Diveevo what prayer should be read groove. Orthodox parish of the Church of St. Nicholas in the city of Slyudyanka

We continue the series of articles about and today we will talk about what this unique structure actually consists of - about the earth itself.

Why do they take land from Kanavka to Diveevo?

The sanctity of this place has been confirmed more than once by saints. He himself said:

“The Mother of God Herself measured this Canal with Her belt... Here the piles of the Mother of God passed... Whoever reads one and a half hundred “Theotokos” will find Athos, Jerusalem, and Kiev all here.”

But the saint commanded not only to pray here. When they were digging a ditch, he ordered the sisters to throw the earth from the ditch into the monastery, where a shaft was formed. And he said:

“Visitors will come and they will take clay from Kanavka for healing, and it will be used instead of gold.”

Centuries have passed, but the holy land from the groove of the Queen of Heaven still helps everyone who realizes its holiness. They protect.

How to properly use the soil from the Canal of the Virgin Mary?

The land brought from Diveevo is best stored in a glass jar or paper box, but a plastic bag will also work. The main thing is that it should not be in oblivion, but next to the shrines in its proper place.

It can be used in different ways. Some people rub raw earth directly onto sore spots, such as their legs. Others fill it with water, and then drink the water or make compresses. But we must remember that these are not just recipes, this is really a shrine, so everything you do with the earth from the Kanavka must be accompanied by the prayer “Rejoice to the Virgin Mary.” Read this prayer more than once. You can even read it all 150 times, as if you were walking along the Kanavka. And sincerely believe.

Some people sew a pinch of holy soil from the Kanavka into a piece of cloth and wear it around their neck along with pectoral cross- like an amulet.

You can also protect yours with holy land from Kanavka land plot, sprinkled with prayer on the four cardinal points within the boundaries of the fence.

Gooseberry

When the sisters of the Diveyevo monastery were digging a holy ditch, Seraphim of Sarov ordered them to plant the slopes with gooseberries to strengthen the ditch and natural fence. In our time, during the restoration of the Kanavka, gooseberries were again planted on the slopes.

So, when the gooseberry grows, it is cut off. The cut branches are not thrown away, but are rooted or distributed to pilgrims.

It should be noted that there is an old rule - they don’t ask for anything in the monastery. But if they suddenly give you something or donate it, take it. This is a special grace. Especially if these are gooseberry branches from the Holy Canal. Take them and try to root them in your garden, country house, or just in a flower pot.

Grass from the Holy Canal of the Virgin Mary in Diveevo

The slopes of Kanavka are also lined lawn grass, and when she grows up, she is also trimmed, but not thrown away. This is what Seraphim of Sarov commanded - not to throw anything away from this holy place.

The cut grass is dried and sewn into cloth. The resulting small pillows are sold in the monastery. And if you happen to visit Diveevo on the Feast of the Assumption Mother of God and walk along the decorated Kanavka with the Procession of the Cross, don’t forget to bend down and take flowers and grass as a souvenir.

They can also be dried and sewn into fabric, and the resulting pillow can be used to sleep on during illness.

But again, remember that such a pillow is not for pleasure. The weed from Kanavka sewn into it is sacred, which means it requires reverent treatment.

In conclusion I would like to say this

At all times, pilgrims, visiting holy places, sought to bring home a piece of holiness and grace. And God himself gave us holy water, oil ( vegetable oil), earth from holy places, as a help to our suffering body.

In this regard, Diveevo is no exception. There are many holy springs here where you can get water; , which burns near the relics of Seraphim of Sarov; there is earth and grass from the Kanavka. And these shrines really help, but they should not overshadow the main thing - faith in God and prayer to Him.

Tatyana Strakhova

There is one particularly sacred place in the monastery,
the place of quenching all sorrow and sorrow is the Kanavka.
Priest Vasily Tigrov

The village of Diveevo is considered the fourth destiny of the Mother of God on earth, the last destiny in our mortal world. It is this place that is associated with many legends, parables and stories, and it was it that was entirely built at the behest of the Queen of Heaven, who revealed her will to Agafya Semyonovna Melgunova, Alexandra in monasticism (now canonized), the founder of the Diveyevo monastery, after her death St. Seraphim - the main organizer and spiritual father. And one of the outstanding places in Diveevo can be called Kanavka. In Diveevo, the Kanavka of the Queen of Heaven is considered even impregnable for the Antichrist, for legends say that when the servant of the Devil comes to earth, he will walk everywhere, but he will not be able to cross the Kanavka. And it was for this reason that Seraphim, at the behest of the Mother of God, asked the sisters of the monastery to put the earth not outside the rampart, but into their monastery.

In general, in Diveevo Canal of the Virgin Mary is revered as a separate shrine, and is the last will of the Queen of Heaven, which was embodied by the Monk Seraphim. The history of the construction of the Kanavka is a miracle of the Lord, for it began with Mother Alexandra herself, who received a message from the Mother of God about the construction of the Kanavka, and which she did not have time to implement, but ordered Seraphim to implement it. The monk misinterpreted the will of the Queen of Heaven, but was stopped by her and set on the true path. He gathered the novices and told them to walk along the pegs installed by the land surveyor with a barrel of honey, and eat it with soft bread, and along the way put stones between the pegs so that they would not be carried away by the spring flood. The sisters fulfilled Seraphim's will and by spring the plans for Kanavka were ready. But the sisters were in no hurry to get to work, fearing hard work. And then Seraphim, with the help of God, performed a miracle - during the night he dug a ditch an arshin deep (which is almost 71 cm!), but at the same time it was as if he had not left his cell, as evidenced by the novice who did not have time to go back to Diveevo and spent the night on order of the monk in Sarov.

IN Diveevo Kanavka was completed only by 1855, but in the first three years the bulk of the work was done, which did not stop either in winter or summer, or in severe frost, or in the March flood. And this groove is considered not only an obstacle on the path of the Antichrist, but also a path along which the Heavenly One, the Most Pure One, circumambulates her destiny. Holy Virgin. The path of the Heavenly Lady attracts many pilgrims, because as St. Seraphim said, whoever walks the Canal with prayer, whoever reads one and a half hundred Mother of God, will find here Athos, Jerusalem, and Kiev - the first three inheritances of the Queen of Heaven.

Large trips are regularly made along the Kanavka religious processions:

1. On the eve of January 14, after all-night vigil, on the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and St. Basil the Great with the singing of a prayer service for the New Year;
2. Throughout Bright Week every day, after the late liturgy, with the singing of the Easter canon, the stichera of Holy Pascha and the reading of the Gospel. In the same way, on all Sundays from Antipascha to Easter;
3. On the patronal feast of St. equal to Mary Magdalene on August 4, after the late liturgy;
4. On the feast of the icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" on August 10, after the late liturgy, with icons of the Queen of Heaven and St. Seraphim, with the singing of a prayer service;
5. For the burial of the Mother of God on August 30 at Matins after the Great Doxology, with the Shroud with the singing of “Holy of God”;
6. On the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary on September 21, after the late liturgy;
7. On the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on July 21 and November 4, after the late liturgy;
8. On the feast of the founding of the Mill Monastery on December 22, after the liturgy with the singing of the paraclesis of the Mother of God.

In addition to the above holidays, a religious procession is held daily along the Holy Kanavka after the evening service.

Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery is a special place located in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Curious tourists studying the history of Russian lands and numerous pilgrims from Christian countries who humbly ask for the intercession of the Mother of God come here.

Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky convent

History of the monastery

The Diveyevo convent was founded in the second half of the 18th century by Mother Alexandra (Melgunova). At the behest of the Mother of God, she went from Kyiv to the north of Russian lands. In the village of Diveevo, the Virgin Mary appeared again to the nun and ordered her to stay in this area.

In 1780, the first stone temple (Kazan Church), erected at the expense of Mother Alexandra, was consecrated. Eight years later, on the lands adjacent to the Kazan Church, a house was built in which Alexandra and four novices settled.

In 1789, monk Seraphim from the Sarov Monastery took custody of the community. In 1796, Ksenia Mikhailovna Kocheulova, whom Seraphim of Sarov spoke of with great respect, was chosen as the head of the monastic community.

With the blessing of trustee Seraphim, in 1827, a Mill community was founded not far from Kazanskaya, headed by a representative of the noble Manturov family, nun Elena. The Church of the Nativity of Christ was built with the money of Prince Mikhail Manturov.

In 1842, the Diveyevo communities united, and 20 years later they were given the status of a monastery. By the beginning of the 20th century, 1,600 nuns lived permanently in the monastery.

Decline and restoration of the monastery in the 20th century

After the Bolshevik Revolution, the monastery continued to function until 1927. Some of the nuns settled in neighboring villages. Many were repressed. Religious buildings were placed at the disposal of administrative and educational institutions. But even in Soviet time People came to closed churches and held religious processions and services.

Lower Church of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Diveyevo Monastery

At the end of the 80s, the monastic community began to function again. In the year of celebrating the millennium of the baptism of Rus', the Diveyevo Orthodox community was registered. A year later, the Trinity Church was handed over to her. In 1991, the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov were discovered. In 1995, the monastery acquired the status of an architectural monument of federal significance.

The modern monastery is a place where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world come every year. On its territory there are several holy springs and many relics of Orthodox saints. But the main shrine of the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevo Lavra is the Holy Kanavka Holy Mother of God.

Holy Groove

The main shrine of the monastery appeared after the appearance of the Mother of God to Seraphim of Sarov. The Virgin Mary ordered the founding of a new monastery (Mill) and surrounding it with a ditch and rampart. The nuns and novices of the monastery had to dig a ditch in the indicated place. The labor of village residents was used for auxiliary work. Construction of the ditch was completed in 1832.

Among the many shrines of Diveevo, the Holy Kanavka occupies a special place

The ditch consists of six sections with a total length of 777 meters. Its depth and width, as well as the height of the adjacent shaft, are 2.13 meters (3 cubits).

Believers claim that the holy ditch is the fence of the fourth spiritual abode of the Mother of God on earth, which even the Antichrist cannot cross. The Mother of God is invisibly present in her destiny every day.

Interesting! Pilgrims and nuns are advised to come to the shrine from 3 to 4 am. They believe that the Virgin Mary walks there at this time and is the chosen one.

Why go to Diveevo

Many argue that a tourist trip to the Diveyevo Monastery makes no sense. But the architecture of the monastery cannot leave a single person indifferent. It is the solemn and monumental appearance of the temples, the cleanliness and well-groomed territory that sets the mind to the thoughts necessary for humble prayer.

Diveevo is a unique place worth coming to spiritual cleansing and strengthening the Faith. Coming here, people ask for the fulfillment of their deepest desires and thank the Mother of God for their fulfillment. According to tradition, believers must offer the prayer to the Mother of God 150 times during their journey along the Kanavka.

The soil of the Grooves and the flowers and herbs growing in it have healing properties. You can take the soil from the Queen of Heaven’s Canal with you to a specially equipped place.

It has many wonderful properties:

1. Land from the Holy Kanavka in Diveevo is used for protection from evil spirits and unkind thoughts. To do this, part of the miraculous earth is mixed with ordinary soil or sand and placed near front door or buried under the threshold of a private house.
2. A handful of earth wrapped in cloth is applied to sick or injured parts of the body to speed up the healing process.
3. Strengthening physical health is promoted by daily consumption of holy water, in which a small amount of earth is diluted.

Advice! It will take more than one day to see all the shrines and relics of the monastery. Therefore, you should allocate 2-3 days for your trip to Diveevo. At this time, you can live in a hotel for pilgrims, or rent housing from village residents. Many advertisements of this nature are placed on thematic pages in in social networks.

The main shrine of the Diveyevo monastery is a shrine with the holy relics of St. Seraphim

How to get to Diveevo

The Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery is located in the village of Diveevo, Diveevsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region. The closest city from which you can get to the Holy Monastery is Arzamas. Nizhny Novgorod is located 180 kilometers away.

Travel by public transport

People traveling by public transport should choose the method of arrival in Arzamas or Nizhny Novgorod depending on their region of residence. Moscow residents should take the train departing from Kursky or Yaroslavsky railway stations.

Having reached the Arzamas-2 station, you should change to a bus to Diveevo. Buses depart at intervals of one hour.

Tourists and pilgrims coming to Nizhny Novgorod should get to the bus station on the street. Gagarin and take bus No. 1645 to Diveevo. As an alternative route, you can consider a trip in the Nizhny Novgorod - Sarov minibus, which makes a stop in Diveevo. This bus leaves from the bus station on the street. Lyadova.

Traveling by car

Based on reviews from people who have repeatedly visited the monastery, a trip to the Diveyevo Monastery by personal vehicle is the most economical and convenient way to travel to the holy place. To get to the place from the regions of Central Russia it will take on average 7-8 hours.

Transfiguration Cathedral in Diveyevo Monastery

Motorists from Moscow need to move along Gorkovskoye Highway in the direction of Vladimir. At the junction in front of the city you need to turn towards Murom. Then the path continues through Murom, Ardatov and Mayevka. After about 270 km, travelers will arrive in Diveevo.

Advice! To get to the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery, without thinking about travel arrangements and accommodation problems, you can contact a travel agency. Many of them organize tourist and pilgrimage trips to the monastery.

Before your first trip to Diveevo, you should study the history of this place, its shrines and unique relics. Without this information, the activities taking place in the monastery may be incomprehensible to tourists.

For female tourists and pilgrims, regardless of age, it is mandatory to wear a long skirt and headdress on the territory of the monastery. Those who violate this rule will be asked to leave by the monks.

When preparing for your trip, it would be useful to learn the prayer recited on the Holy Kanavka. It contains only a few lines. A blessing for photography can be purchased at the church store, but many tourists take photographs without it. The main thing is not to behave defiantly and respect the people around you.

The Diveyevo Monastery and its main shrine are a unique spiritual and architectural monument of Orthodox culture. On its territory, even non-believers feel peace, reverence for divine power and respect for the people who founded and revived the Holy Monastery.

Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery

Canal of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Diveevo

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There are a large number of Orthodox shrines in the world that are known for their miraculous properties, as well as other phenomena. Many believe that it is in such holy places that healings from the most complex ailments occur. There are many places that are famous for their wondrous stories about this, one might even say legends. Such holy places have become places of pilgrimage, where large numbers of believers come. They all pray and expect miracles to happen. Such a place as the Kanavka of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Diveevo is no exception.

Diveevo and Kanavka

Diveevo is a monastery that has become a place of pilgrimage for a large number of believers who ask for the most necessary things at the moment. The most famous miracle of this monastery is the Canal of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A large number of believers, as well as tourists, come to her.

The difference between them is that pilgrims know what to do and where to go. Tourists perceive this feature as another tourist spot for photographs. If you are not prepared for arriving at this place, then it will be difficult for tourists to see the wonders of the Canal of the Virgin. They can only contemplate the temples, the landscaped area, the beautiful landscape design and crowds of people who constantly say something under their breath.

So, the main shrine of the Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery is Kanavka. This monastery is considered the fourth inheritance of the Holy Mother of God. People come here to:

• gather strength,
• pray,
• spiritually cleansed
• will be healed from illnesses,
• ask for wishes to be fulfilled.

How did the Kanavka appear and what is it?

It is believed that Kanavka was the last will of the Queen of Heaven. Tradition says that in 1823 the Mother of God appeared to Father Seraphim. she showed him the place in Diveevo where it was necessary to build a monastery.

Where is Our Lady's Ditch? She also ordered to surround this monastery with a ditch and rampart. This is how the monastery appeared. A few days before Seraphim's death, the Kanavka was built.

How does she look? This is a heptagon, the length of which along the perimeter is 777 m. During life, 6 sides were excavated, and on the seventh there should have been a large cathedral in honor of the icon of Our Lady “Tenderness”.

After the death of Father Seraphim, difficult times came for the monastery. Construction practically stopped and the ditch was not properly maintained; in addition, they even began to walk and drive along it. Over time, the revival of the monastery began and the ditch was cleared.

Since many believers came to this shrine, its fame spread far beyond the village. Flowers, grass and soil from this monastery are considered miraculous and healing.

How to use soil from the Virgin's groove

Many wrote that this land is more valuable than gold. All pilgrims take it and carry it home. Most often it is used:

1. Like drinking. You need to mix it with holy water.
2. Apply as compresses to sore spots.
3. They put him to bed.
4. They are buried in trenches around houses.
5. It is protection from evil spirits.

Prayer to Our Lady

The same picture can be observed every day. The prayer to the Mother of God in Diveevo on Kanavka has its own structure. They say that the greatest grace is received by those who go through the Kanavka and read the prayers in the following sequence:

1. "Our Father",
2. "Open the doors of mercy for us"
3. “Rejoice, Virgin Mary” ten times.

Everything must be read 15 times. There is a belief that it is best to walk along the Kanavka from 3 to 4 am. They say that at this time the Queen of Heaven appears there and appears as the chosen one.

You can often see a picture of people walking in circles along the Kanavka and saying something under their breath. This is a prayer to the Mother of God on the Kanavka. Many people believe that this request will bring what they want and will also help them get rid of many misfortunes. A large number of people visit this monastery for the purpose of visiting and seeing with their own eyes the last destiny of the Mother of God.

We must not forget that we mostly turn to the saints in difficult periods of life. That is why it is worth not only asking for the gift of grace, but also reading prayers of thanks. Thank the Lord for what you already have. This way you will pay attention to your requests.

Orthodox parish of the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra in the city of Slyudyanka

Official parish website

Shrines of Diveevo - the groove of the Virgin.

I was also in Diveevo - but I took the text and photo from a friend - she was also there quite recently.

“I continue the story about the shrines that we visited in Diveevo.

The groove or belt of the Virgin Mary is one of the main shrines of Diveevo, we were lucky enough to walk along it twice, on Saturday evening, and early Sunday morning (I think from half past five to half past six). To feel everything that is felt there, you just need to come and walk there.......

The photo and text are not mine, I searched on the Internet, I wanted to compose the text in such a way that you would be inspired by this shrine the way I fell in love with it. At the end of the post I will give links to all the sources from which I compiled the text and took the photo.

“The Mother of God herself measured this groove with her belt...

Here the feet of the Mother of God passed...

Whoever walks through the canal with prayer and reads one and a half hundred “Theotokos”, Athos, Jerusalem, and Kyiv are all here” (Reverend Seraphim of Sarov).

People walk and walk along the ditch. In spring and summer, autumn and winter. Latest

Over the years, we began to walk barefoot more and more often (even in winter in the snow). The Russians are coming

Ukrainians, Moldovans, Georgians, Armenians, British, Germans, French,

Americans... Kanavka, Diveevo, knows St. Seraphim of Sarov

the whole world. The groove heals, the groove cleanses, the groove enlightens.

It’s not enough to just walk along Kanavka. Need more

simple as it seems. Someone will pass quickly, and lo and behold, it’s already the end of the road,

but he hasn’t even read a hundred prayers... That means he’s not ready yet, hasn’t calmed down

through life, and I need to come here again. To make this whole thing different

way to go. Some walk slowly, slowly, in no hurry. These -

will be in time. Others are in a hurry; they never have time to pray. Groove - how

life: some set off earlier and arrive later than others. And others,

on the contrary, the early ones ran faster than everyone else and did not finish the journey on time.

Someone walks slowly, with gentle steps, as if floating on

Groove. Someone walks at a businesslike pace, looking forward. Lo and behold

there is nothing ahead. All! We've arrived... And only nuns walk along the groove

special verified steps. No rush, but no waddle either. These -

They will always be in time, no matter how they go. After all, their prayer is quick and fiery! A

experienced residents of this amazing village try to start their own paths

from Kanavka. In the morning they will walk along it, say as many prayers as they can, and

then all day long, wherever they go, they finish the prescribed remainder of the prayers. AND

All their paths are in conflict, because the path began with prayer! And such a sacrifice

The Queen of Heaven receives from them. And some walk along the Kanavka with

will remember the departed... And everyone - hurrying and unhurried - will reach the end in

his own term, measured only by him.

Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of Dmitrov (Zvezdinsky), who lived

visions of the Mother of God walking along the Kanavka. His cell attendant Anna

testifies that Vladyka was in his cell after the evening service and

suddenly rushed to the window with incessant exclamations of prayer,

then to another window:

“The Most Pure Mother of God is walking along the Kanavka! I can not

behold her wonderful

beauty! – said Lord Seraphim with tears.

The Holy Canal was built by order of the Queen of Heaven Herself, as well as

all in Diveevo. The ditch with the shaft was supposed to surround the Mill community and

must have been dug by the hands of the sisters themselves. There should have been a groove

three arshins deep and three arshins wide were dug, the earth had to be thrown

inside the monastery to form a shaft also three arshins high. For

strengthening the rampart the Reverend ordered to plant gooseberries.

The sisters were slow to start digging because of the excessively heavy

work. And so, one day another sister came out of her cell at night and

sees that Father Seraphim in a white robe himself has begun to dig the Ditch.

In fear and joy, she runs into her cell and tells all the sisters this.

Everyone ran out to this place, and, seeing Father, bowed at his feet,

but, having risen, they no longer found him. Only a shovel and a hoe lay on

earth. The ditch had already been dug out, about a yard long. The other sister had visited the day before

Fathers to Sarov and spent the night in his hermitage. And in the morning he sends it:

“Come on, mother, tell the girls to start digging a ditch today, I

I was there and started it myself.” She walked and wondered how Father went to

Diveevo? She comes to the monastery, and there are sisters vying with her

They tell how they saw Father. And she told them her story. Sisters,

amazed by such a miracle, they began work without delay. They dug for three years and

Saint Seraphim departed to the Lord.

After the closure of the Diveyevo Monastery in 1927, Holy Kanavka was

Many places were filled up, the shaft was leveled. Most damage Groove

suffered in the post-war years: in some places it was cut

various communications, and inside the entire southern part of the Kanavka was dug

sewage pipe. Despite numerous prohibitions and

danger, many who wished continued to walk and pray at the holy

Lawrence, work began on restoring the first section of the holy

Grooves - from the start to the first turn.

Good article about groove restoration,

The best time to walk along Kanavka is from three to four in the morning. At that time

The Queen of Heaven herself comes here and sometimes appears as a chosen one. One day

sexton Andrei, having walked the entire Kanavka after three o’clock in the morning, saw the Mother

God in the sky above Kanavka in a shining silver cloud.

It is not for nothing that the elders advise pilgrims to pray at night. Schema-abbot Jerome from

Sanaksar Monastery says:

From three to five o'clock in the morning there is gold, from five to six - silver, from

six to seven - bronze.

In Diveevo, the Mother of God is with us every day. The Queen of Heaven herself talks about this

she said - through Father Seraphim. That is why the great Sarovsky commanded

elder, so that pilgrims must stay exactly one day in the monastery,

then they will not miss each other with Mother Mother of God... Many pilgrims

on the Holy Kanavka they feel the invisible blessed presence of the Lady -

Her scent! You go and go, it seems like nothing special is happening,

you pray, and suddenly it’s as if you are entering the fragrant Garden of Eden. It is seen,

The Queen of Heaven passed by you...

deliverance from serious illnesses by many, many who have completely entrusted themselves

the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the holy Venerable Seraphim. So people flock to the Holy Kanavka in the Diveyevo Monastery. They ask

everyone does their own thing and gets what they ask for. Every word on the groove reaches the sky.

Father ordered the land of Kanavka to be taken by pilgrims for healing: “There will be

visitors will come, and glinka from Kanavka will be taken for healing, and

it will be instead of gold.” Knowing this Orthodox people collect earthen soil

bags, transport it like a precious treasure to all corners of the world, and

many, many healings occur from this earth.”

Canal of the Queen of Heaven in the Diveyevo Monastery >>

Diveevo. Holy Canal. History, features, travel tips

The purpose of this article is to answer the questions of those who are just planning to go to the Diveevo Monastery: What is Diveevo? What to do here? How to behave? What is Holy Groove? And the most important question is why do they come to Diveevo at all?

Initially, I knew very little about the Diveyevo Monastery - that it was a special, very sacred place associated with the name of Seraphim of Sarov, and that it was very beautiful here. Well, that’s probably all. This is very little for those who come here.

It’s easier for pilgrims - they travel consciously and know why they came, where to go, what to do here. They also know all the special places of the Diveyevo Monastery, such as the Holy Kanavka.

I am making the first post about Diveevo for comrades like me - those who want to go here, but don’t know anything about the monastery. I'm correcting my late mistake.

A special place - the history of the Diveyevo Monastery and the Holy Kanavka

In searching for the peculiarity of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery over others, I came across information that this monastery is the fourth inheritance of the Holy Mother of God (the first three are Iveria, Athos and Kyiv), i.e. one of four places on Earth (and the only one in Russia!) that are under its special protection. I think this is where the special appeal of this place lies. Some come here to pray, spiritually cleanse themselves, to be healed, others, considering Diveevo a place of power, come to fulfill their desires, which they say come true here. The main thing is that everyone finds what they are looking for.

It began with the construction of the Mill. By the beginning of 1833, a few days before the death of St. Seraphim, the Kanavka was built. Groove “is a heptagon with a length of 777 meters along the perimeter. During the life of Father Seraphim, six sides were excavated, and on the seventh side, according to the prophecy of the monk, a large cathedral in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Tenderness” should be located.*

“Father Seraphim said a lot of wonderful things about this Kanavka. What a groove this is - the piles of the Mother of God! Here the Queen of Heaven herself walked around her! This Canal is sky high! The Lady Most Pure Mother of God herself took this land as her inheritance! Here, father, I have Athos, Kyiv, and Jerusalem! And when the Antichrist comes, he will pass everywhere, but will not jump over this Ditch!”” (Father Vasily Sadovsky).*

What do those praying read? “O Mother of God, Virgin, rejoice. Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you. Blessed are You among women and blessed is the Fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.”

Holy Groove over the years Soviet power suffered greatly and was even partially destroyed. But even during the years of persecution of the church, believers came to pray at Kanavka.

The revival of the monastery began in the late 80s of the 20th century, when the church was allowed to solemnly celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. In 1989, the Holy Trinity Church was returned to the church. And in the summer of 1991, the relics of Seraphim of Sarov were transferred to the monastery. Then for many years, almost until the end of the 2000s, Kanavka was restored.

I can’t leave without advice those who are planning to go to Diveevo for the first time.

So, what to do, where to stay and how to behave in Diveevo? 10 travel tips

1. For believers: I have already written above about the prayer that is read on Kanavka 150 times (an icon with this prayer can be bought at the monastery).
2. For motorists, free parking is available on the territory of the monastery. Feel free to drive up to the barrier. They will let you through.
3. For those who take pictures: photography is possible with a blessing, but we also took pictures without it. The main thing when taking photographs is to be invisible, behave modestly and not provocatively, and you will not be noticed. Many people take pictures from the monastery, I saw it myself.
4. Girls and women: take scarves and skirts with you, regardless of age. Without them, you can simply be rudely escorted out of the temple, even if you are a 2-year-old girl.
5. There are several churches, shrines and holy springs in Diveevo. If you want to visit and see everything, then plan a trip for more than one day. For a quick acquaintance with the monastery, 4 hours is enough.
6. Venerate the relics of Seraphim of Sarov in the Trinity Cathedral. How to venerate relics correctly? Two bows, kissed, another bow.
7. Don’t forget to stop by the spring of Seraphim of Sarov (14 km from Diveevo), get some holy water, and take a swim. Women need a nightgown for swimming. If you don’t have it with you, you can buy it inexpensively on the spot.
8. For those looking for cheap private housing: look in the “Wonderful Diveevo” group on VKontakte. Price level is 300-400 rubles/seat. There are a lot of offers. Lots of other useful information.
9. For travelers: a trip to Diveevo fits well into the route “Nizhny Novgorod - Arzamas - Diveevo - Murom”. You can read where to stop on this route in the article at this link.
10. The Diveyevo Monastery is, on the one hand, a holy place, a place of prayer, and on the other, an enterprise that has seriously embarked on a commercial track. Modern morals can get to you here too. Don’t be offended by rudeness from particularly smart people if they said something wrong or did something wrong. Just be prepared for it.

I will show the architecture of the Diveyevo monastery in a separate post, don’t be upset that you didn’t see it here.

* The article uses materials from the book “The Groove of the Queen of Heaven” (Holy Trinity Diveyevo Monastery, 2009. – 80 p. – ill.)