Christianity was originally laid a specialrelation to water. Ablution for millennia is a symbol of purification. With this action are inextricably linked the main religious rites of the Christian faith.
The most important mystery, after which the lasthe accepts the Christian faith and becomes worthy of the kingdom of heaven. In Russia, after the adoption of Christianity, bathing in consecrated sources became a favorite folk tradition. By immersing in the healing waters, believers received spiritual cleansing, and with it endless inexplicable joy. Some ablutions led to healing from bodily or mental ills.
Sources for ablutions are available throughoutthe entire calendar year. They give special strength to the church feast of Epiphany. On this day, for reasons that are still inexplicable to humans, water on the entire planet changes its qualitative composition. Even tap water recruited for baptism can be stored for a very long time without changing its normal color and smell.
Учёные даже проводили сравнительный анализ drinking water from the tap and dialed in the holy spring. Analysis of water from the holy places showed the absence of any bacteria, as well as high biological activity. Faith and prayer have such a strong effect on the structure of water.
Sources of saints visit better, previouslycleansing yourself with fasting and prayer. Also, do not forget about modesty in clothes - it's still not an ordinary bathing. Where there is an opportunity, the font is necessarily organized. It happens that many do not have the courage to plunge completely. Then it is enough to wash your face, hands or feet, just drink water from the source. Ablution must be accompanied by a prayer in which the believer calls upon God for help. God's grace, if the believer deserves it, will not be less of it.
All Orthodox sources are holy and healing.They may not have a rich history, but once sanctified they are filled with Grace. Just as the source is inexhaustible, there is no limit to the wonders with which the soul and body of a true believing Orthodox person are rewarded.
On the territory of our country such keyscountless, especially in the middle of Russia. You can always find out about the nearest consecrated spring from Orthodox believers or from employees of the local church. Local residents, in the neighborhood with whom there are sources of saints, consider it preferable to use water from them than from the aqueduct.
The history of our state is closely connected withOrthodox Christian faith. Today, it seems that Russia has become the last stronghold of Orthodoxy, defending its Faith. The population of our vast country is mostly deeply religious. This is evidenced by the numerous temples, historical architectural monuments, monasteries and holy sources of Russia.
Quite a large number of Orthodox centerslocated in the suburbs. Where there is a holy spring that grants healing from ailments and strengthens faith, it is always crowded. We will consider the most visited in the capital region.
At the village of Vzglyadovo, 14 km from Sergiyev Posad,more than 600 years old spring hits. The holy spring appeared here from the prayer of Sergius of Radonezh, when the monk stopped at this place to rest while traveling to Kerzhach. The elder prayed to God for rallying the Russian people and overcoming the yoke of the Mongol khans. During the kneeling prayer, a stream of water broke out of the cliff, later popularly called the “Gremyachy Klyuch” waterfall.
По минеральному составу вода похожа на Kislovodsk sources, but with a lower degree of mineralization. All year round the water temperature is 4 degrees. The rock divided the stream into three waterfalls. The right one helps to heal heart diseases, the left one heals women's ones, and the stream that flows between them relieves headaches. People gave the flows names: Faith, Hope, Love. Even in bad weather, you can always meet believers who came to the source for help.
On the outskirts of the village of Radonezh, near the churchThe transfiguration of the Lord, there is another source. In this Slavic settlement, which appeared in the 9th century, the parents of the Russian saint also lived. From here Sergius in 1337 the young men went to the monks. Spring people gave his name. All these centuries, without stopping, beats the source. The holy key gives clean, cool and tasty water. Old-timers talk about numerous help in healing various ailments. The spring daily gives its Grace to many believers who come here not only from the area.
Source located in the village of MuranovoPushkin district, consecrated in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the nineteenth century. The spring became known in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Tyutchev family at the site of the acquired estate built the Church of the Savior. Here prayers and the sacrament of baptism were held.
When the source was cleaned in the late 90s,it turned out that instead of one spring, exactly 12 keys were beaten. After this, the stream of believers to the Barsky Well grew noticeably. Many helped this holy source. Testimonials that are transmitted by the pilgrims and locals from mouth to mouth speak of healing skin diseases and the rapid healing of open wounds.
It is located in the small village of Talezh Moscowareas. The place where the spring beats is under the control of the monastery of men, which is located 30 km from here. On the territory of the temple - a chapel, belfry, men's and women's font. The holy spring was consecrated in the name of the founder of the monastery, who was of the princes of Vyazems.
Since 1515, when the monastery was founded,there were many cases when the source helped to get rid of various eye diseases and liver diseases. In addition to pilgrims seeking healing, this source enjoys great fame for the performance of church rites of baptism and wedding. In the temple there are harsh orders of the monastery, therefore, inside the photo and video shooting is strictly prohibited.
Samara land is also rich in life-givingsprings - in the region there are 1,536 known keys. A little more than 40 are considered gracious and holy. Among them there are nameless ones, but the main number was consecrated at different times as the place of appearance of the miraculous icons of the Most Holy Mother of God and saints of God.
После эпохи советского атеизма, когда православие subjected to inconceivable destruction, the holy sources of Russia again restored. Both local authorities and the diocese with believers are greatly involved in the restoration of infrastructure and the improvement of the territory adjacent to the sources. People come to these places not only from the whole region. Many visitors from different parts of the country, who, having learned about the many cases of deliverance from various ailments, come here hoping to find help.
The small village of Tashla, in the Stavropol district of the Samara region, is always full of people coming to the source in honor of the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary.
Local resident Katya Chugunova October 21, 1917of the year, in a dream, the Theotokos showed where the icon with her face lies. In the morning, going to the place, Katya saw two angels carrying an icon illuminated by bright light. In a small ravine a small icon of the Mother of God was found. Taking it in hand, the believer saw a spring that had killed from the ground.
Rector of the Trinity Church, despiteNumerous cases of healing that occurred at the icon, showed doubt and disbelief, but decided to leave the find in the church. Two months later, the icon from the church disappeared. The watchman, who was on duty at night, spoke about the lightning that had struck from the church building toward a newly built chapel at the source. Surrounded by many people, the abbot Dmitry opened the chapel and opened the lid of the well above the source. There he saw in the depths of the very icon from which the glow was coming, and the frozen water was melting at the edges of the well. He immediately repented of his unbelief, and the icon immediately surfaced, thereby allowing people to find it again.
С тех пор икона хранится в храме Ташлы, а tens of thousands of believers were able to touch the gift of the Virgin. In times of great drought, which began in 1920 and lasted 2 years, the spring was the only one that gave water to the residents of the village. Already at that time, many believers from the entire Volga region rushed to the healing spring. And the icon, which also bestowed the grace of healing, became the real support of all believers in a dashing revolutionary time.
Узкое и извилистое озеро, расположенное за селом The congress is a special holy place on the Samara land. In 1958 there was a manifestation of God. From the hole the villager saw a glow. In the radiance it was possible to distinguish the church, the altar and the Mother of God, Nicholas the Wonderworker and the archangels standing nearby.
People escaped - many were healed.The authorities did nothing: they covered the lake with manure and poured diesel oil on it. But the miracles continued. Believers and curious onlookers even distilled water from a fire hydrant. But people still went to the lake to look at the heavenly faces.
After this, the lake became inexplicable.properties. Mosquitoes and midges have disappeared, of which there is an incredible number on the neighboring lakes. Water has a buoyancy. In the lake there is a fish, and a large one, but no one can boast that he managed to catch at least one.
And once at dawn from the sky to the lake andthe adjacent beach began to fall balls of all colors of the rainbow. They moved along the water surface and shore in different directions. There was a stir in the village. Most of the residents tried to catch them, but nobody succeeded either.
After these events, lake interestedscientists studying anomalous phenomena, as well as biologists. The fact is that in the shoreline of the lake there are plants that are not found anywhere else in the Samara region. Water collected from the lake can be stored for more than 10 years, maintaining a pleasant taste and smell. The sediment and algae trapped in the water storage tank completely dissolve in a short time. Such properties can not be explained in a scientific way so far.
Those who recently visited a wonderful lake saidabout the fact that it is noticeably shallow, and the banks are increasingly clogged high reed. What is the reason for such changes, nobody knows. But water still has its wonderful properties.
In the village of Volzhsky there is a holy source of GodMother, named in honor of the icon of the same name, which helps the suffering from drunkenness. Its age exceeds 300 years. Interestingly, the source gives a bucket of water every second for such a long time. People come here from all over the Samara land in the hope of getting rid of a serious illness and strengthening the power of faith.
Numerous stories about the miraculousgetting rid of a disease that destroys not only the body, but also the soul, is brought here daily by those afflicted with ailment. Many are led to the source by the suffering wives in the hope that their faith will help the second half to come to their senses and stop the ungodly thing.
Source beats on the slope right from under the rootstrees, forming a small stream. In the second half of the last century in the waters of the source was the icon of Nicholas of Myra. She found her old cowgirl and brought her home. However, in the morning the icon disappeared. Soon other shepherds found the icon there again and carried it to a merchant from Znamenka. His icon also disappeared the next day.
The third time the icon was found by a rich peasant Alexey Ivanovich. He was a devout man and immediately placed a chapel near a spring, and the source itself was imprisoned in an oak well.
To pray to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Nicola Summer go to the source from all over the area, and at the beginning of the last century people gathered from all the Volga provinces.
In the healing power of water, which is full of sourcesthe saints of the Orthodox Church never doubted. Every believer himself must decide how to relate to this. Numerous cases of cures for ailments, sometimes even documented, raise more questions than answers. Skeptics consider such cases as favorable circumstances. But in life, a good course of events is sometimes a miracle.
If Faith is strong, then ordinary tap water can work wonders. Everything is God's will.
