Where are the holy springs in Russia? Saints of Russia: photos and reviews of tourists

In Christianity, a special relation to water was originally laid. Bathing for millennia is a symbol of purification. The main sacred activities of the Christian faith are inextricably linked with this action.

Holy Baptism

The most important thing is the sacrament, after which the latter takes on the Christian faith and becomes worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Russia, after the adoption of Christianity, bathing in consecrated sources became a favorite folk tradition. When they immersed themselves in the healing waters, the believers received spiritual cleansing, and with it, boundless inexplicable joy. Some cases of ablutions led to healing from bodily or spiritual ailments.

Sources for ablutions are available throughout the calendar year. They give special power to the church holiday of Epiphany. On this day, for as long as unexplained for human reasons, water on the whole planet changes its quality composition. Even tap water tap water can be stored for a very long time without changing its normal color and smell.

Scientists even conducted a comparative analysis of drinking water from a tap and recruited in a holy spring. Analysis of water from holy sites showed the absence of any bacteria, as well as high biological activity. So much influence on the structure of water is exercised by faith and prayer.

Correct Visit

It is better to visit the saints' sources better, having cleansed oneself by fasting and prayer. Also, do not forget about modesty in clothes - it's still not ordinary bathing. Where there is a possibility, a font is necessarily organized. It happens that many lack courage to plunge completely. Then it is enough to wash your face, hands or feet, just to drink water from the source. Ablution must necessarily be accompanied by a prayer in which the believer appeals to God for help. God's grace, if the believer is worthy of it, will not become less of it.

All Orthodox sources are sacred and curative. They may not have a rich history, but, once sanctified, they are filled with grace. As the source is inexhaustible, there is no limit to the miracles that reward the soul and body of a truly believing Orthodox person.

On the territory of our country, such keys are innumerable, especially in the middle part of Russia. You can always find out about the nearest consecrated spring from Orthodox believers or from members of the local church. Local residents, in the neighborhood with which there are sources of saints, consider it preferable to use water from them than from a water pipe.

The main sacred sources of the Moscow region

The history of our state is closely connected with the Orthodox Christian faith. Today, there is such an impression that Russia has become the last stronghold of Orthodoxy, defending its Faith. The population of our vast country in the bulk of people are deeply religious. This is evidenced by numerous churches, historical architectural monuments, monasteries and holy sources of Russia.

Quite a large number of Orthodox centers are located in the suburbs. Wherever there is a holy spring that bestows healing from infirmities and strengthens faith, it is always crowded. We will consider the most visited in the capital region.

Gremyachy key

Near the village of Vzglyadovo, 14 km from Sergiev Posad, over 600 years the spring breaks. The holy spring appeared here from the prayer of Sergius of Radonezh, when the monk stopped at this place to rest on a trip to Kerzhach. The elder prayed to God about rallying the Russian people and overcoming the yoke of the Mongol khans. During the kneeling prayer, a stream of water broke out of the rock, which later was popularly called the Gremyachy Klyuch waterfall.

According to the mineral composition, the water is similar to the acid sources, but with a lesser degree of mineralization. All year round, the water temperature is 4 degrees. The rock divided the stream into three waterfalls. The right one helps to heal heart diseases, the left one treats women, and the flow that flows between them removes the headache. People gave the streams names: Faith, Hope, Love. Even in bad weather, you can always meet believers who came for help to the source.

Source of Sergius of Radonezh

On the outskirts of the village of Radonezh, near the church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, there is another source. In this Slavic settlement, which appeared in the IX century, lived and the parents of the Russian saint. Hence Sergius in 1337, the young man went to the monks. The people gave his name to the spring. All these centuries, without ceasing, the source beats. The holy key gives pure, cool and tasty water. Old-timers talk about the numerous help in healing various ailments. The spring daily gives its grace to many believers who travel here not only from the district.

Barsky well

A source located in the village of Muranovo, Pushkin district, was consecrated in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the century before last. The spring became known in the middle of the century before last when the Tyutchev family on the site of the acquired estate built the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands. Molebens and the sacrament of baptism were held here.

When in the late nineties the source was cleaned, it turned out that instead of a spring, exactly 12 keys were beaten. After that, the stream of believers to the well of Barsk greatly increased. Many helped this holy source. The testimonies that are passed from mouth to mouth by pilgrims and local residents speak of healing from skin diseases and the rapid healing of open wounds.

Source of the Ascension of David's Desert

It is located in the small village of Talezh, Moscow region. The place where the spring hits is under the control of the monastery, which is located 30 km from here. On the territory there is a temple - a chapel, a belfry, a man's and female font. The holy spring was consecrated in the name of the founder of the monastery, which was from the tribe of Vyazemsky.

Since 1515, when the monastery was founded, there were many cases when the source helped to get rid of various eye diseases and liver diseases. In addition to pilgrims seeking healing, this source enjoys great fame for performing church rites of baptism and weddings. In the temple there are severe orders of the monastery, so inside the photo and video are strictly prohibited.

Holy Sources of Samara Region

Samara's land is also rich in life-giving springs - there are 1,536 known keys in the region. Forty and more are considered sacred and holy. Among them there are nameless, but the main number was consecrated at different times as a place of the phenomenon of miraculous icons of the Most Holy Theotokos and God's saints.

After the era of Soviet atheism, when Orthodoxy was subjected to unthinkable destruction, the holy sources of Russia are restored again. Both local authorities and the diocese with the believers take a big part in restoring the infrastructure and improving the territory adjacent to the springs. People come to these places not only from the whole region. Many visitors from different parts of the country who, after learning about the many cases of getting rid of various ailments, go here in the hope of getting help.

The Defiler from Troubles

The small village of Tashla, which is in the Stavropol region of the Samara region, is always full of daily visitors to the source in honor of the miraculous image of the Virgin.

Local resident Katya Chugunova October 21, 1917 in a dream the Mother of God showed where the icon lies with her face. In the morning, going to the place, Katya saw two angels carrying a brightly lit icon. In a small ravine, a small icon of the Mother of God was found. Taking it in hand, the believer saw a spring that had killed from the earth.

The rector of the Trinity Church, despite the numerous cases of healing that occurred at the icon, showed doubt and disbelief, but decided to leave the find in the church. Two months later the icon from the church disappeared. The watchman, who was on duty in the night, spoke about the lightning striking from the church building toward the newly built chapel at the source. Surrounded by many people, the rector Dmitry opened the chapel and opened the lid of the well above the source. There he saw in the depths that same icon from which the glow was coming, and the frozen water was melting along the edges of the well. He immediately repented of his disbelief, and the icon immediately surfaced, thereby allowing people to find it again.

Since then, the icon is kept in the temple of Tashla, and tens of thousands of believers were able to touch the gift of the Virgin. In times of great drought, which began in 1920 and lasted 2 years, the spring remained the only one that gave water to the inhabitants of the village. Already at that time, a lot of believers from all over the Volga region rushed to the healing spring. And the icon, which also gave the grace of healing, became the true support of all believers in a dashing revolutionary period.

Holy Lake

A narrow and winding lake, located beyond the village of Sezhezhe - a special sacred place on the Samara land. In 1958, there was the appearance of God. From the hole the inhabitant of the village saw a glow. In the radiance it was possible to distinguish the church, the altar and the nearby Mother of God, Nicholas the Wonderworker and the archangels.

People came running together - many were healed. The authorities did not do anything: they filled the lake with manure, and poured solar oil. But miracles continued. Believers and curious onlookers even drove off water from the fire hydrant. But people still went to the lake to look at the heavenly faces.

After that the lake began to possess inexplicable properties. Missed mosquitoes and midges, which here on the nearby lakes unthinkable set. Water has a buoyancy power. In the lake there is fish, and large, but no one can boast that he managed to catch at least one.

And one day at dawn from the sky on the lake and the adjacent shore began to fall balls of all colors of the rainbow. They moved along the water surface and the shore in different directions. There was a stir in the village. Most of the residents tried to catch them, but this also failed.

After these events, scientists interested in studying anomalous phenomena, as well as biologists, became interested in the lake. The fact is that in the shoreline of the lake plants grow, which are not found anywhere else in the Samara region. The water recruited from the lake can be stored for more than 10 years, maintaining a pleasant taste and smell. Sediment and algae, trapped in a water storage tank, dissolve completely in a short time. Such properties can not be explained scientifically until now.

Those who have recently visited a wonderful lake, said that it has noticeably become shallower, and the banks of the river are thickly clogged by a high reed. With what such changes are connected, nobody knows. But water still has its wonderful properties.

Inexhaustible bowl

In the village of Volzhsky there is a holy source of the Mother of God, named after the icon of the same name, which helps those who suffer from drunkenness. His age exceeds 300 years. Interestingly, the source gives a bucket of water every second for such a long time. They come here from all over Samara land in the hope of getting rid of a serious illness and strengthening the strength of faith.

Numerous stories that tell of the miraculous disposal of a disease that destroys not only the body, but also the soul, are daily brought here by those who are afflicted with an ailment. Many suffer from a source of suffering wives in the hope that their faith will help the second half to reason and stop the god-forgiving deed.

Znamensky spring

The source hits the slope directly from under the roots of the trees, forming a small stream. In the second half of the century before last, the icon of Nikolai Mirlikiy appeared in the source waters. Found her old shepherdess and brought home. However, in the morning the icon disappeared. Soon other shepherds there again found this icon and carried it to a merchant from Znamenka. His icon also disappeared the next day.

The third time the icon was found by the rich peasant Alexey Ivanovich. He was a devout man and immediately put a chapel at the spring, and the source himself made an oak well.

Praying to St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker on Nicholas summer is going to the spring from the entire district, and at the beginning of the last century the people gathered from all the Volga provinces.

The power of faith

The healing power of water, which is full of sources of the holy Orthodox Church, never doubted. Every believer must decide for himself how to treat this. Numerous cases of cures for ailments, sometimes even documented, raise more questions than give answers. Skeptics consider such cases as favorable coincidences of circumstances. But in life a successful course of events is sometimes a miracle.

If Vera is strong, then ordinary tap water can do wonders. Everything is the will of God.