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    Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg was born about the year 1730. She was Left a childless widow, and gave away all that she had. Saint Xenia is especially invoked for help in finding employment, lodging, or a spouse.

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    Saint Xenia the Fool for Christ of Saint Petersburg

    Our Righteous Mother Xenia of Saint Petersburg,  
                                                      The Fool for Christ’s sake 
                                Whom the Holy Church celebrates on January 24.   
     
    Our righteous Mother Xenia of St. Petersburg was born about the year 1730. She 
    was  married  to  a  Colonel  named  Andrew;  when  she  was  twenty‐six  years  old 
    her  husband  died  suddenly,  having  been  drinking  with  his  friends.  Left  a 
    childless  widow,  Xenia  gave  away  all  that  she  had  and  vanished  from  St. 
    Petersburg for eight years; it is believed that she spent this time in a hermitage, 
    learning  the  spiritual  life. When  she returned  to  Saint  Petersburg,  she wore  her 
    husband’s  military  clothing,  and  would  answer  only  to  the  name  Andrew,  that 
    is,  the  name  of  her  late  husband.  She  took  up  the  life  of  a  homeless  wanderer, 
    and was abused by many as insane; she bore this with great patience, crucifying 
    the  carnal  mind  through  the  mockery  she  endured,  and  praying  for  her 
    husband’s  soul.  She  was  given  great  gifts  of  prayer  and  prophecy,  and  often 
    foretold things to come; in 1796 she foretold the death of Empress Catherine  II. 
    Having lived forty‐five years after her husband’s death, she reposed in peace at 
    the age of seventy one, about the year 1800. Her grave became such a source of 
    miracles,  and  so  many  came  to  take  soil  from  it  as  a  blessing,  that  it  was  often 
    necessary  to replace the  soil;  when  a stone slab was  placed  over her  grave, this 

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    Saint Xenia the Fool for Christ of Saint Petersburg

    too  disappeared over time, piece by  piece. Saint  Xenia  is  especially  invoked  for 


    help in finding employment, lodging, or a spouse.   
     
                                      Dismissal Hymn of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg 
                                                          Plagal of Fourth Tone 
     

    I  N  thee,  O  wandering  stranger,  Christ  the  Lord  hath  given  us  an  ardent 
    intercessor for our kind. For having received in thy life sufferings and grief and 
    served God and men with love, thou didst acquire great boldness. Wherefore, we 
    fervently hasten to thee in temptations and grief, crying out from the depths of 
    our hearts: Put not our hope to shame, O Blessed Xenia. 
     
                                      Kontakion of Blessed Xenia of Saint Petersburg. 
                                                                   Third tone 
      

    H  AVING been a wandering stranger on earth, sighing for the heavenly 
    homeland, thou wast known as a fool by the senseless and unbelieving, but 
    as most wise and holy by the faithful, and wast crowned by God with glory and 
    honour O Xenia, manly‐minded and divinely wise. Wherefore we cry to thee: 
    Rejoice, for after earthly wandering thou hast come to dwell in the Father’s 
    house. 

    Text: The Great Horologion © 1997 The Holy Transfiguration Monastery Brookline, Massachusetts 02445
    The Menaion © 2005 The Holy Transfiguration Monastery Brookline, Massachusetts 02445 
    Icon © The Holy Transfiguration Monastery Brookline, Massachusetts 02445
    http://incommunion.org/articles/previous-issues/st-xenia-of-st-petersburg
    http://www.firebirdvideos.com/saintslives/lifeofxenia.htm

     
    SYNAXARION 
     
    On the twenty‐fourth of this month we commemorate our righteous Mother, 
    Blessed Xenia, the Fool for Christ’s sake and Wonderworker of Saint Petersburg. 
     
    Verses 
     
    They that are at a loss invoke Blessed Xenia, 
    Who having lost all things, won Christ as her bridegroom. 
     
    On the twenty‐fourth Xenia was in Heaven. 

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    EXAPOSTILARION

    Second Tone. Hearken, ye women.

    O   MODEST  Xenia,  thou  didst  long  *  for  Heaven’s  hospitality  *  and  madest 
    thyself  a  stranger  *  to  riches,  kindred  and  country  *  in  thy  great  love  of 
    godliness;  * and having taken up thy cross, * thou gladly rannest after Christ, * 
    the stranger born of a Virgin * to save all men, O God‐bearer.  
     
    Glory. Plagal of Second Tone 
     

    A  FTER  thy  beloved  husband’s  death,  desiring  to  follow  Christ  in  poverty, 
    thou  didst  scatter  all  thy  riches;  and  made  rich  in  grace  by  thy  heavenly 
    Bridegroom,  thou  didst  hide  thy  wealth  in  grace  in  the  rags  of  thy  feigned 
    foolishness,  O  venerable  Mother  Xenia.  Wherefore,  enduring  mockery  and 
    hunger,  thou  didst  attain  to  even  greater  heights  of  holiness,  becoming  a 
    universal treasury of blessings for all, made perfect in the love of God; and now 
    as thou standest in boldness before the Trinity on high, and goest about among 
    us invisibly on earth, thou grantest peace, mercy, and salvation to all who keep 
    thy festival with faith and love.  
     

    Chapel over Saint Xenia’s Grave

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    Saint Xenia the Fool for the Sake of Christ


    Of Saint Petersburg

    Church of the Smolensk Icon


    of the Mother of God
    While this Church was being built, Saint Xenia used to bring bricks up to the top of
    the scaffolding at night and place them near where the bricklayers were to work
    the next day. When the workers came in the next day they would see the bricks.
    Once someone asked, “Who brought them up here?”
    The reply was “Oh, it was that crazy Xenia.”

    Saint Xenia save us.

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