Matrona of Moscow – known and respected in the whole of Russia is a Saint. For many people it became the intercessor and helper. Created miracles with it helped her to win the love of the common people before the canonization. She was ready to accept everyone, helped everyone. Still turning to her with a seemingly insoluble problems: infertility, alcohol and drug addiction, serious illness, difficulties in family and at work. And throughout the Matrona helps, if you really believe and hope.
The family Matrons could not boast a noble name or a good income. They were simple peasants from the province of Tula, unable to feed another child. Then the mother Matrona, Natalya Nikonova, took the difficult decision – her daughter will be better off at the orphanage. At least she will always be fed and dressed. However, the woman changed his mind when he saw in a dream an incredibly beautiful bird with closed eyes in a human face. A devout woman realized that it was God himself sent her a sign and forbidden to leave the kid. A dream came true: the girl was born blind.
Matron from early childhood lived with God: the priest at baptism said that she would be Holy. Baby refused the breast on Wednesdays and Fridays, slept next to the icons. Peers thought of her as weird and taunted her, so pictures of the saints became her first friends and comrades in the game. The suffering she helped seven years old, prayed for them, for what had already become known as a healer and patron. The grateful peasants gave the girl gifts and food. Through the gift of the Matrona, her family no longer need.
The girl had visited many Holy places, was a pilgrim. John of Kronstadt welcomed her and named her successor.
Already at the age of seventeen Matron lost the ability to walk. She knew it and did not resist the fate. Never a Saint did not complain and did not complain, did not dare to ask nothing for himself, only helping others. People were healed through her consecrated water, as she modestly kept silent about his miracles.
With the coming to power of the Bolsheviks healer had to move to Moscow, because the brothers were ashamed of religious sisters. All believers become the enemies of the government and was subjected to massive persecution. In 1925 came another difficult stage in the life of Matrona. She, blind and unable to walk, lost his family and home.
In Moscow the Holy was expecting the endless checks, the hardships and dangers. The police are not allowed to live in peace, Moscow registration at oxbow lakes was not, had to constantly move from one apartment to another. However, even in this inhospitable city, there were good, godly men. They looked after the Matrona and helped her in everything, without fear for their own lives.
Despite the fact that the Oracle can always predict the appearance of the police, one day she met one of the guardians of law and order. But only because I wanted to warn him of the threatened wife. Despite the wandering, the Saint continued to receive people and help them.
The last few years of life, the Matron spent with relatives in the suburbs. She knew that she was destined to die here. Before his death to her at her request, brought the priest. The life of the Holy nun in 1952 ended as fertile as it had begun.
Before the start of the fateful revolutionary events of Holy foresaw the overthrow and murder of king. She asked mother to bring a quill, plucked it, and said that Nicholas II will do the same. Soon became aware of the uprising in Petrograd.
A rich inhabitant of the village turned to the matron with the request to give advice about the construction of a new bell tower. The Oracle said that this will not happen, what was surprising selchanki. But some time after this began the revolution and construction had to be stopped.
Bayou healed people with the most common prayers for morning and evening rules, not using anything else, and deny their own involvement in miracles, calling to glorify the Lord.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in Russia began to revive Orthodox Christianity, and with it people are reminded of matron and once again believed in her phenomenon. In 1998, her relics were placed in the convent of the intercession, and since then, every sufferer can venerate the miraculous relics and to ask for intercession. Bayou canonized in 1999.
To this day St. Matrona of Moscow helping everyone who comes to it with repentance and true faith in the heart. While Russian people honor this great Saint, he has great power, to lose that for nothing is impossible.
