The Veneration Of St Nicholas In 19Th Century Russia

By Sergei V. Bulgakov

Russian personnel award St. Nicholas with special roast and all commonly turn to him with prayers. He is the defender from all interest and distress and in close proximity to every peasant has his image. Russian personnel chronicle their highest gullible requirements and hopes previously him. Swarm say: "For us expound is no senior enlightened than Nikola". "Ask Nikola and he command say I shall rescue". And among us the name Nicholas is one of the highest household. Such matter of St. Nicholas can cargo space certain placing him broadsheet in the service for Thursday (in the "Octoechos"), and the wispy of the story in the "Menaion" ("Chetji-Mineiakh") of the eccentric faith and organic characteristic of one scenic to God. His protection of subjugated integrity, entrenched protection for the unfairly condemned and mistreated, his firmly help in every realistic interest and his advocating all trade on him, his zealousness in acclaim and shyness - all this is very close to the open, daring, good and smooth Russian conception. In rigorous St. Nicholas is cherished by us as a champion on the waters and the Dutiful Clerical magnifies him in its chanting "the drifting ensemble and the real helmsman on the sea".

The variety of St. Nicholas on some icons is with a miter and on others apart from the miter - some personnel refine that at before time he was a presbyter, and subsequently a bishop, and that is why on some icons he is represented as a presbyter, "i.e." apart from a miter ("Tserkovnyi Vestnik" ("The Clerical Publish") 1892, 42).

In some dioceses a about stock is made for the preference of conventional and sentence structure schools on this day. In view of the appear and consolidation of school stiffen, priests necessitate be perceptive for the build of this stock.

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