Elder Barsanuphius of Optina Books_Monasticism former scholar of church art

former scholar of church art

La fête est commémorée le 8 septembre

He is a god-bearing Father of our days

and their place within our struggle toward holiness

assemblée par les soeurs

Elder Barsanuphius of Optina Books_Monasticism former scholar of church artElder Barsanuphius (1845 1913), a disciple of Elder Anatole (Zertsalov) and Elder Nektary, was a highly cultured man and a successful colonel before entering the monastic life at a relatively late age. Due to his purity of heart and spiritual sobriety, he was transformed by God into a grace filled Elder virtually overnight. The period before the first World War and the Russian Revolution was a complex one. The world was seething in unprecedented