The State of Russia Under the Present Czar by John R. Perry

Author:John R. Perry [Perry, John R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780714611457
Google: 3hJAzgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 13753267
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1967-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

There are 72 Monasteries belonging to the District of the City of Novogorod, the Chief of which is dedicated to the famous St. Anthony, of whom the Russes relate this Story; that he (being guided by the Vision of an Angel) came from the Mouth of the River Tiber, on the Coast of Italy, round thro’ the great Ocean up the Baltick, and by Way of the Lodiga Sea and River Volcoff, to the said City of Novogorod in four Days, upon a Mill-stone; and by this Miracle occasion’d the thorough Conversion of the Country to the Christian Religion, which happen’d about 600 Years since. It was at the latter end of June when I came to this Place, at which time I happen’d to see the Effigies of the said Saint carried about the City in a very pompous annual Procession, in Commemoration of the Day of his Arrival.

The said Monastery is built on the side of the River Volcoff, a little way without the City, in the very Place where he landed; and the Mill-stone on which he Arriv’d, is still to be seen plac’d up upon one edge, in the Body of the Church belonging to the said Monastery. As also the Body of St. Anthony is laid in the same Church in a Stone Coffin, not far from the Mill-stone: And the Russes affirm as an undeniable Testimony of the Truth of this Miracle, that God has preserv’d his Body from being yet perish’d, and which they ordinarily expose to the view of such Persons who humbly come to pay their Devotions to his Tomb. It is not only at this Place, but at many others, that they pretend to the like Arguments and Demonstrations for the Confirmation of the Truth of their Religion; that many others of their Saints though they have been buried many hundred Years, yet God doth not suffer their Bodies to decay, as particularly the Body of Sergee, lies without perishing in the Monastery of Troitski, 60 Miles from Mosco. And amongst others, the Place most fam’d for the miraculous Preservation of those Bodies of their Saints, is in a Monastery near Kiow, where there is a particular Register kept of the Merits of their Saints, and the Miracles of their Lives, which are preserv’d with great Care by their Priests, and which turns to a very good Account. For this Place being held in such great Veneration, there have been several Instances of Religious, and well-believing Persons that have Estates to answer it, who leave it in their Wills to have their Bodies carried from Mosco to Kiow to be buried there.

Dr. Areskin, a most ingenious Gentleman, who is chief Physician to the Czar, and a Member of the Royal Society in England, with whom the Czar usually informs himself in the Curiosities of Nature, being in the Year 1709, with his Majesty on that side the Countrey, he went on purpose by the Czar’s Order, to see the foresaid

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