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full of water with the words: “Lord, give the blessing…” – at which moment
the sick would begin to show signs of demonic possession, shouting and
cursing. He would sprinkle the demon-possessed with water, and many
through his prayers would receive healing. He preached mainly in parables,
and told people about the special holiness of Vavilov Dale, and its miracles.
The following fact witnesses to the lofty spirit of Quadratus Molodykh and
Stepan Turapin. Once they came to the settlement of Gorno-Ishikansky, where
the wells had dried up, and there was not enough water, not only for the
animals but also for men. Not far away there was a little lake with water, but it
was dirty, completely unfit for drinking. After a few days of constant intense
prayers on the part of the ascetics, the waters in the lake miraculously changed
and became pure and clear. After this Priest Alexander Agapovich Korin
(born 1868 or 1869, serving in the village of Ukrainka, Ivanteyevsky region,
Samara district) came with a deacon and served a thanksgiving moleben and
blessed the lake, for which he was given a lengthy prison sentence without the
right to live any longer in the European part of the RSFSR. Quadratus
Fyodorovich unceasingly went round the district preaching the truth of the
Holy Gospel. He fearlessly exposed the lies and hypocrisy of the slogans and
summonses of the new authorities. In 1929 he and Stepan were arrested in
Vavilov Dale. In the trial records we read: “the court considers the accused
Turapin and Molodykh to be socially dangerous, and since they give no sign
of correction, they are declassified and parasitic persons”. They refused to
recognize their guilt, and were sentenced to be shot. The sentence was carried
out.
Moiseyev and Demekhov lived in the Gorno-Ishikansky settlement,
Bolshe-Glushinsky region, Samara district. They were active participants in
the nightly vigils, prayers and akathist to St. Nicholas organized by the
inhabitants of Vavilov Dale in the peasant home of the Shubin family. The sick
and the suffering came to these services, and healings began. In 1929 they
were arrested and imprisoned. Nothing more is known about them.
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The following were convicted in “The Case of Archimandrite Callistus
(Pavlov) and others, Zhadovskaya Desert, 1930”:
Archimandrite Callistus (Constantine Yegorovich Pavlov) went to the
Kazan pedagogical seminary, and then worked as a teacher in a zemstvo
school and in the village of Kiyat, Buninsky uyezd, Simbirsk province on the
estate of the Simbirsk governor Terentyev. On February 12, 1889 he was
ordained to the priesthood and began to work in the church attached to the
Mariinsky children’s home in Simbirsk. On March 18, 1901 he was made
hieromonk in the Zhadovskaya Desert of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God,
Korsun uyezd, Simbirsk province, and served as treasurer and clerk
administering the affairs of the Desert. On May 6, 1906 he was made
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