Mount Shunut and the holy spring of Platonis. Miraculous source of platonis

A legendary place for Ural pilgrims, ethnographers and simply inquisitive tourists is the route of the St. Platonides Tract - Old Stone - Mount Shunut.

Saint Platonida, the tract of Saint Platonida

The tract of St. Platonida is a unique cult monument, known both as a place of pilgrimage for believers, and a hydrological natural monument, and as a radon source, famous for its healing properties.

It is located in the upper reaches of the Maly Ik River near the Shunut-Kamen mountain (south of Revda). Every year hundreds of pilgrims are drawn to the spring gushing here between the stones.

This spring is called "The Spring of Saint Platonis" - after the name of a hermit who lived a long time ago in this place, who spent all her free time in prayers and ate exclusively the gifts of the forest.

Legends according to Saint Platonis

There are four main legends:

The first

Many - many years ago a young woman named Platonida left the village of Krasnoyar and doomed herself to seclusion and loneliness among the wild forest. She lived by a clean forest spring until the end of her days. For many years Platonida managed to maintain strength and health.

After the death of Platonida, a real pilgrimage began to her grave. The spring at which Platonida lived was considered miraculous.

The second

A girl from a prosperous peasant family fell in love with a guy - handsome but poor. She herself was a Kirzhaka, and he was Orthodox. Only the father did not give his daughter Platonis to a poor man in marriage, he decided to marry a rich peasant to his son. And the girl decided to flee from her native places, with a wagon train to the village of Krasnoyar, so as not to knock around with the unwelcome all her life.

The villagers met the wanderer with distrust, and she had to go to live in the forest. The forest is rich in food, made friends with the beast. Gradually, the resentment against people faded away, Platonida began to secretly help people. Yes, I tried to find out if they had heard anything about her village, mother's father, fiancé.

It is a pity that people did not know that all this time the beloved of Platonides walked the Urals in search of his bride. He visited more than once and near the place where Platonida lived. But her dugout was so invisible that the young man always passed by. He grew old, turned gray in bitter wanderings.

And once exhausted by the eternal path, he sat down to rest on the bank of the Ik river, but he could no longer rise, he turned to stone ...

People called this fossil Old Man-Stone.

And Platonida lived for many years on the banks of the Ik River near the underground spring. Platonida has been gone for a long time, and the key is still gurgling and gurgling mourning her fate. It quenches the thirst of travelers, and people say that it has become healing.

Third

According to Christian legend, a girl lived in a Tatar family who decided to abandon Islam and adopt Orthodoxy. On the eve of the wedding with a Tatar fellow villager, the girl ran away from home and retired to the skete. After living for several years in a convent, she received the name Platonides and began to lead the life of a hermit.

Thanks to her prayers, next to the forest hermitage, a healing spring was emitted. According to legend, a bear guarded her from the invasion of relatives who were looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Platonida. However, when the bear was killed, relatives shot the woman with a hunting rifle, as the enemies were afraid to come close to her.

The bear's soul turned into a stone, now called the Old Man Stone, and to this day it guards the source and the immortal soul of Platonida ...

Fourth

A girl lived in an Old Believer family, in which, after the death of her parents, the division of property began. The brothers of Platonida were seized with greed, they decided to divide the inheritance among themselves, and the girl was sent to the forest to certain death. Forty years later, the brothers were tortured by conscience, and they decided to forgive the guilt, considering their sister dead. But, having arrived at the skete, where they left the girl many years ago, the relatives found her in full health.

Moreover, the woman was beautiful and young, like many years ago, as she drank and washed from a healing spring. She forgave her brothers, but remained to live with her skete, where she died many, many years later, burying her brothers who obeyed not far from her home ...

All known legends speak of the miraculous properties of the source of Saint Platonida: if you bow down at the grave of Platonida and plunge into the icy water of the miraculous source, you can get rid of many diseases.

The water in the spring is very cold even in the summer heat, there are no unpleasant tastes in the water, it is believed that the water does not deteriorate for a very long time. The unique healing properties of the spring are associated with the high concentration of radon gas dissolved in the water.

Depending on the conditions, radon can have both negative and healing effects on the human body. In the form of a radioactive gas, radon, even in minimal amounts, can lead to serious illness. But dissolved in water (as in the source of Platonida), radon has an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, improves metabolism, has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular and reproductive systems, and normalizes sleep.

Radon baths successfully treat skin and nervous diseases, gout, and circulatory diseases. Taking radon water inside perfectly heals diseases of the digestive system.

The old man stone is located five kilometers from the Source of St. Platonida, it is a rocky outlier in the shape of a human face (the Orthodox groom of Platonida (?)).

The forest road runs almost at the foot of the Old Man - stone.

Mount Shunut, Shunut mountain range

Together with the surrounding forests, it covers an area of ​​3620 hectares. The mountain range itself, with a rocky ridge crowning it, rises in the center of the Konovalovsko-Ufaleisky ridge, which forms the main watershed in this part of the Middle Urals. The ridge stretches in a northeastern direction and separates the Ufa River basin from the Chusovaya River basin.

The entire mountainous area is strongly dissected by rivers and rivulets, the incision depth of some of them reaches 100 - 150 meters. The total length of the majestic Shunuta rock ridge stretched in the meridional direction is 5 km, the height of the rocks is 25 - 40 meters from the west, 60 - 70 meters from the east.

This is one of the most significant and very picturesque rock outcrops in the Middle Urals. From different points of view, the outlines of the rocks are very bizarre. From the uppermost of the Shunut rocks, endless distances of forests and mountains, blue expanses of lakes and reservoirs open up.

Mount Shunut (726 m.) Is composed of very ancient massively crystalline rocks. The strongest rocks consist of quartzites and sheared quartzite - sandstones of high modality (volume) interspersed with large-pebble conglomerates. These breeds are gray, less often white, stand out as a bright spot against the background of greenery of coniferous forests ...

How to get to Saint Platonis, Old Man of Stone and Shunut Mountain, GPS coordinates:

Before reaching 1.5 km. to Mariinsk we turn onto the "Shunutsky Autobahn", which leaves to the right of the asphalt road. Further along the track.

Distance from Yekaterinburg is about 90 km.

Coordinates of the Source of Saint Platonis: N: 56 '30.318; E: 59 '47.383.
Coordinates of Shunut: N: 56 '31.489; E: 59 '44.197.

The route is designed for prepared cars (roads are "broken" by timber trucks), the best option for ATVs. In winter, you can ride a snowmobile.

06.12.2016 10:38:22

Text: Mikhail Latyshev

Our Ural forests are wonderful! Sometimes you go uphill, but it doesn't get drier. To get to the shihan at the top, sometimes one overcomes mountain "hanging" swamps. From above, you can admire the sea of ​​peaked firs and spruces.

Such a view opens from the Shunut Mountain of the Konovalovsky Uval, located three dozen miles south of Revda. There, in the dark coniferous taiga, on the way to the grave of Eldress Platonis, one meeting took place ...

... They walked barefoot on the grass, wet with dew, on the ground, caught in the first cold - the harbingers of autumn. Women and children, small and older, dressed in white shirts walked in an endless line. There were no men among them. They walked in silence, not paying attention to the drizzling rain, to the sharp stones and branches that fell under their feet. As if they were above a broken log road with its rubbish and mud, "above" it. Nothing seemed to stop them. I knew where they were going and was amazed at the sight of unwavering faith in people's hearts.

I managed to get through the Shunut-Serga "Olenyi Ruchyi" park without skis.
Before the clearing to the Shunut-stone, the sun lit up for the last time the amazing panorama of the forest valley from the pass to the Sokoliy stone. It got dark quickly.
Turning off the lumberjack along the path, I found myself at the gazebo-chapel above the Platonid's Key. According to legend, Platonida relieved people of diseases with water from a holy spring.
I remember that I drank water from it - and could not get drunk! And if you try to drink so much water at home, you won't be able to. Later I found out that the key is really difficult, rich in radon waters.


Then in a neighboring glade there was a hut with a stove, and opposite it was a bathhouse. They were full of people. Two tourists decided to spend the night "in the skete" and I asked to go with them.
It was a frosty night, the full moon rose and the forest became as light as day. From the spring we moved to the eldress's grave. To the right, three grave crosses rose from the snowdrifts.

Forest Church "!


Having passed the grave of the old woman, after a kilometer we went down to the dugout near the Maly Ik river. Inside the "skete" there were icons with the faces of saints on the shelves. The oven was working properly. Having warmed up our shelter, we cheered up.
Few people knew then about that tract. I also visited there in the fierce December 1994, when the skete was already askew and the stove was broken. Almost freezing, I saw how hunched-over grandmothers-pilgrims in kerchiefs approached the house at night. In the morning, Christmas trees were in their place, bent under the caps of snow.
In general, the forest in these places is as beautiful during the day as it is terrible at night. The darkness thickens around, the trees come closer and begin to creak and groan. The howl of wolves is heard, an owl hoots somewhere.
For some reason, the eldress's grave is always calm at heart. You can stand in the black silent taiga in front of a candle burning with an inextinguishable light, listen to the sound of the river, listen to your heart. At such moments, everything vain seems small, insignificant.
forest church "a steep path led to the bank of the Maly Ik River. In one place, a stone dam and a baptismal font were built on the bank.
Above it were bent branches of "certified" trees, entwined with ribbons. They also hang clothes or shoes from the part of the body that they want to heal. This is done by people who believe in it.
procession "a large wooden cross was erected near the grave of Platonida.
Many years passed, in 2013 I was there again. There was no hut, only ruins remained of the bathhouse. A new dome was built over the key instead of the old gazebo. For some reason, a tombstone from the grave of mother Taisiya was brought to the grave of Platonida. Another cross appeared, from a bar.
Only the door and the skeleton of the iron stove remained of the skete. The roof of the dugout collapsed.

Little Ik was still gurgling with icy water, running away like a snake into the forest. Above the font, small waterfalls streamed over the stones.
Closer to night, the human bustle subsided, everyone left. There was silence at the holy place. We reached here on foot, feeling with our feet the road that the Old Believers have been walking for more than a century.
They pray "mutually" - including for Platonida, because she is not canonized.
What was the life of an unflavored ascetic like? Why exactly do women go to her grave?

To the history of the Ural Old BelieversBonfires burned everywhere, burned hundreds and thousands of people, cut tongues, chopped off heads, quartered; prisons, monasteries, and dungeons were filled with martyrs for the holy faith. The clergy and civil authorities mercilessly exterminated their own brothers - the Russian people. No one was spared - neither women nor children, "says Gennady Chunin.
Old Believers fled to the North, to the Urals and Siberia.
Old Believers were accepted at the Ural factories, for the breeders they were conscientious workers. It is interesting that metal icons and crucifixes appeared in the everyday life of the Old Believers.

I will cite excerpts from the work of nun Eustathia (Morozova) "On the veneration in the Yekaterinburg metropolis of the unremarkable ascetics (the elder Platonida and the elder Avvakum)". She researched rare archival documents about the Ural Old Believers.
“In 1725, Elder Nikifor with many monks arrived at the Nizhne-Tagil plant from Kerzhenets, after which tens of thousands of followers of the main priest’s agreements, the Sofontievites, fled to the Urals.
They originally belonged to the runaways, accepting priests who had fled from the "Nikonian" Church to serve. In the 18th century, in this agreement, many communities began to switch to a non-populist practice, which was approved as the norm at the Tyumen Old Believer Cathedral in 1840.
The performance of the requisites and divine services passed to the elders and instructors elected by the community: they read the services, omitting the prayers that the priest was supposed to say during divine services and sacraments.

This movement began to be called chapel or "old people". Before the revolution, up to 90% of the Ural Old Believers belonged to chapels. They had their own revered shrines, ascetics, martyrs and authoritative elders, for advice with whom the pilgrims traveled hundreds of miles.
Among the most revered shrines of the chapels were the graves of the monks Herman, Maxim, Gregory and Paul on the Veselye Hills near the Verkhne-Tagil factory, where Old Believers from all over Russia gathered annually in June.
The grave of the fugitive priest Nikola in Yekaterinburg, the graves of the fugitive priests Job, Peter and Arkhip, as well as the mentor Gury in the Nizhne-Tagil plant, the grave of the monk Tarasiy in the Shartash village, the place of "Treasures" near the village of Tavolga with the remains of the former hermitage and gravestones ...

On the Merry Mountains ": “For a while, in a tense silence, you hear the reading of the holy book, but now the voice of Elder Anthony, singing the stichera, is heard.
It is picked up by the singers under the canopy, then by those nearby, a wave of sounds, intensifying with each moment, expands throughout the clearing, rolls to the last tents and echoes in the forests and mountains with a distant echo ... And then again silence, reading, and again a sea of ​​voices, harmonious along the old hooks singing stichera ... ".

Ekaterinburg diocesan vedomosti "noted:" the Old Believers gather as early as April 23 at the grave of "Father George" in the Chernoistochinsky plant;
May 27, 28 and 29 at the grave of "Father Job" in Nizhne-Tagil;
June 6 - at the grave of the "monk Avvakum", 6 versts from the village of Sazhina.
On August 16, mostly women gather at the grave of "Platonida's mother" in the village of Krasnoyarsk and pray for their husbands who are suffering from heavy drinking. "

the first of the hermits, as the old-timers say, in the vicinity of Krasnoyar was the mother of Platonides, and then - the mother of Taisiya.
[Platonida] was buried 10 versts from Krasnoyar; a lot of people gather at her grave by August 16 every year.
Mother Taisiya died in the first quarter of the 19th century and was buried in the skete cemetery, along the Bolshoi Ika river. "

The village itself Krasnoyarskoe arose in the second decade of the 18th century and consisted exclusively of Old Believers. Based on these data, we can conclude about the lifetime of the oxbow Platonida - she asceticised in the Ural forests in the second half of the 18th century.


The pilgrims said: "Platonides' mother will get up early, early, when not a single soul is on the mows. She already knew who needed help. Is it an orphaned widow, or an exhausted peasant? She will mow, apply hay, and clean it up. And she will do it all. so that no one could see that she was working. She will barely notice that people have appeared at the mowing, she is now leaving for the forest ... ".


Information about the oxbow Platonides is in the "Ural-Siberian Patericon" - "Stories about the father and the desert dwellers, who have recently asceticised in the northern edges of the Russian land, within the Ural and Siberian desert".
The patericon was compiled in the first half of the twentieth century in one of the sketes of the Old Believers of the chapel accord and was miraculously preserved by the Old Believers during the defeat of the sketes by the communists on the Lower Yenisei in 1951.

Here is what it says about the unflavored ascetic: “The old woman Platonida came from a family of non-Russian pagans (Tatars or Kalmyks). When she reached adolescence, the lot fell on her to be sacrificed to idols, which is why all her relatives“ in grief byahu velitsa. ”It so happened that at that time in A Christian, who was carrying flour from the mill, stayed at home for the night. Having learned about the grief, he invited his parents to give his daughter "as a sacrifice to the living God, may he serve Him."

into a monastic image ".
Such a quick tonsure aroused envy on the part of some of the sisters who had come to the skete before her and had not yet taken the angelic rank. Platonida was forced to secretly leave her sisterhood and live in solitude in the forest ("leave them in the desert for silence").

However, even in the forest, she secretly helped those in need. "Be the very merciful and hardworking, and help those in need, ... receiving from God the gift of healing, enlighten the blind and heal the sick not just in the stomach (ie, not only during life), but also according to your repose." They told about Platonis "mother Meletina, mother Akinfa and Elizaveta Paramonovna", whom Father John told about her, who still found Platonis alive and remembered personally.
It is specified that Fr. John received the monastic rank from Father Israel, "testified in the Genealogy." ("Genealogy" of chapel consent, compiled by Father Nifont).
This story about the life of Platonida can be considered the most reliable. "

An interesting, unusual, legendary place in the dense forests of the Revdinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region, about 10-12 kilometers from the village of Krasnoyar. A hydrological and historical natural monument.

In ancient times, there was an Old Believer skete here. Once this place was very revered by the Old Believers, and now both Old Believers and Orthodox, and various occultists, and just tourists come here. First, let's dive into the depths of history and try to understand who this strange woman was, after whom the miraculous source is named. There are many legends about the hermit Platonis (at least several dozen variations!).

According to the darkest legend, Platonida was born into a Muslim family, but for some reason she converted to Christianity. The girl left her family and went to live in the forest. The Mohammedans who did not forgive her found and killed the girl. Since then, a healing spring has arisen at the site of the hermit's death.

According to another legend, a long time ago an Old Believer family lived in these parts, in which there were two brothers and a sister Platonides. A misfortune happened: father and mother died, but they did not leave a will. The brothers were overwhelmed by greed, and they decided to divide the poor property among themselves, and the younger sister was taken to a distant skete for certain death. It took 30-40 years and their conscience tortured. The brothers decided to go to the skete, to pray for sin at the remains of their sister. But what was their surprise when they saw their sister alive, unharmed and very young, like many years ago. It turned out that "holy water" was flowing in the spring near the skete. By washing with that water, Platonida retained her beauty and youth. The rumor about Platonides spread far and pilgrims flocked here ...

Legends are legends, but there are just one or two reliable facts about Platonides. It is not known for certain what her real name, surname was, when she was born and what kind of family she came from, etc. Many researchers, not without reason, suggest that before hermitage she lived in a peasant family in the village of Krasnoyar located here. The well-known local historian Vladimir Trusov was able to establish from archival documents that Platonida lived in the distant 18th century and was buried near her skete around 1785.

Subsequently, the grave of Platonida became a cult place. Every year, many pilgrims from all over the Urals and the country came to her to worship and in the hope of healing from ailments. Moreover, Platonida had followers and some of the pilgrims remained to live here. A clear confirmation of this is the nameless crosses near the grave of Platonida. Who is buried here, we will probably never know. In the vicinity of Krasnoyar, several Old Believer sketes operated in different years.

Old-timers say that even in indiscriminate Soviet times there was still a small chapel here in the taiga. A priest conducted services in it. People came here from afar: they prayed in the chapel, worshiped Saint Platonis, bathed in the icy water of a healing spring and took with them as much water as they could carry. The police from time to time dispersed the pilgrims and destroyed the chapel. As a result, soon only an Old Believer cross on a stone foundation remained in this place. But it was also destroyed over time.

Now let's talk directly about the most healing source. The holy spring of Platonida is located in the upper reaches of the small taiga river Maly Ik (a tributary of the Revda River). It springs from under the ground and after a few meters it flows into Small Ik. Here, in the river, there is a small depression in which you can swim. True, for this you need to show dexterity, since the river is shallow. The water here is very cold even in the heat of summer. The water tastes pleasant, no taste is felt. They say that the water collected here does not deteriorate for many months.

Scientists have repeatedly conducted laboratory analysis of the source water. It shows that the content of heavy metals here is absolutely negligible (tens and hundreds of times less than the MPC). And such dangerous trace elements as lead, cadmium, aluminum, etc. are completely absent. But the content of manganese is 3 times higher than the norm, the concentration of radon is also increased - 40 Bq / l. This combination makes the water curative.

The dissolved radon contained in this water is perhaps the most unusual gas on Earth. Depending on the conditions, it can have both negative and healing effects on the human body. In the form of a radioactive gas, radon, even in minimal amounts, can lead to serious illness. But dissolved in water (as in the source of Platonida), radon has an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, improves metabolism, has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular and reproductive systems, and normalizes sleep. Radon baths successfully treat skin and nervous diseases, gout, and circulatory diseases. Taking radon water inside perfectly heals diseases of the digestive system.

It is not for nothing, according to legend, if you bathe in the spring in clothes and then leave it here, then all diseases will remain with it. In addition to the healing properties of radon, in this case, the tonic effect of ice water plays a role (it activates the body's defenses, strengthens the immune system) and self-hypnosis. It is said that many people on Platonides were healed of various diseases, including serious ones.

On the trees near the source there are colorful ribbons ("wish tree"), scarves, underwear, socks, etc. From time to time, the area is cleared by pilgrims and volunteers. Now a rather gloomy iron dome with an Orthodox cross is installed over the source. Several years ago he was not here, but there was a much more attractive and harmonious gazebo. But in February 2005, unknown vandals managed to break it down and take it away for the sake of several kilograms of metal ...

If you cross the river to the other side near the source, then not far, just upstream you will see a solid hut. It has a potbelly stove, near which you can warm up in cold weather. This is not the first building near the source. Unfortunately, all the previous ones were burned. I would like to hope that such a sad fate will not befall this hut.

From the source of St. Platonis along the river, downstream, there is a path. Walking along it, after a few meters you will see three nameless wooden crosses. The Old Believers-followers of Platonida are buried here. Who they are and when they were buried - history is silent about this.

A little further - on a small clearing under a canopy of poles - there is a stone tombstone, above which shelves are arranged for numerous candles and icons. Nearby, there is a large wooden bow cross, brought here by a procession of the cross. All year round, pilgrims and tourists go to the miraculous spring and the tomb of St. Platonis. She is sincerely revered and loved by both Old Believers and Orthodox.

Before the revolution, there were even more pilgrims here. Some brave souls, not afraid of Stalin's repressions and executions, came here after the coming of Soviet power. According to old-timers, hundreds of people came here from Upper Serega until the late 1950s and early 1960s. Twice a year - on the ninth Friday after Easter and on the day of commemoration of the great martyr Panteleimon (August 9) - processions of the cross stretched here from different sides - from Verkhniye Seryog, Krasnoyar, Mariinsk, Polevsky ... Now this tradition is being restored.

Every year, several times a year, pilgrimage trips (on all-terrain vehicles) and religious processions to Platonis are arranged by the Vvedensky bishop's courtyard in the village of Verkhniye Sergi. Platonida continues to grow into legends in our time. They say that she appears lost in white clothes and was completely desperate hunters and mushroom pickers, helping them get out of the forest. And it helps local residents to find lost pets.

This fame was miraculously confirmed in 2001. In August of that year, four teenagers from Yekaterinburg decided to hike Mount Shunut. At the same time, the youngest - 10-year-old Lesha Leontyev - fought off his comrades and got lost. Only on the third day the boy was found - alive and well. He was in a hut near the source of Platonis.

Some claim that anomalous phenomena are taking place in these places. People often get lost, as if they were "circled" by an unknown force. It seems that someone invisible is standing behind the back. And sometimes a strange fog appears here - in a place and at a time when it is not supposed to be (for example, on a sunny day over a certain patch).

But the most fantastic thing that I have come across in the literature about these places is the assertion that, allegedly, in ancient times, in Mount Shunut not far from the Platonis spring ... a whole cave monastery was dug up. It was as if a vertical mine shaft had been pierced in the mountain, from which numerous horizontal caves-cells diverged on the sides. Old Believer monks lived and prayed in them. According to this legend, later, fearing that the authorities would discover the monastery, the entrance to the monastery was filled up ... (Sibirskiy trakt newspaper, No. 16).

In the end, it remains only to note that some rare plants, listed in the Red Book of the Middle Urals, grow in this area. Such as, the Tatar korostavnik, the Ural tsitserbita, the victorious onion and others.

How to get to the spring of St. Platonis?

For those wishing to see this cult place and check the healing properties of the source, I recommend that you take a train or bus to Revda, where you can take a shuttle bus number 103 Revda-Krasnoyar. Departure from the railway station (data for the distant 2005) at 6:10, 9:10, 14:10, 17:10. Return flight from Krasnoyar - 7:20, 10:20, 15:20, 18:20.

In Krasnoyar, from the final stop, walk a little further along the street (in the direction of the bus) and turn right. After walking a little along the forest road, turn onto the marked path. To stay on track, keep a close eye on the trees marked with paint. You need to stick to the western direction. After 5-7 kilometers, the trail goes to a well-worn timber road. Turn left and follow this logging road. After 5-6 kilometers a sign "Platonis" will appear. Turning left, you will find yourself at the legendary source. There is another, shorter path to the source, but it is very difficult to find it on your own, being your first time in these places. Be extremely careful: it is easy to get lost here! In the vicinity of Krasnoyar there are a lot of logging roads and simple paths, many forks. It's easy to go wrong and go astray. Even those who have been here more than once often get lost.

The terrain in these places is quite wild. Taiga stretches for many kilometers around. Sometimes here you can find traces of moose, bears, wolves and other wild animals. Three kilometers from Platonida there is another amazing place - the top of Mount Shunut, and two kilometers to the other side is Mount Starik-Kamen. These attractions in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg are great places for weekend itineraries.

The source of St. Platonida is a place of power, a healing radon source in the upper reaches of the Maly Ik River, near Mount Shunut, the highest mountain in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg (726 m).

According to legend, a long time ago an Old Believer family lived in these parts, in which there were two brothers and a sister Platonides. A misfortune happened: father and mother died, but they did not leave a will. The brothers were overwhelmed by greed, and they decided to divide the poor property among themselves, and the younger sister was taken to a distant skete for certain death. It took 30 years, and suddenly their conscience tortured. The brothers decided to go to the skete, to pray for sin at the remains of their sister. But what was their surprise when they saw their sister alive, unharmed and very young, like many years ago. It turned out that "holy water" was flowing in the spring near the skete. By washing with that water, Platonida retained her beauty and youth ... If you swim in the waters of the spring, you can heal from hard drinking, impotence, skin diseases, and chronic fatigue syndrome.