Elder Barsanuphius of Optina Books_Monasticism the mark of saintliness

the mark of saintliness

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to embark on long years of spiritual combat lasting until his death in 1938

Elder Barsanuphius of Optina Books_Monasticism the mark of saintlinessElder 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