Sviatye startsy - Bondarenko Valerii Veniaminovich

In this book we are talking about elders in the Orthodox sense of the word. And these are not just the most respected and experienced monks in spiritual life, but those who have reached extraordinary spiritual heights, have acquired the gift of healing, miracle workers and visionaries, prayer books, who saved with their word hundreds and thousands of people, genuine "pillars of faith." The author of the book, historian and writer Vyacheslav Bondarenko, included ten essays about the great elders of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 18th and 20th centuries, famous in the relic of saints. If you try to compile a list of the most outstanding citizens of our Motherland, the author believes, the heroes of the book can rightly be put at the top of this list of worthy: after all, they have concentrated in themselves the spiritual power and beauty of Russia, its centuries-old experience. And it is not by chance that the generals, politicians, writers, philosophers, and ordinary people came to them for advice, guidance, blessing.