Biography of Misails

Part 1. Life of the nun Misails. Already many Kuryans have experienced and now the power of the prayers of the nun Misails. She died, but she with those who asks for her help with faith: she is a defender of all the suffering, all the sores, all looking for the way to God. Having survived and the suffering of orphans from the age of six, and humiliation, insult, overwhelming the severity of labor from 17 years old, after imposed marriage, she sensitively perceived any human grief, striving to help people, give them good and love and in difficult times to help with a council, which is especially necessary in critical moments of life.

The whole life of the nun Misails is the service of people: all that she had, gave to people, leaving the icons of the Mother of God and the Savior and the hot prayers to them. And, living in a wretched kitchenette with two benches and one stool, she did not stop thanking God and experience some kind of extraordinary joy, “joy, what a joy! And therefore, probably, the path to her grave does not overgrow that God hears her prayers.

The future nun Misail was born in the world of Matrena Gavrilovna Zorin Grankin in the village of Muravlevo Zorino of the Kursk province in the sixties of the nineteenth century. There was no information left about her parents, since she and her sister remained orphans. By the decision of the local authorities, each yard took for a day. It is difficult to imagine the fate of these babies.

The youngest died soon, and Matrena wandered around the corners until 17 years old. By the decision of the same authorities, as it were, within the framework of guardianship, she was married to a young beautiful disabled person, rejected by her beloved girl on the eve of the wedding due to damage to the spine. He took his entire resentment and pain on a defenseless orphan.

Her suffering intensified. All the work on the household lay on her shoulders, her life became a real hard labor. She would even pray, there was nowhere, prayed and laid down when she descended into the cellar. She had no right to enter the house if she was not called, in the summer she slept in the hallway or in the barn, and in the winter in the kitchen. A few years later she gave birth to a girl who soon died, and after 6 years she gave birth to a son, who was called Matvey.

After daytime work, she with her son in her arms, had to transport people on a ferry all night. It was cold and scary, because she was still a young woman. Only hot prayer helped to endure all these torments. At 32, Matrena remained a widow, having her son in the arms. And now she decides to go to the monastery. The son of Matrena entrusted her mother -in -law. Together with a familiar girl, asking for blessings, Efrem Ryazanov, bishop of Kursk and Belgorod, decided to leave for Jerusalem.

The Kursk governor gave them fifty gold on the road. They went on foot. First in Kyiv, bow to holy places, from Kyiv to Odessa. They also walked to Odessa. And then on the steamer they crossed to Turkey and from there to Jerusalem.

Both were preparing for monastic tonsure in Jerusalem. But the will of God was different. On the baptism of the Lord, during the consecration of water in the Jordan, to Matren, standing behind all the worshipers, an unfamiliar monk approached. He handed her pebbles from the place where, according to legend, Jesus Christ himself stood when he took Baptism from John the Baptist.

The monk also handed the cap of some saint and at the same time told her: “Take it, it will come in handy.” After some time, Matrena saw in a dream how she floods her with water and some voice says: “Return to your homeland, you need you there.” She told the priest, they prayed for a long time for reasoning, because dreams come not only from God, but also from the evil one.

A dream was repeated three times: for the first time, water flooded his legs, for the second time - it was waist, and in the third she closed her neck. And three times the same voice repeated: "Return to your homeland, you need you there." The priest blessed her to return to her homeland. She returned to Muravlevo. The mother -in -law gave her a house. And at 36, Matrena Gavrilovna fell ill.

The disease was severe and fleeting. Matrena woke up already in a coffin, as if from some bright flash. The psalmist who read the psalter fled in horror. When she lowered her legs from the coffin, wanting to get up, she saw in the holy corner, as if in a cloud, the Mother of God is a “three -handed”. The Blessed Virgin Mary turned to Matrena: “My dear, you have suffered a lot, have suffered a lot, but now where you will be, I will be there, where your leg will step, there is mine.” What else said, the Virgin Mary Matrena Gavrilovna never told anyone.

She received a gift from thoroughly from the Mother of God, the gift of healing patients with prayers and another gift - the gift of the Council, so necessary for a person in a difficult moment of life. Then the servant of God Matrena accepts monastic tonsure with the name Misila. God's gift appeared immediately. The first time she indicated to the neighbor who took the horse, the exact place where to find her.

Gradually, her fame began to grow. Not only neighbors began to come, but also from other villages, and recognized the city. The circle of her fame was expanding. They began to write and come from Moscow, Evpatoria, Odessa, Riga and other cities.After the revolution, in the fierce years of God -fighting, when monasteries and temples were closed, and the priests were destroyed in the dungeons in the thousands, the Lord still did not fully leave our land with his mercy.

Among the people, lamps were set, carrying the grace of God, to save many people. One of these lamps was the nun Misail for the Kursk people. People of different beliefs, of different views came to mother, asked for advice in the most difficult life situations. And no one left her without comfort and hope. She said that even after death, he would always calm the one who would come to her grave with his misfortune.

During the years of collectivization, the old man Misail was forced to wander again. Her son was arrested, and the house was sold. She wandered for eight years. Only in the year she was allowed to build a house, a small log house in which there was one kitchen. All this was modest: a table, 2 benches, a stool, icons and lamps. How modest her cuisine was, her life was so modest.

I got up early to have time to pray before the arrival of people who lined up along the corridor and in the yard with a long chain. Each grandmother asked the name, briefly, for sure, calmly answered all the questions, never repeated. Before answering, I looked at the icon of the Mother of God, then answered the question. She prayed a lot, and every moment of prayer illuminated her joy.

In everything, she saw only the best side of life. Mother accepted everyone cordially. How much has visited her kitchen, how many tears were shed, how many hearts were comforted and hopes were filed. They went to the old man for advice, if she considered a useful business, she blessed, if she believed that it was not necessary to do something, she said: “I don’t give advice, I don’t take my will.” She saw the present person who visited her, foresaw the future and, on the basis of this, gave an exhaustive answer.

But how much “unrest” these people brought these people to the district prosecutor and local authorities. They tried to disperse people, intimidate them and grandmother, she replied: “I don’t call anyone, they call them grief, and I cannot but accept them.” She never asked people from people, and if she received, she immediately helped others. I received a lot of letters daily, she answered the questions: “What to do?

He sent letters and archbishop of Luke from Simferopol. He sent his photo. Unfortunately, they could not store letters, and after an answer they burned. Before the war, the secretary of the regional party committee from Kursk came to his mother, usually at night, more often his wife. During the war, the secretary of the Besmedinsk district committee of the CPSU, he led the partisan movement, and when the Germans approached Stalingrad, he came to the old man with the question: “Is it worth it to wage a partisan war if the German is already near Stalingrad?

She reassured him and said: “The German will run from Stalingrad” and blessed not to dissolve the partisans, to continue the war. ” The German commandant of the Polevoy station also came to find out about his family in Berlin. The officer did not believe it, and it was: he and the soldiers endured things, and our people had already pulled the house. The commandant was indignant: "After all, the house can be a station, a club." But alas!

The house was pulled out. The woman came from the field: “Grandma, I want to leave the field, the station can bomb, I have already transported part of the things from Field to another village,” and my grandmother replies to her: “Until it’s too late, return things to the field and stay in place, the war is war.” The woman listened to advice, immediately returned everything to the field, and the village where she was going to move was burned out.

The young fellow villager Euphrasinia came to find out about her husband: “Grandma, there was no letter from Petrak so much, he died, probably? Indeed, Euphrosyne received a letter, brought it to her grandmother,- the husband was wounded in the leg, lies in the hospital in Alma-Ata, promised to call home after recovery.