An indication of the path to the kingdom of heaven. Innocent

Saint Innokenty (in the world, Ivan Evseevich Popov-Veniaminov; 1797-1879) ended his way of serving the Russian Orthodox Church in the dignity of Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomensky. He was the first Orthodox bishop of Kamchatka, Yakutia, Amurlya and North America. Over the years of mission, about 10 thousand people dubbed. It is also known as a researcher of languages ​​and customs of the Aboriginal Alaska and Siberia, the compiler of the alphabet and grammar of the Aleutian and Yakut languages, a navigator, a navigator, associate of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Count N. N. Muravyev-Amursky in the development of the Far East. In addition to enlightenment, he taught American and Siberian natives for the blacksmith and carpentry crafts, and taught them to instill the OSPU. In his honor, the city of Blagoveshchensk is named (in memory of the beginning of his clergy in the Annunciation Church of Irkutsk). In 1977, the Russian Orthodox Church was considered to be the saints. In his essay, the “indication of the path to the kingdom of heaven” saint sincerely and penetratively talks about the ways of achieving eternal life.