On 28 January 2026, in accordance with the decision of the Council of Bishops, the glorification of Venerable Matthew of Yaransk in the rank of locally venerated saints took place in the Buinsk Diocese of ROCOR-A. The rite of glorification was presided over by the Ruling Hierarch of the Buinsk Diocese, Archbishop John, and Bishop Philaret of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug.
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The Memory of the
Venerable Hieromonk and Confessor Matthew of Yaransk
Born into a cobbler’s family in
Viatka (Kirov), Saint Matthew became the spiritual son of a monk of strict
asceticism called Stephen and, under his influence, embraced the monastic life
in the Monastery of St Alexander Nevsky in Viatka. From 1899 onwards, he lived
in the Prorochisky Monastery in Yaransk, in the same region, where he was
steward and the spiritual father of the monks. Living in God-pleasing ascesis,
he received the gifts of insight and healing, placing them at the service of
the people, who were undergoing great trials. In 1921, the monastery was closed
and destroyed by the Bolsheviks. Father Matthew then settled in Ershovo, where
he continued to practise his ministry of spiritual fatherhood, supporting
Bishop Nectarius and his clergy in their resistance to the machinations of the
‘Living Church’. He fell asleep in peace on 14/27 May 1927, and his grave in
Yaransk became a place of pilgrimage. It is an abundant source of all manner of
healings to this day.
- The Synaxarion of
Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra, Vol. 5 (May-June), May 14, p. 58.
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