, the battle was won, and everyone began to bless and honor Matrona.

The blessed old woman also predicted her death in advance. But before that, she also said that even after her death, everyone would come to her for help. She left our world on May 2, 1952. This day is now considered the day of remembrance of Saint Matrona.

Matrona of Moscow was born into a poor family that already had three boys. The parents wanted to give the newborn to a shelter, but on the eve of giving birth, the mother had a prophetic dream in which it was recommended to save the girl. The child was born blind. Later it was noticed that the spine began to bend, and in the chest area it began to protrude in the form of a cross. Already in childhood, she began to show the gift of healing and prophecy. At the age of seven, people came to her for help. Thanks to this gift, the family did not go hungry. Visitors brought food and gifts. The greater her gift, the more the weakness in her body progressed. By the age of 17, her legs were paralyzed.

After the revolution, her brothers joined the Red Army, and there was no one to take care of her. It was then that she was taken to Moscow, where she lived from 1925 to 1952. Until her last days, people came here from all over the country for help.

Thousands of people flock to the relics of Saint Matrona, to her grave, to the icons. She helped, taught, enlightened, and cured many who turned to her in tearful and humble prayer from spiritual and physical ailments.

Shortly before her death, Mother Matrona said: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see you, and hear you, and help you.”

She also instructed: “I will die, put candles on the canon for me, the cheapest ones, go to my grave, I will always be there, don’t look for anyone else. Trust me, everyone, and I will give you thoughts on what to do and how to act.” "The time of delusion is coming, do not look for anyone, otherwise you will be deceived."

Many people ask the question:

How and where to ask for help from the blessed holy elder Matrona of Moscow?

Archpriest Maxim Kozlov answers:

“You can pray to the holy blessed Matrona, like any other saint of the Orthodox Church, whom we call for help following our Lord Jesus Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos, remembering that first of all we must turn in prayer to the Savior and His Most Pure Mother.

You can contact Saint Matrona anywhere - including in the city where you live, in the church you go to, and at home. It is true that there is an ancient and pious, correct custom of making pilgrimages to church shrines, including to the shrines of miraculous icons or to the relics of the holy saints of God. And if the circumstances of your life allow you to visit the capital city, visit the Intercession Monastery there, stand together with many other Orthodox people in a line of pilgrims, and venerate the relics of Blessed Mother Matrona, this is a good deed, and it can only be welcomed.

But, however, let us remind you again and again that the saints hear us anywhere. If, due to the circumstances of your life - economic or other practical - you do not have the opportunity to get to Moscow today, do not worry too much about it. The saint will accept your prayers where you live."

You can contact Mother Matrona and ask for help in different ways:

1. If you want to visit Mother Matrona, venerate her holy relics and ask for help, then come to the Moscow Intercession Monastery. For information on how to get to the monastery, see the page.
2. You can visit Matronushka’s grave at the Danilovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. For more information about this, see the page.
3. You can write a letter to Mother Matrona and send it by mail to the address of the Intercession Monastery: 109147, Moscow, st. Taganskaya, 58. Your letter will be placed by the monastery servants at the relics of the blessed old woman.
4. Many churches have an icon of the blessed old woman; in any corner of the globe you can turn to Matrona for help. And even if you do not know and cannot read the full prayer, turn with faith with all your heart and mind to the holy blessed Matrona of Moscow with a request to guide you on the path of truth and salvation. Pray and you will be heard.
5. If you want to read a prayer to Mother Matrona, go to the page. Short prayer: “Holy righteous Elder Matrono, pray to God for us!”

Watch a short video about Mother Matrona’s help:

In our church there is a particle of the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow.Everyone who comes can ask for prayerhelp to the saint, order a prayer service.

Saint Matrona of Moscow is a Russian saint of the 20th century. Born blind and crippled, from childhood she spent a lot of time in prayer to God, and the Lord gave her the mercy of comforting people and helping them. Matrona of Moscow is glorified as a saint; she is asked to beg God to grant help in problems, troubles and sorrows.

Thousands of people flock to the relics of Saint Matrona, to her grave, to the icons. She helped, taught, enlightened, and cured many who turned to her in tearful and humble prayer from spiritual and physical ailments.

1. PRAYERS TO THE BLESSED MATRONA OF MOSCOW

PRAYER FIRST

A particle of the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Shelekhov

O blessed mother Matrono, hear and accept us now, sinners, praying to you, who in all your life has learned to receive and listen to all those who suffer and mourn, with faith and hope who resort to your intercession and help, giving quick help and miraculous healing to everyone; May your mercy not fail now for us, unworthy, restless in this busy world and nowhere finding consolation and compassion in spiritual sorrows and help in bodily illnesses: heal our illnesses, deliver us from the temptations and torment of the devil, who passionately fights, help us convey our everyday Cross, to bear all the hardships of life and not lose the image of God in it, to preserve the Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to have strong trust and hope in God and unfeigned love for others; help us, after departing from this life, to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven with all those who please God, glorifying the mercy and goodness of the Heavenly Father, glorified in the Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER TWO

O blessed Mother Matrono, your soul is in heaven before the Throne of God, but your body is resting on earth, and with the grace given from above, you exude various miracles. Look now with your merciful eye on us, sinners, in sorrow, illness and sinful temptations, our waiting days, comfort us, desperate ones, heal our fierce ailments, from God we are allowed by our sins, deliver us from many troubles and circumstances, pray to our Lord Jesus Christ forgive us all our sins, iniquities and falls, in whose image we have sinned from our youth even to this day and hour, and through your prayers having received grace and great mercy, we glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now , and ever and ever. Amen.

TROPARION TO THE BLESSED MATRONA OF MOSCOW

Troparion, tone 2

Let us praise the blessed old woman Matrona, wise and wise, the prosperity of the land of Tula and the glorious adornment of the city of Moscow, let us praise this day, faithfully. This, having not known the light of day, was enlightened by the light of Christ and enriched with the gift of insight and healing. Having been a sojourner and a wanderer on earth, now in the heavenly chambers she stands before the Throne of God and prays for our souls.

Troparion, tone 4

The land of Tula is vegetated, the city of Moscow is an angelic warrior, the blessed old lady Matrono. From birth she remained in bodily blindness until the end of her days. But she generously received spiritual vision from God, a seer and a prayer book. Most of all, the gift of healing diseases was acquired. Help everyone with faith who flows to you and asks in illness of soul and body, our joy.

Kontakion, tone 7

Pre-chosen to the service of Christ from the womb, the righteous Matrono, walking the path of sorrows and sorrows, having demonstrated firm faith and piety, you pleased God. Moreover, honoring your memory, we pray to you: help us to abide in God’s love, blessed old lady.

Greatness

We magnify you, holy righteous old lady Matrono, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.

2. LIFE OF THE BLESSED MATRONA OF MOSCOW

Days of remembrance: May 2 (April 19, O.S.); March 8; September 2 (August 20, O.S., Day of the Council of Moscow Saints); October 5 (September 22 according to the old style, Day of the Council of Tula Saints).
Blessed Matrona (Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova) was born in 1885 (according to other sources, in 1881) in the village of Sebino, Epifansky district (now Kimovsky district) of the Tula province. This village is located about twenty kilometers from the famous Kulikovo Field. Her parents - Dimitri and Natalia, peasants - were pious people, worked honestly, and lived poorly. The family had four children: two brothers - Ivan and Mikhail and two sisters - Maria and Matrona. Matrona was the youngest. When she was born, her parents were no longer young.
Given the need in which the Nikonovs lived, the fourth child could become, first of all, an extra mouth. Therefore, due to poverty, even before the birth of the last child, the mother decided to get rid of him. There could be no question of killing a baby in the womb of a patriarchal peasant family. But there were many orphanages where illegitimate and disadvantaged children were raised at public expense or at the expense of benefactors.
Matrona’s mother decided to send her unborn child to the orphanage of Prince Golitsyn in the neighboring village of Buchalki, but she saw a prophetic dream. The unborn daughter appeared to Natalia in a dream in the form of a white bird with a human face and closed eyes and sat on her right hand. Taking the dream as a sign, the God-fearing woman gave up the idea of ​​sending the child to an orphanage. The daughter was born blind, but the mother loved her “unfortunate child.”
Holy Scripture testifies that the Omniscient God sometimes chooses servants for Himself even before their birth. Thus, the Lord says to the holy prophet Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you” (Jer. 1:5). The Lord, having chosen Matrona for a special service, from the very beginning laid a heavy cross on her, which she bore with humility and patience all her life.
At baptism, the girl was named Matrona in honor of the Venerable Matrona of Constantinople, a Greek ascetic of the 5th century, whose memory is celebrated on November 9 (22).
The fact that the girl was chosen by God was evidenced by the fact that at baptism, when the priest lowered the child into the font, those present saw a column of light fragrant smoke above the baby. This was reported by a relative of the blessed Pavel Ivanovich Prokhorov, who was present at the baptism. The priest, Father Vasily, whom the parishioners revered as righteous and blessed, was incredibly surprised: “I baptized a lot, but this is the first time I see this, and this baby will be holy.” Father Vasily also told Natalia: “If a girl asks for something, you will definitely contact me directly, go and say directly what is needed.”
He added that Matrona would take his place and even predict his death. This is what happened later. One night Matronushka suddenly told her mother that Father Vasily had died. Surprised and frightened, the parents ran to the priest's house. When they arrived, it turned out that he had indeed just died.
They also talk about the external, physical sign of the baby’s chosenness by God: on the girl’s chest there was a bulge in the shape of a cross - a miraculous pectoral cross. Later, when she was already six years old, her mother once began to scold her: “Why are you taking off your cross?” “Mommy, I have my own cross on my chest,” the girl answered. “Dear daughter,” Natalia came to her senses, “forgive me!” And I keep scolding you..."
Natalia’s friend later said that when Matrona was still a baby, her mother complained: “What should I do? The girl does not breastfeed on Wednesday and Friday, she sleeps for days on these days, it is impossible to wake her up.”
Matrona was not just blind - she had no eyes at all. The eye sockets were closed with tightly closed eyelids, like those of the white bird that her mother had seen in her dream. But the Lord gave her spiritual sight. Even in infancy, at night, when her parents were sleeping, she would sneak into the holy corner, in some incomprehensible way take icons off the shelf, put them on the table and play with them in the silence of the night.
Matronushka was often teased by children, even mocked at her: the girls lashed her with nettles, knowing that she would not see who exactly was offending her. They put her in a hole and watched with curiosity as she groped her way out of there and wandered home.
From the age of seven or eight, Matronushka discovered the gift of prediction and healing the sick.
The Nikonovs' house was located near the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God. The temple is beautiful, one for seven or eight surrounding villages. Matrona’s parents were distinguished by deep piety and loved to attend divine services together. Matronushka literally grew up in church, going to services first with her mother, then alone whenever possible. Not knowing where her daughter was, her mother usually found her in church. She had her usual place - on the left, behind the front door, near the western wall, where she stood motionless during the service. She knew church hymns well and often sang along with the singers. Apparently, even in childhood, Matrona acquired the gift of unceasing prayer.
When her mother, feeling sorry for her, said to Matronushka: “You are my unfortunate child!”, She was surprised: “Am I unhappy? You have Vanya, the unfortunate one, and Misha.” She understood that she was given much more from God than others.
Matrona was marked by God from an early age with the gift of spiritual reasoning, insight, miracles and healing. Those close to her began to notice that she knew not only human sins and crimes, but also thoughts. She felt the approach of danger and foresaw natural and social disasters. Through her prayer, people received healing from illnesses and consolation in sorrows. Visitors began to come and visit her. People were coming to the Nikonovs’ hut, carts and carts with sick people were coming from the surrounding villages and hamlets, from all over the district, from other districts and even provinces. They brought in bedridden patients, whom the girl raised to their feet. Wanting to thank Matrona, they left food and gifts for her parents. So the girl, instead of becoming a burden to the family, became its main breadwinner.
Matrona's parents loved to go to church together. One day on a holiday, Matrona’s mother gets dressed and calls her husband with her. But he refused and did not go. At home he read prayers and sang. Matrona was also at home. The mother, while in church, kept thinking about her husband: “Here, he didn’t go,” and she kept getting worried. The liturgy ended, Natalia came home, and Matrona said to her: “You, mother, were not in church.” “How was it not? I just arrived and I’m undressing!” And the girl remarks: “My father was in the temple, but you weren’t there.” With spiritual vision, she saw that her mother was in the temple only physically.
One autumn Matronushka was sitting on a rubble. Her mother says to her: “Why are you sitting? It’s cold, go to the hut.” Matrona replies: “I can’t sit at home, they put fire on me and stab me with pitchforks.” The mother is perplexed: “There is no one there.” And Matrona explains to her: “You, mom, don’t understand, Satan is tempting me!”
One day Matrona says to her mother: “Mom, get ready, I’ll have a wedding soon.” The mother told the priest, he came and gave the girl communion (he always gave her communion at home at her request). And suddenly, after a few days, carts go and go to the Nikonovs’ house, people come with their troubles and sorrows, they carry the sick, and for some reason everyone asks Matronushka. She read prayers over them and healed many. Her mother asks: “Matryushenka, what is this?” And she replies: “I told you there will be a wedding.”
Ksenia Ivanovna Sifarova, a relative of Blessed Matrona’s brother, told how Matrona once told her mother: “I’ll leave now, and tomorrow there will be a fire, but you won’t burn.” And indeed, in the morning a fire started, almost the entire village burned down, then the wind spread the fire to the other side of the village, and the mother’s house remained intact.
In her adolescence she had the opportunity to travel. The daughter of a local landowner, a pious and kind girl Lydia Yankova, took Matrona with her on pilgrimages: to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, to St. Petersburg, and other cities and holy places of Russia. A legend has reached us about Matronushka’s meeting with the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, who, at the end of the service in St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Kronstadt, asked the people to make way for the 14-year-old Matrona, who was approaching the salt, and said publicly: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift - the eighth pillar of Russia.” Mother did not explain the meaning of these words to anyone, but her relatives guessed that Father John foresaw a special service for Matronushka to Russia and the Russian people during the times of persecution of the Church.

A little time passed, and in her seventeenth year Matrona lost the ability to walk: her legs suddenly became paralyzed. Mother herself pointed to the spiritual cause of the disease. She walked through the temple after communion and knew that a woman would approach her and take away her ability to walk. And so it happened. “I didn’t avoid it - it was God’s will.”
Until the end of her days she was “sedentary.” And her stay - in different houses and apartments where she found shelter - continued for another fifty years. She never grumbled because of her illness, but humbly bore this heavy cross given to her by God.
Even at an early age, Matrona predicted the revolution, how “they will rob, destroy churches and drive everyone away.” She figuratively showed how they would divide the land, grab plots of land greedily, just to grab the extra for themselves, and then everyone would abandon the land and run in all directions. Nobody will need the land.
Matrona advised the landowner from their village Sebino Yankov before the revolution to sell everything and go abroad. If he had listened to the blessed one, he would not have seen the plunder of his estate and would have avoided an early, untimely death, and his daughter would have avoided wanderings.
Matrona’s fellow villager, Evgenia Ivanovna Kalachkova, said that just before the revolution, one lady bought a house in Sebino, came to Matrona and said: “I want to build a bell tower.” “What you are planning to do will not come true,” Matrona answers. The lady was surprised: “How can it not come true when I have everything: money and materials?” So nothing came of the construction of the bell tower.
For the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God, at the insistence of Matrona (who had already gained fame in the area and whose request was perceived as a blessing), the icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was painted. Here's how it happened.
One day Matrona asked her mother to tell the priest that in his library, in such and such a row, there was a book with the image of the icon “Recovery of the Lost.” Father was very surprised. They found an icon, and Matronushka said: “Mom, I will write out such an icon.” The mother was saddened: how should she pay for it? Then Matrona says to her mother: “Mom, I keep dreaming about the icon “Recovery of the Dead.” The Mother of God asks to come to our church.” Matronushka blessed the women to collect money for the icon in all villages. Among other donors, one man gave a ruble reluctantly, and his brother gave one kopeck out of laughter. When the money was brought to Matronushka, she sorted through it, found these rubles and kopecks and said to her mother: “Mom, give it to them, they’re ruining all my money.”

Icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost,” painted with the blessing of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow. Located in the Intercession Stauropegial Convent (Moscow)

When we collected the required amount, we ordered an icon from an artist from Epifani. His name remains unknown. Matrona asked him if he could paint such an icon. He replied that this was a common thing for him. Matrona ordered him to repent of his sins, confess and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. Then she asked: “Do you know for sure that you will paint this icon?” The artist answered in the affirmative and began to paint. A lot of time passed, and finally he came to Matrona and said that nothing was working out for him. And she answers him: “Go, repent of your sins” (with spiritual vision she saw that there was still a sin that he did not confess). He was shocked how she knew this. Then he went to the priest again, repented, took communion, and asked Matrona for forgiveness. She told him: “Go, now you will paint the icon of the Queen of Heaven.”
With the money collected from the villages, with the blessing of Matrona, another icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” was commissioned in Bogoroditsk. When it was ready, it was carried in a procession with banners from Bogoroditsk to the church in Sebino. Matrona went to meet the icon four kilometers away, they led her by the arms. Suddenly she said: “Don’t go further, it’s already soon, they’re already coming, they’re close.” The woman who was blind from birth spoke as if she were sighted: “In half an hour they will come and bring the icon.” Indeed, half an hour later a religious procession appeared. A prayer service was served, and the procession headed to Sebino. Matrona either held on to the icon, or was led by the arms next to her. This image of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost” became the main local shrine and became famous for its many miracles. When there was a drought, they took him out to a meadow in the middle of the village and served a prayer service. After it, people did not have time to reach their homes before it began to rain.
Throughout her life, Blessed Matrona was surrounded by icons. In the room where she subsequently lived for a particularly long time, there were three red corners, and in them there were icons from top to bottom, with lamps burning in front of them. One woman who worked at the Church of the Deposition of the Robe in Moscow often went to Matrona and later recalled how she told her: “I know all the icons in your church, which one is where.”
People were also surprised by the fact that Matrona also had the usual, like sighted people, idea of ​​the world around her. To the sympathetic appeal of a person close to her, Zinaida Vladimirovna Zhdanova: “It’s a pity, mother, that you don’t see the beauty of the world!” - she once answered: “God once opened my eyes and showed me the world and His creation. And I saw the sun, and the stars in the sky, and everything on earth - the beauty of the earth: mountains, rivers, green grass, flowers, birds...”
But there is even more amazing evidence of the blessed one’s foresight. Z.V. Zhdanova recalls: “Mother was completely illiterate, but she knew everything. In 1946, I had to defend my diploma project “Ministry of the Navy” (I was then studying at the Architectural Institute in Moscow). My boss, for some unknown reason, was following me all the time. For five months, he never consulted me, deciding to “fail” my diploma. Two weeks before the defense, he announced to me: “Tomorrow a commission will come and confirm the inconsistency of your work!” I came home in tears: my father was in prison, there was no one to help, my mother was dependent on me, my only hope was to protect myself and work.
Mother listened to me and said: “Nothing, nothing, you’ll defend yourself! We’ll drink tea in the evening and talk!” I could barely wait for the evening, and then my mother said: “You and I will go to Italy, to Florence, to Rome, and see the works of the great masters...”. And she started listing streets and buildings! She stopped: “Here is Palazzo Pitti, here is another palace with arches, do the same as there: the three lower floors of the building with large masonry and two entrance arches.” I was shocked by her conduct. In the morning I ran to the institute, put tracing paper on the project and made all the corrections with brown ink. At ten o'clock the commission arrived. They looked at my project and said: “Well, the project turned out great, it looks great - defend yourself!”
Many people came to Matrona for help. Four kilometers from Sebino lived a man whose legs could not walk. Matrona said: “Let him come to me in the morning, crawl. By three o’clock he’ll crawl, he’ll crawl.” He crawled these four kilometers, and walked away from her on his own feet, healed.
One day, women from the village of Orlovka came to Matrona during Easter week. The matron received while sitting by the window. She gave prosphora to one, water to another, a red egg to the third, and told her to eat this egg when she went outside the gardens to the threshing floor. This woman put the egg in her bosom, and they went. When they left the threshing floor, the woman, as Matrona told her, broke an egg, and there was a mouse. They got scared and decided to go back. We went to the window, and Matrona said: “What, is there a nasty mouse?” “Matronushka, how can you eat it?” “How did you sell milk to people, especially to orphans, widows, and the poor who don’t have a cow? The mouse was in the milk, you pulled it out, and gave the milk to people.” The woman says: “Matronushka, they didn’t see the mouse and didn’t know, I threw it out of there.” “God knows that you were selling mouse milk!”
Many people came to Matrona with their illnesses and sorrows. Having intercession before God, she helped many. A.F. Vybornova, whose father was baptized together with Matrona, tells the details of one of these healings. “My mother comes from the village of Ustye, and she had a brother there. One day he gets up - neither his arms nor his legs move, they become like whips. But he did not believe in Matrona’s healing abilities. My brother’s daughter went to the village of Sebino to pick up my mother: “Godmother, let’s go quickly, things are bad with my father, he’s become like a fool: he’s dropped his hands, his eyes aren’t looking, his tongue can barely move.” Then my mother harnessed a horse, and she and my father rode to Ustye. We arrived at my brother’s, and he looked at my mother and barely said “sister.” She gathered her brother and brought him to our village. She left him at home and went to Matryusha to ask if she could bring him. She comes, and Matryusha says to her: “Well, your brother said that I can’t do anything, but he himself has become like a fence.” And she hasn’t seen him yet! Then she said: “Bring him to me, I’ll help.” She read over him, gave him water, and sleep fell on him. He slept like a log and woke up completely healthy in the morning. “Thank your sister, her faith healed you,” was all Matrona said to her brother.”
The help that Matrona gave to the sick not only had nothing to do with conspiracies, divination, so-called folk healing, extrasensory perception, magic and other witchcraft actions, during which the “healer” comes into contact with a dark force, but had a fundamentally different, Christian nature. That is why the righteous Matrona was so hated by sorcerers and various occultists, as evidenced by people who knew her closely during the Moscow period of her life. First of all, Matrona prayed for people. Being a saint of God, richly endowed with spiritual gifts from above, she asked the Lord for miraculous help for the sick. The history of the Orthodox Church knows many examples when not only clergy or ascetic monks, but also righteous people who lived in the world healed those in need of help through prayer.
Matrona read a prayer over the water and gave it to those who came to her. Those who drank the water and sprinkled it with it got rid of various misfortunes. The content of these prayers is unknown, but, of course, there could be no question of the blessing of water according to the rite established by the Church, to which only clergy have the canonical right. But it is also known that not only holy water has beneficial healing properties, but also the water of some reservoirs, springs, wells, marked by the presence and prayer life of holy people near them, and the appearance of miraculous icons.
In 1925, Matrona moved to Moscow, where she would live until the end of her days. In this huge capital city there were many unfortunate, lost, fallen from the faith, spiritually sick people with a poisoned consciousness. Living for about three decades in Moscow, she performed that spiritual and prayerful service that turned many away from death and led to salvation.
The blessed one loved Moscow very much, she said that “this is a holy city, the heart of Russia.” Both Matrona's brothers, Mikhail and Ivan, joined the party, Mikhail became a rural activist. It is clear that the presence in their home of the blessed one, who received people all day long, taught them by deed and example to preserve the Orthodox faith, became unbearable for the brothers. They feared reprisals. Feeling sorry for them, as well as for her elderly parents (Matrona’s mother died in 1945), Mother moved to Moscow. I began wandering around relatives and friends, in houses, apartments, and basements. Matrona lived almost everywhere without registration, and miraculously escaped arrest several times. Novices - hozhalki - lived with her and looked after her. This was a new period of her ascetic life. She becomes a homeless wanderer. Sometimes she had to live with people who were hostile to her. It was difficult to find housing in Moscow—there was no choice.
Z.V. Zhdanova told what hardships the blessed one sometimes had to endure: “I arrived in Sokolniki, where mother often lived in a small plywood house, given to her for a while. It was deep autumn. I entered the house, and in the house there was thick, damp and dank steam, an iron stove-stove was burning. I went up to my mother, and she was lying on the bed facing the wall, she couldn’t turn to me, her hair was frozen to the wall - she could barely pull it off. I said in horror: “Mother, how can this happen? After all, you know that we live together with my mother, my brother is at the front, my father is in prison and what happened to him is unknown, but we have two rooms in a warm house, forty-eight square meters, a separate entrance; why didn’t you ask to come to us?” Mother sighed heavily and said: “God did not order so that you would not regret it later.”

Before the war, Matrona lived on Ulyanovskaya Street with priest Vasily, the husband of her novice Pelageya, while he was free. She lived on Pyatnitskaya Street, in Sokolniki (in a summer plywood building), in Vishnyakovsky Lane (in her niece’s basement), she also lived at the Nikitsky Gate, in Petrovsko-Razumovsky, and visited her nephew in Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk), in Tsaritsyno. She lived the longest (from 1942 to 1949) on Arbat, in Starokonyushenny Lane. Here, in an old wooden mansion, in a 48-meter room, lived Matrona’s fellow villager, E.M. Zhdanov, with daughter Zinaida. It was in this room that three corners were occupied by icons, from top to bottom. Antique lamps hung in front of the icons, and heavy expensive curtains hung on the windows (before the revolution, the house belonged to Zhdanova’s husband, who came from a rich and noble family).
They say that Matrona left some places in a hurry, foreseeing impending troubles in spirit, always on the eve of the police coming to her, since she lived without registration. Times were hard, and people were afraid to register it. In this way she saved not only herself, but also the hosts who sheltered her, from repression.
Many times they wanted to arrest Matrona. Many of her loved ones were arrested and imprisoned (or exiled). Zinaida Zhdanova was convicted as a member of a church-monarchist group.
Ksenia Ivanovna Sifarova said that Matrona’s nephew Ivan lived in Zagorsk. And suddenly she mentally calls him to her. He came to his boss and said: “I want to take time off from you, I just can’t, I need to go to my aunt.” He arrived without knowing what was going on. And Matrona says to him: “Come on, come on, take me quickly to Zagorsk, to your mother-in-law.” As soon as they left, the police came. It happened many times: they just want to arrest her, but she leaves the day before.
Anna Filippovna Vybornova recalls such an incident. One day a policeman came to take Matrona away, and she said to him: “Go, go quickly, there is misfortune in your house! But the blind woman can’t get away from you, I sit on the bed, I don’t go anywhere.” He obeyed. I went home, and his wife was burned from the kerosene gas. But he managed to get her to the hospital. He comes to work the next day, and they ask him: “Well, did you take the blind woman?” And he replies: “I will never take the blind woman. If the blind woman had not told me, I would have lost my wife, but I still managed to take her to the hospital.”
Living in Moscow, Matrona visited her village: either they would call her on some business, or she would miss home, her mother.
Outwardly, her life flowed monotonously: during the day - receiving people, at night - prayer. Like the ancient ascetics, she never really went to bed, but dozed lying on her side, on her fist. Years passed like this.
Somehow in 1939 or 1940, Matrona said: “Now you are all quarreling, dividing, but the war is about to begin. Of course, many people will die, but our Russian people will win.”
At the beginning of 1941, cousin Z.V. Zhdanova Olga Noskova asked her mother for advice on whether she should go on vacation (they gave her a ticket, but she didn’t want to go on vacation in the winter). Mother said: “You need to go on vacation now, then there will be no vacations for a long, long time. There will be a war. Victory will be ours. The enemy will not touch Moscow, it will only burn a little. There is no need to leave Moscow.”
When the war began, mother asked everyone who came to her to bring willow branches. She broke them into sticks of equal length, peeled them from the bark and prayed. Her neighbors recalled that her fingers were covered in wounds. Matrona could be spiritually present in various places; for her spiritual gaze, space did not exist. She often said that she was invisible at the fronts, helping our soldiers. She told everyone that the Germans would not enter Tula. Her prophecy came true.
Matronushka received up to forty people a day. People came with their troubles, mental and physical pain. She refused to help anyone, except those who came with crafty intentions. Others saw in mother a folk healer who had the power to remove damage or the evil eye, but after communicating with her they realized that this was a man of God, and they turned to the Church and its saving sacraments. Helping her people was selfless; she did not take anything from anyone.
Mother always read her prayers loudly. Those who knew her closely say that these prayers were well-known, read in church and at home: “Our Father,” “May God rise again,” the ninetieth psalm, “Lord Almighty, God of hosts and all flesh” (from morning prayers). She emphasized that it was not herself who helped, but God through her prayers: “What, Matronushka is God, or what? God helps! - she answers Ksenia Gavrilovna Potapova when asked to help her.
Healing the sick, mother demanded that they believe in God and correct their sinful lives. So, she asks one visitor if she believes that the Lord is able to heal her. Another, who has fallen ill, orders not to miss a single Sunday service, to confess and receive the Holy Mysteries at each one. She blesses those living in a civil marriage to be sure to get married in the Church. Everyone is required to wear a cross.
What did people come to mother with? With the usual troubles: incurable illness, disappearance, husband leaving the family, unhappy love, loss of job, persecution from superiors... With everyday needs and questions. Should I get married? Should I change my place of residence or service? There were no less sick people, obsessed with various ailments: someone suddenly fell ill, someone suddenly began to bark, someone’s arms and legs were cramped, someone was haunted by hallucinations. Popularly, such people are called “corrupted” sorcerers, healers, and sorcerers. These are people who, as people say, have been “done”, who have been subjected to special demonic influence.
One day, four men brought an old woman to Matrona. She waved her arms like a windmill. When her mother scolded her, she weakened and was healed.
Praskovya Sergeevna Anosova, who often visited her brother in a psychiatric hospital, recalls: “Once, when we were going to see him, a man and his wife were traveling with us to discharge their daughter from the hospital. We rode back together again. Suddenly this girl (she was 18 years old) started barking. I tell her mother: “I feel sorry for you, we are driving past Tsaritsyno, let’s take our daughter to Matronushka...”. The father of this girl, the general, at first did not want to hear anything, he said that it was all fiction. But his wife insisted, and we went to Matronushka. And so they began to bring the girl to Matronushka, and she became like a stake, her hands like sticks, then she began to spit on Matronushka and struggled. Matrona says: “Leave her, now she won’t do anything.” The girl was released. She fell, began to thrash and spin around on the floor, and began vomiting blood. And then this girl fell asleep and slept for three days. They looked after her. When she woke up and saw her mother, she asked: “Mom, where are we?” She answers her: “We, daughter, are with a perspicacious man...”. And she told her everything that happened to her. And from that time on, the girl was completely healed.”
Z.V. Zhdanova says that in 1946, a woman who occupied a high position was brought to their apartment, where Matrona then lived. Her only son went crazy, her husband died at the front, and she herself, of course, was an atheist. She traveled with her sick son to Europe, but famous doctors could not help him. “I came to you out of despair,” she said, “I have nowhere to go.” Matrona asked: “If the Lord cures your son, will you believe in God?” The woman said, “I don’t know what it’s like to believe.” Then Matrona asked for water and, in the presence of the unfortunate mother, began to read a prayer loudly over the water. Then handing her this water, the blessed one said: “Go now to Kashchenko (a psychiatric hospital in Moscow), arrange with the orderlies so that they hold him tightly when they take him out. He will fight, and you try to splash this water in his eyes and be sure to get it in his mouth.”
Zinaida Vladimirovna recalls: “After some time, my brother and I witnessed how this woman came to Matrona again. She thanked her mother on her knees, saying that her son was now healthy. And it was like this. She arrived at the hospital and did everything as mother ordered. There was a hall where her son was taken from one side of the barrier, and she approached from the other side. The bottle of water was in her pocket. The son struggled and shouted: “Mom, throw away what you have in your pocket, don’t torture me!” She was amazed: how did he know? She quickly splashed water into his eyes, got it into his mouth, suddenly he calmed down, his eyes became clear, and he said: “How good!” He was soon discharged."
Often Matrona put her hands on her head and said: “He, he, now I’ll clip your wings, fight, fight bye!” “Who are you?” - he will ask, and suddenly the person will buzz. Mother will say again: “Who are you?” - and it will buzz even more, and then she will pray and say: “Well, the mosquito has fought, now that’s enough!” And the person leaves healed.
Matrona also helped those whose family life was not going well. One day a woman came to her and told her that she was not married for love and she was not living well with her husband. Matrona answers her: “Who is to blame? It's your fault. Because the Lord is our head, and the Lord is in male form, and we women must obey a man, you must keep the crown until the end of your life. It’s your fault that you don’t live well with him...” This woman listened to the blessed one, and her family life improved.
“Mother Matrona fought all her life for every soul that came to her,” recalls Zinaida Zhdanova, “and won. She never lamented or complained about the difficulties of her feat. I can’t forgive myself for never feeling sorry for my mother, even though I saw how difficult it was for her, how she was rooting for each of us. The light of those days still warms us. In the house, lamps glowed in front of the images, mother’s love and her silence enveloped the soul. There was holiness, joy, peace, and gracious warmth in the house. There was a war going on, but we lived like in heaven.”
How do people close to you remember Matrona? With miniature, child-like, short arms and legs. Sitting cross-legged on a bed or chest. Fluffy hair parted in the middle. Eyelids tightly closed. Kind bright face. Affectionate voice.
She consoled, calmed the sick, stroked their heads, made the sign of the cross, sometimes joked, sometimes sternly rebuked and instructed. She was not strict, she was tolerant of human weaknesses, compassionate, warm, sympathetic, always joyful, and never complained about her illnesses and suffering. Mother did not preach, did not teach. She gave specific advice on what to do in a given situation, prayed and blessed.
She was generally taciturn and briefly answered questions from those who came. Some of her general instructions remain.
Mother taught us not to judge our neighbors. She said: “Why judge other people? Think about yourself more often. Each sheep will be suspended by its tail. What do you care about other ponytails? Matrona taught to surrender oneself to the will of God, to live with prayer, and to often make the sign of the cross on oneself and surrounding objects, thereby protecting oneself from evil forces. She advised me to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ more often. “Protect yourself with the cross, prayer, holy water, frequent communion... Let the lamps burn in front of the icons.”
She also taught to love and forgive the old and infirm. “If old people, sick people, or people who have lost their minds say something unpleasant or offensive to you, then don’t listen, just help them. You need to help the sick with all diligence and you need to forgive them, no matter what they say or do.”
Matronushka did not allow us to attach significance to dreams: “Don’t pay attention to them, dreams come from the evil one - to upset a person, to confuse him with thoughts.”
Matrona warned not to run around among confessors in search of “elders” or “seers.” Running around different fathers, she said, you can lose spiritual strength and the right direction in life.
Here are her words: “The world lies in evil and delusion, and delusion - the deception of souls - will be obvious, beware.” “If you go to an elder or priest for advice, pray that the Lord will make him wise to give the right advice.” She taught me not to be interested in priests and their lives. She advised those who wished for Christian perfection not to stand out externally among people (black clothes, etc.). She taught patience in sorrows. Z.V. She told Zhdanova: “Go to church and don’t look at anyone, pray with your eyes closed or look at some image, icon.” St. Seraphim of Sarov and other holy fathers also have similar instructions. In general, there was nothing in Matrona’s instructions that would run counter to the patristic teaching.
Mother said that putting on makeup, that is, using decorative cosmetics, is a great sin: a person spoils and distorts the image of human nature, complements what the Lord did not give, creates fake beauty - this leads to corruption.
About the girls who believed in God, Matrona said: “God will forgive everything to you girls if you are devoted to God. Anyone who condemns herself not to get married must hold on until the end. The Lord will give a crown for this.”
Matronushka said: “The enemy is approaching - we must definitely pray. Sudden death happens if you live without prayer. The enemy sits on our left shoulder, and on the right is an angel, and each has his own book: our sins are written in one, and good deeds in the other. Get baptized often! The cross is the same lock as on the door.” She instructed not to forget to baptize food. “By the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, save yourself and defend yourself!”
Mother said about sorcerers: “For someone who voluntarily entered into an alliance with the power of evil, took up sorcery, there is no way out. You can’t turn to grandmothers, they will cure one thing, but harm your soul.”
Mother often told her loved ones that she was fighting with sorcerers, with evil forces, and invisibly fighting them. One day a handsome old man came to her, with a beard, sedate, fell on his knees in front of her, all in tears and said: “My only son is dying.” And mother leaned over to him and quietly asked: “What did you do to him? To death or not? He answered: “To death.” And mother says: “Go, go away from me, there is no need for you to come to me.” After he left, she said: “The sorcerers know God! If only you would pray like they do when they beg God’s forgiveness for their evil!”
Mother revered the late priest Valentin Amfitheatrov. She said that he was great before God and that at his grave he helped the suffering; she sent some of her visitors to fetch sand from his grave.
The massive falling away of people from the Church, militant atheism, growing alienation and anger between people, the rejection of traditional faith by millions and sinful life without repentance have led many to grave spiritual consequences. Matrona understood and felt this well.
During the days of the demonstration, mother asked everyone not to go out into the street, to close windows, vents, doors: hordes of demons occupy all the space, all the air and embrace all people. (Perhaps Blessed Matrona, who often spoke allegorically, wanted to remind us of the need to keep the “windows of the soul” closed from the spirits of evil - as the Holy Fathers call human feelings.)
Z.V. Zhdanova asked mother: “How did the Lord allow so many churches to be closed and destroyed?” (she meant the years after the revolution). And mother answered: “This is the will of God, the number of churches has been reduced because there will be few believers and there will be no one to serve.” “Why isn’t anyone fighting?” She: “The people are under hypnosis, not themselves, a terrible force has come into action... This force exists in the air, penetrates everywhere. Previously, swamps and dense forests were the habitat of this power, because people went to churches, wore crosses, and houses were protected by images, lamps and consecration. Demons flew past such houses, and now people are also inhabited by demons due to their unbelief and rejection of God.”
Wanting to lift the veil over her spiritual life, some curious visitors tried to spy on what Matrona did at night. One girl saw that she was praying and bowing all night...
Living with the Zhdanovs in Starokonyushenny Lane, Matronushka confessed and received communion from priest Dimitri from the church on Krasnaya Presnya. Continuous prayer helped Blessed Matrona to carry the cross of serving people, which was a real feat and martyrdom, the highest manifestation of love. Scolding the possessed, praying for everyone, sharing people’s sorrows, mother was so tired that by the end of the day she could not even talk to her loved ones and only moaned quietly, lying on her fist. The inner, spiritual life of the blessed one still remained a mystery even for people close to her, and will remain a mystery for others.
Not knowing the spiritual life of mother, nevertheless, people did not doubt her holiness, that she was a real ascetic. Matrona's feat consisted of great patience, coming from purity of heart and ardent love for God. It is precisely this kind of patience that will save Christians in the last times that the holy fathers of the Church prophesied. Like a true ascetic, the blessed one taught not with words, but with her whole life. Although physically blind, she taught and continues to teach true spiritual vision. Unable to walk, she taught and teaches to walk the difficult path of salvation.
In her memoirs, Zinaida Vladimirovna Zhdanova writes: “Who was Matronushka? Mother was an incarnate warrior angel, as if she had a fiery sword in her hands to fight evil forces. She treated with prayer, water... She was small, like a child, all the time reclining on her side, on her fist. I slept like that, never really went to bed. When she received people, she sat down with her legs crossed, two arms extended directly above the head of the person who came in the air, put her fingers on the head of the person kneeling in front of her, made the sign of the cross, said the main thing that his soul needed, and prayed.
She lived without her own corner, property, or supplies. Whoever invited her, she lived with him. She lived on offerings that she could not manage herself. She was in obedience to the evil Pelageya, who was in charge of everything and distributed everything that they brought to her mother to her relatives. Without her knowledge, mother could neither drink nor eat...
Mother seemed to know all the events in advance. Every day of her life is a stream of sorrows and sorrows of people who come. Helping the sick, comforting and healing them. There were many healings through her prayers. He will take the head of the crying person with both hands, take pity, warm him with his holiness, and the person leaves inspired. And she, exhausted, just sighs and prays all night long. She had a dimple on her forehead from her fingers, from frequent sign of the cross. She crossed herself slowly, diligently, her fingers searching for the hole...”
During the war there were many cases when she answered those who came to their questions: is he alive or not? He will say to someone: he’s alive, wait. For someone, a funeral service and a memorial service.
It can be assumed that those who sought spiritual advice and guidance also came to Matrona. Many Moscow priests and monks of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra knew about Mother. Due to the unknown fate of God, there was no attentive observer and student near mother who could lift the veil over her spiritual work and write about it for the edification of posterity.
Countrymen from her native places often visited her, then from all the surrounding villages they wrote notes to her, and she answered them. They came to her from two hundred and three hundred kilometers away, and she knew the person’s name. There were both Muscovites and visitors from other cities who heard about the perspicacious mother. People of different ages: young, old, and middle-aged. She accepted some, but not others. She spoke to some in parables, to others in simple language.
Zinaida once complained to her mother: “Mother, my nerves...”. And she: “What nerves, there are no nerves in war or in prison... You have to control yourself, endure.”
Mother instructed that it was necessary to undergo treatment. The body is a house given by God, it needs to be repaired. God created the world, medicinal herbs, and this cannot be neglected.
Mother sympathized with her loved ones: “How sorry I am for you, you will live to see the last times. Life will get worse and worse. Heavy. The time will come when they will put a cross and bread in front of you and say: choose!” “We will choose the cross,” they answered, “but then how can we live?” “And we will pray, take land, roll balls, pray to God, eat and be full!”
Another time she said, encouraging in a difficult situation, that there was no need to be afraid of anything, no matter how scary it was. “They carry the child in a sleigh, and there is no care! The Lord himself will manage everything!”
Matronushka often repeated: “If a people loses faith in God, then disasters befall them, and if they do not repent, they perish and disappear from the face of the earth. How many peoples have disappeared, but Russia existed and will exist. Pray, ask, repent! The Lord will not leave you and will preserve our land!”

The rite of canonization of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Intercession Stauropegial Convent (Moscow), May 2, 1999

Matronushka found her last earthly refuge at the Skhodnya station near Moscow (23 Kurgannaya Street), where she settled with a distant relative, leaving her room in Starokonyushenny Lane. And here, too, a stream of visitors came and carried their sorrows. Only just before her death did mother, already quite weak, limit her intake. But people still came, and she could not refuse help to some. They say that the time of her death was revealed to her by the Lord three days in advance, and she made all the necessary orders. Mother asked that her funeral service be performed in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe (at that time, priest Nikolai Golubtsov, beloved by the parishioners, was serving there; he knew and revered Blessed Matrona). She ordered no wreaths or plastic flowers to be brought to the funeral.
Until the last days of her life, she confessed and received communion from the priests who came to her. In her humility, she, like ordinary sinful people, was afraid of death and did not hide her fear from her loved ones. Before her death, a priest, Father Dimitri, came to confess her; she was very worried whether she had folded her hands correctly. Father asks: “Are you really afraid of death?” "Afraid".
On May 2, 1952, she died. On May 3 at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, a note about the repose of the newly deceased blessed Matrona was submitted for a memorial service. Among many others, she attracted the attention of the serving hieromonk. “Who submitted the note? - he asked excitedly. - What, she died? (many inhabitants of the Lavra knew and revered Matrona well). The old woman and her daughter, who arrived from Moscow, confirmed: the day before, mother died and this evening the coffin with the body will be placed in the Moscow Church of the Deposition of the Robe on Donskaya Street. This is how the Lavra monks learned about the death of Matrona and were able to come to her burial. After the funeral service, which was performed by Father Nikolai Golubtsov, everyone present came up and touched her hands.
On May 4, the Week of Myrrh-Bearing Women, the burial of Blessed Matrona took place in front of a large crowd of people. At her request, she was buried in the Danilovsky cemetery in order to “hear the service” (one of the few functioning Moscow churches was located there). The funeral service and burial of the blessed one were the beginning of her glorification among the people as a servant of God.
The blessed one predicted: “After my death, few people will go to my grave, only close ones, and when they die, my grave will be deserted, except occasionally someone will come... But after many years, people will learn about me and will go in droves for help in their sorrows and with requests to pray for them to the Lord God, and I will help everyone and hear everyone.”
Even before her death, she said: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see you, and hear you, and help you.” And mother also said that everyone who entrusts themselves and their lives to her intercession with the Lord will be saved. “I will meet everyone who turns to me for help at their death, everyone.”

Relics of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow in the Intercession Stauropegial Convent (Moscow)

More than 30 years after the death of mother, her grave at the Danilovsky cemetery became one of the holy places of Orthodox Moscow, where people from all over Russia and from abroad came with their troubles and illnesses.
Blessed Matrona was an Orthodox person in the deep, traditional meaning of the word. Compassion for people, coming from the fullness of a loving heart, prayer, the sign of the cross, fidelity to the holy statutes of the Orthodox Church - this was the focus of her intense spiritual life. The nature of her feat is rooted in the centuries-old traditions of popular piety. Therefore, the help that people receive by prayerfully turning to the righteous woman brings spiritual fruits: people are confirmed in the Orthodox faith, become churchgoers externally and internally, and become involved in everyday prayer life.
Matrona is known to tens of thousands of Orthodox people. Matronushka - this is how many affectionately call her. She helps people just like during her earthly life. This is felt by all those who with faith and love ask her for intercession and intercession before the Lord, towards whom the blessed old woman has great boldness.
On March 8, 1998, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', the honest remains of the ascetic were found at the Danilovsky cemetery in Moscow and transferred to the Intercession Convent. In July 1998, the monastery acquired another shrine - the icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost,” which was painted with the blessing of Blessed Matrona and for a long time was her cell icon.
On May 2, 1999, the blessed one was canonized as a locally revered saint of the Moscow diocese, and in October 2004, the church-wide glorification of the holy blessed Matrona of Moscow took place.

3. Akathist to the BLESSED MATRONA OF MOSCOW

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Chosen by God from the swaddling clothes of infancy and with the gift of clairvoyance, miracle-working and healing by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the gifted, blessed old lady Matrona, crowned with an incorruptible crown from the Lord in Heaven, we, Orthodoxy, weave on earth a crown of praise from spiritual songs, but you, blessed mother, accept This is from our grateful hearts, and as having boldness before the Lord, deliver us from all troubles, sorrows, illnesses and the snares of the enemy, so we sing with love to you: Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Ikos 1

An angel in the flesh appeared on earth at your birth; Even if you were seen by everyone even without bodily eyes, but the Lord, who makes the blind wise and loves the righteous, enlighten your spiritual eyes, so that the foreseeable future will appear, as if it were the present, and will heal those suffering from all kinds of diverse diseases. For this reason we call you, mother, such as this: Rejoice, chosen by God from infancy; Rejoice, illuminated from the shrouds by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Rejoice, you who were endowed with the gift of miracles from childhood; Rejoice, gifted with wisdom from God from above. Rejoice, deprived of bodily hairs, enlightened by spiritual hairs; Rejoice, thou wisest by God more than the seers and wise men of this age. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 2

Seeing the priest and the people present at your baptism, a pillar like steam came out of the holy font and smelled a great fragrance in the temple at this, recognizing you as a righteous woman, bestowed from God on earth, and glorifying God, who does wonderful and glorious things in His people, with the angelic song: Alleluia .

Ikos 2

Having an enlightened mind from above, the priest who baptizes you of God knows you, as the child baptized by him is a vessel of God's grace, and you are called holy as a child. From our zeal we offer these praises: Rejoice, child given by God; Rejoice from the holy font, fragrant with the grace of the Holy Spirit. Rejoice, having been called a saint by those who baptized you as a priest of God from your birth; Rejoice, sealed with the holy cross on your body by God. Rejoice, glorified on earth by the gift of miracles from God; Rejoice, thou crowned in Heaven with an unfading crown from the Lord. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 3

By the power of the Most High, in infancy, the saint from her bed reached out to the holy icons, rejoicing as if with her friends, and with the babbling of her lips she glorified God, who had learned from the mouth of an infant to praise Himself, singing to Him with a pure heart: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having from God the gift of clairvoyance, from birth deprived of bodily fringes, with spiritual open fringes you predicted the future of people, like the present, enduring ridicule and reproach from relatives and friends who hear this; Receive from the faithful: Rejoice, wondrous seer; Rejoice, unfalse fortuneteller of those who are invisible and far away. Rejoice, endowed with prophetic gifts from God; Rejoice, you who have comforted many for nothing. Rejoice, you who took nothing from them for the healing of the sick; Rejoice, you who endured ridicule and reproach for this without grumbling. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 4

A storm of bewilderment and confusion haunted me, how could I praise and glorify the life of the holy righteous woman, if not the Lord, wondrous in His saints, would enlighten me with the prayers of the blessed old woman, so that I might sing to Him and I for this song of praise: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Having heard people from you, Mother Matrono, predictions about those who will be with them in life, I flock to you with my bewilderments, sorrows and sorrows and, having accepted consolation and advice prudently, with a grateful heart they call you: Rejoice, good interpreter of our errors and perplexities; Rejoice, reliever of our sorrows. Rejoice, comforter of our sorrows; Rejoice, teacher of piety. Rejoice, good unmercenary; Rejoice, banisher of all kinds of illnesses. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 5

Thou didst appear, O blessed Mother Matrono, in the capital city of Moscow, like a wanderer who had no abode here, and moved from place to place, bringing admonition to the perplexed, to the weakened and sick, healing, and to gratefully call to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Having seen the abundant river of miracles and healing flowing from you with God’s grace: the lame walking, the weakened and those lying on their beds healing, the demon-possessed from the spirits of malice liberation, rushing to you, mother, like an inexhaustible source of miracles, the suffering and sick and drinking abundantly; consolation and healing, with a tender heart I cried out to you: Rejoice, righteous woman, sent down to us from God; Rejoice, healer, healer of all our ailments. Rejoice, you who help us with soulful advice; Rejoice, all our doubts and perplexities are soon resolved. Rejoice, thou who castest out demons from afflicted people; Rejoice, thou who art instructing on the right path, leading to God. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 6
Preacher of the holiness and righteousness of your life, blessed one, Holy Father John of Kronstadt appeared, commanding the believers in the church to part and let the young girl Matrona pass to him, calling her his successor and the eighth pillar of Russia. And those who heard about this glorified the Lord, shouting to Him the heavenly song: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

In the hearts of those who do not know God and the many sins of those who anger Him, the light of God’s grace shines through your prayers, and seeing the miracles you perform, I turn to the Lord, pleasing the blessed old woman with these praises: Rejoice, thou who glorify God with thy miracles; Rejoice, thou who revealest to us the greatness of God and His glory in them. Rejoice, you who convert the souls of unbelievers to God; Rejoice, hearts darkened by unbelief, enlightening with the light of God. Rejoice, you who teach us repentance and the commandments of God; Rejoice, glorify and give thanks for everything the Lord admonishes us. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 7

Although the merciful Lord sends His saints into the sinful world to save His creation in these last times, when all the power of the enemy, for departing from God and unrepentance for numerous sins, rises up against God’s creation, such an ascetic and prayer book appeared to the blessed Elder Matrona. Let us glorify God’s mercy towards us sinners, singing to Him with gratitude: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

The Lord has given the Russian people a new and wondrous intercessor, a prayer book, a healer and an intercessor for them to God for those who have departed from this world, the elders of Optina Hermitage, Saints Leo, Macarius and Ambrose, and the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, urging everyone to sing to His saint, the blessed Elder Matrona. sice: Rejoice, intercessor of our salvation to God; Rejoice, for the forgiveness of our sins by the Righteous Judge, propitiator. Rejoice, diligent visitor of holy temples and monasteries; Rejoice, helpless and hopeless sick and offended, sent by God to the patroness. Rejoice, constant warrior with the forces of demons and their machinations; Rejoice, bloodless martyr of Christ, the worst tormentor, the devil, victor. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 8

It is a strange miracle for the unbeliever and the unreasonable, how a blind woman can see and know not exactly the present, but also the future, not knowing the power of God, which is accomplished in the weakness of mankind, nor singing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

All the saints who were in God, even though they were in body and in this sinful world, were always surrounded by many faithful and unfaithful, pious and wicked, I would reject anyone from myself without participation and consolation, suffering from many annoyances and insults, persecution, sorrow and reproaches, not lamenting about this, but thanking God for everything, forcing us to patiently bear our cross. We offer her the following praise: Rejoice, you who endured many sorrows and illnesses for the healing of the sick; Rejoice, you who spent your entire life fighting against unclean spirits. Rejoice, you who lost your walk from evil people for this walk; Rejoice, you who constantly remained in fervent prayer. Rejoice, bowed on your fist, and thus resting your gray hairs; Rejoice, vigilant in spirit, who spent all the night in prayer. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 9

You have endured all sorts of sorrows and illnesses, Mother Matrono, constantly fighting the forces of darkness, driving them out from those possessed by unclean spirits, exposing their intrigues and deceits, and you have never grumbled, until your death you help the suffering, the sick and the grieving, singing to the Lord God, who strengthens you by His power: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

The branches of multi-proclamation will not be able to adequately comprehend the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit given to you by God from above and describe and glorify all the holiness of your life and the miracles performed by you by the power of God. Moreover, how can we, blind with spiritual eyes, comprehend the fate of God that is being committed on you, and with our sinful lips sing and glorify you, blessed mother? But wanting, according to the word of the psalmist, to praise God in His saints, driven by heartfelt love for you, we dare to this praise and call you: Rejoice, poor in spirit, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven; Rejoice, thou who walked the narrow and thorny path. Rejoice, like a bird of heaven, flying from place to place; Rejoice, even if the birds of heaven have nests, but you have not acquired temples lower than treasures for yourself on earth. Rejoice, for you have become like the Son of God, who had nowhere to bow your head, on earth; Rejoice, for you have now dwelt in Heaven with Him in the heavenly abodes. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 10

Wanting to save many people from the suffering of bodily and mental ailments, you spent all the night, O righteous woman of God, kneeling in prayer, asking for help and strength from our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His earthly journey knelt in prayer before the Heavenly Father, singing with the Angels to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

You were a wall and a covering during your life, blessed mother, to all who came running to you in need and sorrow, but even after death you did not cease to intercede before God for the people who come to you with faith. Hear, O good mother, now us, many sinners, overcome by sorrows, illnesses and many sorrows, and strive to help us with your holy prayers, propitiating the gracious Lord for all who cry to you: Rejoice, warm prayer book for us to God; Rejoice, zealous for us sinners, intercessor to God. Rejoice, you who gratefully admonish us to endure illness and sorrow; Rejoice, you who put good thoughts in our hearts in our perplexity. Rejoice, through your prayer you help us to be saved; Rejoice, you who are far away in body from you, but who do not abandon those who earnestly call upon you from the heart. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 11

Hear the unearthly, angelic singing now, O honorable mother Matrono, who, while still living on earth, was vouchsafed, invisibly to those around her, to converse with the heavenly angels. Teach us, unworthy ones, how to glorify God, who is revered in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to whom the heavenly hosts continually sing with a loud voice: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

Your life shines with a luminous light, blessed old lady Matrono, illuminating the darkness of this busy world, and attracts our souls to itself, so that they too may be illuminated by even a small ray of God’s grace, and be able to walk the sorrowful and cramped path of life in a God-pleasing manner, and reach the gates of the Kingdom of God, where You, mother, now, we believe, you have moved in. Hear the voice of those calling you: Rejoice, lamp of God, enlighten us even after death; Rejoice, honorable bead, illuminating us with the brilliance of your shrine. Rejoice, strengthening us in Orthodoxy with the light of your good deeds; Rejoice, fragrant flower, scent our souls with the Holy Spirit. Rejoice, for all your life is holy and righteous; Rejoice, for your death is honorable before God. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 12

You have received the grace of God abundantly from the shrouds, O blessed mother, and this will remain with you all your days: you healed ailments, you cast out demons, you, invisible and far away, foretell and instruct the salvation of all. We undoubtedly believe that after death this grace most of all remains with you, for this reason we pray prostrately: do not deprive us, who are still wandering on earth, of your help and intercession, asking the Lord to have mercy and save all who diligently offer up solemn singing to Him in our holy churches: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing your miracles, Mother Matrono, we praise God, who has given you such grace, and with the prophet David we cry out in psalm, for praise is due to the righteous: Rejoice, for the Lord loves the righteous; Rejoice, for the Lord makes the blind wise. Rejoice, for the Lord protects all who love Him; Rejoice, for the Lord takes pleasure in His people. Rejoice, for the Lord will do the will of those who fear Him and will hear their prayer and save them; Rejoice, for the saints will be praised in glory and will rejoice on their beds. Rejoice, blessed Elder Matrono, wonderful wonderworker.

Kontakion 13

O blessed mother, hear now the singing of praise and prayer sung to you, who promised even after death to hear those crying to you, and ask our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of our sins, the Christian end of our life and a good answer at His Last Judgment, and we too With all those who have been pardoned by God, let us be honored in the villages of paradise to glorify the Holy Trinity with red singing: Alleluia. (This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1).

4. MOVIES ABOUT THE BLESSED MATRONA OF MOSCOW

Reverend Mother Matrona of Moscow is the most revered old woman in the Russian Orthodox Church. Today, the prayer to Matrona of Moscow for help carries that positive and healing energy of God, which makes the soul feel lighter. Being blind and immobilized, homeless and illiterate, she wandered around Moscow houses. However, the most important thing that distinguished her from other people was that she had deep faith in Christ, which was given to help not only the saint herself, but also all the people whom she always willingly helped.

Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova had the gift of healing, and could also open the secret curtain of the future and make predictions. She spent more than 50 years in a sitting position and was blind, but she saw through the inner world of people and always prayed for all those in need with her unceasing prayer.

Today, believers from all over Russia, those who know where the relics of Matrona of Moscow are, go to her to honor her memory and ask for protection and help. After all, many know the words of the holy old woman: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see, listen and help you.”

Before answering the question of how to venerate the relics of the Matrona of Moscow, you must first familiarize yourself with the history of her life and holiness.

Biography

In November 1881, a girl was born into an ordinary Nikonov family in the village of Sebino, in the Tula province, who was named Matrona. She became the fourth child in the family, as she already had two brothers and a sister. Poor Matronushka was born blind, and they already wanted to leave her in an orphanage. However, the mother had a prophetic dream: she saw a beautiful white bird that sat on her chest, which had no eyes. The parents guessed that Matrona would become God's chosen child by the beneficial cloud of smoke at the moment of her birth. Already at the age of eight, she had a strong faith in God, and soon the gift of a wise seer was revealed. Crowds of people began to come to her for help and healing. Matronushka became a real breadwinner in her family. And at the age of 18 her legs became paralyzed.

Pilgrimage

Having the gift of God, Matrona saved many people and was very kind to them. She had a bright face and a very gentle voice. She would pat everyone on the head, console them, and apply her sign of the cross, and this made people’s souls feel lighter, they were comforted and calmed down. Although she herself was very sick, no one heard any complaints from her.

Being very young, Matrona, together with the daughter of a local landowner, Lydia Yankova, made a pilgrimage to holy places. They visited the Kiev Pechersk and St. Petersburg Trinity-Sergius Lavras, as well as other holy places in Russia.

Matrona also visited the Kronstadt Cathedral in 1899. There, the Monk John of Kronstadt, at the end of the service, asked all the parishioners to make way and let Matrona through and said: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift—the eighth pillar of Russia.”

Revolution. Moscow

When the revolution of 1917 took place, Matrona and her friend and patron Lydia Yankova became completely impoverished, left without a livelihood and without a roof over their heads. In 1925, Matrona moved to the capital and began to live wherever she had to: with acquaintances, friends, but not with her siblings, who became communists.

War

From 1942 to 1949, the Reverend Matrona lived with her fellow villagers - E. M. Zhdanova and her daughter Zinaida. For many years there has been a legend that was described in the book of memoirs of Zinaida Zhdanova, “The Tale of Matrona.” During the Great Patriotic War, a serious threat arose that the capital would be captured by the German fascists; Stalin himself came to Matrona. She predicted the victory of the Russian people and said that he alone of all the authorities would not leave and would remain in Moscow. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of this event, but I think it happened.

From 1950 to 1952, she already lived in Skhodnya near Moscow with her distant relatives, the Kurochkins.

The holy elder Matrona predicted her death three days in advance. Being very sick, she still continued to see people. The holy mother died in the spring of May 2, 1952.

Relics of Matrona of Moscow. Monastery

The funeral service was conducted by Archpriest Nikolai Golubtsov, who revered Mother Matrona, in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. On May 4, the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, the burial of the holy old woman took place, at which a large number of believers gathered. She was buried at the Danilovsky cemetery at the request of her mother herself. This church was one of the few that operated in Moscow, so she always wanted to “hear the service.”

On March 8, 1998, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, the incorruptible relics of Holy Mother Matrona were removed from the grave and were first taken to the Danilov Monastery, and then to the Pokrovsky Monastery.

Now pilgrims are always allowed to visit the relics of the Matrona of Moscow from 6.00 to 20.00. They are placed in a silver shrine and are located in the Intercession Convent in Moscow. There is also a public exhibition with surviving photographs. And in the courtyard of the Trinity Church, not far from the Skhodnya station, a chapel was built in honor of the elder Mother Matrona.

But it’s not only there that you can venerate the saint. A particle of the relics of the Matrona of Moscow is in many Moscow churches. The remains are also transported to other cities.

How to venerate the relics of Matrona of Moscow?

Mother Matrona helps in all everyday matters. She is asked for intercession, healing and solutions to problems in personal life and business. Prayer to Matrona of Moscow for help helps to arrange your personal life, give birth to a child, or detect a loss. The humble prayer to the holy mother must be said sincerely and with attention. It begins with the words: “Oh, blessed mother Matrono...” The short prayer sounds like this: “Holy righteous old woman Matrono, pray to God for us!”

Before venerating the relics of Matrona of Moscow, we must first of all understand that this is how we show our reverence and respect to her incorruptible body, which testifies to her great spirituality and holiness. Reverence for shrines is an integral part of the culture of the Russian Orthodox people.

Application to the holy relics

Before venerating the relics of the Matrona of Moscow, you need to free yourself from bags and outerwear. In this way we show deep respect to the holy righteous Matronushka. So that after visiting the temple at least some shrine remains, you can ask the church minister to attach a small image or icon to the relics. True believers kiss the reliquary, expressing respect and love for the holy mother, then put their foreheads to it, which symbolizes an embrace.

How to venerate the relics of Matrona of Moscow? It is necessary to mentally say a prayer calmly and with concentration, then cross yourself twice. Next, you need to make two bows and place your lips on the shrine containing the relics of the saint. Then cross yourself and bow again. Bows are best done from the waist so that the hand touches the ground.

Flowers for Mother Matrona

In the temple there is a special custom of bringing living bouquets to Blessed Mother Matrona. Therefore, the chapel, where the shrine with holy relics is located, is always buried in fresh flowers. And what is most interesting is that the offering of some becomes a real gift for others, since the nuns present each visitor to the relics of St. Matronushka with a flower. These flowers are consecrated directly on the relics, and therefore they are then usually dried and stored in their corner near the icons. Flowers you can bring are carnations, roses of any color, white chrysanthemums, white lilacs, red tulips.

Reverend Mother Matrona of Moscow is the most revered old woman in the Russian Orthodox Church. Today, the Moscow Call for Help brings that positive and healing energy from God, which makes your soul feel lighter. Being blind and immobilized, homeless and illiterate, she wandered around Moscow houses. However, the most important thing that distinguished her from other people was that she had deep faith in Christ, which was given to help not only the saint herself, but also all the people whom she always willingly helped.

About Blessed Mother Matrona

Matrona Dmitrievna Nikonova had the gift of healing, and could also open the secret curtain of the future and make predictions. She spent more than 50 years in a sitting position and was blind, but she saw through the inner world of people and always prayed for all those in need with her unceasing prayer.

Today, believers from all over Russia, those who know where the relics of Matrona of Moscow are, go to her to honor her memory and ask for protection and help. After all, many know the words of the holy old woman: “Everyone, everyone, come to me and tell me, as if alive, about your sorrows, I will see, listen and help you.”

Before answering the question of how to venerate the relics of the Matrona of Moscow, you must first familiarize yourself with the history of her life and holiness.

Biography

In November 1881, a girl was born into an ordinary Nikonov family in the village of Sebino, in the Tula province, who was named Matrona. She became the fourth child in the family, as she already had two brothers and a sister. Poor Matronushka was born blind, and they already wanted to leave her in an orphanage. However, the mother had a prophetic dream: she saw a beautiful white bird that sat on her chest, which had no eyes. The parents guessed that Matrona would become God's chosen child by the beneficial cloud of smoke at the moment of her birth. Already at the age of eight, she was strong and soon discovered the gift of a wise seer. Crowds of people began to come to her for help and healing. Matronushka became a real breadwinner in her family. And at the age of 18 her legs became paralyzed.

Pilgrimage

Having the gift of God, Matrona saved many people and was very kind to them. She had a bright face and a very gentle voice. She would pat everyone on the head, console them, and give them her due, and this made people’s souls feel lighter, they were comforted and calmed down. Although she herself was very sick, no one heard any complaints from her.

Matrona also visited the Kronstadt Cathedral in 1899. There, the Monk John of Kronstadt, at the end of the service, asked all the parishioners to make way and let Matrona through and said: “Matronushka, come, come to me. Here comes my shift - the eighth pillar of Russia.”

Revolution. Moscow

When the year was over, Matrona and her friend and patron Lydia Yankova became completely impoverished, left without a means of subsistence and without a roof over their heads. In 1925, Matrona moved to the capital and began to live wherever she had to: with acquaintances, friends, but not with her siblings, who became communists.

War

From 1942 to 1949, the Reverend Matrona lived with her fellow villagers - E. M. Zhdanova and her daughter Zinaida. For many years there has been a legend that was described in the book of memoirs of Zinaida Zhdanova, “The Tale of Matrona.” During the Great Patriotic War, a serious threat arose that the capital would be captured by the German fascists; Stalin himself came to Matrona. She predicted the victory of the Russian people and said that he alone of all the authorities would not leave and would remain in Moscow. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of this event, but I think it happened.

From 1950 to 1952, she already lived in Skhodnya near Moscow with her distant relatives, the Kurochkins.

The holy elder Matrona predicted her death three days in advance. Being very sick, she still continued to see people. The holy mother died in the spring of May 2, 1952.

Relics of Matrona of Moscow. Monastery

The funeral service was conducted by Archpriest Nikolai Golubtsov, who revered Mother Matrona, in the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. On May 4, the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, the burial of the holy old woman took place, at which a large number of believers gathered. She was buried at the Danilovsky cemetery at the request of her mother herself. This church was one of the few that operated in Moscow, so she always wanted to “hear the service.”

On March 8, 1998, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, the incorruptible relics of Holy Mother Matrona were removed from the grave and were first taken to the Danilov Monastery, and then to the Pokrovsky Monastery.

Now pilgrims are always allowed to visit the relics of the Matrona of Moscow from 6.00 to 20.00. They are placed in a silver shrine and are located in the Intercession Convent in Moscow. There is also a public exhibition with surviving photographs. And in the courtyard of the Trinity Church, not far from the Skhodnya station, a chapel was built in honor of the elder Mother Matrona.

But it’s not only there that you can venerate the saint. A particle of the relics of the Matrona of Moscow is in many Moscow churches. The remains are also transported to other cities.

How to venerate the relics of Matrona of Moscow?

Mother Matrona helps in all everyday matters. She is asked for intercession, healing and solutions to problems in personal life and business. Prayer to Matrona of Moscow for help helps to arrange your personal life, give birth to a child, or detect a loss. The humble prayer to the holy mother must be said sincerely and with attention. It begins with the words: “Oh, blessed mother Matrono...” The short prayer sounds like this: “Holy righteous old woman Matrono, pray to God for us!”

Before venerating the relics of Matrona of Moscow, we must first of all understand that this is how we show our reverence and respect to her incorruptible body, which testifies to her great spirituality and holiness. Reverence for shrines is an integral part of the culture of the Russian Orthodox people.

Application to the holy relics

Before venerating the relics of the Matrona of Moscow, you need to free yourself from bags and outerwear. In this way we show deep respect to the holy righteous Matronushka. So that after visiting the temple at least some shrine remains, you can ask the church minister to attach a small image or icon to the relics. True believers kiss the reliquary, expressing respect and love for the holy mother, then put their foreheads to it, which symbolizes an embrace.

How to venerate the relics of Matrona of Moscow? It is necessary to mentally say a prayer calmly and with concentration, then cross yourself twice. Next, you need to make two bows and place your lips on the shrine containing the relics of the saint. Then cross yourself and bow again. Bows are best done from the waist so that the hand touches the ground.

Flowers for Mother Matrona

In the temple there is a special custom of bringing living bouquets to Blessed Mother Matrona. Therefore, the chapel, where the shrine with holy relics is located, is always buried in fresh flowers. And what is most interesting is that the offering of some becomes a real gift for others, since the nuns present each visitor to the relics of St. Matronushka with a flower. These flowers are consecrated directly on the relics, and therefore they are then usually dried and stored in their corner near the icons. Flowers you can bring are carnations, roses of any color, white chrysanthemums, white lilacs, red tulips.