Arseny (deaf or Selizharovets)

Monk Nilova desert, situated on the shores of Lake Seliger, a prominent spravschikov XVII century. During his travels, he studied grammar, "the sacred philosophy (dialectic), Latin and Greek. When in 1615 it was taken the first correction of liturgical books from the "tmochislennyh" errors, . had crept into them, . result of ignorance of previous spravschikov, . A., . lived in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, . appointed to assist the priest and the monk Dionysius Ivan Clockers,
. A. understood, . that correcting the books, . sanctified by use of several generations, . "ordinary people will be confused", . that it will arouse the displeasure of the masses, . touching the printing of old books, . and even the Metropolitan Jonah, . Under the patriarchal throne, . from which the case was removed, so it is in every way avoided thorny assignment, . but ambition Ivan Clockers, . which took a strong influence on Dionysius, . prevailed, . and spravschiki begun to address and correct books,
. Comparing the Moscow edition with a few tens of Slavic and Greek lists, and. and his colleagues reviewed the prayer book, color the transistor, Oktoikh, general Mineia, monthly Mineia, Psalms, Canon and Ecclesiastical Charter. In 1618, Dionysius took to Moscow amended text. As predicted,, then it happened. Jonah, . offended by, . that spravschiki find errors in the books, . issued even when it, . summoned a council, . who engaged in no discussion of corrections, . and condemnation spravschikov; feature set they blamed for, . in prayer on the day of the Epiphany, . which in the previous Potrebnike ended with the words: "Sam and now, . Master, . sanctify this water thy holy Spirit and fire ", . spravschiki "dipped" the words "and fire",
. All evidence given A. and his comrades in his defense, did not lead to anything, they were convicted and subjected to a variety of tortures. After the torture Ascension Monastery, A. kept in custody for serious Cyril Compound. From there he wrote two letters to the boyar Boris Saltykov, and archpriest Ivan Lukyanovich (recently published in the article Vishnevsky in Orthodox Review ", 1862, N 3). These messages in bright colors painted a striking ignorance of the Moscow clergy of the time and contain some data for the biography of their originator. In July 1619 the unfortunate spravschiki, at the request of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the guests then in Moscow, had been released and the return of Filaret, the words "and fire" in the prayer book, A. again was attached to the book case and a long time working on hard court.