Peter and Fevronia — patrons of family and marriage. Their marriage has been a model of Christian marriage for many centuries.
From the book «Great Heritage» DS. Likhacheva: «Heroine of the story — maiden Fevronia. She is wise in popular wisdom. She makes wise riddles and knows how to solve life's difficulties without fuss. She does not object to enemies or insult them with open teaching, but resorts to allegory, the purpose of which is to teach a harmless lesson: her opponents themselves guess their mistakes.
She works miracles casually: she makes branches stuck for a fire bloom into a large tree in one night. Her life-giving power extends to everything around her. The crumbs of bread in her palms turn into grains of fragrant incense.
Prince Peter tries to deceive her only once, at the beginning when he decides not to marry her, contrary to his promise. But after the very first lesson taught to him by Fevronia, he listens to her in everything and, having gotten married, lives in harmony with her, their love crosses the threshold of death».
Blessed Prince Peter was the second son of Prince Yuri Vladimirovich of Murom. He ascended the Murom throne in 1203. A few years earlier, Prince Peter fell ill with leprosy, from which no one could cure him. In a sleepy vision, it was revealed to the prince that he could be healed by the daughter of a «wood climber» sidekick who mined wild honey, Fevronia, a peasant woman in the village of Laskova in the Ryazan land.
The Virgin Fevronia was wise, wild animals obeyed her, she knew the properties of herbs and knew how to treat ailments, she was a beautiful, pious and kind girl. The prince promised to marry her after healing. Saint Fevronia healed the prince, however, he did not keep his word. The disease resumed, Fevronia cured him again and married him.
When he inherited the reign after his brother, the boyars did not want to have a princess of a simple rank, telling him: «Either let go of the wife, who insults noble ladies with her origin, or leave Murom». The prince took Fevronia, boarded a boat with her and sailed along the Oka. They began to live as ordinary people, rejoicing at being together, and God helped them.
Troubles began in Murom, many began to harass the vacated throne, and murders began. Then the boyars came to their senses, gathered advice and decided to call Prince Peter back. The prince and princess returned, and Fevronia managed to earn the love of the townspeople.
In their advanced years, having taken monastic vows in different monasteries with the names David and Euphrosyne, they prayed to God to die on the same day, and bequeathed their bodies to be placed in one coffin, having prepared in advance a tomb made of one stone, with a thin partition. Peter and Fevronia died on the same day and hour — July 8 (new style) 1228.
Considering the burial in one coffin incompatible with the monastic title, their bodies were placed in different monasteries, but the next day they found themselves together. The holy spouses were buried in the cathedral church of the city of Murom in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, erected over their relics according to a vow by Ivan the Terrible in 1553. Nowadays they openly rest in the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Murom.