Orkse monastery lesson with presentation. Presentation for the orkse lesson for primary classes "monastery"
MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF OPEN EDUCATION
Department of Multicultural Education
Lesson summary topic:
MONASTERY
Student of advanced training courses (course code 00967)
in the subject ORKSE (OPK)
Grodskaya Alexandra Mikhailovna
Place of work: Northern Administrative Okrug State Budgetary Educational Institution
Moscow cities
"School with in-depth study of individual subjects No. 1794"
Moscow 2017
Methodological commentary.
This lesson is included in the system of lessons for the course ORKSE (OPK). The lesson was developed in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of the second generation.
Class: 4
Item: Basics Orthodox culture
Lesson topic: Monastery.
Lesson type: study and primary consolidation of new knowledge and methods of activity (combined)
Place of the lesson in the system of lessons on this topic: Lesson 25, Block 3 "Orthodoxy in Russia. Orthodox church and other shrines"
The purpose of the lesson:
motivate students to become familiar with Orthodox monasteries and the features of monastic life;
develop students' skills in working with text;
motivate students to correctly understand the concept of “Freedom of choice”;
motivate students to develop goodwill and emotional responsiveness.
Tasks:
educational:
to form in students initial ideas about the Orthodox monastery and its inhabitants;
to develop students’ behavior skills in a monastery;
educational:
to cultivate in students feelings of goodwill and emotional responsiveness;
developing:
to develop students’ moral personality traits, to develop communication and information competencies.
Planned lesson results:
Personal:
formation of positive motivation for studying Orthodox culture;
moral and ethical assessment of new material;
developing the ability to empathize - understanding the feelings of other people and empathizing with them.
Subject:
knowledge, understanding and acceptance of people who have chosen the monastic path.
Metasubject:
Cognitive UUD: develop the ability to see, select and synthesize the main thing; consciously and voluntarily construct a speech utterance in oral form; evaluate what was seen and heard in class in order to prepare for the subsequent presentation of the material in the form of creative work.
Regulatory UUD: determine and formulate the purpose of the activity in the lesson; evaluate what you hear and make certain forecasts for advanced tasks; draw conclusions as a result of joint work of the whole class; reflection.
Communicative UUD: develop the ability to express one’s thoughts with sufficient completeness and accuracy value judgment using various artistic means in accordance with a specific communicative and speech situation, master monologue and dialogic forms of speech.
IES:
3.4 Man in the value system of world religions.
3.5 Religious buildings and their features in various religions.
Basic terms and concepts: monastery, monasticism, monk, obedience, monastic vestments.
Information and educational environment information material, including literature used, electronic sources of information, demonstration, diagnostic):
1. Optina Pustyn. Video material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoa25JmYJM
2. Textbook "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" (Kuraev A.V.)
3. Presentation
4. Worksheets.
Interdisciplinary connections (specify subjects and topics): Russian language (“Synonyms”, “Parts of speech”), literary reading (composing syncwine).
Lesson stages (plan with time for each stage):
1. Organizational moment (2 min.)
2. Search and research stage (3 min.)
3. Updating knowledge (4 min.)
4. Work on assimilation and comprehension of educational material (18 min.)
5. Consolidation. Work on applying knowledge in practice. (13 min.)
6. Reflection. D/z (5 min.)
During the classes:
Teaching methods and techniques | |||||
Stage 1 of the lesson - Organizational moment. Motivation (2 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: organize self-determination of activities. | Ability to conduct self-assessment, organize mutual assessment and mutual assistance in a group. |
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Stage 2 of the lesson - Search and research. Discovery of the lesson topic by students (3 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: opening the lesson topic | Signs of solving a didactic task: analysis, rational use of information. |
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Analysis and discussion | |||||
Stage 3 of the lesson - Updating knowledge (4 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: systematize students’ existing knowledge | Signs of solving a didactic task: conversation to clarify and concretize knowledge from personal life experience. |
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Sinkwine, conversation, critical thinking method | |||||
Stage 4 of the lesson - Work on assimilation and comprehension of educational material (18 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: be able to analyze information and apply it in practice; be able to cooperate with the teacher, with classmates, in a group/children's team. | Signs of solving a didactic task: organization of work, sequence of operations, control and correction of students’ actions. |
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Stage 5 of the lesson - Consolidation. Work on applying knowledge in practice. (13 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: be able to analyze information and apply received information in practice; be able to collaborate in class with the teacher, classmates, in a group and team. | Signs of solving a didactic task: performing individual work, the ability to conduct self-assessment and organize mutual assessment (forecasting and control). |
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Version comparison method (French technology), analysis, synthesis, control, correction, conversation. | |||||
Stage 6 of the lesson - Reflection. D/z (5 min.) |
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Didactic task of the stage: the ability to collaborate in class with the teacher, classmates, in a group and team. | Signs of solving a didactic task: |
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Analysis, introspection and discussion |
ANNEX 1.
TEXTBOOK "FUNDAMENTALS OF ORTHODOX CULTURE" (KURAEV A.V.)
APPENDIX 2.
Worksheet 2
"CROSSWORD"
What does this word mean.
APPENDIX 2.
Worksheet 2
"CROSSWORD" (Correct answer)
Solve the crossword puzzle and guess the keyword.
What Greek word does the word “monk” come from?
What does this word mean.
Work on the monastery's economy, assistance during divine services.
A vestment that envelops the entire body is a sign of God’s protection.
Being a monk is a very difficult path, but it is the most direct path to....
Beads-knots, sorting through them help the monk to concentrate on prayer.
When a novice is accepted as a monk, he brings….
A church rite performed at initiation into monasticism.
One word from the main rule of monastic life.
APPENDIX 3.
Worksheet 1
"MONASTIC VESTMENT"
APPENDIX 3.
Worksheet 1
"MONASTIC VESTMENT" (Correct answer)
Label the names of the monastic vestments.
APPENDIX 4.
Reflection worksheet
1. During the lesson I worked actively / passively
2. I am satisfied / not satisfied with my work in class
3.The lesson seemed short/long for me
4. I wasn’t tired / tired during the lesson
5.My mood has become better / worse
6.The lesson material was clear / not clear to me
useful/useless
interesting / boring
Lesson topic:
"Monastery"
The presentation for the lesson was prepared by a teacher of Russian language and literature from the Velyenikolskaya Secondary School.
Abdulmenova Ilmira Yagsupovna
Fundamentals of Orthodox culture
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“I’ll go to the monastery!”
What does this expression mean?
What is a monastery?
Who lives there?
Who are monks?
What are they doing?
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A monk is a person who has chosen a special path in life and dedicated his life to God.
Monks live in monasteries (monasteries), deserts and laurels.
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Monastic monastery
Monastery in Greek “monasterion” is the habitat of monks. Habitation-abode.
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Monk means another person, living a different, special life, which differs from the life of all other people.
- He lives on earth, but his soul is directed towards God!
- Not every person can become a monk - this is the lot of the chosen few.
- The life of a monk is a silent life.
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The emergence of monasteries.
- The history of monasticism goes back about 1700 years.
- For 300 years, Christians suffered persecution and persecution.
- Emperor Constantine was kind to Christians.
- He issues a decree to accept Christianity
without fear.
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Vocabulary work
- The hermit walked away, i.e. moved away from worldly life, from worldly vanity.
- Monasticism grew out of hermitage.
- Reverend - similar (beautiful, wise, most bright)
- Venerable means one who has demonstrated the likeness of God to the highest degree. All the saints, called venerables, were monks.
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Anthony the Great.
- “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come and follow Me.”
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Monks' Habitat
- Caves and tents
- "Kakkelion"
- A separate room of the monastery, or a separate house-cell.
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Who runs the monastery? The monastery is headed by a bishop or archbishop.
- Convent-abbess
- Monastery - Jegumen.
Abbess Sofia (Grineva), († 03/22/1941), founder of the monastery “Consolation and Consolation”, later the abbess of the Kyiv Intercession Monastery
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Types of monasteries
- Abbey - Catholic monastery (governed by an abbot or abbess, subordinate to a bishop or pope)
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Types of monasteries
- Kinovia is a communal monastery.
- Lavra is the name of the largest Orthodox monasteries.
Saint Athos.
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Types of monasteries
- Preserved temples of Tula. Church in the name of the Intercession Mother of God in the courtyard
- Compound is the place where monks of a country monastery live in the city.
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Types of monasteries
Pustyn is a monastic settlement in the traditions of Russian Orthodoxy. Remote from the main monastery.
Nilova Pustyn on Lake Seliger.
- A hermitage is a hermit's dwelling, a secluded dwelling of a monk.
- Kosivsky monastery on Valaam.
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How to become a monk?
- Obedience is a duty.
- Tonsured.
- Monastic vows:
- - fulfilling the commandments of the Lord;
- -voluntary poverty;
- - renunciation of one's own will.
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Monk's robe
- Mantle
- Cowl
- Beads
- Chiton
- cassock
- Paraman
- wimple
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Hermits and Hermits
- Temples began to be erected. Worldly concerns become an obstacle to spiritual improvement and service to the Lord.
- Those who were especially striving for God began to gradually alienate themselves from those around them.
- They went to deserted and remote places, settled alone
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What does the black color of the monks' clothes indicate?
- Black color is a symbol of repentance, sorrow for sins, crying for the lost heavenly bliss.
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“They don’t go to someone else’s monastery with their own rules”
- Each monastery has its own daily routine and its own rules - the monastery Charter.
- The monk obeys the monastic rules.
- A monk cannot do anything without the blessing of the abbot of the monastery.
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Vocabulary work
- The abbot of the monastery is its head, and most often the rank of hegumen belongs to him.
- The most important thing in a monastery is the temple; there are several of them.
- The monastery churches contain shrines - the relics of saints who carried out their feats in these places.
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What are holy relics?
- Relics are the incorruptible remains of saints, which are stored in special crayfish-arks.
- Powers from the word power, i.e. force. Great healing power emanates from the relics of saints.
Cancer with the relics of Eustratius in the Near Caves of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
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Who is the old man?
- An elder is an experienced spiritual mentor.
- In his monastery you can get wise advice, instructions, guidance for future life
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Artists about monastic life.
- How are monks depicted in the paintings?
- What can you say about them?
- Pay attention to clothes, posture, look.
- V. Surikov “Monk”
- V. Polenov “Palestinian monk”
- I.E.Repin “Nun.1878”
- V. Tropinin “Monk with a Candle”
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Vasily Tropinin
- "Monk with a Candle"
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Ilya Efimovich Repin
- "Nun. 1878"
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Vasily Polenov
- "Palestinian Monk"
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Pavel Ryzhenko "Novice"
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Images of monks in the works of Russian artists.
- Vasily Surikov “Monk”
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Historical meaning. Architecture of the monastery.
- You will distinguish a heavy row of houses,
- And the towers and battlements of its harsh battlements,
- And dark gardens behind the stone fences,
- And the proud walls of centuries-old strongholds.
- A. Blok.
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Monasteries are centers of culture.
- They taught literacy.
- They had huge libraries.
- Schools were opened.
- Had archives
- They rewrote books.
- They painted icons.
- They kept chronicles.
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The role of monks in the defense of the Fatherland.
- St. Sergius of Radonezh blesses Dmitry Donskoy before the Battle of Kulikovo.
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Alexander Nevsky became a monk.
- Alexander Nevsky is a patriot of the Russian Land. Prince Alexander Yaroslavovich, 1220-1263. Military successes: Victory at the Neva River (1240) Liberation of the Pskov and Novgorod lands from the German knights. Battle of Lake Peipus (April 5, 1242). G.
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Alexander Peresvet.
- It was Alexander Peresvet who accomplished one of the main feats in this battle, meeting before the start of the battle in a duel with the famous Horde warrior Chelube (Chelubey). In this fight, both warriors died, but victory remained with Peresvet
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Heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo.
- In the Church of the Nativity Holy Mother of God in Old Simonovo, where the relics of two heroes of the Battle of Kulikovo are buried - monks Alexander Peresvet and Andrei Oslyabi, sent by St. Sergius to the Battle of Kulikovo. Here, near the temple, many princes and boyars and the best warriors from Dmitry Donskoy’s squad who fell during this battle were buried.
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Russian people are united by faith, history and culture
- . A Russian is someone who loves and appreciates Russia, who accepts and lives its history and culture, who knows and appreciates the Russian language. Today we have the same churches, the same saints, we pray with almost the same words that Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov prayed. We are united by Christ, by His Blood, shed for our sins, we are united by saints, ascetics, martyrs who suffered for the Truth and remained faithful to It, who pray for us.
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What is a monastery? Monastery - - a monastery, a hostel for brothers and sisters, monks, nuns, monks, monastics, converts to monasticism, monastic lunch.
Monks Who are monks? Monasticism (monks, monasteries - from the Greek μόνος - one, lonely) A monk (nun) is a person who, according to his religious beliefs, has decided to live without a family. A monk becomes one who has felt a special calling within himself to always be with God alone. The monastery is an image of the kingdom of God on earth.
The caves where the monks hid from the world. The Skete of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Panagia Xirurgu), the oldest Russian monastery in the world, founded in the 10th century. The first Christian monks appeared at the end of the 13th century.
The first Christian monk, Saint Anthony the Great, lived alone away from people and only occasionally came to a village or city in order to exchange the baskets he had woven for flour. Over time, people noticed in the eyes of the monks some special silence, joy, light, peace. And they began to ask them how they could live without anger and suspicion.
Both the townspeople and the princes began to invite the monks to come to them: “You will return from your deserts. We will build temples and houses for you, and we will build walls around them so that the noise and sight of the bustle of the city will not touch you. But just allow us to come to you to participate in your prayer and to receive your spiritual advice.”
So, in addition to desert monks, city monasteries appeared - communities of monks. The monasteries have large temples, bell towers, workshops. For many centuries, almost all books were copied by monks.
One day a monk was transporting a man across a river in a boat. On the monk's oars was written: "Pray" on one and "Work" on the other. “Yes, you need to work,” the man reasoned, looking at the oars, “but is it really necessary to pray?” The monk did not answer him, but put an oar with the inscription “Pray” on the bottom of the boat and continued rowing with only one oar, and the boat began to spin in place. Parable "Two Oars"
Work and pray The main rule of monastic life: “Work and pray” Is it difficult to become a monk? Read about this textbook on page 81.
1. Fulfillment of the commandments of the Lord; 2. Voluntary poverty; 3. Complete renunciation of one's own will and obedience spiritual mentor. Monastic vows
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Monastery Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture We owe our history, and therefore our enlightenment, to the monks. A.S. Pushkin.
What is tonsure? TONSURE OF A MONK MEANS THAT HE FREELY GIVES HIMSELF INTO THE SERVANT OF CHRIST SO THAT NO ONE AND NOTHING ELSE OWNS HIM. A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LIFE BEGINS FOR HIM, AND THEREFORE HE RECEIVES A NEW NAME WHEN TONSURED.
Monastic vestments. Monastics wear hoods - kamilavkas, covered with black crepe, descending down the back in the form of three ends. White hood of Patriarch Nikon
A rosary is a cord or ribbon, most often closed in a ring, on which knots are tied, beads or grains, plates or other homogeneous elements are strung, helping the monk to concentrate in prayer. Monastic vestments.
The mantle is a long, sleeveless cape reaching to the ground with a clasp at the collar, enveloping the entire body like life under God's protection. Robe of Patriarch of All Rus' Kirill
The belt is made from the skin of a dead animal as a reminder that all flesh is mortal, and one must care first of all about the life of the soul. Monastic vestments.
The Legend of the Prince and Joasaph Tsarevich Joasaph. Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. Fresco of the altar barrier. 1481
Saint Luke Instruments belonging to Saint Luke.
The monastery is managed by the abbot or abbess Hegumen John - rector of the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God
Abbess Sergius of the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevo Convent
What new did you learn in today's lesson? Do you think it is easy to be a monk? Let's sum it up
References Kuraev A.V. Fundamentals of Orthodox culture. Textbook. M.: Education, 2012 http://experiment-opk.pravolimp.ru/lessons/25 http://sl.btv.ru/index.html http://www.kupola.info/istorija-hrama/1990- 2013.html http://ricolor.org/rus/rz/zo/22_5_11/30_5_11/ http://kotomysh.dreamwidth.org/86594.html http://new.nivasposad.ru/school/homepages/belousova/ 2010-2011/konkurs/belova_elena_b/index.htm http://wiki.iteach.ru/index.php/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA_25._%D0%9C%D0% BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%8C
Objectives: 1. Based on historical material, reveal the reasons for the emergence of monasteries, their role in the history and development of the culture of Rus'; 2. Convince children that the monastery is a stronghold of faith, a guardian of culture, a place for earthly labor and labor of the soul; 3. Using the example of the Ipatiev and Epiphany-Anastasia monasteries, give an idea of the shrines of the monasteries.
Plan. 1.The first monasteries; 2.Monasteries of Russia: - Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius; - Alexander Nevsky Lavra; - Optina Pustyn. 3. Ordination as a monk; 4.The lifestyle of a monk; 5. Desert Fathers; 6. Epiphany-Anastasiin convent; 7.Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery; 8. Shrines of monasteries.
The first monasteries The first “own” monastery with the correct regulation of internal life appeared under the Grand Duke Yaroslav, who built the monastery with his own money and made it the family tomb of the Kyiv Grand Dukes. He dedicates this monastery to St. George the Victorious, his heavenly patron. “The chronicler speaks of the construction in Kyiv during the reign of Yaroslavovo, from which, according to him, the appearance of monasteries began, only one monastery- this is Georgievsky
Monasteries of Russia: Trinity-Sergius Lavra Founded by Rev. Sergius of Radonezh in 1337 as a monastery with a communal charter. The monastery became the spiritual heart of Rus' and the place of formation of a new generation of monastics - humble disciples of St. Sergius, who created new monasteries in different regions of Rus' as new centers of its spiritual revival.
Optina Pustyn was created at the beginning of the 17th century, was closed in 1724 in connection with the reforms of Peter I, was soon restored, but vegetated until it was paid attention to in 1795 by Metropolitan. Moscow and Kaluga Plato (Levshin) and then Metropolitan of Kiev Philaret. The spiritual basis for its revival was the ascetic experience of the heirs to the work of St. Paisiy Velichkovsky - Rev. elders Moses and Anthony. Elders Ambrose, Leo, Barsanuphius, Nektarios, Anatoly and others became especially famous
Ordination as a monk When a monk is tonsured, the hair on the crown of his head is cut in a cross shape as a sign of dedication to Christ and acceptance monastic vows. There are three degrees of this initiation. The first tonsure in the cassock, when the monk receives a new name and the right to wear a wide and long monastic robe (cassock) and a kamilavka headdress. Those who have undergone such initiation are called ryassophore monks. The next two degrees are tonsure into the small schema and the great schema.
Lifestyle of a monk In the monastery, the monks led an ascetic lifestyle, devoting their time to work and copying books. All this was done in complete silence, since the monks were not supposed to indulge in idle talk. The silence was broken only by the sounds of the bell and pious singing. The monk's commandments were: to love God, to love your neighbor as yourself, to mortify the flesh, to console the unfortunate, not to repay evil for evil, to love your enemies, not to be proud, not to talk much, to attribute everything good in yourself to God, to mourn your past sins etc. The monk’s day was spent in prayers, reading and manual labor
The Desert Fathers The Desert Fathers adhered to anchorite monasticism, that is, they lived in secluded and desert areas, as far as possible avoiding any communication with others. This movement arose already in the 2nd century and was initially caused by the persecution of the first Christians. Then a theological justification appeared that such asceticism is an imitation of the life of John the Baptist in the desert and the forty-day fast of Jesus Christ during his temptation in the desert; the desire for spiritual achievements came to the fore in the hermitage. St. Seraphim of Sarov
Epiphany-Anastasia Convent The Epiphany Monastery (since 1863 - Epiphany-Anastasia Convent) was founded in the twenties of the 15th century on the then outskirts of Kostroma by the Monk Nikita of Kostroma, a student and relative St. Sergius Radonezh. Currently, the Kostroma Diocesan Administration and the Kostroma Theological Seminary are located on the territory of the Epiphany-Anastasia Convent. At the monastery there is an almshouse in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene and an orphanage for orphan girls in the name of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt.
Ipatiev Monastery The Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery occupies special place. Founded at the beginning of the 14th century in honor of Holy Trinity and in the name of St. Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra, the monastery is rightfully considered one of the oldest in our Fatherland.
Shrines of the Epiphany-Anastasia Monastery - the miraculous Feodorovskaya icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary; - the miraculous Smolensk-Kostroma icon-fresco of the Mother of God; - holy relics St. Nikita Kostromsky; - the holy relics of St. Timon, Elder of Nadeevsky; - reliquary cross with particles of the relics of 278 saints (from the former Bogoroditsky Igritsky Monastery); - a reliquary fold with particles of the Robe of the Lord, the belt and robe of the Blessed Virgin Mary (from the Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery). Feodorovskaya icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary Smolensk-Kostroma icon-fresco of the Mother of God