COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 21
Archimandrite John (Parsley Maisuradze in the world) was instinctive in the metropolitan of Tskhinvali in Samachablo verbalize 1882. He was raised in a peasant descendants and qualified to perform all kinds of employment. Parsley was perfectly in his teenage years each time he helped Fr. Spiridon (Ketiladze), the mainstay priest at Betania Monastery, to recover the monastery among 1894 and 1896.
From his less significant Parsley was brilliant to enter the monastic life, and in 1903, according to God's energy, he inspired to the Skete of St. John the Theologian at Iveron Monastery on Mt. Athos. In addition to the brothers he was majestic for his strictness and obedience. He was tonsured a holy woman and named John in citation of St. John the Theologian, whom he well-regarded compellingly and hunted to simulate.
The holy woman John was presently bound to the priesthood. In the order of his life the holy commencement effective himself to ration God and his brothers in Christ in hopes that his own life can be loaded for them.
Fr. John remained on Mt. Athos for seventeen animation. Subsequently, due to the progressively alarming court case there, he not here the Saintly Peak with the other Georgian monks one day among 1920 and 1921. He specific at Armazi Monastery peripheral of Mtskheta, everywhere the Bolsheviks had not here entirely one holy woman to hard work in solitude. As a band of armed Chekists destitute during the monastery, led what's more Fr. John and the other holy woman digression, and set them in the back.
Believing them to be dead, they tossed them in a completion hole. A group of people far ahead open Fr. John's by monotonous party and brought it to Samtavro Monastery in Mtskheta. The other holy woman suffered chastely hardly injuries and returned to the monastery on his own.
For instance his health had been restored, Fr. John went to Betania Monastery, everywhere his primary spiritual commencement was unmoving laboring. He was scheduled abbot snappishly thereafter. Well-known to unwell work from his early period, he cleverly administered the undeveloped pains of the monastery. For instance set came to the monastery seeking counsel or ointment, Fr. John welcomed them vastly, delivery a festal breakfast time in them. He enjoyed drinking time with his set, particularly with children.
It is understood that he unfailingly had sweetie or a special cosset to funding to the babyish ones. The children dear him so greatly that on the feast of St. John the Theologian, age he was splash the church with holy water, they skipped verbalize him and tried to disrupt his hair. The secondary parents were badly behaved, but Fr. John spryly certain them that it was demure to be so joyous on a feast day.
Immediately Fr. John was endowed with a violent love for natural people, and he was extremely blessed with the divine gifts of foresight and wonder-working. As a fixed Irakli Ghudushauri, a student at Moscow Theological University, visited him at the monastery. Fr. John acknowledged him with exclusive clemency, blessing him with snivel of cheeriness. This student would far ahead become Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the desired marshal who continues to lead the crowd of the Georgian stable to this very day.
Fr. John domesticated himself austerely. He worked unwell all day and slept on a verification power point of walk heavily. He would misuse finalize nights praying. Recurrent wondered each time he rested and everywhere he had acquired such a deceptively boundless supply of energy.
Intermittently thieves would saunter feed or inland natural world from the monastery. But the monastery extremely had everyday protectors, even within the Soviet legislative body. A group of Christians who worked for the legislative body age on the sly practicing their expectation supported Fr. John and Fr. George (Mkheidze) (see below), explaining and justifying them to the legislative body as "guardians of a express cultural carving."
Recurrent of the miracles performed by Fr. John are memorable to us today, in spite of this he was careful of in receipt of citation for his activities. Frs. John and George healed the deaf, and everyday of the critically ill were brought to them for healing. As soon as drinking a variety of days in the monastery, the feeble would remarkably be cleansed of their diseases. Fr. John odd job the heaviest workload in the monastery. He sympathized compellingly with Fr. George, who was hardly physical and loose for strenuous hard work. But Fr. John no more this life in Fr. George. Fr. John became ill and reposed in 1957, at the age of seventy-five. He was deep-set at Betania Monastery.
Fr. George (Mkheidze) was instinctive in the rural community of Skhvava in the Racha strip verbalize 1877. He acknowledged a war education-a thriving loved commodity in the company of the Georgian aristocracy-but relatively of pursuing a war career in court case of the Russian society, he effective himself to Georgia's express leave go of flow. At one blot the sincere and learned George worked for St. Ilia the Totally as his genus secretary. He evenly met St. Ilia's spiritual commencement, the holy hierarch Alexandre (Okropiridze), and the holy hieromartyr Nazar (Lezhava), and he was au fait with other basis spiritual leaders of the time as well.
Desiring to sufferer for a cause his life to God, George was tonsured during monasticism by the holy hieromartyr Nazar. His sensitive qualities earn a nobleman's behavior with a monk's humble severity. Fr. George was bound a priest and presently late profound to the rank of archimandrite.
Burdened with divine love and chauvinistic sensation, the holy commencement avidly endured the thickset burdens and spiritual evils afflicting his land-living at that time.
In 1924, age Fr. George was laboring at Khirsa Monastery in Kakheti in eastern Georgia, an armed Chekist mob destitute during the monastery. The perpetrators work to rule him, cut off his hair, bald his facial hair, and threatened to triumph over his life. He hunted self-confidence with his descendants, but to no avail-his brothers, who were atheists, bald off his facial hair age he was sleeping. (One of Fr. George's brothers far ahead determined suicide, and the other, together with his spouse, was set to death by the Chekists.) In the awfully time, Fr. George visited Betania Monastery and was introduced to Fr. John (Maisuradze), with whom he would hard work for the rest of his life.
Fr. George's health was messed up, and he was useful to perform chastely the lightest of everyday jobs verbalize the monastery. He tended the vegetable garden and took pledge for raising the bees. He was extremely ample. At time he would funding all the monastery's feed to the poor, assuring Fr. John that God Himself would liberate their document bucks.
Exalted, thin, and with an talented take, Fr. George was tough in what's more set phrase and posture. He spine very babyish with other people, and children did not come out with him as they did with Fr. John. Worldly wise his qualities, they tried to engross him by reciting prayers and behaving themselves. Fr. George did not absence to wedge the monastery, but it was evenly vital for him to travel to Tbilisi to go to regularly his spiritual children- in the company of whom were everyday secret Christians who worked for the legislative body.
Fr. George was endowed with the gifts of foresight and healing, but he was handy to hide them. For instance destined to reveal them, he would endorse them off as in spite of this they were nothing shrill. As a fixed pilgrim fashionable at the monastery and was speechless to perceive that Fr. George knew him by name. Sensing his supreme astonishment, Fr. George told the pilgrim that he had attended his baptism some thirty animation formerly, correspondingly concealing his God-given gift. Fr. George knew in advance each time his nephew was bringing his sisters, whom he had not seen in forty-eight animation, to go to regularly him at the monastery wearing Portly Lent.
Forward looking with this foreknowledge, Fr. George set companion and a festal breakfast time in citation of the occasion.
The prayers of Fr. George and Fr. John healed the former's nephew, who was afflicted by a important go too far of meningitis. They restored burden to a deaf child and healed everyday others of their rude infirmities.
In 1957, each time Fr. John reposed in the Member of the aristocracy, Fr. George was tonsured during the supreme schema. He was exact the name John in citation of his lately no more spiritual brother. Fr. George-John now odd job full pledge for the associations of the monastery. His health deteriorated goodwill under the weight of this thickset enchain. His spiritual children began to come from the inner-city to precision for him.
As a twenty-year-old girl fashionable at the monastery, touchy of faithful headaches. She had been told that the water from Betania Monastery would heal her. She remained there for one week and was remarkably healed. For instance she not here to return home, Fr. George-John walked five miles to see her off, in viciousness of his physical subtlety.
The Theotokos appeared to Fr. George-John in a vision and joyful his upsetting physical soreness. The protomartyr Thekla extremely appeared to him, presenting him with a stack of grapes. A range of days in his equanimity, the holy commencement was in the inner-city each time an angel appeared to him and announced his hope equanimity. The angel told him to return to the monastery to brew for his flee from this world.
St. George-John (Mkheidze) reposed in 1960. He was deep-set at Betania Monastery, entrance to Fr. John (Maisuradze). These deserving fathers were canonized on September 18, 2003, at a gathering of the Saintly Synod under the spiritual escort of His Holiness Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia. Frs. John and George-John allow been keenly deemed "one body in two bodies."
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