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Commemorated on September 8
He was born in the city of
Galich (Kostroma Government) and accepted monasticism in the Nativity of
the Theotokos monastery near Pereyaslavl Zalesk. Having come to the
Alexandrovsky Village and found out that near it in the forest stood an
empty decrepit church with a wonderworking icon of the Nativity of the
Most Holy Theotokos, whole and perfectly intact, the Venerable Lucian
decided to settle near it. Soon, having heard about his holy solitary life,
pious men began to flow to him and to accept tonsuring from him. With the
increase in the number of brothers, the church was renewed and a monastery
arose which exists to this day. Driven away from the monastery by the
slander of his enemies, the Venerable Lucian was returned by the petition of
a god-fearing benefactor, a stoker for the Tsar, Alexander Barkov. Besides
the Nativity of the Theotokos Hermitage, St. Lucian founded the Dormition
Women's Monastery.
In 1650 a priest's widow came to the Venerable Lucian and accepted
tonsuring, and after she was tonsured she became a venerable woman.
During the participation of the Venerable Lucian and with the approval of
the Tsar Alexis Michaelovich near the Alexandrovsky Village there also was
raised up the Dormition Women's Monastery, which was under the
supervision of the Venerable One. In his life the Venerable Lucian endured
much evil and suffering from his malevolent ones. Besides his strict ascetic
life, he was known for his touching gift of words and gift of insight. For two
years he predicted a contagious plague epidemic, warning about the
necessity for repentance. Having reached old age and feeling the
enfeeblement before one's death, the Venerable Lucian asked that he be
brought into the church, where he prayed for a long time before the
wonderworking icon of the Mother of God, entrusting It to the protection of
the monastery against enemies visible and invisible; then he was taken out of
the temple, and, according to his wishes, he was laid on the grass; the
brothers approached him for his blessing. The Venerable Lucian died in
1655. The monasteries founded by him still exist to this day (see Vladimir
Diocese).
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