Xenia of Saint Petersburg

Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg (Russian: Святая блаженная Ксения Петербургская [Xenia Grigoryevna Petrova - Ксения Григорьевна Петрова]; – , Saint Petersburg) is a patron saint of St. Petersburg, who according to tradition, gave all her possessions to the poor after her husband died. Her husband had been Colonel Andrey Fyodorovich Petrov, a chanter at the Saint Andrew Cathedral. After his death, Xenia became a "fool-for-Christ" and for 45 years wandered around the streets of St. Petersburg, usually wearing her late husband's military uniform. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church on February 6, 1988. Her feast day in the O.S. is January 24, which is February 6 in the New Calendar.
==Hymns==
Troparion (Tone 4)
:Having renounced the vanity of the earthly world,
:Thou didst take up the cross of a homeless life of wandering;
:Thou didst not fear grief, privation, nor the mockery of men,
:And didst know the love of Christ.
:Now taking sweet delight of this love in Heaven,
:O Xenia, the blessed and divinely wise,
:Pray for the salvation of our souls.
Troparion (Tone 8)
:In you, O mother was carefully preserved what is according to the image.
:For you took up the Cross and followed Christ.
:By so doing, you taught us to disregard the flesh for it passes away,
:But to care instead for the soul since it is immortal.
:Therefore, O Blessed Xenia, your spirit rejoices with the Angels.
Kontakion (Tone 7)
:Having loved the poverty of Christ,
:You are now being satisfied at the Immortal Banquet.
:By the humility of the Cross, you received the power of God.
:Having acquired the gift of miraculous help, O Blessed Xenia,
:Beseech Christ God, that by repentance
:We may be delivered from every evil thing.
==External links==
* Life Of Saint Xenia Of Petersburg by Nun Nectaria McLees
* Life of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg by Jane M. deVyver
* Saint Xenia Biography
* Saint Xenia of Petersbourg Parish in Canada
* Saint Xenia Orthodox Church in USA
==See also==
*Basil Fool for Christ
*John the Hairy
*Blessed John of Moscow the Fool-For-Christ
*Sign of contradiction
Category:History of Saint Petersburg
Category:1720s births
Category:1800s deaths
Xenia of St. Petersburg
Category:Female saints
Category:Yurodivy
Category:19th-century Christian saints
category:18th-century Russian people
category:19th-century Russian people
de:Xenia von St. Petersburg
es:Ksenia de San Petersburgo
it:Ksenija di San Pietroburgo
ka:ქსენია პეტერბურგელი
pl:Ksenia z Petersburga
ru:Ксения Петербургская
fi:Ksenia Pietarilainen
sv:Xenia av Sankt Petersburg