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1) Lazarus (from Hebrew “God helped”) A four-day-old man, in Christian traditions, resurrected by Jesus Christ four days after burial. According to the Gospel narrative (the story of the resurrection of Lazarus is given only in the Gospel of John, 11), Lazarus is a resident of Bethany, a village near Jerusalem, the brother of Mary and Martha, who showed hospitality to Christ. The news of the illness of Lazarus, especially loved by Christ, and the prophetic knowledge of his death force Christ, despite the immediate danger, to head to Judea. Martha comes out to meet him and, not daring to directly ask for a miracle of resurrection, says: “I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you” (John 11:22). Christ demands from her a confession of faith that he is “the resurrection and the life,” and receives it (11, 25-27). In response to Christ’s order to roll away the stone from the crypt-cave, Martha reminds that the body is already decomposing and stinking. But Christ calls the dead man with the words: “Lazarus! Get out" (11, 43).

Lazarus comes out, wrapped in shrouds on his hands and feet, with his face covered with a funeral cloth, and Christ orders him to be untied. At the meal in Bethany, at which Mary anointed Christ’s feet with fragrant myrrh, Lazarus is mentioned among those “who reclined” (12:2). The resurrection of Lazarus by Jesus Christ is not the only one: the daughter of Jairus was resurrected (Matt. 9:18-26, Mark 5:22-43, Luke 8:41-56) and the son of the widow from Nain (Luke 7:11-17) , but it had a particularly pronounced character of a public, solemnly given messianic “sign”. This caused a fierce reaction from the antagonists of Christ and brought the reprisal against him closer: the resurrection of Lazarus is significantly preceded by the “passion of Christ.” According to medieval legend, Lazarus lived after his resurrection for 30 years in strict abstinence and was installed as the first bishop of the city of Kition on the island of Cyprus.

2) Lazarus Poor, a character in the gospel parable and folklore texts, an image of poverty receiving a reward from God in afterlife. The case when actor The parable has a proper name, is unusual and, apparently, is determined by the semantics of the name, meaning “God helped”, see above Lazarus. Four days. The parable tells that Lazarus was a beggar who lay scabbed at the gate of a certain rich man who led a luxurious life, “and wanted to be fed with the crumbs falling from the rich man’s table; and the dogs came and licked his sores” (Luke 16:21).

After death, Lazarus is carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom, and the rich man suffers in the fires of hell and begs Abraham to send Lazarus to dip his finger in water and touch the rich man's tongue, easing his torment. Abraham replies: “Child! remember that you have already received your good in your life, but Lazarus received your evil; now he is consoled here, and you suffer” (16, 25). Then the rich man asks to send Lazarus as a witness of the afterlife reward to the rich man’s brothers, so that they have time to repent. Abraham objects: “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, then even if someone were raised from the dead, they would not believe it” (16:31).

The figure of Lazarus, as the embodiment of the hope of the oppressed for the otherworldly restoration of trampled truth, was very popular among the people, and poor singers saw in him a kind of affirmation of the prestige of their profession. In Russia, it was such a frequent topic of the so-called. spiritual verses that the expression “singing Lazarus” has become synonymous with the mournful lamentation of the poor. Russian folklore makes Lazar the brother of a cruel rich man who renounces kinship. Lazarus prays to God for death and in death receives a joy that he did not have in life: “The Lord sent him quiet angels, quiet and merciful; they took out my darling, both laudably and honestly, into sugary lips.” The rich man, on the contrary, prays for a long life, but “terrible angels” are sent to him, taking out his soul through his ribs with iron hooks. In some versions, Lazarus himself pronounces a sentence on the rich man: “What you prepared for yourself in the free world, God paid you for it.”

In some Slavic songs, Lazarus is confused with Lazarus the Four Days (so that his “gray scroll” is sung on the eve of Lazarus Saturday, representing the cult memory of the latter’s resurrection) or generally loses all connection with the gospel topic (the “Lazarian” songs of the southern Slavs are completely pagan in spirit , for example, Serbian: “Lazi, lazi, Lazare, dolazi do mene” - based on the consonance of the name “L.” with the word “climb” and associated with round dance games).

In Bethany there was a man named Lazarus, whom Jesus Christ loved, and he had two sisters: one was called Martha, the other Mary. These were simple people, hospitable, welcoming, kind. Because of their simplicity and childlike faith, the Savior often visited them in their home. This Wanderer, Who had no place to lay His head, found refuge and rest for Himself here from His labors. And so, like a whirlwind, like a storm, it suddenly fell upon this godly house misfortune: Lazarus fell ill with a serious, severe illness.

He fell ill... And a little later he died and was buried, bitterly mourned by his sisters and all his relatives. The sorrow of the Lazarus sisters was even more bitter because at that time their sweet Comforter, their merciful Teacher, was not with them, but He was then on the other side of the Jordan, working great miracles there: giving sight to the blind, walking to the lame, raising the dead, as if awakening from sleep, and healing from all sorts of illnesses with one word, giving health to everyone...

Jesus Christ foresaw by His Divinity that Lazarus, His friend, died and said to the apostles: “Behold, our friend Lazarus, die.” He said and went with them to Bethany. When they approached Bethany, Martha and Mary met them on the way; They approached Jesus, sorrowful, fell with tears at His most pure feet and mournfully exclaimed: “O Lord, if You were with us, Lazarus, our brother, would not you have died then?” The good Lord answered them: “If you believe, you will still live.” They, out of deep sorrow, as if not hearing this consolation, with weeping and a great cry, said to Him: “Lord, Lord, our brother Lazarus, he has been lying in the grave for four days and stinking!” Then the Creator Lord, as if not knowing where the deceased was buried, asked them: “Show Me the place where they laid him.” And with a great multitude of people they went with Him to the tomb, and they showed Him the place where the dead man was buried. When Jesus Christ approached the grave, he ordered the heavy stone lying on it to be rolled away.

They took a stone from the coffin, and a kind of sacred trembling suddenly ran through everyone; everything seemed silent all around. It fell silent, became silent; Some kind of awe gripped everyone: our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was looking at heaven at that time - to where His Father dwells. I looked and prayed... Oh, this prayer - it blazed like a hot flame and as if on the wings of fast-flying eagles it rushed to heaven! Christ prayed, and tears, drop by drop, as if drops of blessed dew, flowed from His most pure eyes.

The Savior prayed and ended the prayer with praise to His Father: “Father, I give praise to You that You heard Me, and I knew that You always listen to Me, but for the sake of the people who stand, I decided that they may have faith, for You have sent Me and glorify the name Your sacred!” And having spoken this, he cried out in a great voice: “Lazarus, come out!” From the thunder of this voice the rivets of hell were torn apart, all hell groaned from its illness. He groaned, and, groaning, he opened his gates, and Lazarus, who died, came out of there. Like a lion from a den, he came out of the tomb; or, better said, just as an eagle flies out of the abyss, he flew out of the bonds of hell. And he stood, wrapped in a covering, before the Lord Jesus Christ, worshiped Him as the Son of God, glorified Him, who had given him life.

Then Lazarus took his burial shrouds, as the Lord commanded, and followed Christ. Along the way, a very large crowd followed Jesus and Lazarus, accompanying Him all the way to Lazarus’s court. Lazarus rejoiced and rejoiced with all his heart and soul when he saw the house in which he lived with his sisters. All his relatives had fun and rejoiced with him. And, having made a prayer to God, Lazarus and his sisters entered his house. The Lord Jesus Christ also entered there, having stayed with Lazarus for two days. Oh, welcome Guest, sweetest Jesus! What joy Lazarus and his sisters experienced in their hearts from communicating with such a Guest! Truly indescribable, indescribable was this joy.

Only the bishops and Jewish scribes were not happy: devilish envy ate their souls. Driven by the devil, they were furious at Christ and Lazarus: they gathered their unrighteous council and decided to kill them both. Jesus, having recognized this Jewish council by His Divinity, left Bethany, for His hour had not yet come. And Lazarus, with the blessing of the Lord, fled to the island of Cyprus. On this island he was subsequently installed as bishop by the apostles. They say that after his resurrection, until his death, Lazarus, no matter what food he ate, ate it with honey, and could no longer eat any food without honey. He did this out of the hellish sorrow in which his soul remained before the Lord the Savior called him from the grave. So, in order not to remember this hellish sorrow, in order to drown out the feeling, the experience of this sorrow in his soul, Lazarus ate only sweet, honey.

Oh, beloved, how bitter is this hellish bitterness, how terrible it is! We will be afraid so as not to experience it for our sins. Lazarus could not avoid hellish sorrow, for Jesus Christ had not yet suffered, was not resurrected, and had not ascended to heaven. Therefore, everyone who died before Christ was inevitably involved in this hellish sorrow. But with His honest Blood, Christ consumed this sorrow, and we, who believe in Him, if we live according to His commandments, may not even recognize this sorrow at all. Let us strive, beloved, to achieve this!

They also say about Lazarus that the omophorion he wore Holy Lady our Mother of God, the Mother of the Lord, made and embroidered it with her own hands and gave it to Lazarus. He was the gift of this priceless welcome honestly from our Lady Theotokos, with the warmest tenderness he bowed to Her, kissed Her nose and greatly thanked God...

After his resurrection, having lived well and pleasingly to God for another thirty years, Lazarus again rested in peace and departed to the Kingdom of Heaven. The wise King Leo, by some divine manifestation, transferred his holy body from the island of Cyprus to Constantinople and honestly placed it in a silver shrine in the holy temple built in the name of Lazarus. This cancer exuded a great and indescribable fragrance and aroma and gave healing to all sorts of ailments of people who flowed with faith to the tomb of God’s holy friend Lazarus.

Few people know about Lazarus syndrome. There are only 38 cases of this phenomenon recorded in the world. Let us consider more specifically its significance for science and life. This phenomenon is extremely rare and there is also very little information about it. The only thing we can say for sure is that it exists. But until recently, science could not explain it. The whole explanation is based on individual characteristics person.

What it is?

This syndrome is also called the resurrection of Lazarus. That is, the possibility of resurrection, as such, does not exist, each individual simply has different autoresuscitation and sometimes there is a violation of venous circulation. Such patients have no signs of life for 10 minutes. Heart start uses an electrical device to start circulation to life support organs within 60 seconds. However, in patients with Lazarus syndrome, this occurs much longer, so they should be monitored for a longer period of time. Since the start of the heart can occur spontaneously at any minute. After a set time, death is declared.

Where does the name come from?

Why did Lazarus syndrome get its name? Everything is very simple. That was the name of the man whom Jesus Christ brought back to life. This event is mentioned in the Bible. From a scientific point of view, this is the restoration of spontaneous circulation after stopping cardiopulmonary resuscitation. But this also happens without the participation of resuscitation actions. They first started talking about this term in 1982. Until this moment, there were cases when death was recorded in a completely healthy person.

Scientific data

As mentioned earlier, science knows of only 38 cases in which a person came back to life. All situations are very individual. They took place both in the hospital and outside it. All patients had completely different diseases, therefore, different life support. The time of cardiac arrest and the functioning of the entire body as a whole also varies, the time period is from 6 to 75 minutes. Of course, if doctors did not know about the syndrome, then people would be declared dead.

Alleged factors

How is Lazarus syndrome explained in medicine? Many scientists agree that the fault may be the improper functioning of the human pulmonary system. What could be the reason for poor blood circulation in the venous system, which could affect the heart rhythm? The work of the heart can be restored only after the obstacles to oxygen access to it are removed.

What does autoresuscitation mean after cardiac arrest? With autoresuscitation, pulseless electrical activity is possible, but it is extremely important not to overdo the pulmonary resuscitation ventilation. Experts advise stopping the resuscitation process for a moment in order to give time to the venous system and the heart to start working on their own. No more than 30 seconds are allotted for this; if the resurrection of Lazarus does not occur, that is, the resumption of heart function, then artificial resuscitation continues.

Causes

Many doctors seek to apply this theory to patients who do not suffer from pulmonary disease. In practice, there is an explanation for the syndrome:

1. Slow exposure medicines. During the restoration of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest, the patient is given drugs that can resuscitate the cardiopulmonary system. But each body reacts differently to drugs, so there may be a delay in the delivery of necessary substances to the heart.

2. Hyperkalemia. A fairly common case is when an existing disease prevents myocardial contraction.

3. Ischemia can lead to myocardial dysfunction, this condition persists for several hours, and then normal heart function is restored.

4. Asystole. Ventricular fibrillation occurs, then asystole occurs. In most cases, this condition is fatal. And only in 15% of patients the heart rhythm is restored.

Lazarus syndrome - consequences

This fact has serious medical consequences and also leads to legal consequences for personnel. Doctors undergo a thorough check, and the entire process of resuscitation is clarified. For example, how were the work carried out to resuscitate the patient’s cardiopulmonary system? How long did the work to restore spontaneous circulation last? What medications were used after stopping?

The medical team may be accused of negligence and failure to fulfill its obligations. There may also be accusations of incompetence, which may lead to removal from work, or a claim from relatives against the medical staff for financial compensation. Criminal charges may be brought against workers who performed CPR work. A patient may be charged with manslaughter if all requirements to restore life support are not met.

Of course, there is also a risk for the patient of severe disorders. Relatives may accuse doctors of harming the patient's health after delaying the restoration of spontaneous circulation after death. Medical workers Extreme care should be taken when recording in the patient's chart all resuscitation actions after cardiopulmonary arrest.

Doctors' actions

What is death? This is a process in which the main important life support organs are damaged and lead to cardiac and respiratory failure. But these data are not entirely correct for ascertaining death in humans. Since today there is a concept of the Lazarus phenomenon. Therefore, it is worth waiting at least 10 minutes before confirming that a person has died. During this time, the patient's family should be aware of his condition. The doctor must tell you in detail what happened and what consequences may arise. What work is being done or will happen in the future. Relatives should know that their loved one is being constantly monitored to ensure that the time of death is recorded without any errors. Since in addition to stopping the heart and lungs, the brain must stop working. Then one can unmistakably state the death of a person. The doctor is also obliged to express condolences to the relatives of the deceased and provide medical support if needed.

There are many cases in history when people were buried alive. Since the phenomenon of Lazarus was not yet known to anyone. And today, many scientists refute it or question it, trying to find reasonable explanations for this fact. But still, most doctors agree that this phenomenon exists and must be taken into account. The main thing is that there are no obvious errors in the actions of the medical team. They must comply with all requirements for the return of the body’s vital functions.

Conclusion

So, Lazarus syndrome is a delayed return of spontaneous circulation after stopping cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A reversible consequence of resuscitation actions may be dynamic hyperventilation of the body's pulmonary system. After cardiac and pulmonary arrest, the patient should be observed for at least 10 minutes. In this case, it must be connected to monitors that measure blood pressure and ECG, after which, if the vital organs do not begin to circulate, then death can be declared.

The resurrection of Lazarus is the greatest sign, a prototype of the General Resurrection promised by the Lord. The figure of the resurrected Lazarus himself remains, as it were, in the shadow of this event, but he was one of the first Christian bishops. How did his life turn out after returning from the captivity of death? Where is his grave and are his relics preserved? Why does Christ call him a friend and how did it happen that the crowds of witnesses to the resurrection of this man not only did not believe, but denounced Christ to the Pharisees? Let's consider these and other points related to the amazing gospel miracle.
Resurrection of Lazarus. Giotto.1304-1306

Did you know that many people attended Lazarus' funeral?
Unlike the hero of the same name from the parable “About the Rich Man and Lazarus,” righteous Lazarus from Bethany was real person and besides, not the poor. Judging by the fact that he had servants, his sister anointed the Savior's feet expensive oil, after the death of Lazarus they put him in a separate tomb, and he was mourned by many Jews. Lazarus was probably a wealthy and famous person.
Due to their nobility, Lazarus’s family apparently enjoyed special love and respect among people, since many of the Jews living in Jerusalem came to the sisters who were orphaned after the death of their brother to mourn their grief. The holy city was located fifteen stages from Bethany, about three kilometers.
“The wondrous Fisher of Men chose the rebellious Jews as eyewitnesses of the miracle, and they themselves showed the coffin of the deceased, rolled away the stone from the entrance to the cave, and inhaled the stench of the decomposing body. With our own ears we heard the call to the dead man to rise, with our own eyes we saw his first steps after resurrection, with our own hands we untied the burial shrouds, making sure that this was not a ghost. So, did all the Jews believe in Christ? Not at all. But they went to the leaders, and “from that day they decided to kill Jesus.” This confirmed the correctness of the Lord, who spoke through the mouth of Abraham in the parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus: “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, then even if someone were raised from the dead, they will not believe.”
Saint Amphilochius of Iconium

Did you know that Lazarus became a bishop?
Exposed to mortal danger, after the murder of the holy protomartyr Stephen, Saint Lazarus was taken to the sea coast, put in a boat without oars and removed from the borders of Judea. By divine will, Lazarus, together with the Lord’s disciple Maximin and Saint Celidonius (a blind man healed by the Lord), sailed to the shores of Cyprus. Being thirty years old before his resurrection, he lived on the island for more than thirty years. Here Lazarus met the apostles Paul and Barnabas. They elevated him to the position of bishop of the city of Kitia (Kition, called Hetim by the Jews). The ruins of the ancient city of Kition were discovered during archaeological excavations and are available for inspection (from the life of Lazarus the Four-Day).
Tradition says that after the resurrection, Lazarus maintained strict abstinence, and that the Episcopal omophorion was given to him by the Most Pure Mother of God, having made it with Her own hands (Synaxarion).
“Indeed, the unbelief of the leaders of the Jews and the more influential teachers of Jerusalem, which did not yield to such a striking, obvious miracle performed in front of a whole crowd of people, is an amazing phenomenon in the history of mankind; from that time on, it ceased to be unbelief, but became a conscious resistance to obvious truth (“now you have seen and hated Me and My Father”

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

Church of St. Lazarus in Larnaca, built on his grave. Cyprus

Did you know that the Lord Jesus Christ called Lazarus a friend?
The Gospel of John tells about this, in which our Lord Jesus Christ, wanting to go to Bethany, says to the disciples: “Lazarus, our friend, fell asleep.” In the name of the friendship of Christ and Lazarus, Mary and Martha call on the Lord to help their brother, saying: “The one you love is sick.” In interpretation Blessed Theophylact Bulgarian Christ deliberately emphasizes why He wants to go to Bethany: “Since the disciples were afraid to go to Judea, He tells them: “I am not going for what I followed before, to expect danger from the Jews, but I’m going to wake up my friend.”
Relics of Saint Lazarus the Quadruple in Larnaca

Do you know where the relics of Saint Lazarus the Four-Days are located?
The holy relics of Bishop Lazarus were found in Kitia. They lay in a marble ark, on which was written: “Lazarus the Fourth Day, friend of Christ.”
The Byzantine Emperor Leo the Wise (886–911) ordered in 898 that the relics of Lazarus be transferred to Constantinople and placed in a temple in the name of the Righteous Lazarus.
Today, his relics rest on the island of Cyprus in the city of Larnaca in a temple consecrated in honor of the saint. In the underground crypt of this temple there is a tomb in which the righteous Lazarus was once buried.

Crypt of the Church of Lazarus in Larnaca. Here is an empty tomb with the signature “Friend of Christ”, in which the righteous Lazarus was buried.

Did you know that the only described case when the Lord Jesus Christ cried was associated precisely with the death of Lazarus?
“The Lord weeps because he sees man, created in His own image, undergoing corruption, in order to take away our tears, for for this he died, in order to free us from death” (St. Cyril of Jerusalem).

Did you know that the Gospel, which talks about crying Christ, contains the basic Christological dogma?
“As a man, Jesus Christ asks, and cries, and does everything else that would testify that He is a man; and as God He resurrects a four-day-old man who already smells like a dead man, and generally does what would indicate that He is God. Jesus Christ wants people to make sure that He has both natures, and therefore reveals Himself either as a man or as God” (Eufimiy Zigaben).

Do you know why the Lord calls the death of Lazarus a dream?
The Lord calls the death of Lazarus the Dormition (in the Church Slavonic text), and the resurrection that He intends to accomplish is an awakening. By this He wanted to say that death for Lazarus is a fleeting state.
Lazarus fell ill, and Christ’s disciples said to Him: “Lord! Behold, the one You love is sick.” And after this He and his disciples left for Judea. And then Lazarus dies. Already there, in Judea, Christ says to the disciples: “Lazarus, our friend, fell asleep; but I am going to wake him up." But the apostles did not understand Him and said: “If he fell asleep, he will recover,” meaning, according to the words of Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, that the coming of Christ to Lazarus is not only unnecessary, but also harmful for a friend: because “if a dream, like us I think it serves to his recovery, but if you go and wake him up, then you will hinder his recovery.” In addition, the Gospel itself explains to us why death is called a sleep: “Jesus spoke about his death, but they thought that He was talking about an ordinary sleep.” And then He directly announced that “Lazarus is dead.”
Saint Theophylact of Bulgaria speaks of three reasons why the Lord called death a sleep:
1) “out of humility, for he did not want to seem boastful, but secretly called the resurrection an awakening from sleep... For, having said that Lazarus “died,” the Lord did not add: “I will go and raise him”;
2) “to show us that all death is sleep and tranquility”;
3) “although the death of Lazarus was death for others, for Jesus Himself, since He intended to resurrect him, it was nothing more than a dream. Just as it is easy for us to wake up a sleeping person, so, and a thousand times more, it is convenient for Him to resurrect the dead,” “may the Son of God be glorified through” this miracle.

Do you know where the grave is where Lazarus came from, returned by the Lord to earthly life?


The tomb of Lazarus is located in Bethany, three kilometers from Jerusalem. Now, however, Bethany is identified with the village, in Arabic called Al-Aizariya, which grew up already in Christian times, in the 4th century, around the tomb of Lazarus himself. Ancient Bethany, where the family of righteous Lazarus lived, was located at a distance from Al-Aizariya - higher up the slope. Many events of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ are closely connected with ancient Bethany. Every time the Lord walked with his disciples along the Jericho road to Jerusalem, their path passed through this village.

Did you know that the tomb of Lazarus is also venerated by Muslims?
Modern Bethany (Al-Aizariya or Eizariya) is the territory of the partially recognized state of Palestine, where the overwhelming majority of the population are Muslim Arabs who settled in these areas already in the 7th century. The Dominican monk Burchardt of Zion wrote about the worship of Muslims at the tomb of righteous Lazarus back in the 13th century.

Did you know that the raising of Lazarus is the key to understanding the entire fourth Gospel?
The Resurrection of Lazarus is the greatest sign that prepares the reader for the Resurrection of Christ and is a prototype of the eternal life promised to all believers: “He who believes in the Son has eternal life”; “I am the resurrection and the life; He who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.”
Sretenskaya Theological Seminary