Your fasting and equal-angelic life, / the Reverend Fathers Zosimo and Savvatie, / made you known by the universe; / various miracles, God-bearing, you enlighten // by faith you and those who call honoring your honorable memory.
Vulnered by the love of Christ, the venerables, / and naturally carried His cross on a frame, / divinely armed against invisible enemies, / and unceasing prayers, like a copy in the hands of the possessor, / we have firmly defeated the natural demonic militia; / we accept the grace of the Lord to heal the ailments of souls and bodies / your honest relics flowing to the crayfish, / the rays of miracles you are wasting everywhere./ Thus we call to you:/ Rejoice, Reverend Fathers Zosimo and Savvatie, // fertilizer for the monks.
Oh, our reverend and God-bearing fathers Zosimo and Savvatie, earthly angels and heavenly people, close friends of Christ and saints of God, your abodes are glorious and decoration, all the northern countries, and especially our entire Orthodox Fatherland, an insurmountable wall and a great intercession! Behold, we, unworthy and many sinners, with reverent love for the relics of your honorable relics, fall, with a contrite and humble spirit we diligently implore you: pray unceasingly to the Blessed Master and our Lord Jesus Christ, for we have great boldness, may His all-effective grace not depart from us, and the protection and intercession of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos on May the true zealots of the life of angels abide in this place and may they never fail in this holy monastery, where you, God-bearing fathers and rulers, have immeasurably labored and forgiven, flowing with tears and With all-night vigils, unceasing prayers and supplications, make the beginning of monastic life. To her, saintly saints, most favorable prayers to God, with your warm prayers to Him, protect and save us and your holy village from coward, flood, fire and sword, invasion foreign and deadly plagues, from enmity and all kinds of disorder, from all misfortune and sorrow and from all evil, so that the Most Holy One may continually be glorified in this place in peace and silence The name of the Lord and God and those who wait for Him will find eternal salvation. O blessedness, our fathers Zosimo and Savvatie! Hear us, sinners, in your holy monastery and under the roof of your protection, those who live unworthy, and with your powerful petitions to God, ask for our souls’ sins abandonment, correction of life and eternal blessings in the Kingdom of Heaven; To all believers, who in every place and in every need call on you for help and intercession, and who flow into your abode with reverent love, do not cease to pour out all grace and mercy, preserving them from all resistive forces, from all adversity and from all evil circumstances, and giving them everything they need for spiritual and physical benefit. Most of all, pray to the Most Merciful God, that He may establish and strengthen His holy Church and all our Orthodox Fatherland in peace and silence, in love and unanimity, in orthodoxy and piety, yes will preserve and observe forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, reverend fathers, great intercessors in sorrow and hearers of prayers, saints of God and miracle workers Zosimo and Savvatie! Don’t forget, as you promised, to visit your child. Even though you are gone from us in body, you remain with us ever in the Spirit. We pray to you, O veneration: deliver us from fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and civil strife, from corrupting winds, and from vain death, and from all the causes of demons that come on us. Hear us, sinners, and accept this prayer and our supplication, like fragrant incense, like a sacrifice acceptable, and our souls, evil deeds and advice and thoughts slain, revive, and, like a dead damsel, you have raised up, like you have healed the inhealable wounds of many, from the unclean spirits tormented by evil, so have we, who are kept in bonds remove the enemies, and deliver them from the snares of the devil, bring them out of the depths of sins, and with your merciful visit and intercession from enemies, visible and invisible, protect us with grace and by the power of the All-Holy Trinity, always, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Oh, reverend father, saint of Christ Savvatie, who loved the Lord with all his soul, and retired into this desert, and completed the course of the feat of salvation! Oh, faithful servant of the Heavenly King, teacher of virtues, image of humility, deserted citizen, interlocutor angel, earthly cherub, heavenly man! Oh, the dim light of the Solovetsky Fatherland, and even more so the great light of the whole Church of the Faithful! I pray to you, most honorable, I, the great sinner (name of the rivers): hear my wretched prayer, hear the verb of my unclean lips, which now requires your help. Behold, the evil enemy strives to destroy me at all times, one who bitterly devours my soul, and there is no salvation for me, where help can come, because of the infirmity of my flesh I am covered and I have bowed down completely with my passions, and I am not imam to the God of boldness. Now, I commend myself to your intercession: have mercy on me, darkened by all evil deeds, lift up your prayers for me with all honesty, and your hands to the Lord, O warm prayer book, Savvaty Reverend, may He grant me remission of sins for the goodness of His generosity, and on the Day of Judgment He will deliver me from eternal torment, and He will grant His Kingdom with His grace, which He will always be glory, honor and worship forever. Amen.
Oh, holy saints of God and miracle workers Zosimo and Savvatie! Beg the Lord God to grant me (name, content of the petition) and forgiveness of all my sins. May your merciful representation glorify the Triune God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Memory April 17/30, September 27/October 10
General day of remembrance 8/21 August
Reverends Savvaty and Herman sailed to the uninhabited Solovetsky Islands in 1429.
Anticipating his approaching death, the Monk Savvaty sailed from the island to the coast in search of a priest. There, near the Vyg River, in an area called Soroka, he met Abbot Nathanael, who was walking around this region. Having confessed and received the Holy Mysteries of Christ, the Monk Savvaty peacefully departed to the Lord on September 27, 1435.
A year later, a native of Obonezhye, a young monk of the Paleostrovsky monastery Zosima, after meeting the monk Herman, went with him for a solitary residence on the Solovetsky Islands. After several years, the Monk Zosima, summoned by the archbishop to Novgorod, was ordained to the priesthood and awarded the elevation to the rank of hegumen. The Monk Zosima reposed before God on April 17, 1478. The brethren buried their abbot behind the altar of the Transfiguration Church.
*Minea. August 8th.
**Minea. September 27th.