Optina Monastery and the Righteous Transmission of Tradition – a series
Preface
Who are the Saints?
The Qualities of the Saints
The Value of the Lives of the Saints
The Influence of Optina Monastery
A Description of the Monastery
Optina’s History
Elder’s and Eldership
The Elders of Optina Monastery
Elder Moses
Elder Anthony
Elder Anatole (Zertsalov, the “Older”)
Conclusion
A Note of Thanks
To those who have offered suggestions for this periodical from its title to thematic articles; to those editors; to those who have donated their time and finances to this work; to those who wrote articles or did translation work. I sincerely thank-you. May God grant you a prosperous life, health, salvation and good success in all things.
– Subdeacon Matthew Long
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Dear Matthew,
May God bless your hand writing about these lives of the holy people of Russia. In my life so far I had the God given allowance to meet four of the Romanian confessors of faith who went thru the gulags of 50’s created by Stalin in our country. The memory of these people, dear to me, is keeping my faith in a sense of stability.
I hope to meet you when I come next time to Holy Cross Monastery.
Have a blessed Nativity of Christ!
Glory to God for His love for us,
Dan