Anna of Kashin
Venerable | |
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Born | c. 1280 Rostov |
Died | 2 October 1368 (aged 87–88) Kashin |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Canonized | 1650 by Russian Orthodox Church |
Major shrine | Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection, Kashin, Russia |
Feast | 24 June (opening of her relics) |
Patronage | Kashin |
Catholic cult suppressed | 1677 by Patriarch Joachim of Moscow 12 June 1909 cultus reestablished |
Anna of Kashin (Russian: Анна Кашинская; c. 1280 – 2 October 1368) was a princess consort of Mikhail of Tver. She is revered as a saint Right-Believing princess, patroness of Kashin and Tver.
She is known both for her dramatic lifetime fate (the death of almost all relatives during internecine strife) and for no less complicated posthumous vicissitudes: she was
Life
Anna was a daughter of
Princess Anna's marriage to Prince Mikhail took place on 8 November 1294 in the Preobrazhensky cathedral of Tver. In celebration of this event, dwellers in the city of Kashin built the Saint Michael Church and the triumphal gates from the local Kremlin to the Tver road, naming the gates also "Mikhaylovsky." In the Kashin Uspensky cathedral a special Feast was established and celebrated annually on 8 November.
Anna and Mikhail had five children:
- Feodora (died in infancy)
- Prince Dmitry of Tver (1299–1326)
- Prince Alexander of Tver(1301–1339)
- Prince Konstantin of Tver (1306–1346)
- Prince Vasily of Kashin (d. after 1368)
In 1294, her father died, and in 1295 a terrible fire destroyed Tver. Soon after that, Anna and Mikhail's first-born daughter, Feodora, fell severely ill and died in infancy. In 1296, another fire destroyed their palace, and the prince and princess were barely rescued. In 1317, a war began between Yury of Moscow and Anna's husband prince Mikhail of Tver.
In 1318 the princess said goodbye to her husband forever, who was summoned to the Horde, where he was brutally tortured to death on 22 November 1318. Only in July of the following year did Anna hear about her husband's martyrdom. Learning that Mikhail's remains had been brought to Moscow, she sent an embassy there, and her husband's body was transferred into Tver and buried in Preobrazhensky cathedral.
In 1325, her eldest son, Dimitry, was tortured in the Horde. In 1327, her second son, Alexander, broke the Tartar army, which devastated the duchy. In revenge
After the death of Prince Mikhail, Anna carried out an old desire "in silence to work only for God." She took vows in Sofia's monastery in Tver and adopted the name Evfrosiniya. In 1365 the youngest son of the princess, Vasiliy, her only child remaining alive by that time, entreated his mother to move to his principality. The Uspensky monastery was built in Kashin, and there she accepted the schema with the name of Anna.
She died of old age on 2 October 1368, and was buried in the cathedral temple of the Blessed Virgin.
Canonization and Veneration
The name of the Princess Anna was forgotten for many centuries. It was during the 1611 siege of Kashin by
The synod of the Russian Orthodox Church convened in 1649 and declared her relics worthy of a universal homage. The princess was glorified as a saint. Twenty-eight years later, Patriarch Joachim addressed the Moscow Synod with a suggestion to decanonize her because of the uncommon veneration and esteem for Anna among the Old Believers.
It was traditionally thought the Old Believers chose Anna as their palladium because the princess was represented on icons as making the
Grand Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Joachim collected, held in Moscow from January to February 1678 decanonization Anna of Kashin: forbade her to pray, and allowed only pray for her - by her serve memorial service.
On October 30, 1908, the
In 1909 a monastic community was dedicated to her in
On April 18, 2023, at a regular meeting of the Tver City Duma, they considered the proposal of metropolitan Ambrose (Yermakov), to assign the name of the Holy Princess Anna to the square located in front of the new Wedding Palace in Tver and made a positive decision. There is a monument to St. Anna and her husband, the Holy Prince Michael, on the square.[1]
Bibliography
- (in Russian) S. Arkhangelov. Житие и чудеса святой благоверной княгини Анны Кашинской, St Petersburg, 1909
- (in Russian) Манухина Т. Святая благоверная княгиня Анна Кашинская. — Париж: YMCA-PRESS, 1954. — 195 с.
References
- ^ "В Твери появилась площадь имени святой Анны Кашинской". Тверская и Кашинская епархия. 2023-04-24. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
External links
- (in Russian) St Anna at the site of the Eparchy of Tver
- (in Russian) Biography
- (in Russian) Biography
- (in Russian) www.anna-kashin.ru