Hieromonk Iliodor Biography

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With its help, you can also listen to the audio traffic services, order commemoration and send a donation. Released Hieromonk Iliodor Golovin on the Christmas of the year in the “Chronicle of the John-Baptist Optina Desert Slee” made the following entry: “On the occasion of the solemn holiday of the Nativity of Christ, the Skites were present in the monastery for the matins and the liturgy and were refined there.

This number before the evening in the monastery suddenly died the dean of Hieromonk Iliodor. ” In the monastery documents about the deceased, not so many information has been preserved. It is known that Hieromonk Iliodor, in the world, Ivan Mikhailovich Golovin, came from the state peasants of the Livensky district of the Oryol province. The deserts entered Optina on November 1 at the age of x years.

The spiritual writer Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus wrote about his last days in the book “On the Bank of the River”, which was compiled in the monastery based on the monastery archive and personal impressions. The day before death in the subtle half of the first about. Iliodor saw Hieromonk Savva Kudryavtsev, who had died in June, who was one of the three confessors of Optina Desert.

Following the father of Savva, in the same vision, the Optinsky Archimandrite Isaac Antimonov first appeared, and behind his father Isaac - his successor, also dead, Archimandrite Dosifa Silaev. Father Isaaki went to Father Iliodor and gave him a silver ruble in his hand, and his father Dosifi - two. On the day of death, Father Ilnodor was sent for obedience to serve in the same village of Liturgy; On the eve of his confessor, as an employee, he confessed, and he committed a sacrament and communed.

At this time, my wife and I left the elders and at the very skits of the holy gates met him and all the Optina hieromonetic army. Father Iliodor walked a little behind and seemed to me in the face too red. In the yard stood Christmas frosts. This was my last meeting with him in this world. Father Barsonuphius told me after the elder: - I have never had close relationships with my father Iliodor, and all our communication with him was usually limited to dry officiality and then only on business.

On the day of his death, after praise, I, I don’t know why, - turned, suddenly, to him with the following question: - And what, brother, did you prepare for yourself on the path? I captured the louds from the tray - a festive monastic consolation - and put it in his hand with the words: - This is on the road! And think, - how the road came out to him! Often she comes suddenly and unexpectedly.

Let everyone think what will happen to his soul. And in another conversation, the elder Barshnophia added: - What feelings a person will put in himself during his lifetime, he will go into eternal life. Hieromonk Iliodor, who rested on the feast of the Nativity of Christ years ago, was buried south-east of the Vvedensky Cathedral, a marble monument was erected on his grave, which was restored in the modern optina desert.

Eternal and good memory!