In the Church of the Refuge of the Sisters of Mercy of the Red Cross in honor of Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene, Priest Pavel Florensky served with the all-night vigil on the eve of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (evening) on September 27, 1912. Thus, this event could have taken place on October 2 in the period 1912-1917.

2) there is no generally significant church holiday on October 2,

3) the day before, on October 1, a service in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos was to be served—the service on October 2 was to be performed on a Sunday. In a possible period of time (1912-1917), October 2 fell on a Sunday in 1916.

Wed. in the narration of L. F. Zhegin: "In general, everything secret, hidden was so distinctly and so close to him.

In this regard, I remember his story of how he once celebrated the sacrament of the Eucharist in church.

He had a cup in his hands. What will he say next?" flashed through my head. "A cup of blood," he went on firmly, "and a bee is flying over my hand, and I was afraid that it would sting me and I would spill the cup. But the bee, having drunk the Blood, spun around a little and disappeared somewhere. Then I remembered—it was the day of remembrance of my friend Serapion (Mashkin). The winged creature, the bee, which here replaced the angel, the symbol of the soul, was a reminder of this.

Perfect idealism and at the same time such extensive knowledge in the field of exact sciences! Florensky was able to synthetically combine the two" (Florensky P. A. Pro and contra. Anthology. 1st edition. St. Petersburg, 1996. pp. 167-168).

In L. F. Zhegin's memoirs, the phenomenon of the soul bee is associated with the memory of Archimandrite Serapion (Mashkin), who died on February 20, 1905.

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Cf.: "For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt" (Mark 9:49).—286.

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See: Rite of Blessing of Salt // Trebnik of Metropolitan Peter Mogila. Part 2. Kiev, 1646. Pp. 225-226; Prayer over salt // Trebnik: V 2 ch. Ch. 1. Moscow, 1915. L. 221.-286.