Today is a great women’s holiday. The saint decided to devote her life to Jesus Christ, so she left and ran away from her home. She settled on the island of Koa.
There she rented a poor house and asked to be called Ksenia (stranger). She was later ordained as a deaconess. She led a noble life. As strict as she was with herself, she was as merciful and gentle with her sisters.
Rev. Xenia the Roman was the daughter of a senator and bore the name Eusevia, which meant “pious”. Her parents betrothed her to a senator.
Below we present to you the icon of another saint, who is also Xenia, but from St. Petersburg. We share it because it is very powerful and helps people in need!
Ksenia of Petersburg began to work miracles and help people, especially women, even during her lifetime. After her death, the chapel over the grave and in St. Petersburg became a place of worship for many people and it is so to this day. Thanks to the prayers of blessed Xenia, the suffering were healed, peace came to families, and those looking for a job found the most suitable one for them. Blessed Ksenia of Petersburg is prayed for marriage, for health, for love, for pregnancy, for children and in all kinds of difficult situations.
How it protects the icon
The icon of the world, blessed Xenia, protects from needs and gossip, delivers from bad thoughts and audacity, protects from fraud and hypocrisy. On the holy day, we pray with a request to remove the troubles from the cities and the country. In the home, her icon will become a barrier to diseases and sorrows. Blessed Saint Xenia is one of the most revered Russian saints – “comforting everyone who prays to her” – that’s what people call her.
What does the icon help with?
The icon of the world, blessed Xenia, helps women to marry successfully, and to live with their husbands in love and harmony. Prayer to the saint gives strength, teaches humility, strengthens faith. They ask St. Ksenia for a blessing in the upcoming work. The icon helps to achieve success in all spheres of life. Parents pray to St. Xenia for help in raising their children and for excellent success in school. And those who do not have children and pray to help them have. People turn to St. Xenia of Petersburg in a variety of difficult life circumstances.
Today we present you a prayer that will help you if you are in financial difficulties or looking for a job. It is said that she helps to fulfill wishes and achieve goals.
Parents need to say it in case of problems with their children, or if they don’t have it, it will endow them with children. This prayer helps married people to live in love and understanding, and lonely people to find their partners.
Prayer to the Holy Blessed Mother Xenia of Petersburg
Oh, holy all-blessed mother Ksenia! You lived under the roof of the Most High, known and strengthened by the Mother of God, you endured hunger and thirst, cold and heat, dishonor and persecution, because of which you received from God the gift of clairvoyance and to work miracles, and also to rest under the shade of the Almighty.
Now the holy Church glorifies you as a fragrant flower. Standing in front of the place of your burial before your holy image, as before living and cohabiting with us, we pray to you: accept our requests and offer them to the Throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, because you have courage to Him, and intercede for those who resort to you forever salvation, bountiful blessing for all our good works and enterprises, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Stand with your holy prayers before our All-Merciful Savior, for we are unworthy and sinful.
Help, holy blessed mother Xenia, that the infants be illuminated with the light of Holy Baptism and be sealed with the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit, that the children be brought up in faith, honesty, fear of God and succeed in good teaching; Heal the sick and infirm, grant love and harmony to family members, honor the monastics to strive with the good feat, protecting them from evil slander, strengthen the spiritual shepherds with the power of the Holy Spirit, keep our nation and country in peace and tranquility, for the deprived in the dying hour of communion with the Holy Mysteries of Christ prayed. You are our hope and trust, you will quickly hear our prayers, you are our deliverance, and therefore we give you thanks and together with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever.
Amen.
On January 24, Aksenia, Aksinia, Ksenia and Oksana celebrate their name day.
